KarthiK S

Dear Participant, “Bicycling unites physical harmony coupled with emotional bliss to create a sense of spiritual perfection that combines one’s body, mind and spirit into a single moving entity.  Bicycling allows a person to mesh with the sun, sky and road as if nothing else mattered in the world.  In fact, all your worries, cares and troubles vanish in the rear view mirror while you bicycle along the byways of the world: you pedal as one with the universe. ~ Frosty Wooldridge”

I am also one in that bunch in which everyone has 'n' bikes and need / wish to have 'n+1' bikes. Till now my n was 1, and finally I upped it to 2, by presenting myself My Bike. Here comes, My Bike...

After free service offered 3 months after buying, my bike had pretty bad time with me because of lack of maintenance. The only time the bike had seen a bike shop workbench afterwards was the day before my first 1000km BRM.. My lack of care for chain for 9000 kms costed me replacement of all the moving parts of drive train then. Though there were no problems I faced, I changed chain, crank and casettes not to have any problem in 1000 km ride. I literally took an oath to check and maintain drivetrain..

The first bike computer I used is B'twin count 8 wireless. I have heard and read that wireless comps show crazy readings when the front lights are turned on, due to interference (not only that. This page says that even going under (high) power lines make the same, but I never heard anyone complaining for power lines, Sreepathi had this problem). However, mine had a different problem - the sunlight syndrome - yes, that's how I used to call it.

The medal ceremony for Brevets of 2013 season and some of 2014 happened last saturday of June 2014 at Old Physics Department, IISc Bangalore. As I always believe, medal ceremonies are the only occasions where a rider gets to meet all his/her co-riders in all the brevets ridden through the season.

So many targets on personal miles and a fixed target on brevet miles - that's how 2013 started.. Actually, I consider November through October to be a year, being in sync with the brevet calendar, so targets where pretty much fixed even before december 2012... For the people who don't like boring stories,

The medal for the Chennai GST - 400 BRM reached me, thanks to Silvester ... Didn't attend the medal ceremony, and so missed happenings.... Many thanks to the Madras Randonneurs, especially, Partha Datta , Arun Ramachandran and Pradeep Chandar who organized the ride, Sundar Sir who helped me at the U turn control with awesome snacks and lemonsoda, Ashokji with whom I rode completely and finished the BRM... This 400 BRM was the first brevet where I clocked riding average more than 25 kmph and total average more than 20 kmph... The first ride which gave me confidence that I could attend and finish a 1000 km brevet... Though I had done a 600 before, this brevet felt a bit more special, and same is the feel with receiving this medal...