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Pune Off Road Expedition 2017

This year's Pune Off Road Expedition was tougher than last year. Last year the route was much longer, but was largely flat with a few climbs and descends since ...

How To Increase The Power Of A Hero Impulse

If you have a Hero Impulse are aren't happy with the power that the 150cc engine outputs, an easy way to fix the problem is to simply let more air into the engi...

Simplicity

The simplicity of this old school motorcycle is extremely refreshing. I can work on it using my very limited knowledge and toolkit and sort out a few things mys...

A Highway Moment

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Mother Nature Always Finds A Way

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Live

Yesterday as I was getting Stallion's rear tyre swapped at the tyre shop, this aged man walked up to me started a conversation. I learned that he was a biker an...

A Cattle Crossing In Mongolia

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Evening Ride With Raptor

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Evening Drive With Thor

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Evening Ride With Blackbird

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Blistering Tyre

The Metzeler Tourance Next front tyre on Stallion started showing weird looking bulges at places around 6 inches apart. It seemed like the tyre was getting read...

Sometimes Two GPS Devices Are Better Than One

One of my blog readers asked me why I use two GPS devices - the Garmin GPS device and Google Maps on my iPhone. In India Garmin's maps are accurate mainly in ci...

Royal Enfield Pathetic Part Quality Saga

The saga of Royal Enfield pathetic part quality continues. The coil of Altaf Khalifa's Himalayan burned for the second time. The first time this happened just a...

Royal Enfield Himalayan Crank Nut Fix

The nut you see at the center of the picture is what I believe to be a major potential screw up in the Royal Enfield Himalayan. I say this because it needs to b...

Goa-Mumbai Coastal Route

The Goa-Mumbai coastal route has all the elements of an excellent motorcycle road. Apart from the scenic beauty, the curves make it a joy to ride. Lots of shade...

Dicky

While touring in India I often get asked the usual questions about my motorcycles - cost, mileage, etc. But today an old chap asked me, "Dicky ka cost kitna hai...

Riding The Goa-Mumbai Coastal Route

If I had to pick one word to describe the Goa-Mumbai coastal route in the monsoons, it would be "green". Glorious weather at this time of the year. Its hard to ...

Tiger Chasing Himalayan

I didn't realize how well the Triumph Tiger 800 XRx glides over broken tarmac until I started chasing Altaf Khalifa on his Royal Enfield Himalayan. The key is t...

Happiness Is...

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Overjoyed

This dude was extremely overjoyed to see me today. :-)...