Preface

I've been thinking of being active on my blog for quite a while now, but I guess I've just been too lazy or have always been finding something better

to do than blogging. While I had been quite engrossed into documenting my personal journals during my college days. I somehow completely gave up on

that as well as I started to work.

I've termed this section of my blog as bicycle diaries as I shall focus only on my cycling experiences here and there.

Background:

I was first introduced to cycling when my dad got me a rented bicycle from a workshop in front of Shanti Vidya Griha (Lainchaur) and had me riding it

while he held the seat post tight with his right hand while he held the handle for me with his left. It sure like a superb cycling experience though.

Things got more interesting as one of my mom's friend rang the door bell and had a bicycle by his side. I was home alone, and he handed over the

bicycle saying it was mine. I was rather confused... and then extremely excited. So was my brother when he got home sometime later that day. I was

pretty angry with myself for not knwonig how to ride the bicycle. Took me over a few months to get a hang of it. It was further frustrating to see my

brother learning to ride it just in a week's time.

Getting a hang of it:

For me, cycling was a way of commuting since then... for a few years at least. After SLC, I do not remember holding the handles of the bicycle for a

long long time. I had graduated my interests to motorbikes. They were a treasure when dad let me ride his. And later when I got my own pulsar 150, I

felt like I was in love with a machine on rolling wheels. And one day, around 5 years after this love affair had begun, I met Suraj Dai - who invited

me to a cycle ride through some of the most remote districts of Nepal. I didn't care much about cycling, but was intrigued over the idea of visiting

places I had never been before. Especially when it meant going to north east districts of nepal from Dhankuta, Terhathum, Paanchthar and Taplejung

(especially Taplejung). While others were skeptical and warning me otherwise, I just needed to travel with Suraj Dai and the gang. He lent me his

Commencal Pasta (I'll explain later...) and necessary gears for cycling. And one fine Morning we set off...

KTM>>BRT on airplane

BRT>>Dhankuta on microbus

night hault @ Hiley.

It was a 10 day trip stretching over 350 Kilometers that had worn me off totally and educated me on basic cycling and got me pretty engorssed into

the whole idea. Its a rather long story I enjoy recalling everytime I put my feet on the pedals. But I'll talk about them later. For now, on my recent experiences:

With Amit and Suraj:

Though the event was fun, and I bought myself Commencal Premier from Epic Mountain Bikes right after the trip, I never really carried it forward from

thereon. Reason: I never had a partner to cycle along with, and in the begining days, you need to do it with a friend. And then Amit (friend from

work) bought a Trek G2 Geometry - Gary Fisher series. And Suraj (amit's friend) was an avid cyclist.

Amit and Suraj were on several trips together already, before I got to know of it, and I tagged along. Each of our trip will be put on as an

individual blog from hereon, to share our experience on our bikes. So far, we've made four trips (four weeks since we started). The latest one was

today, and I hope to complete about all four within this week. So can sit to write about my other experiences every once a week.