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India Bike Week kicks off to daredevilry
India\'s largest biking festival kicked off to a rocking start on Friday. Seventy Event Media Group (EMG), one of largest festival planners in India, together with leading Travel and Lifestyle channel FOX Life have seen organised the \'India Bike Week 2016\'.
Goa: India's largest biking festival kicked off to a rocking start on Friday. Seventy Event Media Group (EMG), one of largest festival planners in India, together with leading Travel and Lifestyle channel FOX Life have seen organised the 'India Bike Week 2016'.
Many thousands of hardcore and casual bikers have crossed national and international borders to gather at Arpora, Goa, to celebrate an event that has established itself as a cornerstone of India’s biking culture. The roar of over 12,000 bikers who have joined the Great Migration to the festival was the defining moment at India Bike Week 2016.
The festival was launched by Harley Davidson’s parade of over 2,500 HOG riders down IBW’s Main Street, followed by the DSK Benelli riders. The biking community witnessed several new unveilings from the manufacturers-DSK Benelli showed the TRK 502 and Benelli Tornado 302, Triumph the new Street Twin T120 and Thruxton R, Harley-Davidson the new 1200 Custom, and Ducati the Panigale 959, as contingents including hundreds of riders from each of the brand joined together in the ride towards the main stage.
Speaking to the media, Martin da Costa, CEO of 70 Event Media Group said, “It was astonishing to see so many thousands of bikers from across India, across motorcycle brands joining in the Great Migration to India Bike Week this year. I don’t think I’ve ever seen so many bikes on the NH4, NH17 and the other roads into Goa. It was amazing to see riders from over 400 Biking Clubs hanging out together on site. You can really see the coming together of one of India’s most passionate communities this year at India Bike Week. It’s just a fabulous energy here.
Swati Mohan, Business Head, Fox International Channels India said, ‘‘Building on last year, this year too we witnessed an overwhelming response. IBW has grown over the years and has become a celebration of not just biking, but also a mecca for experience seekers and travellers.
It wasn’t all about the adrenaline, though; club and solo riders gathered as a community at the watering holes scattered around the grounds, with hundreds of national and international clubs mingling at the Howling Dog bar, the Beer Café, and the Knock-Out Zones.
Back for the second time, The Big Trip offered a chance to interact with legends of the road as they shared stories cumulatively gathered over the course of several decades.
Some of the speakers this year were Bullet Yatra blogger Dhruv Dholakia; Youhan Mubaraki and Debashish Ghosh from HOI, who outlined their 25,000 km ASEAN Corridor ride to Singapore and back on their Harleys; and Alankar Misra, who goes by the name of Sole Traveller and did a Trans-America ride in addition to several pan-India rides.
The India Bike Week also witnessed performances by Soulmate and The Other People, with the singer-songwriters at the DSK Benelli stage.
P Sai Ram Reddy
