My cycle ride to office...

I’m proud to be one of the very few people who come to office in bicycle. So I just want to tell how I decided to go to office in cycle before I talk about my beautiful cycle ride.

I joined this new firm in February I moved all my things from Chennai to Bangalore including my Hero Honda – Super Splendor. First day I went to office through auto rickshaw & on the same day I got few friends & I inquired them about the procedure to get my paper done to use my bike. The shocking news that I heard was since my vehicle is of Tamil Nadu registration and it’s less than 18 months since I bought the vehicle I have to pay 12% tax on my invoice amount and 3% educational cess on that 12% amount. Apart from that it takes around 3000/- bucks to change my registration to Karnataka registration, since it’s not safe to use vehicle with TN registration here ;-)

For the next few days, in the morning I go to office by walk & in the evenings one of my colleague dropped me near my home. On seeing the distance I decided to send my bike back home & buy a new bicycle for me. Then I searched in net to find a good bicycle model & finally settled with Hercules Thriller which I bought on 4th March 2007.



I love my bicycle very much it’s one of the key part in my successful career here because it helps me to reach office whenever I wish. It will be really beautiful to ride bicycle to office around 6.30 – 7.00 AM since the chillness will start diluting by the powerful rays of the sun. Many people will just peep out of their house with brush on their mouth (I don’t know why many people enjoy brushing their teeth watching the movement on the road). Then I can see some school children’s cheerfully going to school carrying their back pack. Some housewives will come to the Milk vendor to get milk packets in their night dress & unkempt hair. On the way to my office there is a Shiva temple & I’m graceful to pray a few seconds while crossing that temple. In the beginning when I went to office in cycle the security people dare at me but later they used to it. :-)

In the evening it will be more grateful than morning, because no vehicle in the road can take me as fast as my cycle during that time. I can able to ride through all the small gaps in-between the cars. Some night rides at 11PM will be funny there wont more people moving around but we can see many drunkards. While it takes one hour for most of the vehicles to reach a particular distance; my cycle will take me in just 15 min in the heavy evening traffic. :-)

My ride during rainy days will be wonderful because with my jerkin & rain coat pants I will look like mountain rider. Amidst the pouring rain my cycle will take me safely in all the roads, it wont stuck up anywhere. It will ride even if half of the wheel is submerged in the rain water.

Some more special features of my cycle is the principal cost is very less compared to all other mode of transportation. Maintenance cost is very low. No need of fuel except free air once in 15 days.

Apart from everything it’s a good exercise to me which keeps my body little fit. I really love my bicycle...

In the following map red line is the path through which I daily travel in my bicycle to reach my office...