nkaundinya

Guys firstly i wanted to portray the romance associated with a jawa/yezdi. Thats it...!!
I agree new bikes are a class apart, I agree they go faster are cheaper, are environmentally friendly. I agree they are more 'cool' to the eyes....but my point is..there is something special in a jawa/yezdi that no bike has.....not even an RD....RD is a GREAT machine....but a JAWA 350 twin is not greater...it is more romantic...its more enigmatic....its more....its more secretive....
Its like the difference between romance and a one night stand...!!!
I absolutely respect the new bikes....but i still believe there were more men back then...!!!!!

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entsurgeon

more men out there before... ummm... i agree but you are wrong!!:P
barely 20 years ago, electricity , tv s and fans weren t a given in country homes.
cities slept at 9 and it was dire emergency if ur friend had to knock your door after 8:30.
rush hour traffic in that era would hardly affect your decision as to what route u should take to avoid something called traffic. and you were rich if you had a bajaj scooter.... (here goes my rule of three inspired by a true fact... to get a bajaj... 3k rs+3 yrs waiting period or 3k of premium. now when was last u heard about a 100% premium?)
this is the era you are referring to.
most people in india who had bikes then would be style conscious or rich people, which considering the then state of democracy out there, would be with few exceptions, influential/mighty people... baahubalis type. mighty by penny or sword. these people would go out in night. go on long trips on bikes.
would employ an army of servants but none would be allowed to touch the ride. that era , in retrospect, evokes nostalgia.
but equating them with being man????
i d like to tell you,these 'men' lurked in the era when enfield india and yezdi made bikes here on shore. and these were much more affordable as compatred to classic metal, thereby making bikes generally accessible by 1970s.
but even before that, no vehicle was made in india, 2 or 4 wheels, whatever it was , it was rare, made abroad, imported, owned by super rich and well travelled and by default, exceptionally rare. so no mechanics out there, no spares shop... and you had to carry a puncture repair kit supplied with your ride to repair it all by yourself. even if in the middle of the night in a forest where wolves tigers or leopards weren t your imaginary fears you wuold have to get off and repair the flat tyre or a loose contact. you were half mechanics if you owned a bike/car back then. on highways after 6 pm, it would be suicidal. strangled like this, you could meet cobras, drunkards, bandits,dacoits in addition to our national animal and his kins.
further.. there were no guidebooks and no experienced/local travellers at the dhabas to give you useful advices, and you d be master of your sixth sense about whom to trust or ask directions to.
imagine!!!
still people had balls to go and they did it without ever slightly thinking that its an act of daring /bravery.
these people were 60-70 yo when in 1985, many 'men ' were riding yezdis and bullets.
and they would at time sigh and say, "if only you kids knew what being 'man' means."
however, bikes until this recent era u mentioned were faithful loe interests.
your best friend would not be able to kickstart it even if you 2 owned a similar model. that was the character.
this is extinct.
now a days, the more different bikes they make, the more they are same.
any novice can buy and ride a bike.
all it needs is an ignition key and a thumb.
you need absolutely no minimum skill to begin riding. nothing seperates men from boys now.
and hence... i support your feeling.
hats off to an era gone by.
cheers!!!
p.s.: once in my college parking lot, a friend of mine asked me if i knew where the kicklever of yezdi is?? (he borrowed the yezdi of yet another batchmate to take his gf on a ride, she was standing right behind him.)
i told him.
for next few weeks i felt like i am a lady killer or something.

shabbarak

oh man how i used to hate this bike "YEZDI" not because i dint like it , i was crazy after it , my elder cousin used to have one , and he never allowed me to ride it .

those days i was just 14 or 15 years old and used to ride my dads rajdoot 175 . my cousin used to tease me by saying if you can kick start it i will allow you to ride it , one day i got so excited and applied all my strength to kick it to life and the bike kicked back , it was a nasty kickback and i was growling in pain while my cousin was laughing on me .

after a few years when my legs were strong enough to kickstart a yezdi my cousin went and got himself a rx100

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ashes

@thread starter: i dont agree with u and short and simple i consider all my vehicles to be of the fairer sex.

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kaynmantis

Funny. When I was small, I saw and knew of only two motorcycle. The Enfield Bullet and the Yezdi. I thought tough guys ride the Bullet and sissies ride the yezdi .

nkaundinya

i am no chavunist....but i still consider a jawa/yezdi to be more manly...just like a bullet being more manlier...!!

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Sandeep_K_Ram

Chauvinism .... I don't think we are seeing chauvinism here. To each his own

But a yezdi .... you don't know it till you learn to tame the beast - oh the joys it can give you .... man....

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