Indian Roadsters Part 6: Indian Oddballs

This post isn't really so much about roadsters as about some of the odd bicycles we saw in India.

First there was this bike. Some kind of urban mountain bike/BMX hybrid I suppose. But it is not the design that caught my eye, it was the brand: "SCUD". Not really the first name in quality.

 

Then there was this bike. What is it? We saw many of them. Give up? It is a road going wheelchair. The occupant has a "pedal for each hand. Some of them also have tiller steering leading me to believe that those models had linked wheels. 

There there is this gentleman: The Rabbi of Pushkar. Not exactly the kind of character one might expect to run into in India, so why why was he there? It's a well known fact that after mustering out of the Israeli Defense Forces, many Israelis go traveling for a year or two, usually to some place cheap and warm. South America, South East Asia and India are favorite destinations.

Besides being a Hindu pilgrimage site, Pushkar also has a much deserved reputation as a kicked-back party town and can best be described as "Jamaica meets Varanasi". So of course a lot of travelling Israeli's end up there. The rabbi is there to keep them on the straight and narrow. Good luck with that. He seemed to be taking it all with a sense of humor.

 Note his bike seems to be a softtail version of the SCUD!!!

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