The Red Beast!

I have just and only just one reason to be on my bike...and what wud be that.. hold on, you can make it out from the rest of the story..Not a story actually but just a way that life has changed for me...

Riding is the only thing that I will not do any substitution with, no matter whatever be the situation, coz it has and it will always make me feel better, better as of the amount of freedom to go past any destination. Better be late than never... This quote do come on many road side signboards...I took it in a good way i.e, I was a bit late in getting myself the "Red Beast", but it's really better than never...And as for the real meaning of the signboard , the caption with ma bike is "It's Now or Never"...So all that's happening is now and no need to push things into future....

Guys do you remember Deepak Joe's bike..Suzuki Shogun..I think the first bike in India to have a 5 speed gear box...I loved it from the moment I got it for the first time.. and specially the day when its front wheel was up in the air...Not so sure what made me so attached to that bike...May be it gave me thousands of reasons to ride it...Never felt out of power and during those days doing 80 km/h was an achievement in itself... and I was so glad I cud do that on the sharp curvy terrains of Wayanad on that bike... Hey Deepak, U still have that now???

Now the question came up.Which one?.. I remember back in our college days every brand had one model a piece at a time and to choose among them was far easier from what it has become right now. Countless models from different vendors are available nowadays and to pick one among them was the most tricky thing to overcome.My choice was made far too simple by the brand name and the feeling the same brand gave me years ago.. So no prize for guessing TVS was my choice. Suzuki and TVS had made some great bikes or shud it be greatest bikes in the past and now when Suzuki is not associated with TVS my mind did some pondering. I had a chance to take RTR Fi 160 of my cousin and I had tried lot of other bikes as well.

And it wasn't that hard for me to pick the RTR Carb Refresh 160 model...True to its name RTR(Racing Throttle Response) it gave me the same old feeling of Shogun where all the power you need was at your palm...with a single difference 80 km/h was overshadowed by 100-105 km/h(by the way 126 km/h is its maximum, just cruised @ that speed only once and its too difficult to reach that speed in traffic lights filled Delhi roads). But I am more than happy with 100 km/h. Never got late for anything and never felt out of time.So life in the fast lane is quite adventurous.But I prefer to stay around the 60 km/h mark... Neither too slow nor too fast and it gives enough time for people around me to turn their head and notice my red controllable Beast...And the admiring stares and looks I(Sorry ma machine) receives @ red lights is so amazing..."Just need to be on it to feel it"...

" The rain drenched Red Devil "

Hope you would have got the reason with which I would justify myself for being so attached to my bike. AS far as I know I don't need a reason to be on my own Beast... As mentioned in one of my previous post ,"If you say I am "Addicted" to ma machine then that word is definitely wrong, the right word is "Possessed...............""

De beauty of being an Monument...

If someone asks me where's my favorite hangout place in New Delhi, only one place comes to my mind.....A place that can be described in thousands of ways but I wud prefer to stick to the basic description of that and that is :it is the national monument of India. It is one of the largest war memorials in India. Hope you got it...Its our own India Gate(IG).

I cant say exactly what makes me so fond of this place, anytime of the day or night, I wud be more than happy to go there.. Specially late nights.. When it glitters like Gold.. A special feeling creeps up inside and I suddenly feel proud to be an Indian.It doesn't means that I am not proud of being an Indian, but there are definitely many reasons which make me say that I am not that proud to be an Indian. For instance, Poverty, Corruption..(ya I remember the dialog from movie Rang De Basanti:No Nation is perfect, the citizens has to make it perfect..Ha ha ha.. even if our leaders get a perfect state they will make it imperfect in a matter of moments , hence we can surely leave aside "making it a perfect" responsibility), the list will never end. But I am really proud to be a part of the world most culturally diversified society.

Aren't we diverting from our topic. India Gate have always made me wonder, made me feel more like an Indian, made me leave aside all the negative things that looms around the country, reminds me of the love and sacrifice of countless soldiers who laid down their life in a fight to protect our freedom, who laid down their life in the process of making the country a perfect one.

I was kinna glad that this Independence Day, my mailbox wasn't filled with a single mail regarding Independence. It did made me think that may be people have understood the fact that it not just about sending some forwarded mails or may be they didn't get time at all to forward anything.Whatever may be the reason I didn't need a reminder for celebrating our Independence. I celebrated it a special way.. a special way to myself..I went to IG and stood there for dunno how much time.. just staring at the monument and the people around it admiring its value and its timeless beauty.

"There are things that you feel that can't be described" , and I think of this phrase each and every time I visit IG.