The first bike i bought was a 96' Roadking( 3739).
When i used to be young, in my early days, my dad had a Bullet, and i just loved going for a round on the bullet.
Later he sold the bullet, and bought a Fury, and after that a Classic ( 107), and a 350 ( TSH 377).
I always used to think why it had the kicker n gear integrated. How the whole thing works.
I never imagined of owning a Yezdi. Then he sold both the bikes, as he was not able to maintain them. Then time passed by and i grew up. On my 18th birthday(Sept 2000) i had a bike to ride, till then i never knew it was for me.
Its a 1996 model Hero Honda Street. It was awesome riding the clutch less bike in the city.
The first round i took it was to Srivats house( my best friend) to Satyasreya Aparts in the morning around 6:45 AM. About srivats i will have to write a blog, and i am sure we will have things to make it long. Ha ha ha ha.
I always wanted to own a bullet. Time flew and it was 2003 i felt the need of another bike. And i started bugging my father for a bullet, he started advising me that a bullet is not as easy as i think, and all such things. He said if u want a Yezdi i can get you, but not a bullet. All i needed was another bike, so i started searching for a Yezdi.
Then i was flipping through a friends free ads, i found this advt " 1996 Roadking for Sale", my dad was not in station, on the way to college i checked this bike, and kind of liked this bike.
All i had to do was to make my father believe thatt his is the best Yezdi available and i picked it up for 9K.
Which happened, and I became the owner of a Yezdi Roadking in a poor Condition.
In the meantime i started searching for Yezdi and found the YJOCI - Yezdi & Jawa Club of India. A Yahoo group where i met Harish, Prakash, & Nelson.Harish introduced another friend - Ananthram from vadapalani.
Harish's Bike
We were planning to meet up sometime and it was getting postponed again and again.
After a week, i wanted to transfer the bike to my name, so i had to go to the Insurance company to get the insurance on my name. On the way back near alwarpet the selector Broke.
I did not know what to do. I had a mechanic's number with me( Ganesan - Welcome Auto ).
Called him, and we towed the bike to his shop. We then decided to move the bike to a specialist in Vananthurai ( Saravanan) Got him a load of spares, did not know what was what in that. After 2 days , i brought the bike back home. Again the selector Broke. Again i had to spend about 2000 Rs on it.
I was fed up with this thing. Wherever i took the bike, i had starting problems.
I was not happy with this bike, lot of engine noise, everything was loose. The seat was lousy. Tank was leaking from the PADS.
The day came when we were all fixed to meet at COZEE, Besant nagar at about 5:30 PM
Harish, Prakash, Ananth, Karthick, and myself met up. I was the youngest of the lot. And i was so shy to show my shabby bike to them. Still i did take my roadking.
Then harish took my bike for a spin and told me to meet Paneer Uncle and Sekar,
Paneer Uncle
Sekar
I did take it the next day and sekar was happy to take my bike for Repair.
Engine was opened up, My daily job was to go to sekar's shop and see the work and come home in the evening. 13 days, i got back my bike, and Paneer uncle called me by 6 PM, asking if i reached home safe. Bike was gr8 and Roaring. i touched 80- 90 on the beach road. I felt like riding a monster.
It was then one of the best in the group.
On July 8th 2003 we decided to start a Separate group in Chennai - Harish instantly Named it as Roaring Riders, and after the meet was over at isphani centre, I started a yahoo groups and started inviting friends from YJOCI. We then decided to meet up every Sunday at besant nagar. And we did meet up.
Harish was working for a Graphics designing org, and hence he designed the logo and the first poster for this club.
Poster was too made :
People used to call our bikes as twins, as all were common except for the Handle, i used a easy rider one.
The count increased, and we had members like Baskar, Sachi, Varadh, Vinod and all join us.
We started riding our bikes out of chennai on the National highways.
One such trip was Tada.
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