Dhoom With A View

Riding on five high-end bikes,seven riders are on a journey of 16,500 kilometres across India. Their aim? To unite biking communities across the country. Titled The Grand Indian Roadtrip,this initiative is the brainchild of Delhi-based Sundeep Gujjar,who runs a web portal called xBHP.com. Besides himself,he has on board six riders from the city — Sunil Gupta,Himanshu Gupta,Shivanshu Singh,Aashish Guliani,Sandeep Goswami and Abhishek Bhatt.

The trip that began in Delhi on March 11 was flagged off by over 200 bikers. “Since then,we have travelled through Jaipur,Ahmedabad,Mumbai and Pune. En route,we have had 17 bike groups ride with us,” says Goswami. To invite participation from people in different cities,he is documenting the ride on a day-to day basis on http://www.thegrandindianroadtrip.com .

At the end of the trip,on April 25 in Delhi,the group plans to come out with a commemorative United Motorcyclists Jacket of India,which will have logos of all the motorcycle clubs of India. “This will then be sent to the various biking clubs as a souvenir. More importantly,it will unite them as bikers,” says Gujjar. Also documenting the ride will be a book called The Bikers Code of India,which will feature “the thoughts that race through the minds of bikers when they take to the roads”.