It was a romantic image, one made precious by old black-and-white Hindi films where the modest but upright hero cycles around, his love perched sideways on the connecting bar.
Besides making you look like a twee, parasol-owning retrophile who dictates the aesthetics of their life according to Etsy's "Most Popular" page, perching sideways and dangling off a motorbike is completely illegal under Section 23 of the Road Traffic Act of 1988.
The larger one, the one doing all the talking, had turned his chair sideways and perched himself on its arm.
In general, moving the head while flying appears to be less flexible than when perching, partly due to the aerodynamic drag caused by sideways head movements [10], [41].
So, all over this immense country, women perch on the backs of two-wheeled vehicles, sometimes sitting sideways in their saris, with arms at their sides in a precarious kind of balance.
I try to toss it back to him on his perch, but I am not the best aim and I am sitting sideways, not directly facing him.
The equity has gained roughly 12% since the beginning of 2009 and is now perched on key support at the 15 level as it trends sideways under resistance at its 20-day moving average.
When an insect is spotted, the bird flies out, sweeps the insect off the leaf surface using a sideways motion of their flat beak, and flies to a new perch in a single short, curved flight (Raffaele 1989, Harris 2009).
The bay owl habitually perches vertically on the trunk of a tree, with the legs reaching sideways, one foot above the other.
Head movement patterns in Red-tailed Hawks actually underscore the relevance of the lateral visual fields while perching as individuals turn their heads slowly and fixate on a visual target sideways rather than straight [39], [42].
