Bhopal bikers need safety focus

Biking is new 'mantra' with young ones, these days. Bhopal has many youngsters who perform heroic acts on bikes and get the due media attention. Bhopal has many, who do all kinds of stuff on these bikes, be it standing on the bike, zipping around, driving on front or back wheels, and all those things, which the bike inventors must have not even thought about. They probably made this vehicle to transport people!

Thanks to the available roads in Bhopal, and media attention, this keeps them going. They are like local heroes, motivating many other young ones to take risk to compete with them. Nobody stresses upon helmets and precautions, for that matter helmets are only compulsory in the rulebooks, not on the roads.

They have more incentives now. In August, Bhopal had Moto Soccer, a football match between two teams, namely Indian bikers and Biker boys, in which these men played soccer with bikes. Indian Bikers team defeated Bikers Boys to win the Mayor Trophy Moto Soccer event. The winner of the match was decided by penalty shoot out. Thankfully, the match was played with drivers wearing helmets.

Occasionally, one can notice a cavalcade of bikers on roads of Bhopal. Tens of bikes are often seen zipping around the roads of Bhopal on weekend evenings, replicating Pune bikers’ Sunday shows. All this sounds good, but catch is that one needs to undertake the ‘so-called’ heroic acts with due precaution and care with minimum risk, which is not there as of now. And finally, the petroleum conservation guys should also reach out to these young ones and tell them about the value of non-renewable resources.