Remember your first bike?
Remember your first bike? Times of India Dated 28 July 2016 Do you remember your first bike? In the days before liberalization and before India became a consumer driven economy, the whole country depended on just half a dozen brands of bikes to carry us over our pot-holed town roads and countryside. If you have seen more than five or six decades of sunrises the names Lambretta, Vespa, Bajaj Chetak, Rajdoot, Jawa, Yezdi and Bullet would come to your mind. For a moment there you could probably hear their faint sound from memory past and imagine the wind on your face. We remember these two-wheelers like dear old friends. Those were the days when we had to pay an advance and wait for years for a scooter to be delivered to us. Most folk purchased used bikes that passed from one person to another and were let go reluctantly, often because one needed the money for things even more important. Before the age of easy consumer finance, we acquired bikes with great fiscal difficulty, r