Cycling in India

[Scoosh]

I was fortunate enough to live and work in India, many moons ago, for about 15 months. Loved it, with all it's craziness, chaos, dirt, food, amazing 'street culture' and all the rest. Lived in a flat in then-Bombay, where the most 'interesting' experience was the electric shower, whose On/Off switch was, naturally , in the shower cubicle, going into flames. So I am standing there, naked, wet, with an electric shower unit on fire !

You will be pleased to know that I escaped unharmed.

I've been to visit a friend in Bhopal a few times too and went to visit his family in Kerala - oh and been to the Taj twice.

India, me.

 

[Dayvo]

Lived in a flat in then-Bombay

Nearly all the locals I know in Goa call it Bombay - Mumbai is for the rest of us.

I'm the same as Hill Wimp and Scoosh - I love India.

 

[Milkfloat]

I work in Mumbai for a few weeks a time a time about 4 times a year. I have not had the bottle to use a bike, the trains are bad enough. I am tempted by some of the countryside out to the north of the city, but getting a bike there could be tricky.

 

[Hill Wimp]

I love cycling in the cities over there and I actually find it safer than London.

 

[CanucksTraveller]

I work in Mumbai for a few weeks a time a time about 4 times a year. I have not had the bottle to use a bike, the trains are bad enough. I am tempted by some of the countryside out to the north of the city, but getting a bike there could be tricky.

"Hiring" a bike is much easier than you might think in rural areas. It's often a case of going up to someone (anyone) with a bike, asking if you can borrow it for however long, ask them to name a price, and for a few hundred to a few thousand rupees (maybe a pound or two, maybe a fiver) you get a bike. They're helpful and trusting, and often poor, and they'll be glad of the money.