A 20 Minute Cycle Ride to Work
I pack my clothes and towel for a shower in office, I put on my gloves and helmet. I ensure there is no puncture before I pick my cycle from the lobby of my second floor apartment. I carry it down on my shoulders as deftly as possible trying my best not to break my neighbor's flowerpots. Once on the ground I climb my cycle and ride for work. I take a shortcut from the back-alley of my block that meets a dirt road and connects me back to my main route saving me around half a kilometer and a lot of traffic.
My route to work cuts through sector-45 market and ends up joining the way to Huda-City Center. From there I take a left through South City - I and join the sector road that connects the metro station to the highway. My office in DLF World Tech Park is 500 meter left from the sector road on the Jaipur Highway.
Cycling in Gurgaon summer is a mad task, the sun is strong, there are hardly any trees, winds are as dry as grandma's kisses and by the time it's done you have collected a good amount of dust also counting for some that one ends up eating. And yet I ride.
It's been 4 and a half months that I've been cycling to office, I have improved a lot in terms of the time I take to reach office, from somewhere around 30-40 mins earlier when I started to under 25 mins now and I intend to bring it to about 20 pretty soon.
My ride is a BTwin hybrid bike, it has 8-speed and weighs around 14 kg. I wish I had spent more when I purchased this bike, something lighter would have definitely helped me save some back,leg (eh body) pain.
Gurgaon roads are crap for cyclists, even though there is indeed a sorry excuse for a cycle lane but it's poorly designed, pothole ridden and often crammed with parked vehicles, so much for cyclists from a city that has virtually no public transport.
My route to work cuts through sector-45 market and ends up joining the way to Huda-City Center. From there I take a left through South City - I and join the sector road that connects the metro station to the highway. My office in DLF World Tech Park is 500 meter left from the sector road on the Jaipur Highway.
Cycling in Gurgaon summer is a mad task, the sun is strong, there are hardly any trees, winds are as dry as grandma's kisses and by the time it's done you have collected a good amount of dust also counting for some that one ends up eating. And yet I ride.
It's been 4 and a half months that I've been cycling to office, I have improved a lot in terms of the time I take to reach office, from somewhere around 30-40 mins earlier when I started to under 25 mins now and I intend to bring it to about 20 pretty soon.
My ride is a BTwin hybrid bike, it has 8-speed and weighs around 14 kg. I wish I had spent more when I purchased this bike, something lighter would have definitely helped me save some back,leg (eh body) pain.
Gurgaon roads are crap for cyclists, even though there is indeed a sorry excuse for a cycle lane but it's poorly designed, pothole ridden and often crammed with parked vehicles, so much for cyclists from a city that has virtually no public transport.
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