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August 2009
Showcase your MX skills over the 1-mile
course and bring back / deliver the souvenir
from / to Pradeb in the least possible time.
The winner gets 100 points added to his
kitty, while the runner up walks away with 01. 04.
50 points. The tail-ender gets laughed
Rash just wouldn’t give up, here he’s And Rash unable to get going inspite
upon...
trying to hide his humungous belly of spinning the hell out of his rear
even behind the CBZ’s puny mirror. wheel.
02. 05.
Pradeb trying to make sense of the Amit doesn’t find the course any more
he course was set-up at the round licked. Amit just zoomed through
instructions being relayed to Amey difficult than his daily commute.
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foothills of Khambatki. It the course as if he was riding on streets of
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consisted of a bullock cart trail Pune, feet up on the pegs and the victory
Amit unable to stop his bike inspite
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the path led up to a kutcha wall on which
pradeb waS made to Stand like a Sculpture
of guerilla warrior
winding across the moorlands firmly in his sight. He took the precious of a locked rear wheel
and onto an uphill meadow interspersed stone from Pradeb and splashed back thru
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with slush gravel, pebbles and puddles. puddles and muddles making light work
The path then led up to a kutcha wall on of whatever the course threw at him. The
which Pradeb was made to stand like a Fiero worked like clockwork, just blaring
sculpture of guerilla (pun not intended) away its scooter like soundtrack without
warrior. We were instructed to deliver/ even missing a beat! Amit set a blinding
collect our priceless souvenir to/from pace through the course with a time of 5
Pradeb to the start-finish line as quickly minutes flat.
as we dared. First all three of us went for a Rash went in next, pressing on
sighting lap during which I missed a turn, through the course on his beloved CBZ.
got lost and joined the highway some 50 The undulating terrain and the trigger
yards before the start/finish line. happy CBZ meant that his ride was
Amit set-off first, on the off-roaders’ turning out to be a double fencing match
favorite TVS Fiero. With a dry weight of against the terrain as well as the bike. He
just 115 kg, a short wheelbase, compact somehow managed to keep the front end
dimensions and a light front end, we pointing in the right direction until the
were sure that it would have the MX time he hit the grasslands.
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