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Reviews

Oxtar TCS Sport Boots – Long term review

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Having used the Oxtar TCS Sport Boots for about eight years, I think it’s time to retire them. And review them before I send them away. In this case, the long-term review has been redefined since you’ll see as you go further that I’ve used the boot till it literally fell apart.

I ordered this boot in November 2005 from MotorcycleGear.com. (If you have not seen that post I created long back when I got the Oxtar TCS boots, I suggest you read that first and then return to this.) It was carried back for me by a good friend, and I still remember the pleasure of finally owning a pair of motorcycling boots. It had never been a priority till then. Before I let them go, I would like to review how the boots worked for me over the last few years. Bought primarily for racing, this boot has been with me on incredible journeys on and off the road.

Oxtar TCS Sport Boots Review
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Hero Motor Corp

Hero Impulse Specifications

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Hero Impulse specifications is one of many posts that detail information about Hero Impulse. I have put up the details as seen in the Owner’s Manual provided with the motorcycle. I did look at the Hero Moto Corp website, with the intention of just linking out to it, but it is incomplete and erratic. Moreover, given that they may phase this motorcycle out, it makes more sense to have it here.

Hero Impulse Specifications Owners Manual

Isn’t it great that the manual also has an orange motorcycle? And, the woman at the showroom left no space for doubt about who owned this.

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Adventure Travel

Our big 2009 trip – Pre-ride craziness

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A month to go:

It all started when we got to know through one of those crazy forwards at work about how one could get a long break by coupling a few festival holidays and some paid leaves.  We thought we can make use of one of them, from the 19th of September to the 4th of October.  Initially, we dint really know what we would do with so many days off from the office.  After visiting all kinds of places on the internet, we thought we’d ride from Delhi to Bangalore, via Rajasthan, Gujarat and Maharastra. We decided that we would send the bike on the train to Delhi, we would fly to Delhi and then ride down from the desert to the coast and back home.  It sounded great and we almost immediately tried to book tickets with Jet Airways to Delhi, which did not happen.

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