Saturday, August 23, 2008

Today i, after a very long time, rode a bicycle, and after a VERY long time, rode a scooter.

The scooter ride was FUNNNNN!!! It was an archaic Vespa, which i rode around the town, running errands. Having ridden a bike for SO long, the scooter was slightly strange (and exciting) to my reflexes. The motorcycle has gears on the left foot, rear brake on the right foot, front brake on the right hand, and clutch on the left hand. The scooter has the clutch and the gear on the left hand, the front brake on the right hand (absent in my ride) and rear brake on the right foot. The left foot is free for you to tap to whatever tune the ancient piece of engineering puts into your head. The tune, in my case, was one i'd picked up from the flower shop i'd just been to. It was 'Bachna eh haseeno'. Ironical, i'd say.

Most of my aquaintances who were passing-by were expecting me to be embarrased of the scooter, pointing at me and laughing. Anyway. The scooters in India has mostly been need-fulfillers, and so little attention has been paid to their appearance. I once saw a Lambretta (which did once use to be a hotseller in India, but the model selling used to be quite similar to the scooters i am talking about) in Delhi, being ridden by a firang chick wearing a kurta. The whole deal was looking pretty good, but the most beautiful thing was the scooter (followed CLOSELY by the firang, and the other way round if the firang is reading this :D). Nearly two third as broad as a vespa or a chetak or a super, it was painted in two tone in metallic car-paint, and had a very cool drub to its engine, that gave it a very classy feel. Somehow reflects on our hand-to-mouthedness, on the medium- and lower-middle class's struggle to survive. And the new and emergent fleet of 'cool' scooters and scooterettes probably shows how much the development has actually trickled down to grassroots. People are looking to more than just to 'meet their needs of transportation'.


I like scooter ridin on a weekday morn,
'Cause it doesn't remind me of anything
And while i'm at it i love to keep blowin its horn,
'Cause it doesnt remind me of anything.

1 comment:

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