Cycling down
It was a not less than reaching a milestone today, as I rode down to office on a cycle :-).... Ya cycling !!!.
It was good adventure, cycling with semi-formals and a laptop bag and a stylish helmet :-). I personally feel that its the Helmet that gets you attention both ways, from the crowd you need to show-off and more importantly from the polluters driving without lane discipline and respect to pedestrians and cyclers :-), and why you get attention is because the Helmet shows your concern for the safety and its a fact that for everything you want in life, you have to take the first step. So here, you wear the helmet and the next thing is that people will show some respect to you.
Coming back to statistics, it was 12 kms one way ride, with 6 signals on the way, good lenght of the road had footpath where I could climb up and walk the way to get beat the traffic jams :-). I took exactly 35 mins to reach office, the ride wasn't that tiring but it left me sweating big time, not a good way to reach office, especially if there's a meeting to be attended.
Also its a bit risky affair given the rash drivers we have in Bangalore.
So like any other thing around, there are few deltas when it comes to cycling, but it can always to fixed. May be when more and more people realise the need of cycling for Health, Environment and Sustainability reasons, we will have safe roads for cyclers.
So what am I doing next, as a beginning, I will be cycling atleast one day in a week, will be buying a new cycle at earliest, try and talk to more and more people about cycling and its benefits.
P.S.- Coming from Oil industry, this might sound strange that I am campaigning for 'Cycling' on the outset, but on second thought, its very much required from Oil professionals, as this is the need of hour if we want to Sustain in the bigger race :-)
It was good adventure, cycling with semi-formals and a laptop bag and a stylish helmet :-). I personally feel that its the Helmet that gets you attention both ways, from the crowd you need to show-off and more importantly from the polluters driving without lane discipline and respect to pedestrians and cyclers :-), and why you get attention is because the Helmet shows your concern for the safety and its a fact that for everything you want in life, you have to take the first step. So here, you wear the helmet and the next thing is that people will show some respect to you.
Coming back to statistics, it was 12 kms one way ride, with 6 signals on the way, good lenght of the road had footpath where I could climb up and walk the way to get beat the traffic jams :-). I took exactly 35 mins to reach office, the ride wasn't that tiring but it left me sweating big time, not a good way to reach office, especially if there's a meeting to be attended.
Also its a bit risky affair given the rash drivers we have in Bangalore.
So like any other thing around, there are few deltas when it comes to cycling, but it can always to fixed. May be when more and more people realise the need of cycling for Health, Environment and Sustainability reasons, we will have safe roads for cyclers.
So what am I doing next, as a beginning, I will be cycling atleast one day in a week, will be buying a new cycle at earliest, try and talk to more and more people about cycling and its benefits.
P.S.- Coming from Oil industry, this might sound strange that I am campaigning for 'Cycling' on the outset, but on second thought, its very much required from Oil professionals, as this is the need of hour if we want to Sustain in the bigger race :-)
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