How many wheels have you?

During one exchange of letters with my friend tommydan1 I mentioned that I drive a two-wheeler.  He sent back a query - Whats a two-wheeler?  The world may have shrunk to a global village, where I talk more with a friend who lives thousands of miles away and barely exchange a sentence with someone sitting two feet away from me, yet cultural differences do count.  I had to shoot off an explanatory letter and as I did so, my mind started working on all kinds of wheelers.

One wheeler

Here is a one-wheeler.  I think only the performers in the circus drive it now. Its been years since I saw this.  It looks pretty precarious and seems to need a lot of skill riding this bike.

Look Ma ! No Hands !


















The Two-Wheeler

Plenty of examples of two-wheelers that run on the Indian roads. From Hamara Bajaj of old days that lasted for decades to the new fangled four stroke wonders with a built in mobile charger and an under the seat storage space you could rent out.  But this one is my poison of the moment.  Meri apni Kinetic.









Three-Wheeler

Another life-saver for people in a hurry to get to their destination without being at the mercy of state transport buses.  Called Rickshaw or Auto or three-wheeler or Tuk Tuk.  In places like Delhi and Chandigarh they rarely take you by the meter and try to fix a rate before the driver even condenses to move.  Extra rates for newbies, rainy season travellers and for those in a hurry.  If you happen to be savvy, the prices crash down to half. Get ready for a jerky ride that will endanger your cervical joints and make you reach for the painkillers.

Just like men, cant live with them, cant live without them.


No point in discussing anything about 4 wheelers. 
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Eight Wheelers

Good for enticing crying babies with, "Look what a long truck".  The baby stops crying and looks at the giant thing moving from the safety of his mothers arms.  What is the baby thinking?  "When I grow up I will eat all the chocolate I want and drive a big truck"








x Wheeler

I studied in a school on the Air Force campus and this trailer was used to cart Airplane parts.  This is called a Queen Mary Trailer and was the biggest grandest vehicle I ever saw.  A sighting of Queen Mary was guaranteed to stop a bus-load of students in their tracks, gawping at the immense size of this vehicle.  Big trailers will come and go, but in my mind this is the grandest.