8th July is Jawa day!

Old bikes never die. They live on memories long after the paintwork on them has faded from years of storage in dusty old garages across India.

Entire generations of our fathers, brothers, uncles have cut their teeth on one such bike.

A BIKE THAT COMMANDS RESPECT AND GENUINE, HEARTFELT RESPECT, EVEN TODAY.

As ever, we delve into the origins of the venerable Yezdi and the earlier version, the equally distinguished Jawa 250cc.

July 8 is going to be celebrated internationally by all Jawa owners who will congregate and ride their bike.

That's right!

July 8 is Jawa Day.

So please pull out your old Yezdi & Jawas and bring them onto the roads on July 8.

The Lost Stallion/The Black Rider Touches 119kph on Stock After 16 Years

we live and we breathe through two nostrils that need to be bigger if we try and do harder work.. Night curves and your foot swings free of the pedal as you swerve through traffic, all lightness and grace bestowed by the motor humming between your knees. She won’t let you down, you’ve been in conversation with her for two weeks prior to this ride. 3rd gear tops at 84kph. Top speed doubles is 110kph. Cars coming up fast, lanes that were longer seem to be all diagonal swathes across gaps that must be predicted as closing gaps. Cut back and let the left hand go at 80. Child’s play, physical memory, I’ve held this so long I’ve got to calling it home/second nature/easy. All memories strung out in a white wake of smoke. The stodgy yezdi delivered it’s own factory modified version and that was the road er, king.



[UPDATE: Since then, last saturday, on a ride organised by Som, we found that one could shift out of third at 96. Unfortunately top speed was clocked at 119 with a change from third to fourth gear at around 85-86kph. Every body say hello to
'The Black Rider' (ref 2 Tom Waits)]



ANY WAY
here are pix of the ride



turnout: 3Yez3Bullets (nice road for it, eh dudes?)

som & raja