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For anyone who doesn't ride motorcycles - a KTM Super Duke is a lunatic hooligan bike (in the best way) that barely fits within the boundaries of safe operation on the open roads of the USA. I cannot comprehend riding one on the busy streets of an Indian city. It'd be fun while it lasted, at least.



Riding anything in India is an extreme sport. That country is absolute madness.


Try crossing the road as a pedestrian in Bangalore. It's even more of an extreme sport.


One of my favorite memories was getting across the street to a restaurant with some noobs in front of one of the FAANG offices in Bangalore - high traffic times, so no way to do so on foot without a noob ending up dead.

An auto rickshaw, 15 minutes, and two different bribes to the traffic police did the trick though.


Were the bribes needed because the rick was overloaded, or because the rick went the wrong way, or both?


It was the only way to do the turns necessary to get there in 15 minutes due to heavy traffic. The traffic police were blocking them.


I was visiting our office in Delhi, (Gurgaon), And the only way to get lunch was to cross a busy highway with no pedestrian bridges, experiencing what I can only describe as a deadly vortex of entropy.

I think I can add that to my list of near death experiences for sure.


Welcome to India. Youth culture in India is obsessed with the KTM Super Duke [0]. It's the stereotypical chappri/pulingo bike (Indian version of Bad Baby type influencers).

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T08LibsaHh0




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