Tuesday, January 25, 2005

Another early exit - another ride

So I got out of office at 4 saying I had a doc's appointment. I had planned to watch the Federer-Agassi match, but it had finished with Federer routing Agassi in straight sets! As I pulled out of the parking lot, the weather was so awesome that I could not resist going for a ride on the highway. So I rode out towards Hinjewadi, going around 20 km total on the highway. As usual, another awesome experience. Today I stretched the bike to go 70 kph. Actually, the bike wasn't stretched at all as it is capable of much more than that. I remember the old Splendor straining to go even a little higher than 70. On the way back, as soon as I passed under the IT Park flyover, I opened the throttle and the bike effortlessly went up to 70.

I reached home at 5 to find that there was no power, today's scheduled load-shedding hours being 3 to 6 PM. It was just a stroke of luck that I'd spent an hour outside!