#rockrider

Rockrider On the Liberty Street, Torino, Italy

Maybe I’m just attached to all my stuff, but this one felt a little more hurtful to lose as I was not anticipating it by any means.

I’ve posted it’s image on my social media with a small caption “Achhi thi ye, yaad rahegi“ translating to ‘It was good, will be remembered‘ but only a small count of people know the story behind it. Well, up until now - when I’m making it public.

I bought my bicycle on the day of New Year 2022, with a strong motivation and will to do all my city-wide rides on this vehicle. I always wanted a cycle of this kind, where I would do all my daily tasks on it. It was the perfect ride far out from my budget which I couldn’t afford until this point. Not just financial affordability but situational and spatial mixed along with the former too.

I’ve always dreamt about a peaceful & healthy life, I’ve tried to live it too as much as possible. This ride was a part of it. I bought it for almost 19k with the help of a small EMI scheme and spent an extra 2k on its accessories, while I continue to pay off my other dent debt from education.

A B-Twin Rockrider ST100, bought after taking serious consideration about the activities I have in mind. B-Twin suspensions to accommodate the poor conditions of roads in my city, Shemano 7 x 3 gears to help with all speed-torque situations and a light-weighted alloy frame with great strength and ergonomics.

Just in the third month into the purchase, while I was away from my home and my parents were still at home with my younger sister - the bike was stolen 3AM at night. The useless guard was deep asleep and the two thieves took a free look into each and every house of my society until they found things that they’d like to steal away.

They took my ride, lifted it away outside the boundary with stealth in feet and courtesy to my light weight alloy frame. I do not like what happened, considering that I still have a part of the monthly instalments left to pay for it - they keep reminding me of it.

The police can’t and maybe won’t help the case even though we filed a complaint (along with clear CCTV footages) which they did not register as an F.I.R. I never even had hopes from them, it’d be a miracle if they really find it for us.