I could see the commander and his crew walking by, and for some reason, the commander was just not able to take his eyes off the motorcycle. And as he passed me he asked me is that a Jawa? I said, it is a Yezdi but it’s made by ideal Jawa. And he said, Oh, […]
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We reached Rome pretty late in the evening, got the bike cleared out of customs, started riding out on the third of November. We passed Coliseum that night. I was sure that we would not have time to come back to this place, took some pictures documented our entry into Italy, went by the Vatican […]
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The US visa came through and on the eighth of October, we were flagged off from Bangalore. And all the sponsors had their representatives. We had Dilip Chandak, who is now the Managing Director of Vega Helmets, Boman Irani who was the director of Ideal Jawa India Limited and Mr.Siva Subramanyam from Timex and some […]
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I managed to get Castrol to come on board, and still the logistics were yet to fall in place. Sponsorships were a long drawn process. Moreover we were not so market savvy. The biggest question those days from sponsors was “Will you disappear with our money?”. There were many people who had taken sponsorships and […]
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