"You don't stop riding when you get old, you get old when you stop riding." ― Anonymous The Blog - Why now? Writing the blog about our first southern odyssey twenty five years after we made the trip was one of most difficult tasks I took up in life; Romancing the RX-100 – A Southern Odyssey... Continue Reading →
Romancing the RX-100 – A Southern Odyssey -1993. Part -1.
“Sometimes it's a little better to travel than to arrive” - Robert M Pirsig. Every man, according to me, makes one life defining travel unless of course he or she is Ibn Battuta where travel itself becomes life. If we leave out the early homo sapiens migration who travelled to populate the earth, the earliest travelers... Continue Reading →
“I Thought It was a Youth!” – Notes from the Coastal Ride.
" Four wheels move the body. Two wheels move the soul." - -Unknown The biggest difference between driving a car and riding a motorcycle is, while riding a bike, you feel the earth slipping under your feet and the adrenaline rushes to your brain, which probably was the reason for the unknown author to make the... Continue Reading →
A Sunday, A Yezdi and An Adventure (To all those Yezdi lovers)
‘Let the boys have their toys, a man needs a man’s bike’ was the advertisement from Enfield when the advent of 100 CC bikes almost killed the company which made Royal Enfield Bullet Bikes. Another bike which took the beating in the 100 CC onslaught was Yezdi – a favourite with everyone including your neighborhood... Continue Reading →
A Marriage in Mumbai and an M-50
Marriages, as the proverb goes, are decided in heaven; but they are performed in our cities, towns and villages. We planned to attend one such marriage in Mumbai and our next adventure after the Yezdi trip happened. The Yezdi, as mentioned in my previous post, more often than not, was in the mechanic shop than with... Continue Reading →
My brother goes to College – again!
My brother JK and I shared the same passion for our beloved Bajaj Kawasaki RTZ bike like the Parsi Man showing his love for his Bajaj Scooter in the ‘Hamara Bajaj Ad.’ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scltYH13uEY) (Google Image of the bike - only, ours was black!) On the 44th Independence day holiday, my brother and I were washing... Continue Reading →