Nerdy Stuff, Stats, Our team name revealed!

First off, thank you to all the doners! We surpassed our goal for Bhumi by 50%! Bhumi helps underprivileged kids in India. Check out Bhumi:  http://www.bhumi.org.in/

We thought it would be interesting to put up a few things:

• Why Bombay Scorchers? What does it mean?
• Since we are in a technical field of work, obviously graphing and analyzing the raw stats is something we all nerded out on.

Why Bombay Scorchers??

Why not? How dare you ask me this!? :)

I have been in to antique and classic bicycles for a few years. Ephemera has always been something that was always interesting, and I started collecting old bicycle literature, manuals and postcards. I then came upon the postcard on the left. I had to have it!

I have since purchased 6 of these in various forms, black and white, colorized etc. The postcard is about 80-90 years old and just the picture alone entranced me and made me think about who this lady is and who took this picture on a wood rimmed and what looks to be a shaft driven bicycle. [ no chain ]. This would date the pic to the early 1900s to probably 1920.

So when the team was assembled for the trip, and we were cycling in India, I had just the name!

Nerdy Stuff

Like I said, I read about bikes, tours, bike packing, you name it. I came across someone elses blog where they kept track of everything down to how many bottles of water they drank! So i decided we had to take it to the next level. 

Food Eaten
8 - Briyanis

1 of 1.5 Bovontos drank by the scorchers

10.5 - Thali
Halwas
2 carrot
3 beetroot
1 bread
1 - Red bananas 1
22 - Mini bananas .. 1 eaten by monkey
6 - Big bananas
6 - Medium fatty bananas
13.5 - Gulab jamun. We experienced meh gulabs

Drinks Drank
2 - Bovontos
40 - Cokes - coke is it baby
1 - Diet coke - the guy had to remove about 40 bottles from the fridge to dig this out for matty boy
5 - Sprite
1 - Mountain dew - i did the dew in Hindustan
6 - Mazaa
4 - Slice
1 - Maa

7 - Pepsi ... ewww
4 - 7up

Random Counts

Drone flights 7
Near Misses 5
Missed turns 3
Kisses blown 1
2 - Cultural faux pas : Matty trying to high five a guy doing a hand signal and Shruti taking the arm off of an old lady.
4 - Flat tires : 2 Steve / 2 Shruti / Matty "old steel tires" = 0!
1 - Bovine golden shower. Lucky Matt. "I think it splashed on me." -Matty Boy
2 - Bird poops. Shruti & Matt
1 man splashs matts bike with backwash
1 - Shruti vomitting Indian breakfast cake on steve's sleeve. I found cake a few miles down the road on me after cycling. :|

# of animal slaps

1 - Matt trunk slapped by blessing elephant.

Types of animals spotted in the wild

Pigs Mule Donkeys Cows Monkeys Dead snake Goats Lamb Sheep Lots of birds Lizard Ants Spiders Chickens Horse

Elephant Buffalo Oxen Dogs Cats Dead starfish Dead fish Crusty in the shell Crabs Squirrels Rabbits Ducks

3 Trains waited for
~15 Mosquitoes terminated

Some graphical Nerdiness: 

At a high level we banged out about 425miles/680kms and had about 38 hours of ride time.

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Next up....... final thoughts :)