
Oh yes, one of the postcard images that represent India in the west. That's Sunny talking to his wife on the mobile and
posing for the camera as the real danger passes by him. Talk about serious multitasking!
Two - cow power. Now thats a lot of bamboo my friend. Did you pay for it?
Kamasutra of automobiles? What the heck!
We rode a Kinetic Hysoung Aquila for a while in Pune. It has the same engine as one of the GIR vehicles, the Comet GT250.

The public transport icon of Mumbai : A BEST Bus. Its red and its a bus.
The Castrol Honda Blackbird at the GIR Launch press conference.
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The MV Augusta Brutale in Bangalore, now we didnt expect this!
Burnt Bus? No problem. It will still work!
Looks like this car got caught in mid air in a giant spider web somewhere down in south India.
A bulldozer hard at work clearing a landslide in Darjeeling ( West Bengal ).
We took a ferry to Divar Island in Goa.
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A vehicle made out of wood and a generator. ( Spotted in the parking at Golden Temple, Amritsar )
A vehicle made out of wood and a generator. ( Spotted in the parking at Golden Temple, Amritsar )
A Hayabusa at display in a Suzuki showroom in Kolkata. No, you cant buy that yet!
This is a Hussain 250, oops we meant Kinetic Hyosung Comet GT 250, the same model we were using in the GIR.
Jugad : The locals in awe of the great black man sitting on their simple machine. The big black man is GasolineJunkie ( Ashish
Divakaran ).

Kettuvalam : A luxury houseboat in Kerela's backwater in Kumarakom
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TVS Victor right of the showroom perhaps, or maybe it just won them an election.
There is still room for me, I think.

A plane : Increasing airspace traffic in India
A hand pulled Rickshaw in Kolkatta
Perhaps the most popular two wheeler in India - Bajaj Chetak
A public transport bus in the South. Beware of them, they think their are Schumachers and you are checkpoints, that red
color is perhaps due to the blood of hapless victims on the road!
The new Tata 207 spied somewhere in Maharashtra. Incidentally, the Tata 207 was our backup vehicle too!
Besides a steam engine used to pull the Heritage Darjeeling Railway bogeys.
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One of the thousands of taxis in Kolkata.
A three wheeler in Chennai
A three wheeler carrier en route Darjeeling.
Another three wheeler carrier en route Darjeeling.

A three wheeler en route Kumarakom ( Kerela )
Thats a tram running on Kolkata roads. And yes note that paintjob with the LIC Child-ran ( away ) plans? Maybe thats a
pun. A little more brooding and we think they mean to say that get a life insurance soon lest a tram crushes you...
Thats a terrific tricked out Blaze that came in the midnight meet in Pune that we had on the GIR on the Diwali eve.
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Truck drivers are often a cheerful lot, but stay away from them at night.
I love my India - thats some paintjob!

Utensil shop on two wheels. Ill take a green for the Kwacker, a red for the Honda and blue for the Suzuki. Yellow? That can
be given away as a complentary gift with a Y2K.
Is that an Isoscles traingle my friend?

1 Yak power : SunilG taking charge at the Chango lake.
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