Author: Santosh

Why Bike? For Kedar, it gives him the flexibility, the thrill of travelling to untraversed places and meeting new people. He presented at MTM 13 and just after headed out on a Europe tour on his Thunderbird! The tour almost cost him his job but he was ready to take the risk. He went to the top management of his company to explain why he needed a long leave of 4 months and the mania behind riding across to Europe. Kedar already had his resignation letter ready in anticipation of the leave not being granted. It was a short interaction with his Dy. Managing Director, not enough to explain the gravity and importance of this trip. He was dismissed from the office without assurance. In the end he rode with pan-Europe with paid leave and financial aid from his company. He will share his stories from the road fresh from the...

Major General (Ret.) RK Jain, now an octogenarian, made two epic overland journeys on an Kinetic Honda scooter post his retirement. In 1993, aged 59, he rode from India to England. Then in 2004, him and his son went on two scooters the other way, from India to Australia. He certainly is a tremendous source of...

Sundeep Gajjar aka Sunny aka MotoGrapher – he founded xBhp in 2002. Since then he has in parallel developed himself as a travel motorcycle photographer and has ridden across 22 countries on some of the best motorcycles in the world. He would be speaking on his experiences and learnings so far in motorcycling and more. He had coined the word MotoGrapher in...

Mauktik Kulkarni; Engineer, Neuroscientist and Traveller. In 2008, to break out from the monotony of graduate school in the States, he flew out to South America, picked up a motorcycle, and explored the back roads of Peru, Chile, Argentina for six weeks. Inspired by “The Motorcycle Diaries”, but with virtually no knowledge of Spanish, he managed to clock 8000 clicks; discovering a magical new world by letting himself go with the flow of new culture and new people. Touched by the kindness of Latin Americans, he wrote his memoir A Ghost of Che: A motorcycle ride through Space, Time, Life, and Love which received rave reviews from readers. In 2013 he backpacked around the world visiting 36 countries on all continents following the itchy feet again. He lives in India...