Wednesday, February 16, 2011

the things love makes us do...

Exactly two years ago, I stopped wearing my watch because I fell for someone who never wore one. Eight months after we parted ways, I had begun to realise how annoying it is to have to use the cellphone while riding my bike to see the time. Especially so, because I own a watch designed for exactly the same purpose!
Yes, it took me eight months to see what I had become.
So today when I fixed and wore my watch again and rode my bike, I knew that that had to be the last nail in the coffin. I was finally and completely back to being me!
I love my bike and the things it teaches me.

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Messin' with gears

It annoys me to bits when i realise that someone has messed around with the Lumala gears when its parked and locked!
Aaargh!
Just can't keep your hands to yourself, can you?!?!

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Men have all kinds of curious questions about women who ride bikes...

One of those - one which I have been asked by a few men is whether I get turned on while riding a bicycle. I don't really understand where this comes from. So I asked them if they meant getting turned on while riding with the seat on or without it?

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

I need an allan key size 8! Cause I lost mine...



Originally uploaded by DraconianRain
So that I can fix the angle of the handlebar and ride no hands and click better and more stable no hand handlebar shots!

Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Handsfree and cycling... ummm... talk about setting wrong examples!


No no... not Panda shots vala handsfree! Maybe that too, but no. Its about my phone vala handsfree.
Even as I could take my cycle out of the parking, my friend called me. As I started talking, I realised that the conversation is not going to get over so soon. Primarily because I wanted to talk about whatever we set out discussing. So I though of not wasting time and started riding on my usual route. It was quite a discussion. I guess people though, yet again, that I was a mad woman on a cycle who talked aloud while riding. But I let that feeling pass because i was really involved in the conversation, all the while minding the traffic and avoiding any mad drivers. It helped that there was less traffic on Pune roads today because of the bandh and the holiday season.
So I cycled from My house to Law college road - a distance of about 3 kms in 10 mins, talking all the while. and then I reached my destination, I realised I just had the longest phone conversation while I was on my bike.
Ok so... this is NOT advisable! I must avoid doing it often!
Also today evening, there was a girl riding her activa on a turning talking into a phone she was holding with her left hand... I shouted at her to keep her phone down while riding... But then i thought about how I talk on the phone while riding. But i am marginally better than she is because I keep my hands free to hold the handlebar! Or am I?
Well... talk about setting the wrong example...
And I still haven't bought a new cycle because everytime I think of getting a new one the Lumala looks at me with sad eyes asking... almost screaming at me to reconsider! Emotional blackmail! Sigh...

Friday, October 1, 2010

bike wheel lighting system

indigenously developed by yours truly!
Many months ago (last July to be precise), I decided to make a bicycle wheel lighting system. for some reason, I never got about to making it. So today, I had a sudden epiphany and ended up finishing what I started so long ago, and taking the cycle out for a spin. Some heads did turn but mostly for the wheel light ;)

I spent almost an hour photographing this at night... Hard work! now for some funkier and more complex lighting designs...

This goes on my cycle wheel tonight! Woohoo!