Tasting road
Got a shiner. First one.
Headbanged with asphalt.
Prickly tar embedded in my tissue.
Smudged charcoal cheek.
Dominoed. Flew over the crime scene
for an unhappy ending.
And my poor poor bike,
An elegant creature into the finer things of life
Mangled by a four-wheeled monster.
Wham Bam. Thank you Ma’am.
Breaking the frame
Was happy to come across this.
Here is what Anant Khirbat, who completed an independent Kullu to Leh cycling expedition, said:
Malvika's post somehow reminded me of this ... from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. This is more true for cycles 
You see things vacationing on a motorcycle in a way that is completely different from any other. In a car you're always in a compartment, and because you're used to it you don't realize that through that car window.
Everything you see is just more TV. You're a passive observer and it is all moving by you boringly in a frame.
On a cycle the frame is gone. You're completely in contact with it all.
You're in the scene, not just watching it anymore, and the sense of presence is overwhelming. That concrete whizzing by five inches below your foot is the real thing, the same stuff you walk on, it's right there, so blurred you can't focus on it, yet you can put your foot down and touch it anytime, and the whole thing, the whole experience, is never removed from immediate consciousness.
Delhi R.A.C.E.S and events’ logos
Just made logos for a group called Delhi Races and its events - a duathlon and cyclothon. Created and organised by Ashok Mehta, Gagan Khosla, Anju and Yogen among others.
Delhi R.A.C.E.S - Delhi Running And Cycling Enthusiasts Society.
Sunny, picnic mood. There for the love of sport. No participation fee. Friends meet and cycle/run. Open to everyone in the spirit of things.
Hi fashion designers,
Lissun. Here is a golden world-famous opportunity. Let me tell you that very boring knee-guards etc are available in the market at chemist stores. Wrist bands still have designs but elbow and knee guards, used a lot by cyclists (MTB) are just not happening. They’re like granddaddy’s underwear design. I am not talking of knee caps; not talking of the complicated stuff with panels and casing; just the knee guards which are cylindrical tight ribbed-elastic things. Simple to make. Need a hole on top of the knee to keep the movement going. Hope for Metal or Punk style graphics. Anything but the boring peach/cream guards. Y’know, happier street-style stuff. Sell your design to Reebok. Lemme know if anyone makes an initiative. What say?
Just did a logo & poster. Run cycle Run
If you are in Delhi, see you at the duathlon.
Click on the image for a better view.
Girl talk
She: My cycle went.
Me: Where? Where? Did you park it properly!
She: err..menstrual cycle..
A secret lying out there in the open
I tend to cycle by in a trance, Happy and sailing. Only when AJ shows me the photos later do I see stars fading in the dawn sky, lush greenery with dabs of bougainvillea pink. And now looks like I missed a giant hole in the scheme of things that Rajesh Kalra’s keen journo sense identified.
Chicks dig my ride
Watch this.
What dyu think?
I think….
Anyway I have a problem with 'chicks'. When he cycles by wearing this, it is like he is only talking to the guys and women who read this are supposed to realise they aren’t being spoken to at all. I know I am taking this more seriously than it is meant but 3 cheers for the middle-aged guy!
He rightly says 'talk to me, why are you shouting?” though the pushing and man-handling is sad. There I must defend freedom of expression, even if it is shit expression.
Actually, everyone is shouting. And old man isn't listening much. But the cyclist isn't making a strong case at all.
And why should that cop intervene? He doesn’t have to be a spokesperson for the public all the time. Things need to be quite screwed for him to step in. Why should he have to step in and assume an authoritative role in this?
And all this mission biz - I WILL convert people to cycling is fanatic. If the cyclist really means to convert this middle-aged man and others in the crowd to cycling, isn't it amazingly obvious he is not speaking his target audience's language with 'chicks dig my ride'? It is interesting that in these times when expression is so easy and one can just splash a message publicly through the internet, that this cyclist should have an on-ground experience in expression and its impact/consequences. But all said and done, I do feel a little sorry for this cyclist.