Work and things I " have " to do have kept me from hitting the road , I just commute on Ricky to work and other places , The trip to Pondy is becoming a distant memory . I'm not really sure when will I be biking next , Leh trip is 6 months away trying to get my physique in shape to endure that physical abuse .
So in a situation like this what does a Biker do ?????? The same what Hagar the horrible does when the Huns are away , sit and think about the old wars and dream about the coming ones :)
I intend to write about a few of my earlier biking trips and the one I recently had in Goa ,
The first ever long ride I have ever taken on bike was with Kamal , my best pal who is the Army and posted in J&K now .
Why we went on that journey is some thing very close to Kamal's heart and mine . I am proud that he chose me to go with him on that . No this trip is not about speed , scenery or macho men . This trip was about friendship , togetherness , brotherhood and most of all the proof that we stood by each other . this trip was about two ordinary men ( well boys that time ) who had an extra ordinary friendship .
I had a night shift that time he picked me up around 5 am and we were off the city limits in about 15 minutes . Trivandrum is not such a big city and early morning most of the roads are deserted . We were on Kamals Rajpoot ( read LML VESPA NV RPZ 142 )Ricky was not in the picture that time . We kept an average speed of 60 and above , The route we took was Trivandrum - Kottarakkara-Chengannur - Kottarakkara - Varkkala beach - Trivandrum ,
During the ride one of us made a silly mistake , didn't realize that a road had a no entry sign and almost got pulped by a sleepy bus driver :) , it rained on and off the trip , we rode about 300 Kms if I remember right and by the time we reached back we were physically almost dead and emotionally drained .
We were back around 5:45 in the evening (pretty good speed eh ? ) , the next 1 hour was more eventful than the entire day itself , It was a turning point for Kamal's life and mine , the effect was there in my life for about 4-5 years and Kamal has a pleasant whole life effect of the same .
Kamal was one solid reason I have seen most of my tough times in life through , and he always made me ralise what's like to have a twin bro :) One of my Onam's alone, Kamal invited me to go to his grannies place , Me , Kamal and Kala our sis , we had a good trip in fact a great trip . That evening Kala had a taste of how to hang on to her dear life , plough through a traffic jam , riding on pavement , making people scamper for their life, riding to oncoming traffic and most of all how to scream louder than a MIG fighter plane . We just rode through a procession of floats and godzillion people . We could have been behind the bars for that trick :)
My third trip with Kamal was on Ricky ( read Bullet Machismo KL01K 4723) I didn't own him that time but took from a friend for just this ride . Kamal was already a bullet fan and this is where I fell in love . The build up to the trip was fun and we still laugh a lot thinking about it . I crashed at Kamal's place the night before the trip and some how he was able to drop a 6 kg speaker on my head . ( he still says it was an accident ) , leave the bloody pain and the blood loss . Kamal and Kala made me drink Milk with TURMERIC powder mixed in it . I don't know which tribal doctor told them the panache .
So with a bandage on my head , we started around 7 am ( 1 hour late ) to one of our dear friends sisters engagement . we had to cover about 130 KM and the ceremony was at 10 . It was the holiday time starting so we had a lot of families driving up to their native lands from Trivandrum . This was the boisterous boys at our best . We crushed quite a lot of egos on four wheels ( we didn't have time to even check on 2 wheelers ) . we were an instant hit at the ceremony as they were like " oh there are people mad enough to do these things " return was no different . and for the wedding of the some people recognized us saying .. oh the biker boys ;) That what I call a lasting impression .
Okay this post was for me and my pal , don't want to mix up my Goa trip on this . will be posting my ride through Goa shortly .
To LARGER THAN LIFE FRIENDSHIPS
Cheers
So in a situation like this what does a Biker do ?????? The same what Hagar the horrible does when the Huns are away , sit and think about the old wars and dream about the coming ones :)
I intend to write about a few of my earlier biking trips and the one I recently had in Goa ,
The first ever long ride I have ever taken on bike was with Kamal , my best pal who is the Army and posted in J&K now .
Why we went on that journey is some thing very close to Kamal's heart and mine . I am proud that he chose me to go with him on that . No this trip is not about speed , scenery or macho men . This trip was about friendship , togetherness , brotherhood and most of all the proof that we stood by each other . this trip was about two ordinary men ( well boys that time ) who had an extra ordinary friendship .
I had a night shift that time he picked me up around 5 am and we were off the city limits in about 15 minutes . Trivandrum is not such a big city and early morning most of the roads are deserted . We were on Kamals Rajpoot ( read LML VESPA NV RPZ 142 )Ricky was not in the picture that time . We kept an average speed of 60 and above , The route we took was Trivandrum - Kottarakkara-Chengannur - Kottarakkara - Varkkala beach - Trivandrum ,
During the ride one of us made a silly mistake , didn't realize that a road had a no entry sign and almost got pulped by a sleepy bus driver :) , it rained on and off the trip , we rode about 300 Kms if I remember right and by the time we reached back we were physically almost dead and emotionally drained .
We were back around 5:45 in the evening (pretty good speed eh ? ) , the next 1 hour was more eventful than the entire day itself , It was a turning point for Kamal's life and mine , the effect was there in my life for about 4-5 years and Kamal has a pleasant whole life effect of the same .
Kamal was one solid reason I have seen most of my tough times in life through , and he always made me ralise what's like to have a twin bro :) One of my Onam's alone, Kamal invited me to go to his grannies place , Me , Kamal and Kala our sis , we had a good trip in fact a great trip . That evening Kala had a taste of how to hang on to her dear life , plough through a traffic jam , riding on pavement , making people scamper for their life, riding to oncoming traffic and most of all how to scream louder than a MIG fighter plane . We just rode through a procession of floats and godzillion people . We could have been behind the bars for that trick :)
My third trip with Kamal was on Ricky ( read Bullet Machismo KL01K 4723) I didn't own him that time but took from a friend for just this ride . Kamal was already a bullet fan and this is where I fell in love . The build up to the trip was fun and we still laugh a lot thinking about it . I crashed at Kamal's place the night before the trip and some how he was able to drop a 6 kg speaker on my head . ( he still says it was an accident ) , leave the bloody pain and the blood loss . Kamal and Kala made me drink Milk with TURMERIC powder mixed in it . I don't know which tribal doctor told them the panache .
So with a bandage on my head , we started around 7 am ( 1 hour late ) to one of our dear friends sisters engagement . we had to cover about 130 KM and the ceremony was at 10 . It was the holiday time starting so we had a lot of families driving up to their native lands from Trivandrum . This was the boisterous boys at our best . We crushed quite a lot of egos on four wheels ( we didn't have time to even check on 2 wheelers ) . we were an instant hit at the ceremony as they were like " oh there are people mad enough to do these things " return was no different . and for the wedding of the some people recognized us saying .. oh the biker boys ;) That what I call a lasting impression .
Okay this post was for me and my pal , don't want to mix up my Goa trip on this . will be posting my ride through Goa shortly .
To LARGER THAN LIFE FRIENDSHIPS
Cheers
