My motorbike is back baby

The bike is now ready. It looks like a new one. The 15K I have spent on it now looks every bit worthy enough.
It came home on Monday night. I couldn't take it out on Tue and Wed. So had big plans for Thurs. But again, had some work to do with my current employer and the previous one. So by the time I was ready to take a ride, it was nearly 4.30PM.
That didn't deter me. I went around looking for my helmet. After a 10 minute search inside the house, I remembered seeing it in the garage. And there it was. But it was very evident that lots of organisms were living there without paying me any rent. So I ditched the helmet idea and decided to go without it.
I was still very keen and full of enthu to ride it. After successfully starting it (not sure if a start that requires 20 kicks can really be termed successful, but lets leave that aside) I said my byes to the oldies and headed out. Still felt very happy.
The feel of wind in your face, wind in your hair et al. Sounds great. Just that this happy feeling lasted for 1.2 kms. And I was brought back to Earth, courtesy the ubiquitous vehicle created for pollution - the Chennai Metropolitan Transport Corporation Bus. There was one some 50 feet in front of me and it let out one throaty noise and lo, there was lot of smoke out of its exhaust pipe, basically black in color. I think the steam engine running on the Ooty ghat section lets out smoke in a slightly lighter shade of black.
Nevertheless, I motored along to SuperThumby's house, showed it off there, took the customary pictures and returned home.
In time for setting up the Kolu stand. More on that in a future blog.