Hello Friends

 

Forgot to inform you about an incident that had occured on

december 13 2008 at 0945hrs.

The night before december 13th 2008 I saw a dream of accidents

and some one’s child lost and was crying on the road and like that.Friends also wished me happy ride and ride safe eventhough

they had  never  done this before as they knew that I always

drive safe.My parents said somedays ago to not to go to this

ride eventhough they had never stopped me before to go to

any ride.Swati-my love also said no please don’t go in this ride

even though before she used to smile and would wish me before

 going to any ride.Still on that day she smiled and wished me

good luck but I could sense the great NO from her heart.Many

such incidents happened to me as if God was trying to pass some message to me.But the fact was that I was unable to identify

his meaasge.

 

The main story is as follows.It was a cool and chilling morning and the day was already fixed two weeks ago by the biker group to go from bangalore to the valparai which is few kilometers from coimbatore.So woke up in the morning and completed all my prayers at it was by then 0530hrs.The schedule was to meet at 0630hrs at shell petrol pump of silkboard towards the hosur road.I managed to reach the starting point on time.Exactly at 0630hrs 6 members of our group started for our ride heading towards our destination with a common aim to meet our brothers of coimbatore and enjoy.So the ride was known as brothers in arms ride 2008.

 

The road was not so nice for few kilometers but after 15 to

30 minutes of the ride we touched the main hosur road,which

was a silk route.So all the bikes,cars and trucks were zapping

the road at speed.As a normal tendency in the highways,that

day too i was managing to keep the needles of my speedometer

till 80kph.Suddenly I saw all my group members are lost that is

they were ahead of me and zapping the road.This made me

restless as the route ahead was  unknown to me and to

my bad luck I had even forgot to carry the route map

with me on that day.With the intention to catch my

fellas ,with a racing gesture I closed my thighs and

locked my knees with the tank of my bike and had

bent a little so that I can cut the air ,glided to the

right most of the road and than gave a full throttle

to my bike.The sound was amazing and was completely

roaring like brrrrrrrrrrrmmmmmmmmmmmm……And when  

marked the speedometer ,I found the needles were dying

to touch the 140kph,and was shivering between 138 – 140 .At that time I was unable to think

anything ,but could see only the road running towards me

as streaks of light and the trees were like hazy.After some

time I could see the helmets of my fellas moving and got

relaxed and thought atlast I caught hold of them and slowed

down to 120kph.Suddenly from a distance I saw

a tractor on my lane moving ahead at arround 20 to 30 kph.

 

Within this span of speed I marked a car was also speeding

 behind me and it looked as if the car is racing with me.As

the bike was at terrible speed ,applying brakes would be risky as it could have thrown me aways from the bike.

So I tried to slow down the bike but was able  to manage

the needle to touch only till 100kph.By that time I was

few inches from the rear end of the tractor.Than I tried

to overtake the tractor from left inorder to avoid the head on collision as it was moving on right and offcourse it was in

the wrong lane.Than suddenly BOOM BAM BOOM and

complete dark and felt as if I am sleeping on my bed in my

room and people were trying to wake me up.I woke up

after few minutes ,and found myself still on the road.I

found some one was giving me water to drink and saw

that two of my members standing near me and helping

me to get up from the road and also found a bit of crowd

near me.For few seconds my mind was completely blank and I was remembering my childhood place and thought that I am

in that place.I was trying hard to remember that what

 happened and asked my group that what am i doing here

and what

are they doing here.They were surprised to this question

 and said come to the side of the road and they made me

to sit somewhere and said all the story.Than slowly slowly

I remembered all the incident and was looking to my

cell phones to call some one but I could not

remember the names at that time ,to whom to call to.They

asked me where I put up  in bangalore so that they

could have directed the same to  the lorry

driver and he could have help me to go there.I was only

 remembering JP nagar 5th phase but was not

remembering my complete address.Slowly slowly I

managed to recollect my memories and am fine now.

I later realised that more two of my memebers were

 behind me while I was zapping but I thought I was lost.

 

The incident that led me to this was that, the car which was behind me also took left , as the tractor was in the extreme right and in that way the car hit my bike and I slided to few meters on the road and as per people saying that the bike was at such speed that even the sparks were coming from the road, where there was a hard mating between my bikes metal body and with the feminish body of the road ,while I was getting dragged.But with the Gods grace nothing happened as because I was wearing all my riding gears.Found later that my riding jacket is torn ,my knee guards were shattered and few scratches on my helmet.Though I had sometimes felt  that the riding gears were too costly of being Rs20000 but today I think 

it is worth of that cost ,as it damaged itself but inturn it saved yours Anshuman.Nothing happened to me,

with just a few sprain in my right leg and a bit of jerk on my left shoulder and a bit pain in my throat which made me difficult to swallow food for two days but forcibly I was swallowing;showed the doctor,he said everything is fine after all the test and gave a TTNA,few antibiotic and few pain killers.

 

So I am suggesting you all to wear the riding gears while going for long rides on the highways because accident mostly happen because of others mistake and also because of owns mistake but this has a less chance as all are good riders ,and also it happens unknowingly,thats why it is called as accident.Atleast use a good helmet always while driving .Good to wear an imported helmet (racing helmets) as it saved my head.Though it will be approx 3000rs but it is worth it.Had it been the normal helmets than it could have easily broken into pieces and there by breaking my head too.And also rememeber not to drive at speed which is unmanageable at certain time.Its better to be Late than LATE.

 

The front part of the bike is gone.The handle is in S shape(somewhat),the forks got bent,the crash guards got bent ,the mudguard is gone,at the more interesting is that the disc brake is broken into pieces.Everyone is surprised that how disc brake is gone .This made them to  feel the severity of the accident.But your anshuman is fit and fine ha ha ha.Its all because of God and also because of all yours best wishes are with me.Ha ha ha ha 🙂 thank god again and also to you all.

Another blog:-

http://anshumanswatibiswal.blogspot.com/2008/12/its-better-late-than-late-drive-safe.html