Driving through this world unknown

Jasmine Singh

One for the road, one for the wind that unfurls those neat locks, one for the flight of freedom that opens every pore of the body, and one for the adrenaline that works like the pacemaker. Lastly, this one’s for you and your bike! Taking your bike out for a spin on a weekend or getting her to test her limits, on a 10-day expedition is something you’ve done often. (Those of you who haven’t got any close to it, one for you as well!). Here are some bike junkies who have gone far away from their soil, dug the wheels of their bikes of on soft foreign. These are the riders who have gone an extra mile in their riding passion!

Travel time

Satbir Kahlon, 27, a businessman from Patiala doesn’t remember his fiancés’ birthday (no big deal?), but he can state in a chronological order the kilometres he has travelled so far, places he has been to on his Royal Enfield. Then came the most cherished event at Devore, California, the California Grill Express Bike Night. “Ideally, I wanted to take my bike to California, but it was coming out to be a costly affair. “The event is not about just bikes, it is about following a religion, an ideology which starts and ends with their machines for the people participating there. Driving at my pace through the crest and Kentucky was a thrilling and liberating experience.”

Ride away

Sharandeep Waraich, a Punjabi screenplay writer from Jalandhar, based out in Chandigarh has recently returned from his 10 day bike ride event in Canada-Bike day. “My first bike trip was from Chandigarh to Kanyakumari then from there to Sikkim, Srinagar and Amritsar, which took me two months and 20 days. Now, this bike day which is held in Ottawa was an event to remember for.” If left to Sharandeep, “I would actually go to every biking event in the world,” adds the rider whose next event is in Hong Kong. “Work does suffer, but the thrill, the peace that I get when I do riding, take part in events is something I can’t describe.” Money? “Well, you can ride through on a shoe string budget and also go on a luxury spin, depends how you plan.”

Worth a shot

If Yuvesh Sharma, system engineer was given a choice, he would pick his bike and ride through the entire world. As of now it is Wellington, New Zealand on his Suzuki GSX. “If only I had words to describe how it feels to be riding in this place, I could have written a book on it,” says Yuvesh who keeps taking part in motorbiking events happening abroad, “pretty much of and on.”

One love

Riding is always on his Sahil Sareen’s mind, and he would grab every opportunity that would get him to ride. “I look for different biking events that happen across the world. And it was during of such search that took me biking to Bangkok and Rayong.” To Sahil, riding is a religion, “One that brings me closer to spirituality.” He adds, “India doesn’t have dearth of passionate bikers, but abroad they live for this passion.”

Flying high

Zipping through the clean highways and streets of Melbourne, Australia on his Ducati Panigale 899, Abhinav Bhambri a bank analyst has taken his passion for riding one step ahead. “Riding is about freedom, it’s an expression and it definitely doesn’t know any barrier.”

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