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Vrrraaamm…Vroooomm…Chhhiiiiiiiiinnnn…Aaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!

Published on September 15, 2010 in Anu. 0 Comments

Damn it! Not again! I need to get my front brakes fixed. This is the second time they have caused an accident.

A week has gone by now and my wounds have almost healed. Fortunately there’s not much damage in the bike. The leg guard has bent in and the gear pedal caved in. Other than that there are just small scratches. So instead of dwelling on the accident and researching the causes let’s rather take away whatever positives we can from it.

  • For one, I will be a pretty safe driver for at least the next few months (my last accident was more than 10 months ago). Pain is no friend of mine and I hate to be forced to to confined to staying in bed when not at home under the care of mom.
  • Secondly, I have got a shot of TT on the 6th of September, 2010. I do not need to get another shot till at least 2013 :) . That’s a big relief.
  • I’ll finally buy a new pair of jeans to replace the torn old ones.
  • Luckily I wasn’t wearing a t-shirt that day.
  • My biking gloves were almost in tatters. Now I will have to buy a new pair.
  • I’ll get my bike serviced.

The only negative was the nurse cleaning my wound. He was chatting up his female colleague and cared the least for my pain. In fact, I think he was trying to inflict more pain to impress her, poking the tweezers at my wound trying to remove any piece of dead skin he could find, however small it be.

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My New Love

Published on September 21, 2009 in Anu. 0 Comments

Ohh how I am falling in love with my bike :) . I love riding my CBZ Xtreme even though the traffic in Bangalore is the worst ever imaginable.

I had never been a bike enthusiast. I always dreamed of a car. For some reason Merc has always been my favourite. Perhaps it has something to do with the my having spent an year in Germany when I was a kid. But what really etched the car in my mind was an open top, sports look, blue Merc that zoomed across me in Delhi. It is the same type of Merc that I now desire and hope to own one day. I have seen Carrera, Porshe, BMW’s but none have matched the beauty of that Merc.

Bikes were never in my scheme of things.

Yet, when I moved to Bangalore, I needed a bike to commute from my home to office and back. Having no idea of bikes, I asked my brothers for advice. My younger brother, Ambuj instantly suggested CBZ. He went on about the features of the bike that I did not understand. And Shashank bhaiyya also recommended the same bike, though since he himself has that bike, his advice will obviously be biased. But these are two people whose suggestions I cannot ignore when it comes to the domain of bikes.

So I went the Hero Honda showroom the same day and got the CBZ Xtreme booked. It was delivered to me within two working days.

Then came the greater concern. I had not driven a bike before !! Well, till my engineering days I was happy with my scooty. Then the next 4 years at IIT Kharagpur saw me riding a bicycle. Meanwhile I had car driving lessons and got the DL after passing the driving test. So I knew how the gears and clutch play together, but even then it had been quite some time having driven the Hyundai Santro. And the 4 day training I received from my brother was on a Discover 125cc bike where the gears were all down, unlike the CBZ’s one down rest up system.

Nervously excited, I drove the bike to work the next day. I must not have stalled by bike more than a dozen times in those first 5 kms :P . Its actually a credible performance considering the fact that the traffic was moving in the first gear all the time.

Now 3 months have zipped by and I have become quite adept at driving. Having completed almost 2000 kms, which includes one ride of 90kms, and yet another of 50 kms on the State and National highways respectively. Gaining in confidence, we have now started planning even longer stretch of trips to Nandi Hills, Shiv Samundaram, Mysore and beyond. Yay, the ultimate aim is to make a trip to Goa on bikes, subject to permissions though :( .

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Checking Off My Wishlist

Published on August 27, 2009 in Anu. 1 Comment

Yesterday I was going through a few old posts when I came across a one wherein I had listed my wish list. I had planned to buy a few things after moving to Bangalore. This post is an update to that one.

Now that it is 3 months into post-graduation life at Bangalore, I have finally started ticking off things from my wish list. I had mentioned 4 back then -

  • A Dell XPS laptop
  • An iTouch to go with my Xperia
  • A domain name for myself
  • LastFm subscription

Here’s the update to the list -

  • I have a domain for myself now. Yay !! I have purchased this domain from justhost.com and have a hosting deal for the next two years.
  • I have subscribed at LastFm. Doubly Yay !! !! :) And I totally enjoyed their radio once again. God ! It feels so good listening to LastFm radio once again. Just to think of the number of songs available to me, chosen by LastFm makes me musically happy.

Things I have yet to do -

  • I have been given a Dell Latitude D630 from FICO and so have postponed any plans of XPS.
  • iTouch is the big question. Do I go for this gadget now or wait till a later time. I do not really need it right now, so probably I will put it off for some time.

Additionally -

  • I have an awesome bike – CBZ Extreme. Yipee. And I am totally in love with it. I have already driven ~1100 kms.

Additions to the wishlist -

  • Biking gear. This is of highest priority to me now. I need a pair of leather gloves, preferably leather jacket, a cool helmet. I am yet undecided on knee pads. :P

Hmm … Not much yet. Shall keep updating this list.

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