Why India is mad for motorbikes

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

What is behind the deep-seated and increasing passion for motorcycling in India?The hosts of the podcast Biker Radio Rodcast, explore what drives the love for the two-wheeler. Sunny and Shandy travel from a republic day parade in Delhi to a biker festival in Goa, meeting motor cycle enthusiasts along the way. Through the adventures of these motorcyclists, from mass breakfast rides and long distance tours, to races against the odds and nostalgia, we learn how this generation are taking to motorcycling in their own unique way.

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0:00.0	Bike Radio Rodkast advises
0:02.0	Radio Rodkas is
0:03.0	under-reach riding but celebrates the spirit of motorcyling.
0:06.0	And how?
0:08.0	This is the BBC World Service
0:11.0	and this is what a podcast about
0:15.0	is what a podcast about motorcyling sounds like. Oh, Hi there I'm Shandy and I'm Sunny from the biker radio rodcast and this is a show about
0:51.6	motorcyling in and around India.
0:55.0	It's a show of the bike car.
0:57.0	For the biker.
0:58.0	And hosted by a Joe who are definitely not bikers.
1:01.0	Yeah.
1:02.0	No, but on our show we are comfortably for a bird's eye view on biking which although traditionally
1:08.3	having existed as a popular vehicle for daily commute has grown into a hobby a sport and more so into a lifestyle.
1:17.0	And is keeping pace within economy that's revving with a lot of promise as India starts engaging with the world.
1:25.6	And through our free wheeling show we discovered this resurgent phenomena of motorcycling
1:30.2	as we ask the heroes and the legends of this unique community questions that the road
1:36.0	throws up.
1:37.0	And having ridden over hundreds of thousands of kilometers, we ask some of them this. If you had the opportunity to write with anybody from history,
1:45.0	all contemporary times, who would it be and why?
1:48.0	Steve McQueen.
1:50.0	Planetino Rossi?
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