Saturday, June 29, 2013

My first Vehicle

This one thing I always wanted since I was a kid. Remember having an option to either buy a cycle or a Video Game when I was in 8th Standard, I chose otherwise and this thing remained for a very very long time. My mom was always against it saying you don't know riding. 

Going for cycling rides in Sanjay Gandhi National Park in the winters of 2012 was a frequent thing. But as the time passed, the cycles which we used to get on hire deteriorated. Hence was left with no choice to stop going for it. Only option left was to buy a cycle and keep it well maintained.  Soumit, my friend who used to come to hit the greens in the winters bought a cycle, continued the weekend rides and I thought I will buy it soon.

Time passed, it was on May 5, 2013, another friend from office, Jay Shah one more Cycle enthusiast (whose cycle was stolen recently) and I visited this Firefox service station in Vileparle, an authorised dealer closest to the vicinity and bought my ride partner - Firefox Target. When conveyed about my thought of buying a cycle, my mom was laughing at me saying buy a car, this is not an age for a cycle but I said this is what fits into my budget and I am going to go for it. Weekends are fun since than. Its been a couple of months, the rides have become regular thing on one of the days over weekend. 18-20kms is not so strenuous thing to hit. Personally I feel still need to gain big time on fitness and need to identify some different routes to ride long distances.

The one in front is my Firefox Target one behind is Soumit's ride partner.