My old bike, never restored but still with original paint and drives well. Pictures of this bike for your eyes only.
This is also from the JAWA line production and called Yezdi D250 Classic.
I was keeping this bike in a concrete room for more than 3 years now and it has seen the sun yesterday after a long hibernation.
Yeah, you got it right. I drive the classic bike JAWA 250, it roars even after 35 years of it's birth, elder than my age.
First I got admired to the dual thumb out of the twin silencers that came out from single cylinder, then fell in adamant to own one.
I remember in my school days, one of my Physical Education master used to drive the JAWA bike which was iconic for the sound next to the Royal Enfield Standard bullet driven by my head master.
My dream was fulfilled only when I reached 30years of age, not that JAWA 250 affordability issue in fact they are economically cheaper to own but finding one in great shape is the issue. Also I was not keen in restoring this bike considering my previous experiences in restoring Jeeps and Yamaha Rd350, I know the pain involved in sourcing the parts.
So, the decision of opting a fully restored genuine JAWA 250. My search for this bike enlighten me of many yezdi model B bikes being faked and sold as JAWA 250. Luckily my little automobile knowledge helped me getting out of the fake market.
Early in the year 2008, I landed a photo album of Orkut site with a beautiful JAWA bike's picture posted in there. I did know that it was my future JAWA bike, as I set my goal to make that mine.
Today, that JAWA is standing on my Orkut album carrying ownership name as mine. ;-) This bike is not part of my primary automobiles parked at my home and I drive it very often.
The garage picture above shows my JAWA 250 parked along side my Mahindra Classic, Yamaha RD350 and Suzuki Estilo, many of my previous JAWA 250 visits were blogged in my Travel Blog (you may wish to visit)
This is my bike, I call it as "RIDER" ofcourse it roars well. But the ""ROARING RIDER" is a name of our local JAWA/YEZDI club, it is a coinsident. Apart from my RIDER aka. JAWA 250, I do own a Yezdi D250 Classic model. More information about the Yezdi also will feature in this blog.
After my long hibernation with Roaring Riders club (a local JAWA/Yezdi biker’s club), I participated one of the meetings organized by the club for discussing a long drive. Since the JAWA and Yezdi bikes were no more manufactured in India, now these bikes are part of classic bike category.
Also they are unique in many ways as their kicker and gear lever are same and pressing the gearlever further enables the auto clutch so we can drive the bike even without the clutch lever functioning.
These bikes were above 250cc and two stocks with single cylinder specification, the cylinders were come without reed value unlike the later 2 stroke models.
The meeting was fine as we had it in the beach with like minded guys participated with their beauties and we discussed a lot about the bikes.
During the meeting we decided that we will drive our bikes to Jawadhu Hills (hope many of you have seen my previous posts about this place). The plan was set and the meeting got over, I took the charge for booking the accommodation and food.
As planned we started on the planned 20th December to Jawadhu with 27 people and 21 bikes geared up early in the morning at Tambaran the suburban of Chennai city. The trip was really enjoyable until 11:30am that day; we reached the downhill side of Jawadhu a place called Polur in Tiruvannamalai Dt.
The route we took was from Tambaram to Uttiramerur to Vandavasi to Chetpet to Devigapuram to Polur. We crossed this little distance nearly 180kms in 5 hours as the group was slow driving due to the old nature of the vehicles.
When we about the hit Polur about 200meters before the town, it was actually a 1 kilo meter straight line road. We found a moped rider driving ahead of us on a wrong direction on the shoulders of country road. We were watching him from long distance hence the speeds of our bikes were gone below 50-60kms.
When none of us expected only before 4-5 foot before us the moped rider all of sudden started entering into our path without any signal to get on to his right direction. Since the distance between us and him was almost nothing and no time for even thinking of break one of our fellow Yezdi biker crashed the villager to fatal. It was unexpected and accident caused the moped driver loss of life. Though the entire fault was with the moped driver none of us could take it easy as it really affected our entire mind. We took him to hospitals and the doctors declared as dead.
So as to complete the legal formalities our guys spilt into two groups, one group to go to the police station and complete the legal formalities and other group to lead towards Chennai cancelling the entire program. I took leading position for the 2nd group and lead the team to Chennai via. Tiruvannamalai and Gingee.
Guys traveled with me didn't even had time or mood to even look at the beautiful monument on our way back at Gingee due to the same incident early in that day.
The drive was so pathetic as the accident came again and again in our mind like virtual reality. So we opted to drive even slower than the normal speed, since it was 240+kms driving we reached back at home around 11:30PM in the night. Finally my first ever JAWA club trip ended with a sad note. We pray for the villager's soul to Rest In Eternal Peace.
Almost all my weekends are fully utilized, the last weekend turned to be a best weekend ever. First thing is about my farm activities.
Entering into wholly new industry really thrilling and exciting exercise. My recent possession of the farmland made me to enter into the agriculture activities.
After the Sugarcane, Mango, Coconut now I’m experimenting with Rice and Chilly.
The entire free lands have been made ready for the cultivation.
Last weekend was a good day for the chilly plantation, after preparing the land with plough; the villagers extended their help in planting the chilly saplings.
Since the monsoon is started, the well in the farm is filled with water I’m hoping to see overflow of water in couple of weeks. 
Hmmm my JEEP also had enough offroad opportunities in the farm
The paddy bed in the farm looked like a green carpet.
Now I'm only acting supervisor of the activities and learning the agriculture work. I hope one day I will have skills to do hands on cultivation.
Last weekend also turned out to be a good weekend as I have visited one of the school and shelter of HIV infected children, orphans and poor kids. they got some hundred and fifty kids staying at the school.
My team in my office contributed some amount for doing some charity work, hence my visit to the school.
We could manage to provide 2 meal sessions to the children at the school, My sincere thanks to the contributors of my team for the great cause. A part of the amount has also been given as donation to another charity that runs a home for Phycically and Mentally disabled children.
This is what I would like to call as mechanical wonder. I’ve already developed a greater level of belief that the Tractors are the true utility vehicles. In fact multi utility vehicle term is best suited for the tractor.
The tractors can pull the aircraft, work in farm, tow huge trailers loaded with tons of goods, generate air compression for bore well equipment and so on. Today due to the heavy rainfall in the dry Chennai city, most of the streets and localities are flooded. You know what, tractors were in action pumping out the water from residential areas.
WoW… I didn’t know really how the PTO like attachment in the differential could rotate the pump when the tractor was stationed in a static location but it was pumping out huge amount of water.
It was an unforgettable day yesterday, around noon I got a call from my Jeep Thrills club friend (Mr.Patrick) inviting me to join with him for the coaching session for his son, who incidentally a national champion in sailing competition. Pat is professionally a petroleum rig engineer and also got handful of adventure sport experiences.
I couldn’t say no to this opportunity; hence I promised him that I would join after my work hours. After noon around 3PM I visited the Chennai Port Trust campus, which is one of the largest harbors of India. Pat had organized all my entry procedure well before my arrival so I didn’t have much hassle in getting into the harbor. From the time Pat invited me, I was thinking I will be sitting in a compound wall on the shore watching the sailing of kids but my assumption was wrong, I realized it after meeting Pat.
Pat received me with smile at his face, and asked me if I have shorts and chapels to wear, as I was from office I wasn't prepared. Then we deposited all my stuffs in the clock room and Pat took my mobile phone with him in a polythene cover. After wearing life jacket we straight moved to the boat jetty that is directly on the harbor front. So many varieties of sailor’s boats were on the jetty. I never knew till I saw them that Chennai got such a facility for the sailing practice.Pat’s elder son is a champion in under 15years old category; hence yesterday was coach time for under 15 year old kids, along with 2 more champions too. ohhhh there were around 6 kids floating on the harbor water in a small sailing boats while the massive ships were crossing here and there. I heard the towing ships honk at them for asking way for exiting ships.
We gathered in a motorboat and towed the sailors(kids) to the sea, while Pat measured the wind direction and speed with his instruments. I had nice chat with him to know about the nautical miles and measurement sitting next to him.
It was amazing to see those kids performing at the sea, WoW! What a physical and mental exercise to be on the boat the kids needs to concentrate on the wind direction, compete with fellow sailor, tide, sail, boat, the direction and remove the water which got into the boats. I have listed very few here, as my knowledge in sailing is ZERO. The kids raced themselves on the sea and they beat each other with many techniques thought to them by the coach. They are simply awesome and I envy not to be with them in their generation.
While the kids in coaching session, I observed my first every sailing experience on the sea watching the scenery around me. I didn’t carry my camera, but couldn’t resist asking Pat to give my camera mobile from the polythene cover and clicked few pictures. It seemed the massive ship which passed us some time back had traveled to the end of horizon touching the rainbow edge. Unfortunately my mobile got a tiny camera, which couldn’t capture it that well as I noticed. Since yesterday was rainy day we had some shower at the boat but that didn’t stop the kids practicing the adventure sport.
All my life, I was seeing the Bay of Bengal with black color water, but yesterday after crossing a little distance first time I witnessed bluish water in the sea.
Around 2 and half hours of floating we returned to the shore and had some snacks. I took farewell from Patrick who is also a member of Tamilnadu Sailing Association. During my discussion with Pat, I was informed that the association also organizes corporate trips to have sailing experience. hmmm added into my list of team outing plans.
Thanks to Patrick for giving me the opportunity for the first time sailing experience on the sea.
It was first time trip to my kids to Trivandrum, though they are half malayalees, they never had chance to visit. My RD350 RTO work made a perfect chance for my family to visit Trivandrum, Kerala.
It was a brief trip and not much of tour plans as I was filled up my schedule for RTO work. However, found little space to visit the Zoo with my family. 
I always liked Trivandrum Zoo due its green nature. Unlike Chennai’s Anna Zoological Park, which is vast and dry, which makes people to get dehydrated, the Trivandrum zoo was maintained very well with lots of trees and it is small.
There few varieties of monkeys and caged lion, cheetah, tiger and giraffe are my attracted animals for my kids.
The Rynosaurus really took my eyes out and it was freed in its place along with elephant, mongoose and some deer.
The zoo got really lots of hippopotamus; I think they were zoo breaded. There was 2 cute baby hippo with 4 or 5 bigger ones.
This trip also gave us opportunity to see the flower drawings done by Malayalee ladies as part of their onam celebrations. 
Though the onam was over 10 days back, the celebrations didn’t get over yet.
Trivandrum was once capital of Travancore kingdom hence lots of palaces in kerala’s own style। These buildings are owned by some govt. bodies for office space and also some are under Archeological department.
Trivandrum also famous for Padmanaba swamy temple, Travancore kingdom's fort, Kovalam beach, Kochu veli beach etc.
But we really had little time to spent in there, so just wound our trip without seeing all of these places. However in the forth coming days we will visit again to explore the places we missed in this trip.
Anyway this trip also turned out to be the first Train trip to my kids, hence they had a real good time in the train for longer journey. I found many times my kids were hanging on the window grill or in the sleeper berth.
Trivandrum is around 910kms from Chennai where we stay hence it is 15hours of trip filled with kids fun.
