Next morning, after all the dazzles and flashes, it was quite, gloomy and unsettled feeling as GIR team was about to leave for Agra to end up their 108 days tour in New Delhi after 2 days. I wanted them to stay for a bit longer, at least for one more day, if not two. There were hundreds of question I wanted to ask from each and every member of GIR especially from Sunny. We both shared the same passion, same career interest, were from the same part of the country i.e. North India and probably shared the same focus and vision for our individual self initiated bikers groups, but all hours were too less to do all the talking.
Few IIM students who was just passing by stopped for a photo with GIR team and were amazed to see the superbike, don’t realizing that after they will pass out from their college, they can easily get a new one every month, with the pay they will be offered by MNCs. Anyways, we suppose to ride with Sunny and team till Lucknow suburbs and we did. In between, sunny needed to refuel his bike with 97 octane petrol, which was not available on the petrol pump we stopped in, which was on the highway leading to Agra. Sohaib quite knew that place around and went with sunny to look for another pump. They did find a pump with 97 octane petrol and came back, but suddenly sunny got a call from some one in Castrol I think, and they informed him that the press meet in Agra which was suppose to happen next day, has been cancelled due to some reason and that means they now need not to hurry to reach Agra within hours today. Sunny gave us the happy news that GIR is staying that day in Lucknow and will leave tomorrow. Who says 13 is an unlucky number, that day wasn’t. We already started having ideas about how we gonna utilize this lucky day with GIR. We had so many plans in mind and wanted to do so many things, one of it was to take the GIR team to an under construction highway near airport road, which is usually empty with no risk of any alien object appearing in middle where we could really see the CBR in its glory. But unfortunately, Sunny couldn’t go as he had to report back to IIM about his cancellation of the toady’s trip and had some due work of the xBhp.com online contents. A good chance for us was lost. But Sohaib invited them to visit his father’s Yamaha dealership in Chowk, where CBR could get a quick wash.
We all went to the showroom where Sohaib’s father Mr. Zubair Khan delightfully met the tourers. We all had tea together and then CBR was taken to the washing bay, where sunny revved the CBR engine for our ears and the decibels were multiplied in that enclosed service area. After spending some good time in showroom, sunny went back to IIM, and Sunil and Ashish went to shopping and experience the street food (especially non-veg. dishes) of old Lucknow with N.O.W. riders. I, for a break went back to my home for some work because I was out since morning with out any declarations. Nilesh and other riders had good time roaming around streets of Lucknow though. By the time I came back, it was time for Sunil and Ashish to go back to IIM and prepare for the departure tomorrow. We all left them in IIM and came back to the city.
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