WOW - What an experience !!!!

 During the recent visit of Ajeet and co, we visited Little Wood and Ambazari Bio-Diversity Park a few times. 

The last visit to Ambazari Bio-Diversity Park was on 27 Jul 21.

That day we decided to hire cycles. Jayati, who is a keen birder choose to walk to pursue her hobby. Like a good hubby, Ajeet decided to give her company. Eventually, It was Leela and me who cycled all over the park on cycles. Charges are Rs 50/- per hire. 

It was a yellow coloured cycle. 

These cycles had solid hard rubber tyres rather than normal pneumatic tyres which are fitted in all the other cycles. There is a built-in bell in the right handle. You can ring the bell by rotating the knurled portion on the right-hand handle of the cycle.

I had used cycles with pneumatic tyres for most of my adult life. This was the very first time in my life of almost 79 years that I was riding a hard rubber tyred cycle.

What an experience it turned out to be!

Except for the blacktop road going to the MIDC pumping station all the other tracks/surfaces in the Ambazari Bio-Diversity Park are rough cobblestone/pebbles. Not very smooth and also bumpy. 

Hard tyres make riding on these cobblestone/pebble tracks extremely bumpy. The repeated numerous bumps make your hands holding the handles vibrate like mad, that too at high frequency. 

In one particular stretch, lasting about 45 seconds to a minute, the vibrations were REALLY SOMETHING!!!!  

The high-frequency vibrations made holding the handle tricky. It made all the bones of your bone rattle as if your whole body was in a giant mixer. It seemed as if even my eyeballs were bouncing around in their sockets!!!!!  

WOW- what an experience!!!!

Repeated it one more time. The second time around, It is not an unpleasant experience.

Try it during your next visit to  Ambazari Bio-Diversity Park.

A little bit about these Cycles.

I had seen the same or similar looking cycles at Subash Nagar Metro Station. 

They were like the Cycles I had seen lying around along the East Coast Park road in Singapore. They were fitted with electronic locks. After depositing some amount in the account of the cycle company one could unlock the electronic lock by scanning the bar code fixed on the mudguard from the company app of your smartphone. Use the cycle and drop it at any place of your choosing. Money was automatically deducted from your account.

It appears that when the owners of those cycles at Subash Nagar Metro Station realised that there were no takers for these cycles they wisely removed all the electronic locks along with all other electronic gadgets, though one can still see the barcode on the mudguard.

I believe the very same cycles are now being offered at Ambazari Bio-Diversity Park.