Go Green Go Cycling (Pls check www.GoGreenGoCycling.org for my regular update)

2011-06-03T12:21:00.000-07:00

GoGreen Ride towards Fraser Town 29May2011

08Aug10

2010-08-09T04:36:00.000-07:00

The GGI-South group of about 15 members started off from the starting point, Reliance Apple Showroom at JP Nagar, at about 6.45 am. Weather was a bit cloudy and but not raining, a very apt weather for a bike ride.

We took the following route - Apple Showroom -> Jayanagar 4th Block ->
South End Circle -> Basavanagudi circle (?) -> VV Puram -> Minerva
Circle -> JC Road -> Cubbon Park.

We reached Cubbon Park at around 7.30 am. We had two new members, Tarun and Varun (Rajaram's nephews)
for today's ride. They happen to be identical twins; the first ever pair of twins in GGI group !! Rao nicknamed as Go Green Twins. Coincidently, one of them had a BTwin Road bike.

Some of members from other areas were already there and more started joining in. We went around Cubbon Park forming a single line/Foil. With more than 30 members present, this looked awesome. We then gathered around Chamrajendara Wodeyar statue for the group photos. Kumaran had come with his hitech camera, and yes, he came on his bike. Within no time, he setup his tripod and the camera on top of it. The number had now swelled to about 40 and therefore, we took some time in arranging ourself. Thanks to Rao for initiating to create the poster, thanks to Kumaran for volunteering for the shoot and thanks to the GGI members for being present there. We took several snaps. The GGI members are really be keen to see how the posters come out. We are working out to come out with Go Green posters which will be displayed in most of the Cycle shops, Schools & College's

After the shoot, we decided to go for the breakfast. Shantu suggested a nearby place, Ranganna hotel, at Sampangiram Nagar. We had Idli, Rice bath, wada and yummy masala dosas.

We finished our breakfast by around 9.15 am after which we headed back. Overall, the overall distance covered was about 24 kms.

Group Photograph @ Cubbon Park Chamarahendra Wodeyar Statue.

Group Photo infront of Ranganna hotel.

Our Breakfast Sponsor's Thanks to Rashmin and Mukund for sponsoring the breakfast

Mukund Rao Rashmin Peral

GG-Twins, Tarun and Varun along with Rajaram A college going GGI by name

In center (Rajaram's nephews) Kumar from Raja Rajeshwari Nagar

who was part of the ride. (it was almost around 50Km Ride for him)

GoGreen Campaign Ride towards Sampangi Ramnagar

01Aug10

2010-08-02T04:41:00.000-07:00

Started from JP Nagar RIS Junction by : 5-30am and reached cubbon park by 5:50am. Since every one were charged up hence took only 20minutes to reach Cubbon Park. To our surprise we met most of the GGI members who have not registered for the ride and they did show up so early to participate. Totally there were 41 GGI along with other BBC members fully charged to break the ice..

Started off by sharp 6-00am headed towards our 2nd pit stop which was opp to Colmbia-Asia

there we met few more bikers who joined the ride. approximatively their were around 100+ cyclist who captured the Nandhi Hills on 01 Aug 2010. Most of the visitors @ Nandhi hills were surprised to see people climbing Nandhi hills by Cycles & they were not ready to believe we have cycled up. :)

This was one of the best ride that was every organised all this was possible due to the kind of coordination that we had with BBC riders, We would thank all of you over their who did rode with us and make this ride a memorable event.

Special thanks to our Brigider Vijay for giving us a support car with medical assistant which was very helpful for taking care of our fellow biker's when he crashed and also for the kind of breakfast + Lunch arrangements that was made available. The best of all was, they dropped few cyclist from Nandhi base to MG Road. They were very very helpful in all the ways and we, from GGI group, once again thank Brigider Vijay & his group staff members.

Group Photo Graph @ Cubbon Park central library.

Following was the route followed.

I (GGR) Started from Columbia Asia by 7:10am

and reached Nandhi base by 8:40am, followed by

Vasu on single speed reached @ 8:50am.

Fixing Vasant Kumar's bike which

had a puncher

GGI Members Snap shot @ 30 curve

Our traditional bike salute after conquering uphill

A motorcyclist came on the opposite side and rammed

our GGI Biker Shankar and managed to get back

and rode away. Immediately we had our army

gypsy rushed with medical kit nursed and boarded

Shankar & his Cycle.

This is what Shankar wanted to say while he was

recovering from the accident.

"Hey i'm feeling better now. Would love to talk but i can't talk for long and u won't understand what i'm talking :) let me know when u'r free and i'll call

Hey thanks for all the support man. Really appreciate it a lot. Wonder what i'd have done without you guys. All i would need is more such fun rides :) and my teeth ;) will call u in a couple of days:)

One more freak accident which was due to

fault of fixing breaks in reverse pattern.

I think we need to make out our voice to

all the manufacture's to follow our Indian

standards/Indian traffic (Rear brakes on left

side and front breaks on Right side.)

Youngest GGI Member who climbed Nandhi-Hills

Uphill non-stop and he did it with his six speed

Hercules Cycle ..

Oldest GGI Member by name Janardhan who made till the top @ his age of 74 years....

Our Major Srinivas who did 4 laps

(uphill & down hill) within the same

time and didn't looked exhausted at all

G.R Vijay Kumar(Guru) who did 2 laps

of Nandhi uphill & down hill

Photo snaps from Nandhi Hill's ride on 01Aug10

GoGreen Endurance Ride towards

Endurance Ride to Nandhi Hills
on 01 Aug 2010.

GoGreen & BDS Dr's Cycle Rally on 25jul10

2010-07-29T02:26:00.000-07:00

Total 46 GGI's Participated in this GGI & BDS Dr's Cycle Rally, Started from RIS junction by 7:15am and reached Cubbon Park City Library where we had our Major & Dr. Srinivas who along with other GGI's were waiting for us. Samim & Sreeram presence was a pleasant surprise for the whole group..

Started towards Vidhan Saudha to join the Dr's. We all started off from this venue @ 8:30am.

Child Director Kishen flagged the rally and also cycled along with us till City Institute chamrajpet which was the end point of our Rally..

This was the first time that GGI has partnered with BDS Dr's and the event came up to be very successful, All Dr's were really appreciated our Go Green Initiative. We had a Breakfast blast @ the Venue followed with vote of thanks and then dispersed.

Route Followed was as below.

RIS/Coffee day junction -Jaynagar 4th Block - Jnagar 3rd block -Sount end Circle - Patalamma Temple St - Madhavarao Circle - Vasvi Temple Rd - Sajjan Rao Circle - Karanataka Auto Consultants - Minerva Circle - JC Road - Town Hall - Hudson Circle - Cubbon Park

Vidhana soudha--Martha's hospital--Hudson circle--Geo hotel-- Lalbagh--Minerva circle—Chamrajpet City institute.

Comments from New GGI members:

Today was my first cycling experience with you guys in Bangalore. It was great cycling trip to cubbon park and cycling in the city of Bangalore by spreading the massage of GO GREEN GO CYCLING.
With regards,Mayur R.
Architect & RetaiL ExperiencE Designer

I browsed through the sites of a lot of cycling groups before I zeroed on GGI. A colleague's passing suggestion about GGI got me completely hooked. Eighteen months of cycling on
Bangalore roads and my overflowing inbox with updates from GGI, got me curious and pushed me to actually go on the weekend ride. I had done a lot of impromptu rides with my friends but nothing like the Sunday one which was my first ride with GGI folks.
The Sunday ride turned out to be a lot of fun and surpassed my expectations. Initially, I was very apprehensive of participating in the weekend ride and was very doubtful about my ability to complete the circuit. The GGI folks turned out to be cool and chilled irrespective of their age. The enthusiasm was contagious and all my doubts [infact the thought of not completing the ride] flew outside the window. The mix of people and their willingness to share cycling gyaan is awesome. I am completely sold on the idea of taking cycling as a serious hobby. I am looking forward to a lot of fun times [with a message to give out to the society too] with GGI!
Way to go guys!......Cheers, Sowmya

GGCR_18jul10

2010-07-18T22:31:00.000-07:00

GoGreen Campaign Ride towards Coles Park on 18July2010

GoGreen Campaign Ride 11July2010

2010-07-11T22:16:00.000-07:00

Come & Join us in promoting Green in the City
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2010-07-11T21:53:00.000-07:00

Go Green Go Cycling

2008-11-12T04:35:00.000-08:00

With this blog of mine, I wanted to

appeal to our community to save all kinds of finite resources as much as possible. "Go

Green Go Cycling" is a campaign I am running on this blog to

request people to use their bicycles for regular commuting instead of using their Cars/Bikes. You can ensure 1 less Car/Bike

on the road that would have contributed for all kinds of pollutions. I Strongly feel, its a moral responsibility of every citizen or I would even say every human being on this planet to think of paying back to mother

nature, Payback in terms of saving power.. Payback in terms of saving water, payback in terms of saving paper, payback in terms of saving fuel or in one word payback in terms of saving all kind of natural resources and

Stop Global Warming. Cycling would be the best mode of payback to the mother nature.

We all know that the world has a fixed amount of natural resources - some of which are already

depleted. So as population growth greatly strains our finite resources, there are fewer resources available. If we intend to

leave our children and grandchildren with the same standard of living we have enjoyed, we must preserve the foundation of

that standard of living. We save for children’s educations, medication and their weddings in terms of cash or assets, but how about saving clean air,

water, fuel sources and soil for the upcoming future generations .....????

I'm looking for leaders who can help my community project in saving our city from

all kind of pollution. I am sure with co-operation and active participation from environment and health conscious

individuals, the initiative will take off and go a long way in creating awareness about the issue and fostering a

generation of responsible citizens.

Until then, let us begin in a small way at our own levels by refraining

from honking or over speeding a cyclist, when you see one in front, while he/she is peddling for a better cause, encourage

them by giving a thumbs up.

Prabhakar Rao C.M is looking for help with this community project to reduce pollution.He can

be reached on his mobile 9198450 65950 or Prabhakarrao.cm@gmail.com. & People who r already on the Cycle can also contact and enroll your self

into our GGI (Go Green Initiator)

Club. Click here to

enroll

Rao live on Radio Indigo 91.9FM on 15-Dec-2008 (Click the video to play)

Rao live on FM Rainbow 101.3 on 15-Jan-2009 (Click the video to play)

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Few Good reasons why u should choose cycling...

For Your Community
Being out on your bicycle is good for the people around you as well. You are able to go the places you want to go and yet put

one less car on the road.
You don’t bring with you the noise that a car generates and are actually able to interaction with people as you move and be a

warm and friendly human presence on the streets.
Operating a bicycling does not harm the environment. There is no polluting exhaust released, no oil or gas consumed hence

saving natural resources . And the energy and materials used to manufacture one automobile could be used to create hundreds

of bicycles.

For Your State of Mind
Riding a bicycle is a proven stress releaser. Regardless of if you are riding purely for pleasure or for a specific

purpose, you will arrive at your destination feeling relaxed, energized and happier about the world and yourself.
Plus, being out on your bicycle is just flat-out fun. The more time you spend on two wheels, the harder it is to take

yourself too seriously.

For Your Body
Riding a bicycle offers many health benefits. Here are just a few:
· increased cardiovascular fitness
· increased strength
· increased balance and flexibility
· increased endurance and stamina
· increased calories burned
It can be done by people of all ages, from childhood up even through the adult years when achy joints don't allow for more

stressful exercise like jogging.

For Your

Pocket
It costs between Rs. 7.00 per KM to operate a car, depending on the vehicle. This is based on expenses like petrol, oil,

maintenance, etc., that go up when you drive more. This figure doesn’t include the hidden costs of vehicle ownership like depreciation, taxes,

and insurance. These factors make the actual per km cost to operate a car much higher.
When you start multiplying cost per km to operate a car by the distance you ride, you can easily calculate how much money you

save by riding a bicycle.
For example: my daily round trip commute

(House-Office-House) is 19 km. If I do this just twice a week, I will save over Rs.266, Rs.1330 a month like wise Rs.15960 a

year. Just think, if we all start using bicycle what would be the overall saving..
And if you would otherwise have to pay for parking, tolls, and the like, don’t forget to factor that in too. It can add up

quickly.

Ride For You
When you ride your bicycle, you are doing a lot of good things, many of which are for the benefit of others. But ultimately,

the one who benefits the most is you, through better health, peace of mind, increased confidence and self-reliance, heck,

even through a fatter bank account on top of all for a better tomorrow.

So for all these reasons, get out

there on your bicycle !! today.

Click

her to read a article from my friend Bala on Noise Pollution.

Click her to read a article

"Seoul turns to bicycles to combat global warming"

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