Learning to Ride

“How many days will it take me to learn how to ride a motorcycle?”
Wow, there’s a question that stumped me. I didn’t know the answer, honest. I told the young man that if he meant only the operation of the controls – clutch, brake, throttle – that would take 20 minutes. But learning to ride [...]

Not again!

I received this anonymous comment yesteday
i have read the exact same review somewhere else.. either you copied from them or they copied from you… and i doubt you.. you could have at least noted that it was taken off from an another site.. its really pathetic
For this post.
I found that the whole first ride was [...]

Where have I been?

As I said earlier, it’s become harder and harder to find the time to blog. I must apologise to all the regular readers who have inspired me to continue to write here.
Since August 1, 2008, the last real post until these, I’ve changed jobs, moved to another place and it’s even busier than before. However, [...]

Buy the best, pay more…

Here’s this awesome quote on the Arai website. Neatly says everything I try to explain when someone asks me why my helmet costs nearly Rs 20,000
What to pay?“It is unwise to pay too much, but it is worse to pay too little. When you pay too much, you lose a little money…that is all. When [...]

Why is this blog so slow to update?

So, many of you are wondering if I’ve either converted the blog into a collection of press releases, a collection of videos, or worse, just abandoned the whole damn thing. The truth is that the last one may actually be nearer to the truth. You see, the times they are a changing. My plate at [...]

They never learn

Came over the crest of a flyover as usual. Streetlights never work here and good headlights and a thorough familiarity with the road surface here are a great asset. On that night, it was invaluable. God’d been going nuts with his new camera for a while now and the repeated flashes could only mean one [...]

I’m at Alltop

Alltop.com has added my RSS feed to this page. I’ve always wondered if there wasn’t a, um, more elegant way to look up the latest news from my favourite motorcycle blogs. Google Reader is efficient, but it needed something more… well, when I saw the motorcycles.alltop.com page, I knew it was exactly what I needed. [...]

Congratulations!

Man! It isn’t mine. This is a publicly posted private message to a private individual who happens to have been possessed by this lovely Kawasaki Zephyr. Thanks to all of those of you who thought this was mine and congratulated me, and promptly demanded a ride as well. Dream on, buddies… just like me…

I must be doing something right!

Hello, hello, hello, people. I’ve been busy at work and the blog, obviously, has suffered from my absence. Apologies. And some more, because I’m not sure how often I will be able to post in the coming days either.
But in the meantime, look what happened!

We discovered a bounty of items about braking technique — hard [...]

Why make a silly mistake?

Okay, this is a bit of a rant, so bear with me.
I am more than a little surprised by this. In the recent past, I’ve had the pleasure of meeting three people who read this blog on a regular basis. One of them asked me a question about helmets which I posted here not so [...]