yes, I was kidding about the insurance, that thing that is needed in Peru but next to impossible to get ;-)

And I suppose I was a bit harsh, bit I hate it when people moan blindly on and expect every one to agree with them (ala Facebook with its "likes" etc). I prefer to get on with stuff and laugh about it later.

Maybe my wife and I had different experiences to others, but the traffic you describe sounds more like Colombia to me. Traffic is traffic in any country, and they are all out to get you any way :-)

The truck drivers behaviour sounds strange, but maybe he really thinks that he was playing a game ? Or, maybe some bikers have pissed him off at some time and he now treats them all the same ?

And the car, he did flash his lights to warn you :-)

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Heya Bruce, Colombia was a walk in the park and pleasant, here is a whole different ball game.

The incidents of accidents etc is way more for all bikers than we have experienced and on the 71000 km on this trip thus far these are the worst x 10

Yes drivers all over the world need moto awareness education but it is way worse here than anywhere else (including China) that we have experienced (again what we have experienced).

Re the flashed lights, the car did flash, but many many others flash then pull out once we have gone passed, no prob there.

If he had waited a 2 -3 seconds at the most he would have had the entire road behind us in our mirrors totally empty and too himself thus no need to railroad us off into the sand.

Yeah the trucky was unexpected and he thought it was fun but he is playing with our lives which I don't see the funny side of, I have my HT license and have driven many different big units and well understand what truckies need to do, we have given way plenty of times when we have come around the corner to find two coming head on and to be fair the trucky started his maneuver before we were their, again no prob there.

The unfortunate part is we have seen first hand carnage (note Tobius) and us with the moto head on plus many more needless events, just too many to make civilized sense at least to me

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