Motorbiking in Bahrain

First of all, you would certainly not get me on two wheels of any form on the roads out here - driving on 4 is definitely exciting enough. It is the lack of signals, awareness or ability combined with an Arab view of any disasters being 'obviously' unavoidable as 'the will of Allah' that make driving such a high intensity task.
Nonetheless you do see a few bikes on the road and these vary between the classic pizza delivery boys through to the most powerful and flashy machines you can find. These of course have to be ridden at maximum speed. It is again a particularly Arab thing to be ostentatious in all possible ways to display your wealth, power or strength - hence ridiculous buildings, bright yellow MASSIVE Humvee cars with huge chrome wheels and watches which must have copious amounts on diamonds on display.
The video below shows a particularly good example of the sort of bling I'm talking about as well as a rather extraordinary 'sand bike' which looks lethal to ride on and two kids chopper style bikes all found in the one bike shop I have identified in Bahrain which is just around the back of the hotel.