Moreover, a significant variation was detected on the riders' behavior when carrying a pillion related to their experience levels.
"Daesh are using motorcycles for their patrols to evade air detection, with pillion passengers using binoculars to check out buildings and streets," Abu Maher, using an Arabic acronym for Islamic State, told the news agency.
Richard Griffiths shambles to perfettion as a wayward, sixtysomething, leather-clad biker who feels the boys up on his pillion (they shruggingly take it in turns) and fills their heads with quotations from Love's Labours Lost or Now, Voyager.
In simultaneous and identical attacks, two motorcycles pulled alongside two cars in different parts of Tehran, the pillion passenger clamped a magnetic bomb to the door next to their intended victim and sped away.
We learned that, yes, you can lock your keys in a motorbike, that a waving child sitting on the pillion makes an excellent substitute for indicators and that Timorese traffic cops take their bribes bigger and less jovially than the Balinese.
In the age of Operation Yewtree, the story of boys groping their way towards knowledge under the tutelage of Hector, who tries to grope them as they ride pillion on his motorcycle, refuses to be viewed quite so comically.
Chibok lay at the end of the dust road, and over the next 10 days, she rode a motorbike pillion across its 10 wards, trying to persuade one family in each district to accept a scholarship for their traumatised daughter.
Straight-backed women carry goods to trade on their heads as they have always done, children shout with laughter under a water tap, men talk on street corners and motorcycles with paying pillion passengers weave between the honking cars.
A pillion is the second seat on a motorcycle.
We drive on, all afternoon, past yellow fields of mustard and meandering cows with festive painted horns and henna tattoos of the moon and stars (it's the week after Diwali), and toddlers riding pillion on the petrol tanks of motorbikes overtaking bangled women in lime, saffron and scarlet carrying silver churns of water on their heads, or their own weight in firewood.
