A failed (metric) Half Century ride

June 9th, 2012

A longer ride plan was disturbing me for some time after I was making a number of smaller rides around my layout (hardly making 7km or 12km max). I used to get up late many a time and end up with a smaller ride as a consolation and make myself feel that I did ride. […]


Here comes my Schwinn Sporterra 2012

March 23rd, 2012

This was due the moment I figured out that the Hercules Arrow what I have wasn’t really helping my cause and making me enjoy my rides. Hercules Arrow was my first owned bike, it was bought when I was thinking of getting back to cycling, but thought of something which can be used by my […]


Gearing up my Single Speed Hercules Arrow

February 4th, 2012

I started my third innings of cycling with a 26″ Hercules Arrow MTB which was initially single speed-ed.  Soon I realized that single speed might not help me as a beginner who is reinventing cycling with the sort of terrain Bangalore roads have. I struggled initially, but may be I could have lived with this […]


It all started like this..

November 6th, 2010

I don’t remember when I actually did start cycling, but my vague memory says it must have been when I was in 3rd or 4th standard in my primary school. We were staying as a joint family which included me, my parents, my unlcle(dad’s younger brother) and his family including two sons and his wife, […]