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Sameer Shisodia
Jun 24, 2008, 4:42:37 AM6/24/08
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Today was a nice ride - had to stop at 3 different places for assorted financial paperwork - AND the bike has no lock yet...
It was amazing, not only did the watchmen agree to keep an eye on the bike - they actually stood guard/examined the bike in great detail, and had a whole lot of follow up questions later. One even said "cycling karna acchha hai sir". The other questions were about the gears, speedo, etc etc
So its turning out to be a conversation starter too
rgds,
Sameer
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It was amazing, not only did the watchmen agree to keep an eye on the bike - they actually stood guard/examined the bike in great detail, and had a whole lot of follow up questions later. One even said "cycling karna acchha hai sir". The other questions were about the gears, speedo, etc etc
So its turning out to be a conversation starter too
rgds,
Sameer
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anand mulky
Jun 24, 2008, 4:53:33 AM6/24/08
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Hi,
I have similar experiences in the city,but last sundays ride up n down nandi was a pleasure..(with atleast 4 breaks!) the villagers are pretty used to bikes and even know abt popular brands!
Rgds
Anand
Sudhir P
Jun 24, 2008, 11:51:24 AM6/24/08
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the villagers are pretty used to bikes and even know abt popular brands!
Has to be..... with the BBCers doing Nandi every week :)
On 6/24/08, Sameer Shisodia <get.s...@gmail.com> wrote:Today was a nice ride - had to stop at 3 different places for assorted financial paperwork - AND the bike has no lock yet...
It was amazing, not only did the watchmen agree to keep an eye on the bike - they actually stood guard/examined the bike in great detail, and had a whole lot of follow up questions later. One even said "cycling karna acchha hai sir". The other questions were about the gears, speedo, etc etc
So its turning out to be a conversation starter too
rgds,
Sameer
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Rohan Kini
Jun 24, 2008, 11:57:15 AM6/24/08
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haha ..
Maybe the kids around that village will soon be comparing dérailleur models on the bikes that pass by, instead of just getting excited on seeing a 'gear cycle'--
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Maybe the kids around that village will soon be comparing dérailleur models on the bikes that pass by, instead of just getting excited on seeing a 'gear cycle'
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om awasthi
Jun 25, 2008, 5:40:56 AM6/25/08
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Hi ,
Ya that is always there ... All of us know it that its good do
cycling and when they come across some people who are doing it .; they
really appreciate that .
Ya that is always there ... All of us know it that its good do
cycling and when they come across some people who are doing it .; they
really appreciate that .
Sameer Shisodia
Jun 25, 2008, 11:48:28 PM6/25/08
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True.
Yesterday got "mobbed" by 3 traffic cops at Sony World while I waited for traffic to pause :)
what is this - battery ? no, lights
geared ? yes, 24
Cost ? 15k
15k ???? 1-5-0-0 ? No, 1-5-0-0-0
why? Sir you can easily go up Nandi Hills on this.
Alone ? No carrier/lover-geever along ? (smile) no sir, alone. Married, two kids, saar.
(Vigorous head-shake) ? Exercise, saar, and no pollution
Good good! (way clear) ok sir, have to go now....
:) I think I'll meet all the people I've never met on my commute
Rgds,
Sameer
Yesterday got "mobbed" by 3 traffic cops at Sony World while I waited for traffic to pause :)
what is this - battery ? no, lights
geared ? yes, 24
Cost ? 15k
15k ???? 1-5-0-0 ? No, 1-5-0-0-0
why? Sir you can easily go up Nandi Hills on this.
Alone ? No carrier/lover-geever along ? (smile) no sir, alone. Married, two kids, saar.
(Vigorous head-shake) ? Exercise, saar, and no pollution
Good good! (way clear) ok sir, have to go now....
:) I think I'll meet all the people I've never met on my commute
Rgds,
Sameer
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 3:10 PM, om awasthi <ominvi...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi ,
Ya that is always there ... All of us know it that its good do
cycling and when they come across some people who are doing it .; they
really appreciate that .
Mallik
Jun 26, 2008, 12:12:28 AM6/26/08
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thats the beauty of cycling! try cycle tours and discover a whole new
world.
Mallik
On Jun 26, 8:48 am, "Sameer Shisodia" <get.sam...@gmail.com> wrote:
> True.
>
> Yesterday got "mobbed" by 3 traffic cops at Sony World while I waited for
> traffic to pause :)
>
> what is this - battery ? *no, lights*
> geared ? *yes, 24*
> Cost ? *15k*
> 15k ???? 1-5-0-0 ? *No, 1-5-0-0-0*
> why? *Sir you can easily go up Nandi Hills on this.
> *Alone ? No carrier/lover-geever along ? *(smile) no sir, alone. Married,
> two kids, saar.
> *(Vigorous head-shake) ? *Exercise, saar, and no pollution*
> Good good! *(way clear) ok sir, have to go now....*
world.
Mallik
On Jun 26, 8:48 am, "Sameer Shisodia" <get.sam...@gmail.com> wrote:
> True.
>
> Yesterday got "mobbed" by 3 traffic cops at Sony World while I waited for
> traffic to pause :)
>
> geared ? *yes, 24*
> Cost ? *15k*
> 15k ???? 1-5-0-0 ? *No, 1-5-0-0-0*
> why? *Sir you can easily go up Nandi Hills on this.
> *Alone ? No carrier/lover-geever along ? *(smile) no sir, alone. Married,
> two kids, saar.
> *(Vigorous head-shake) ? *Exercise, saar, and no pollution*
> Good good! *(way clear) ok sir, have to go now....*
>
> :) I think I'll meet all the people I've never met on my commute
>
> Rgds,
> Sameer
>
> :) I think I'll meet all the people I've never met on my commute
>
> Rgds,
> Sameer
>
> On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 3:10 PM, om awasthi <ominvinci...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi ,
>
> > Ya that is always there ... All of us know it that its good do
> > cycling and when they come across some people who are doing it .; they
> > really appreciate that .
>
> --
>
> > Hi ,
>
> > Ya that is always there ... All of us know it that its good do
> > cycling and when they come across some people who are doing it .; they
> > really appreciate that .
>
> --
Dasarathi
Jun 26, 2008, 12:51:11 AM6/26/08
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This happened to me the day before, at the Minerva
junction traffic light at 8.30 PM on my way home from work.
Auto stopped next to me, passenger in the auto asked me why I was wearing a helmet. I started giving him my standard helmet lecture 43A which goes "A head is a head, whether it is on a motorbike or a bicycle, skull liable to crack if it hits a solid object at even 30 kmph., etc".
Guy on a bike beyond the auto tells the auto guy (in Kannada) "I'm sure he's not from Bangalore. Ask him which city he's from". (He abviously thinks all the nuts are from outside Bangalore)
I (in Kannada) : "Your city itself, saar."
He : "Really, and how far do you ride every day ?"
I : "Sadashivanagar to Jayanagar and back."
He : "Maan, that's terrific !"
A guy on some other bike : "Hey, you're the guy ! I saw your picture in a newspaper the other day !."
Open mouths all around, some serious respect.
Near Sadashivanagar a guy on a scooter overtakes me, gives me a thumbs up, shouts "Keep it up !" Out of the blue, never seen him in my life. He just thinks I'm doing something that's fun / environment-friendly / something he should be doing.
Das
Auto stopped next to me, passenger in the auto asked me why I was wearing a helmet. I started giving him my standard helmet lecture 43A which goes "A head is a head, whether it is on a motorbike or a bicycle, skull liable to crack if it hits a solid object at even 30 kmph., etc".
Guy on a bike beyond the auto tells the auto guy (in Kannada) "I'm sure he's not from Bangalore. Ask him which city he's from". (He abviously thinks all the nuts are from outside Bangalore)
I (in Kannada) : "Your city itself, saar."
He : "Really, and how far do you ride every day ?"
I : "Sadashivanagar to Jayanagar and back."
He : "Maan, that's terrific !"
A guy on some other bike : "Hey, you're the guy ! I saw your picture in a newspaper the other day !."
Open mouths all around, some serious respect.
Near Sadashivanagar a guy on a scooter overtakes me, gives me a thumbs up, shouts "Keep it up !" Out of the blue, never seen him in my life. He just thinks I'm doing something that's fun / environment-friendly / something he should be doing.
Das
Sudhir P
Jun 26, 2008, 1:15:31 AM6/26/08
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Incident1: A guy going in a pulsar 180cc bike stops me and asks abt why i ride, abt bike etc.
"Price?" 15k
"Why so much?" Lightweight, good brakes, long lasting components and blah blah blah (has become a pre-recorded speech now!)
asks me if he can try my bike. He rides it. Goes fida.
And he says he'll buy such a bike soon. He says it makes a lot of sense with soaring petrol prices.
Incident2: There's a guy on a splendor. We kept seeing each other at every signal. He sees me lifting my cycle off the traffic and taking it over the footpath on all the 'no-free-left-turn' junctions. And at last in one junction, he says "U r an insporation". I smile back
Incident 3: "Helmet yaake?" (Why helmet?)
Neev ikkudrunu nan taleney hogodu. (Its my head that'll smash when u hit me. [Sounds better in kannada])
"From where are u riding?" Jayanagar
"Are u crazy?" You son't need to be crazy to do this, u just need to be sensible.... (Lecture on fuel, free workout etc follows)
All this in the one week since my Merida
"Price?" 15k
"Why so much?" Lightweight, good brakes, long lasting components and blah blah blah (has become a pre-recorded speech now!)
asks me if he can try my bike. He rides it. Goes fida.
And he says he'll buy such a bike soon. He says it makes a lot of sense with soaring petrol prices.
Incident2: There's a guy on a splendor. We kept seeing each other at every signal. He sees me lifting my cycle off the traffic and taking it over the footpath on all the 'no-free-left-turn' junctions. And at last in one junction, he says "U r an insporation". I smile back
Incident 3: "Helmet yaake?" (Why helmet?)
Neev ikkudrunu nan taleney hogodu. (Its my head that'll smash when u hit me. [Sounds better in kannada])
"From where are u riding?" Jayanagar
"Are u crazy?" You son't need to be crazy to do this, u just need to be sensible.... (Lecture on fuel, free workout etc follows)
All this in the one week since my Merida
Sameer Shisodia
Jun 26, 2008, 1:21:41 AM6/26/08
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absolutely!
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 10:21 AM, Dasarathi <d...@cadem.com> wrote:
something he should be doing.
Das
Mayank Rungta
Jun 26, 2008, 2:08:06 AM6/26/08
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I am done with the first short film and it is not so gr8 -
http://youtube.com/watch?v=jAdvKceU8lY used on -
http://ngopost.org/story.php?title=Organ_Donation_Make_your_death_trigger_several_new_lives_%AB_Sejrsquos_Whirlpool-1
Shud be clubbed with that one line - Anyone on bike with a helmet is an Organ donor! ;)
The idea is to make many more such films... The one on biking is a lofty project for me personally -
The one I had in mind would be much of these experiences where people are thinking of tipping and not sure how. It might have more impact that showing the one with bike taking lesser time than cars/company buses. Watever happened to the effort anyways?
Please share any such experiences - I m keeping a log of the same. Forms a good script! ;)
http://ngopost.org/story.php?title=Organ_Donation_Make_your_death_trigger_several_new_lives_%AB_Sejrsquos_Whirlpool-1
Shud be clubbed with that one line - Anyone on bike with a helmet is an Organ donor! ;)
The idea is to make many more such films... The one on biking is a lofty project for me personally -
The one I had in mind would be much of these experiences where people are thinking of tipping and not sure how. It might have more impact that showing the one with bike taking lesser time than cars/company buses. Watever happened to the effort anyways?
Please share any such experiences - I m keeping a log of the same. Forms a good script! ;)
-- Have a nice day, Mynk http://ngopost.org/story.php?title=Making_films_to_make_change_Jeff_Skoll_on_TED-com
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