on the other hand, favoured t-shirts, baseball caps and, the ever trendy on a bike, flip-flops. In Nigeria, any bike not an Okada came under the blanket term‘ power bike’. This was said with the kind of reverence that might usually be reserved for 2000bhp Top Fuel dragsters and, in a world where the norm is a 10hp chinese commuter, it’ s easy to see why. Stopping at a set of traffic lights and beggars, the lame, street-sellers and Police alike would get excited for the bikes. They wanted some entertainment and a bit of a show. In Lagos this was as good as it got in that respect. So, the
guys were revving their engines, doing burnouts and wheel-stands away from the lights to cheers of approval and shouts of disbelief. The ride was out to a bar at a place called Eleko beach. A 20km blast along reasonable, but not
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