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It takes 6 Gears and 621 kilometres

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Riding is Therapy... I started riding 3 years ago when I bought my first bike, I've grown as a rider and as a human in the 30000 odd kilometers I've been on the tarmac. As a noob even I thought riding was therapy, when ever I was angry i'd pick my bike up and drown the noises in my head in the wind blast at speeds greater than 150 and it never worked. The fear of Death was never enough to scare away the demons in the head. It took 621 kilometres and 533 minutes of silence on the saddle to figure out the fact riding alone is never therapeutic. Riding was meant to be a mode of finding peace, it was a mode of enjoying that peace and finding your self in that silence. Being alone with your thoughts locked inside a helmet for kilometers at a stretch, you talk to your self, you argue with your self, and as time progresses and the kilometers tick by, you stop giving a fuck... Issues ? Problems ? As long as there is petrol in my monster, nothing on this planet can hamper my

Bike da Photoshoot

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I've been riding with a group called Outlawz Bikers Amritsar for about 3 years now, in the said 3 years I learnt the art of clicking Motorcycles ( stationary ) by a technique frowned upon in the " Quality control " ( #referencetoengineering ) called HIT AND TRIAL METHOD. So it is my job to help the world click better pictures, here goes the first of many post to follow on BIKE DA PHOTOSHOOT. Equipment needed : Camera ( even a phone camera works )  and a Bike Location : Doesn't Matter, the name of the game is Composition. Point one : Go Down Literally go down, when clicking against a well lit background the best thing to do is go as low as possible while keeping the bike in the middle of the frame or towards one corner of the grid, make sure it covers atleast two squares. I forgot to mention always keep the grid on for better compositions, lets face it we are not the MOTOGRAPHER. Point Two : Flash Is Banned Unless it is a passport size picture of your