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He owns not only a busa but many other liter class bikes..

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Not a motorcycling blooper but a 'cycling' one. And clearly the most embarrassing moment of my life!

It was our first day in Infosys Mysore campus and we were all a bunch of excited youngsters. We threw our luggage into our hostel rooms and rushed out to see the beautiful campus. Now they use only cycles (pink ladybird cycles!) for in-campus commuting and we picked one up. I told my friend to sit on the 'carrier' and started to cycle, feeling like a happy kid. 'Peeeep' came the watchman's whistle and he told us "saar double seat is not allowed. Your id can be confiscated". We apologized and got separate cycles each.

It was a sunday evening. We were cycling away happily around campus through the common areas. I did not know at that time these cycles are in high demand during 'peak' hours and around crowded areas like food courts. People try to get cycles before they are parked by signalling to cyclists who are nearby parking zones. All the way I could see many boys signalling with their thumbs at me. I wondered why these dudes are asking me for a lift on my ladybird

Finally the chivalrous gentleman in me came out when I saw a pretty girl signal with her thumb at me. I stopped the cycle, turned around with deep regretful eyes and said, "Sorry I cannot take you double seat. It is not allowed. they will take both our id cards"

The look that girl gave me that day is the one I can never forget! She was like "NO NO NO I am asking for the cycle. I don't want a lift!"

The way I paddled away from there must have been the fastest acceleration that pink ladybird bicycle ever saw in it's life.


@kinshuk.arya @bhargavkundem

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Haha, I still remember that day when I came from Bangalore to Mysore for my project work, I took the cycle near the FC3 and it was a downhill, didnt note it and the cycle which I took had no damn brakes on it. Went straight on the foot path, hit a curd and landed on my a**. Cycle wheel bent, left it there and looked around, nobody to see, ran back to my room and shut the door.

It was freaking hilarious and I was laughing all by myself. Freak campus that is,

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Earlier he had a Busa. Now he has a red Italian.

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He still has the White Busa buddy

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But thats rotting away in sheer neglect, or so I hear. Unable to seduce him like with the sexier newer machine in the garage.

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Infy campus? Cycles and downhills are there

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Ducati Panigali ? Ducati Monster ? Ducati Diavel ?

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None of the mentioned It is even beefier

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Beefier as in using two extra wheels?

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Just returned after doing some work.
But when I starte from my home, I remember connecting my BT helmet set with phone and then switching on the songs
Next I remember I was humming song riding like carefree bird and then suddenly, mini heart attack. I could not find my phone in my denim pocket.
i was like I dropped it somewhere, after taking a break of 5minutes and cursing myself, I realised , I have my jacket, which is so light that I almost forgot that the phone was in my jacket pocket and............ for the whole time the songs were being played in my ears (i completely forgot, they are through my phone)

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Haha had a good laugh... definitely... Mysore is a challenging terrain to ride a cycle with all uphills and downhills... But still cycles (pink bicycles) are in most demand all the time... I should say they are well maintained when compared to Pune's cycles

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I was in a bad mood that day and was constantly thinking about something while riding. I reached the destination and got off the bike and bang! Bikes goes down and a broken rvm. I forgot to engage the side stand. People were watching me like they were witnessing something out of this world. Was very embarrassing situation. Lucky that I was wearing a helmet and flew from the scene.

Sent from my GT-I9100

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These two incidents happened when i had duke 390 at same place with me with a small gap of time.
One day while returning to home my bike shut off due to overheat ( faulty radiator fan ), I stopped near a traffic signal and was waiting my bike's engine to cool off:

1. One mini truck broke signal and one traffic policeman came running towards me saying that start your bike we have to chase that vehicle I said to him that "bike garam hai chalu nhi hogi " ( bike is hot will not start ) to which policeman replied " kya matlab aisi gaadi lene ka " ( what's the use of buying this expensive bike ) and he sat on a splendor and asked the splendor guy to chase.

2. After 5 mins a roadside vendor who was standing at his shop at around 20feets away from me came to me and says " chabi to hai nikal lo kyu khade ho " ( you havd keys why you are standing here ) he thought police have stopped me for some reason.
I saw bike's temperature has came down, I started the bike and zoomed off the spot.

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Hihi, this is quite an epic thread and is making a great read.
Okay here is my share of bloopers.

1. I have a fancy white Vega helmet with zombie graphics and helmets are still quite a vague concept in my city. I was waiting at a railway crossing and there were a group of college girls beside me. I had my riding jacket and gloves on and was making quite an impression, till I sneezed. The helmet wasn't strapped on and it came off. Damn, embarrassing.

2. I was on a ride towards outskirts of my city and had my gear on ( helmet, jacket, gloves and knee pads). Was taking a break and enjoying cutlets at a local eatery which is a famous stop for various intercity travels buses. Hit a conversation with a chap and he brought to my attention that the fly was unzipped. Damn, embarrassing.

3. The first time I tried to kick start a Cast Iron bullet. Have heard of horror stories about it kicking back but thankfully mine was so embarrassing that the kick dint even bother to budge. Go figure that!

4. Was taking a curve on a not so busy city street and got distracted by a really DISTRACTINGLY low waist jeans on my 2'o clock. Skid on fresh cow dung on the road and nearly had a fall. Lesson learnt, focus on one curve at a time.

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Ok, this is not exactly a blooper with me on my bike, but anyways a blooper worth mentioning.

I wasn't much in touch with the bike world a few years back and this happened somewhere close to 2008-09.
I guess I might have been the only one on this whole planet to have managed to have read the then newly launched bike, the bright read muscular Hero Honda Hunk, as "Think" and I still remember how I was convinced by the font used to have read it as "Think" twice. Damn! embarrased.