That looks perfectly safe

Underbone motorcycle, or commonly known in Malaysia as kapcai, are lightweight small engine motorcycles that are very popular in Malaysia. You can see a lot of them plying our our roadways weaving in between traffic, from freeways to cities and suburbs, especially in the rurals where obeying traffic rules seem to be optional - because there are many under-aged riders zooming around often without helments.

Well it's the rurals, where traffic is arguably rare and these daredevils seem to know well enough to keep their  derring-do in the confines of their village area.

Apparently, not anymore.

I saw this earlier today in my housing area, and as you can see from the 3 lane roadway.... I don't live in a rural area.

It's a small kid on a small bicycle manually hitching himself onto a motorcycle. Meanwhile on the motorcycle is a pinion rider with no helmet and the person controlling the bike seems to be under-aged as well.

I assure you, despite what you see in the gif above, there are plenty of traffic plying the roads, and for the duration I was behind them I witnessed several closed calls with other cars.

So....I guess it's safe until they get ran over by a truck or something?

yep.....just another day in Malaysia.