The God Who loved Motorbikes by Murali K Menon

The God Who Loved Motorbikes by Murali K Menon
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Will be a fun book for those who love motorcycles and like riding hard and fast on them. From the first to the last page the book is all about bikes of all kinds with stress on the British bikes of the era when it dominated the world bike stage.

KK Swamy a wayside God in Kollengode, Kerala falls in love with bikes when Koman comes riding in a bike with its loud, low bass acoustics. He coaxes Koman to teach him ride bikes. He then goes around the country filching bikes and taking them for a ride and then returning them back to the owner.

At Koman’s suggestion he goes to England and enjoys the thrills of riding all the big bikes of which Velocette is one of his favourites.

He and Koman hear a story about a mysterious bike rider, with nine warts around his navel, who rides a Velocette Venom Thruxton HT a four cylinder monster prototype which was the last made by the company before it closed its doors.

He and Koman try to find out but eventually Koman dies why KK Swamy, being a God, continues to live. He comes across an article by one Rishabhh Mehtaa who has written about the exact same bike. He goes out coaxing Rishabhh to accompany him in search of the bike and ends up entering the internet via the Bluetooth with the help of the Viking God after whom the Bluetooth is named and meets the mysterious rider and the Velocette Venom Thruxton HT. He rides is so well that the mysterious rider gives him the bike and moves towards the horizon and KK Swamy continues to live riding the Velocettle Venom Thruxton XT to the various galaxies and far away stars and black holes.

Read if you like to read about bikes.

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