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A Ride in the Rain! |
I just love to ride… yea you could bet on that blind… While its raining cats and dogs out on the streets, you ride over 30 kms with almost dead bike brakes yet maintaining an average speed of 70kmph… it cant be anything else. You simply love biking! Drenched in one of those few unmerciful heavy rains in
I am not a great fan of rains… infact I hate them because everywhere I go on bike, I have to carry my rainwear… Today while I had over 30kms of travel to reach back to Panjim there was a sudden (nah! expected) downpour of rain which didn’t look like one that would stop soon. Nor was I in to wait for it to die out of water. Luckily I had a jacket… but my trouser was soon getting all soaked. Kinda giving a cooling effect everytime a little more of it got wet :p. Soon it was all heavy as though it had drank over 100 gallons of water. Wearing my jeans which were more water and less denim by now, I just couldn’t care for the roadside dingy water splashing all over me as wagons paved through puddles. What I was busy enjoying, was my ride in the rain…
The rainwater drops were hitting me like a swarm of honey bees would sting onto your body, over and over again. But I was in no mood of taking a halt. Luckily I had a bus in front, I was riding just a few inches close to, so that I could miss the hard hitting rains. Hoping that the buswala won’t brake all of a sudden, as I knew my bike’s brakes will not follow suit.
While I reached a bridge, I noticed many two wheelers parked aside and their riders wearing full length raincoats having stopped by… and before I could wonder why, my bike’s pace had already got me onto the bridge. And there I was on a toss by the violent wind blowing over the bridge… Shifting my bike along with me from the left lane to the right, ofcourse which wasn’t for me but for vehicles traveling back from where I had come. And boy… this time right in front of a truck, head-on! Thanks to the super sweet response time of my bike’s brakes, I couldn’t stop, even if now I wanted to. I was wishing so badly that the wind could blow from the otherside just for once (God Plz…Plz…). The truck flashed its lights… those headlights looking like angry eyes suggesting me “Boy… this is your last ride!”. Luckily the truck had decent enough brakes to slow it down, leaving just a little chance for me to get back on my track defying all the Newtons in the force of the wind which was pushing me back onto the right lane (I mean the wrong lane :p). My bike followed a zig-zag path for a while, and I was glad that the bridge was finally over. Kids in air-conditioned cars passing by looked like kinda mocking at me. But I couldn’t care more… I was back to busy enjoying my ride in the rain…
And after I made it back… at the same CCD with the same friend, the same hot Cappuccino I ordered yesterday, suddenly had a great taste today!
hey so the man’s back to blogging…. ya but the irony is in some of ur posts u talk abt safe riding and then you do these life risking stunts.
Damn luck, and I hope you were wearing your helmet. Wish you were here in Mumbai yesterday, with at least 1 feet of water to negotiate everywhere you went :P
One general piece of advice, wear your helmet as soon as it starts to rain (even if its drizzling, it greatly improves your vision.
Lol , all i can remember is my scooty ( ES) with no petrol in it at 15 Km from home and i was just walking with scooty in my hands and sky pouring water with full force . Took 2 hrs to reach home , everyone was spectating me like a weirdo. Finally , i made it , but since all the CofeeDay Express stalls are closed in my city :P , i prefered a small tea stall and had a chai cutt for 3/- :P
u liv in goa? vow tht must be heaven.
And you say you dont like rains? :) thats why we see this post here …
I for one am a sucker for monsoon. Be it walking or driving in rains.. I am up, ready n jumping for it :)
@Varshita
Haha yea.. rains are certainly fun.. but they come with strings attached to them. Though it feels good… getting wet… by the waters from the heaven… :).
Now that this heavenly pour is phasing out here… i am kinda missing rains :).
i love the rains…..i missed Goa’s rainy season this year…..
and i greatly regret that…..