Originally Posted by L.P.

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The Pleasures of Motorcycling

The pleasure is in doing three-digit speeds for hours on end when most consider 60 as dangerous and 80 as fatal!!
The pleasure is starting your bike's engine for a long-distance ride on a cold morning and listening to its steady comforting idle while you prepare for the ride.
The pleasure is in racing a train speeding along parallel to the road and beating it, at beyond a 100 kmph!!
The pleasure is in knowing a split second before the car in front panic-brakes. You were more focussed than the driver of that car. You survive and smile!!
The pleasure is when your upshifts and downshifts are so smooth that the Bike feels auto-geared.

The pleasure is in entering a road-tunnel on a bright day with your sunglasses on and remembering the fear of riding blind for even a few moments.

The pleasure is in having just the right tool and spares at hand when something goes wrong with the Bike in the middle of nowhere.
The pleasure is when you almost, almost fall. But don’t.
The pleasure is when you can see the petrol after a top-up.
The pleasure is when you jump a speedbreaker.
The pleasure is when you stop at the smallest of towns, and somebody asks you deep technical questions about your bike.
The pleasure is when you leave four-wheeler traffic standing in a jam.

Text: Sundeep Goswami [Old Fox]