Indian navigation is a little different than it is here. OK, well its a lot different. First off, you’re going to have to get used to the fact that your clutch and rear brake pedals are switched. That takes a couple of days to get used to. I get used to it by just riding my brake until I remember that its the brake. Kind of tough.
The other side of navigation in India, is just getting used to sharing the road. Here we have a big campaign about sharing the road with motorcycles, but in India, we share the road with people, animals of all kinds, bicycles, scooters, moto-rickshaws, man powered rickshaws, bicycle rickshaws, three-wheeled massive converted Enfields that look like they are straight out of Mad Max movies and more. Its much like a three ringed circus.
Thats not even to mention the road itself. Its funny, because here we might have say 4 or 5 lanes in typical freeways, but in India a road has as many lanes as vehicles can fit in any given road. This might mean, there’s just enough room for your bike to squeeze by the bull lying between the tightly packed city walls, or it might mean that you can pull around to the outside of the bus so that you can beat him off the line for poll position.
One thing for sure; we’ll be riding in a pack and blocking for each other to make sure no one gets left behind. Who hooooooooooo Indian Adventure 2007 Here we come!
