Two-siders and okada-chick-to-be

My major way of moving around in Lagos is okada: bike taxis.
Normally people use them for short distance travels, but I can't get on a bus (too much attention) and don't prefer taxis (they're pretty nasty, the traffic is too bad and if oyu have a chatty driver - you're kinda obliged to socialized, and I'm done with socializing in Lagos, in most cases it doesn't bring any good) - so I just take bikes, where the wind and the speed don't let the driver ask too much and charge too much as well.

My favourites are "two siders": only a few bikes in the city can go anywhere, most are attached to the union that permits them to take passengers only to specific areas. Those who can do both sides of the city are a different kind: in most cases they don't wear helmets, because with the speed they go it's just pointless anyway. And they don't offer a helmet to a passenger as well. If you're already paying for 20-min trip across the 3rd Mainland bridge, you know what you're going for. That it's never 100% that you're reaching the destination point. Two-siders are always less reckless. They've seen much more smashed brains on Lagos pavements than the others.
In Moscow I'm getting my bike back, too.
Will make it to "okada chick" ;))