yesterday evening i decided to go all round bangalore’s “intermediate ring road”. on a bike (methinks wasting so much petrol in a car for no purpose is criminal). went all the way to hebbal (through the eastern side – btm,sarjapur road, marathahalli, etc.). then got bored and decided to cover the rest of the journey some other day.
and since it was a sunday evening, there was little traffic. and the road, for long stretches, is simply beautiful. three lanes each way, wide median, greenery for 10 feet on either side of the road – also implies no establishments on the road.
and i’m “zipping” along at 80 kmph (my bike refuses to go faster than that) and still feeling as if i’m going at 20 kmph. typically if i cross fifty on a busy road i start feeling a little insecure…
reminds me of Claude Shannon’s second law of information theory (called the channel coding theorem or something): You can transmit data reliably across a channel if the speed of data transfer is less than the speed of the channel.
similarly with roads. you can drive safely as long as your speed is within the speed of the road!!
anyways, as i was driving yesterday i thought of lots of stuff to write about the experience. but now i’m feeling too lazy so i’ll stop here. just want to add that this “road trip” was among hte most heady experiences of my life so far…