Ever since men invented the wheel there is talk of how fast you could go in the least amount of time.
Homo Sapien 'Unga' must have thrashed Homo Erectus 'Oonga' in a prehistoric F1 because of longer and stronger calf muscles to power his hay treaded stone tyres; carved out of limestone that Oonga did not think of to begin with.
Which is unfortunate, since technology has played truant with result of all competition involving men and fast moving machines. I myself have lost many a cart race at the supermarket with the other kid because he had his carts wheel oiled just recently, while i had the Lijjat papad plastic wrapping stuck in the wheel - slowing me down.
I should have seen it coming. I cursed myself for not reaching the line and being crowned "fastest aisler".
Lesson learnt - My bike was light, well oiled, aluminium frame two separate handle bars, one that allowed you to lean into the wind to reduce 'drag'. (Tech talk) Which, should have made me into a celebrity that splashed coke at nubile young girls. Nothing of that sort happened. Why?
Geared bikes.
Some with as many as 7 gears on them. The most anemic girls were able to beat me on one of them! Yes - it was tragic as i recall.
So, technology killed me here as well. And, many other like me that i can safely presume.
My crowning moment came when i bought my first bike. A Bajaj Pulsar. It was blazingly fast, it rumbled like a goonda, and rocketed out of signals faster than you can say 'green'. It felt perfect - for a while. Until the venerable men at Bajaj decided to launch a faster, better version of the same thing. My best friend bought it and cocked a snook (more like showed me the finger) as he left me in his dust cloud. Technology.
things have changed since then, i have abandoned the need to go fast and instead settled in for what my mill churns out today. Its more treble and no bass but, well, you manage a decent clip.
There are faster bikes, which is not the contention. It is technology. They keep reducing the size of things, at the same time making it faster still - Basically adding brains to something so small is akin to educating Chinese and Indians.
Contention number two is the chicks of course, they dig fast men who handle their bikes! But lets just not go into depression just yet. More in this later.
Homo Sapien 'Unga' must have thrashed Homo Erectus 'Oonga' in a prehistoric F1 because of longer and stronger calf muscles to power his hay treaded stone tyres; carved out of limestone that Oonga did not think of to begin with.
Which is unfortunate, since technology has played truant with result of all competition involving men and fast moving machines. I myself have lost many a cart race at the supermarket with the other kid because he had his carts wheel oiled just recently, while i had the Lijjat papad plastic wrapping stuck in the wheel - slowing me down.
I should have seen it coming. I cursed myself for not reaching the line and being crowned "fastest aisler".
Lesson learnt - My bike was light, well oiled, aluminium frame two separate handle bars, one that allowed you to lean into the wind to reduce 'drag'. (Tech talk) Which, should have made me into a celebrity that splashed coke at nubile young girls. Nothing of that sort happened. Why?
Geared bikes.
Some with as many as 7 gears on them. The most anemic girls were able to beat me on one of them! Yes - it was tragic as i recall.
So, technology killed me here as well. And, many other like me that i can safely presume.
My crowning moment came when i bought my first bike. A Bajaj Pulsar. It was blazingly fast, it rumbled like a goonda, and rocketed out of signals faster than you can say 'green'. It felt perfect - for a while. Until the venerable men at Bajaj decided to launch a faster, better version of the same thing. My best friend bought it and cocked a snook (more like showed me the finger) as he left me in his dust cloud. Technology.
things have changed since then, i have abandoned the need to go fast and instead settled in for what my mill churns out today. Its more treble and no bass but, well, you manage a decent clip.
There are faster bikes, which is not the contention. It is technology. They keep reducing the size of things, at the same time making it faster still - Basically adding brains to something so small is akin to educating Chinese and Indians.
Contention number two is the chicks of course, they dig fast men who handle their bikes! But lets just not go into depression just yet. More in this later.
2 comments:
akshay! good posts, keep it up! Kirubha
:) .. Is the fastest Indian hibernating now?
Post a Comment