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BMR R90s

Few days ago friends on one of my groups were discussing motorcycle diaries and Zen art of motorcycle repair. I love motorcycles. Especially the vintage bikes. There are so many stories that are connected to a bike and the rides we take on them. I look at motorcycles like a device.Meditation device. We struggle in the beginning of meditation. Mountain of thoughts arises and we struggle to just watch and not participate in the thoughts. Staying aloof. Same is the case with learning to ride a motorcycle. We aim to be able to ride it without having to deliberately attend the mechanics and techniques of doing so. And once this art is mastered, the act of riding a bike becomes second nature. There is no longer a need to do anything deliberately, forcefully. And the travel that was started from a thought reaches beyond thoughts and becomes a journey. It is no longer a mere travel, it becomes a journey.

BMW R90s is my new found love. I relentlessly read all the books and material I could get my hands on about this beauty.? Bertha Benz supported Karl Benze with all her mind and heart, and boxer engines came into existence. A romanticising person like Karl finding a logical confederate like Bertha was magic. And this alliance on enchantment produced such powerful engines that it was also used in Aeroplanes. First intercity travel was made by Bertha Benz in the car that had a boxer engine. And she proved that long distance travel is possible in a motorcar. She made cars and engines practical and Benz also got the patent for cars. Bertha was the first person to do this in history, not only a woman.Due to many of such reasons, I felicitate the boxer engine as a wonder like Taj Mahal. A woman inspired a mad lover, and this world found a medium to see the world. Boxer engines are a symbol of their love. But there is an angle to this symbol which we need to have a look.

Women give everything to man. Man takes everything. There were many women and men in my life. I have rode with them. I have met them in the abode of silence which lies beyond thoughts. I used to rent this place beyond right and wrong from Rumi, then found my own. It was an enchanted journey, serendipity.Women continued to give and men continued to take in this journey. I kept on watching like a medium, aloof, detached. The man in me took everything and the woman in me kept on giving, without me even knowing about it until now. Sometimes I could never give anything to men and sometimes women could never take anything. The insatiability persisted, in-spite of being one with both of them, physically and mentally. Kahil Gibran quotes well when he says that “ Lovers are the pillars of love” Only love prevails and lovers have to stand apart balancing the act of balancing love. Love becomes so strong that poor lovers look weak.Incomplete. This engine and that Taj Mahal are symbols of effort to complete all that is incomplete between lovers. These are the offsprings of the struggle between them. Like the Buddha's lotus is born out of filth and gates of heaven are seen by touching the wounds of Christ.

I came across the Zen art of motorcycle maintenance in this journey of knowing more about BMW R90S. Robert Pirsing calls this place beyond thoughts, the source of quality of life. And this book is a memoir of the journey of reaching that destination.?

And the second book that I liked is On The Move by Oliver sacks. Being a doctor and reading so much of medical terms in the book, felt a bit academic I confess.But he presents the reader with exploration of his sexuality through the journey he did on BMW R90. His point of view is mature. I never made an identity for my alternate sexuality, and never want to claim any. It is all natural, like Noval Harari points out. But I read something that piers the stereotypical image that is created by the media and tossed around in public conversations, for the first time. Felt original.

And now I have found myself here in this group, in the company of R90 lovers. There are few groups where I speak so freely and openly. I hope this one turns out to be one.

Daigo, Kolhapur

**Thank you once again for welcoming me with an open heart and offering the help.