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I have just come back to my hotel room after a day full of riding in the Spanish hills. My body is tired, my mind is racing, but my heart is happy, in fact very very happy!!
You see, I’m among a set of a lucky few who have had the privilege of riding some of the bikes from the new 2018 Softail range of Harley Davidson. We have been...
A handful of people question ‘why’,
the majority of us just ‘do and die’.
A motorcycle ride is best enjoyed alone. It’s good to have friends or even a pillion on a long ride, but solo is the way to go. Me, my bike, an open road and not a familiar face in sight. At these times are we really alone or is there someone watching...Hard Torque
Risk is real. Always. Though for us it becomes real only when we realize its presence. Since motorcycling carries within its dynamics a substantial quantity of this known yet mysterious character, we need to look both at our riding as well as the machines we ride not just from the perspective of improving skills and better safety...
The advantage of being an O4 is that you get more attention, if that's what you want and the disadvantage is that you get more attention, if that's what you don't want.
This is a small essay about my rather impromptu decision to participate in my first ‘big bike’ race, and technically my second (after the 150CC Gixxer...
At 45, I am supposedly an old timer as a motorcyclist. No, it’s not the age or the fact that few continue riding at this age. It probably has to do with the fact that my riding spans two separate eras of motorcycling in this country. I started riding when choices were limited to the rustic Rajdoot and Bullet, the sporty Jawa/Yezdi, the...Hard Torque
I still remember the dark and dank evening from two decades ago as I sat on my haunches beside my black 1983 Escorts Rajdoot AC123, sheltered beneath a huge Peepal tree (the Ficus Religiosa for the purists here) some 40 miles from home. The contact breaker points had given up the ghost and all my efforts and prayers (in tandem) were...
