Podcasting with Varun Painter on the ISI helmet Issue

So last week I caught up with Varun Painter of Power Drift to chat about our ISI Helmet Issues on their new Pod Cast Torque The Talk.

I have been sitting on the link all day so thought I should put it out there on to the interverse before I forget. You can hear it hear or listen to it on Apple podcast and soon on Saavn.



Come on people we have a week left check out the blog post on what you can do to be heard before they take a call on banning non ISI helmets. 

Motus Operandi, a Farm-grown organic moto show

Last month, in a brief window of freakishly good Chennai weather, saw the first edition of MOTUS OPERANDI at The Farm, in Semancheri. A kind of a loose collective initiated by Arul Futnani, MO seeks to convey our love of the internal combustion engine in all its forms and functionality. Helmet Stories was there for the first MO, scarfing down breakfast and single-origin Malabar Monsooned coffee (yeah, we are coffee snobs too) over the delicious din of classic motorcycles being coaxed to life—from the deep thrum of ’55 Triumph Tiger T100s syncopated to the rat-a-tat-tat piston slap; to the blood-stirring ringg-dingg-dingg-dingg of a pair of gloriously restored 2-strokes—a Yezdi Roadking and  a Yamaha RD350. Royal Enfields were of course in attendance as well as Vespas, Lambrettas and Matchless machines.

The second edition of MO is our homage to the bike we love and hate in equal measure—the Royal Enfield Bullet 350. On show will be Bullets and related memorabilia from the Madras Motorcycle Company days in 1955 to the current day Royal Enfield offerings. So, come, come to The Farm, either to bury the Bullet or to praise it or just come for some damn fine food and coffee.

Motus Operandi, 15 and 16 September, 8 am to 11 am at The Farm, 1/277 Semancheri Village, Old Mahabalipram Road, Chennai 

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Special Helmet Stories ride to Manang

 

Its been a while since we at Helmet Stories did a special barebones ride. I think the last one may have been way back in 2012. Anyway Harsh and I are planning to head to Manang around the 8th of October for a week. If anyone wants to join us on what is promising to be another epic few days give us a holla at info@helmetstories.com and we will send you the details. There are maximum 6 spots vacant for the ride. So I wouldn't wait. 

Since its a route we have never done before our selfs we dont have any pictures of what the route will be like (images are from our Mustang ride) but we do have found You Tube Videos that show you what its going to be like. 

It is for sure going to be a fun ride.