Monday, December 20, 2010

My experiments with two wheels

Very unusual to hear a 25 year old person telling that he or she cannot ride a bicycle. But as far I can recollect I am always a person with unusual habits and experiences. When everybody else order for a cappuccino in a strange and a foreign coffee shop, I will be the only one to order a coffee with a peculiar name and have an experience to remember, because it would have tasted terrible. So when I was in my first grade I sat on a bicycle which was five times bigger than me and had a horrible accident and after that I have never got the guts to sit on it again. The day I gifted my sister with a Dio and saw her enjoying, I felt I was missing something. The initiation to this process happened during my training days at Infosys. At Mysore training campus, we could literally see hundred of cyclists at peak hours. The campus was very huge and to travel from the respective buildings to bus terminal and food terminals people used cycles. This continued when I was shifted to Bangalore campus. In spite of the campus being not as huge as the Mysore campus we could spot lot of cyclists.
This process reached its peak when one of my friends purchased a cycle. I was so tempted that even I bought one. After that I had no other go but learn to ride that. The next evening after the cycle arrived at my place I decided to take it for a walk in fresh air. My friend had promised me to help me in handling the cycle. Within 5 minutes I was able to independently ride my cycle for a surprise. Even I don’t believe that I was able to ride. After that there was no looking back. I have tried to change gears, accelerate in turns and had good falls. But it never stopped me. Once I rode my cycle at -9 degree centigrade and froze my hands and nose. Until Fargo, the city where I live was covered with snow that even walking became knotty, I never gave up cycling. Now my bike is resting in our garage where it is accompanied by two cars Nissan and Honda for a while daily. But she likes it as she is warm in the garage. Waiting for the snow to vanish so that I can get her back on tracks

1 comment:

  1. U are one of those Extreme person with all those wierd crazyness and good habbits..:)

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