cycling around the park

Its almost a month, I have been blogging & cycling. Its quite nice to see me taking such an initiative in doing about the workouts. I usually take the route of Sankey Tank, Palace road, Mekri Circle, around Indian Institute of Science,Yeswantpur Circle & Dr.Rajkumar Road.The distance is around 10Kms and is filled with lots of greenery. So much of cool breeze & greenery such that I intend to continue to do the same route for some more time.

I do see lots of people do the cycling and do suggest people who looking into this blog should seriously think about cycling is the way to good health.

Happy Cycling

My Slogan (sry its copied)

"If you need a reason to ride, You are not on the right bike."

I just copied from one of this BLOGS http://ssjf.blogspot.com who guided me
to this fabulous site BIKE NOMADS where u get more of this.

Advantages of Cycling

1. Lots of exercise: No need of spending monthly fees on GYM other weight reduction programs.
2. Save FUEL : U don't need any fossil fuel for cycling.
3. Pollution Control : As there is no carbon monoxide production.
4. Take a ride on Foot Path : As cycles are not banned on foot path.
5. Easy Movement : In Traffic signal compared to Motorbikes & CARS.
6. No road taxes : on the new bicycle.
7. Don't need a Driving license.
8. Yearly depreciation :Businessmen can take about 20% yearly depreciation on these.
9. Sustainable Transport:Carry all monthly groceries, vegetables, fruits from your market.
10. Time Management: Waiting for a BUS,A Traffic signal. Can be the first to leave a traffic signal.
    
11. Transportation Cost : Cost of Shifting a Cycle is much lesser than a Motorcycle or a 4 wheeler.
12. Maintenance Cost: Very less compared to others.
13. Servicing : Can be serviced by urself
    
14. Cleaning : Need Just 1/2 bucket of water or a small piece cloth is also ok.
15. Speed : Can reach speed up to 40kms.
16. Easy Ride : My cycle have got 24 gears & others(petrol/diesel vehicles) its just have 6
    

MY BIKE

some more photos in picasa

Visit to BOTS

The much awaited me cycling group has been initiated. Nitin & myself had a visit to BOTS on the bicycle.Its is great to to ride the same route which I used to ride to reach my college BMSCE on my HERO Ranger cycle.

Distance is about 11 Kms which we covered in 40 mins.We hade a quite nice time there with Nikil as Rohan was on a adventure cycling trip.While riding back NITIN (my cousin) had the chance and he did well for the first time. We were back in the house by 10.00.

The final result is NITIN is considering a purchase of bicycle at BOTS my be in a week or so.I even had a talk with my close buddy(Raghavendra) for purchase of a bicycle & about making a cycling team of ours.

Hope this initiated process comes good & we all be able to cycling together for longer duration.

The Race of a Lifetime . . .

An Article in July 9th,2007 MID DAY news paperClick here for above news in website

Cycling Physiology

There is something of cycling physiology which
is important to all cyclist,So Better CLICK HERE.

Ultimate INDIAN MTB Ride

http://lingthemerciless.blogspot.com/2006/12/
mtb-himachal-2006-himachal-bull-etin.html

These people do around 90kms in a day for 10days.
Paricipants must be having amazing stamina to just complete the race!

TREK 4300D : Awesome Bike

Just got my bike yesterday(July 1st).

Had a 3 kms ride on it in the evening.People where Litterly staring at my bike.And to surprise, My Uncle took two rides on the same bike.But others were furious on me investing that amount on TREK(Which I Feel its worth)Its is great bicycle to ride especially for long distances.The gears are great.Disc brakes are fabulous.Need some more fine tunning of gears.Thats it.

The Last Thing I have to mention is

"Can experience the bike only by riding it & not by reading reviews." & " Love Passing those slow moving Cars in the traffic signal"

HURRAY, TREK ORDERED

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed,
but nature does not depend on us.
We are not the only experiment.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

And One more which I Have to share

At last I have ordered the Trek 4300D bicycle , after a lot of Hitches. Rohan was great in explaning abt the pros & cons. I am going to pick the bike on Sunday 1st July Morning at Rohan Place.

4 WHEELS or 2 WHEELS ?

Article in Business World on 7th MAY 2007, a car running with 2 people for 200kms/1 litre of Petrol. Its quite amazing . And now they want the same with 4 people.

So SAVE FUEL,USE THIS VEHICLE OR THE CYCLE

How to select & ride a bike

As always known,people while selecting a bicycle end up taking

not the one the he likes but the one the dealer has the best margin

So Better Click On This To Select The Suitable Bicycle

Planning to buy a Bike

I Happened to meet some cycling enthusiasts, who also deal with Cycles sale in a very different way.

It was great to hear about these guys (Rohan & Nikil). They have a mission in hand "POPULARIZE CYCLING" in Bangalore. Yesterday I got the chance to meet these people, have a ride on their bikes.It was really good. They had quite a number of suggestions for the type of riding we do & type of the bicycle we need to use. Nice people to have a discussion abt the cycling. Some day or the other, I would like to get involved with them.

This is the bicycle I am PLANNING to Buy TREK 4300D.

U can meet them at
http://bumsonthesaddle.com/

My New Interest in Bicycling

SORRY GUYS (THESE ARE ALL NEW POSTINGS) ACCIDENTLY DELETED THE BLOG

I do remember those days, where my father used to teach us the cycling.I used to ride my father's cycle without even knowing how to get on & off of it.

When my parents where out to work and a holiday for us, we used get Cycles for rent for 50Paise/hour and go around city(Bhadravati) parks and used to have a blast.

we had n number of crashes & accident / n number of wounds on our body, which we did not mind.

This continued till I came to Bangalore for My High Schooling & also did get our Fathers bicycle to Bangalore & was using it to commute from our school, House, & Kamalama Gundi (Play ground in Mahalakshmi Layout) where we used to practice our volleyball.

Then that time my mother had promised me to get a good MTB cycle once i go into College for my 10+classes which she did. We then sold of our older cycle for 700Rs to one of our Friend (13years back which i dont know if it is existing or not). My mother was little upset due to this bcoz of the love & the attachment she had with it.

HERO MTB name tells it all(Multi terrain Bike) was used every where from roads,patholes roads, Playgrounds etc.I must have spent more than what the cycle costs in its life span of about 8years
but it has served me a lot.

We used to go to around Bangalore in Diploma for abt 3years, & we even had a cycling trip to Pearl Valley (Muthayalmadu) thru NCC.It was about 40Kms from our College (MEI Polytechnic) in Rajajinagar which was very hard for me but every well enjoyed it.

And after my Diploma college days , I used ride the cycle for first year in Engineering,from Rajajinagar 1st Block to Hanumanthanagar(BMS College of Engineering) that was really great.

After that for all three years I was rarely used the MTB as it was too strainfull.

But I do remember that in final year i had taken the cycle again to BMSCE for fun(but it was too hard for me) & while cuming back,we rode doubles with Ravikishore with the help of Deepak who had a Luna dragging us.

It was such a good momemt,so we remember that ride from college to house when we all meet.

Now its about 5years from there and me little fat, I have decided to start cycling, and probable buy a good bicycle in the near future and start riding it again.

Hope this new interest stays with me for more days to go.

Thanks for reading,
corrections are welcome.
Deepak