The Shashtrokt Ashtvinayak Cycling Parikrama with Mitesh Modi as he covers 750 km in 7 days on his cycle riding around the Western Ghats… Meet Mitesh Modi from Palanpur, Gujarat. He recently cycled 750 km around Pune covering the Shashtrokt Ashtvinayak circuit. This 26-year-old medical student uses his bicycle for…
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Are you planning a cycle ride through Spiti. This Guide to cycling through Spiti will make your life easy. Wondering what kind of bike to take, what to carry, where to stay etc. Fear not, we have it all covered! The first question is: What bike? The first option is…
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We are in conversation with 17-year-old Samidha Patel from Vadodara who recently set the fastest time on a cycle from Kashmir to Kanyakumari and earning herself a Guinness World Record! In an aspirational middle-class India, the first response to anything cycling-related is met with a certain level of bafflement, disdain,…
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We are in conversation with Belgian hand cyclist Michiel Desmet as he rides from the sea in Gujarat to summit Umling La in Ladakh… Belgian hand-cyclist, Michiel Desmet, is currently in India to set a World Record on his hand-bike. The 38 year old began with a small team in…
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The trilogy finale of cycling in Meghalaya. This section saw us cycling to Shillong and Guwahati from Jowai, with some motorized wheels in between! Read the first two parts of the trilogy: Part 1 & Part 2. Day 7: Cycling from Jowai to Shillong As the sun rose lazily over…
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Our travelogue from day 4 to day 6 of cycling in Meghalaya. These three days saw us riding from the wettest part of the world, Cherrapunji to the border town of Dawki, before climbing back up to Jowai. Please first read the first 3 days of cycling in Meghalaya, before…
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The first part of the travelogue of cycling in Meghalaya as we started from Guwahati and rode to Shillong, Cherrapunji, Dawki and more… Meghalaya, the abode of clouds, is a dreamy destination for people like us. Peeps who mostly spend time in the clouds. Not real clouds, but those worthless…
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In conversation with Gopikrishnan Kesavan, who set a WUCA Kashmir to Kanyakumari record, being the fastest self-supported cyclist. He rode this 3641 km in 13 days flat! Meet Gopikrishnan Kesavan, a 27-year-old IT professional from Trichy, Tamil Nadu, currently working at Deloitte in Chennai. While his daytime job involves the…
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