Pedal & Saddle

Pedalling towards a better tomorrow…

With coronavirus pandemic all over, we all know that post Covid-19 the life isn’t going to be ‘normal’ as before. It is understood that now we have to learn to live with coronavirus threat, that needs precautions in day to day routines. Physical distancing, improved care about personal hygiene and improving self immunity to fight…

Into the wild

All about this Sunday “Into the Wild”. Riding around total of 45km off road cycling from Rajkot to a place after Khirasara Palace. We started at about 6:45 am in the winter morning, chilling cold with extra layer of clothes to protect our limbs getting frozen. Motto of this ride was to visit a Chana…

It’s never too late…

Few years back, an age of 40 year was considered as – ‘old’. Now, I would say, at 40 you are more enriched with wisdom, have seen ups and downs of life experiences, and have a stable financial status. Till now, you have done a lot of things, made your career, grew your children, tried…

How to plan for cycling to work?

The easiest way to put cycling to work is to jump straight on your cycle without being prepared. Yes, its correct. Its like the thing we usually do for exercise; I’ll start from 1st, or will do from Monday or seeking a company, we shall do it. All such plans never turns into reality. Just…

Cycling to work

Most of us own a decent cycle and take it to daily morning ride or a weekend leisure ride, but very few among us take cycles to their work place, why? If you bought your cycle for fitness, the commute to work gives a good amount of exercise and if you bought it for fun…

A ride to Hingolgadh Sanctuary

A cycle ride till Hingolgadh was in my mind since long. The reason behind delay was the distance – its about 68 km single side. Obviously we can ride for 136 km in a day, but it might be too much of ride and then we can not enjoy time in the sanctuary. We decided…

Riding in Rann of Kutch

During YHAI’s Goa Expedition, Ishan had expressed his interest to do Rann of Kutch. After returning from Goa, we all got busy in work routines and forgot the talk. One day while seating against my laptop, rann sparked into my mind, and immediately I checked for distances, places to visit and planned a loose itinerary….

One year on my cycle

It has been a year I got my new cycle, and this year was amazing to me. Cycling changes the world around us. One of the things I love most about cycling is that it slows me down and exposes me so that I see, hear, and smell everything along the way. I can now…

YHAI’s Goa Biking Expedition

In the month of July 2016, while surfing net to find few cycling ride paths, I came to know about YHAI’s biking expedition to be held at Jaisalmer in coming December. I asked my friend to check that out, saying let’s do it. At evening, that friend returned to me with details about YHAI’s another…

Ride on serene beach of Madhavpur

Some times back I saw an advertisement of a car in which a beautiful coastal road alongside a serene beach was shown. That time, I just liked the beach and road, but didn’t care too much, might had thought that it must be location some abroad. Later, a couple of months back I encountered with…