Bio Facts
	Full Name	Ashish Divakaran
	Nickname	GasolineJunkie ( also xBhp ID )
	Date of Birth	7th July 1986
	Resident of	Hyderabad, India
	Website	http://www.xBhp.com
	Bikes Owned	Yamaha YBX & a mountain bike that he built
	Bikes Previously owned	Enfield Silver that he had when he was 11
	Bikes Ridden	Honda Fireblade, Honda Blackbird, Honda VFR400 & almost every Indian bike including the Team TVS dirt bike
	Maximum Kms in a Day	820 kms ( Chennai - Hyderabad ) in GIR on a Blaze / Comet
	Best Ride	Delhi - Spiti Valley - Delhi
	Fastest Ride	150+ as a rider, 200+ as a pillion, 200 in a Skoda RS
	Hobbies	Riding, Off-roading, Test-driving, Traveling & Heavy Metal
	Profession	Student (will be going to college next year), I also worked on some designing in a fiberglass factory and as a Technical director of Golfzon.inc
	Skillset for GAur	Ashish will be a backup driver in Melbourne standing-by to join the GAur team in case of an emergency.
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It all started two days after he got his license when he rode his YBX about 770 kilometers to Nashik, from then on touring was like a bug, a drug, an addiction and riding to Bombay on weekends became a favorite pastime while everyone else thought he was attempting suicide. The passion for automobiles started over a decade before that. When he couldn’t ride he cycled, when his foot could reach the tree stump outside his house he learnt how to ride and when he was old enough to look like an 18 year old to a blind policeman he started driving.

When all the other parents were buying their kids a cricket bat, his dad gave him an old engine for his 13th birthday. His first association with Xbhp was when he emailed Sunny to find out if anyone else wanted to ride from Hyderabad to Bangalore for the Crusty Demons stunt show, and that’s when he first met all the other retards like him. They came from different walks of life, but in the same interest – Motorcycles, and that’s why it was so easy to call Xbhp home. After a year they were all together in Delhi ready to embark on yet another unforgettable ride to the Himalayas, a week away from civilization, riding 12 hours a day 3 feet away from a 300meter cliff. But there needed to be more, it needed to be bigger, we needed to do better.

There had to be some way to show the world how to have fun. If everyone rode a motorcycle, physiatrists & councilors would go broke, speed cameras would run out of film and the world ‘freedom’ would have a new meaning. Till then we had all taken beaks from work or school to satisfy our touring needs, now it was time to take a beak from life itself to do a trip like no other, a tour called the Great Indian Roadtrip. Riding from dawn to dusk each day, everyday was what all of us always wanted to do, and meeting people from every city who shared the same interest of motorcycles was what we never imagined we could do. On those 108 days on the road we lived a year each day, it made 6 boys into men. Now in the post GIR era Ashish moved to Melbourne to chaise his love for automobiles in a bigger playground. He eats, sleeps, works & studies automobiles and still aimlessly drives a few hundred kilometers on a weekend just like he always did. He recons having a good time is when you save that $50 you’d spend in a nightclub and spend it on converting petrol into oxides-of-nitrogen, hydrocarbons, carbon-dioxide & a-whole-lot-of-fun.

At 21 he has seen almost every corner of India, ridden on every major highway, been up the highest motorable road in the world & down some of the deepest coalmines in India. And yes, he still is the same adrenaline filled petrohead who would be more taken up by a jugaad (homemade automobile) parked next to the Taj Mahal than the Taj Mahal itself.

- deliberately written by Ashish in third person mode