लोक सहसा स्पेशल टूरिंग बाइक्स खरेदी करण्यासाठी मोठ्या प्रमाणात पैसे गुंतवतात, पण महाराष्ट्रातील या माणसाने हे सिद्ध केले आहे की 110 सीसी प्रवासी बाइकदेखील तितकी प्रभावी असू शकतात. महाराष्ट्रातील सातारा जिल्ह्यातील कोरेगाव नावाच्या छोट्याशा गावातून विकास जगन्नाथ शिंदे यांनी 2015 मध्ये खरेदी केलेल्या प्लॅटिनावर आजपर्यंत 3 22,000 कि.मी.चा प्रवास केला आहे. बाईक हा त्याचा खरा साथीदार असल्याचे सिद्ध झाले आहे.


People usually invest a great deal of money in buying specialized touring bikes, but this man from Maharashtra has proved that even 110 cc commuter bikes can be just as effective. Coming from a small village named Koregaon in Satara district of Maharashtra, Vikas Jagannath Shinde has till date travelled 3,22,000 km on his Platina that he purchased in 2015. As the bike has proved to be his true companion

People usually invest a great deal of money in buying specialized touring bikes, but this man from Maharashtra has proved that even 110 cc commuter bikes can be just as effective. Coming from a small village named Koregaon in Satara district of Maharashtra, Vikas Jagannath Shinde has till date travelled 3,22,000 km on his Platina that he purchased in 2015. As the bike has proved to be his true companion, Shinde calls it his second wife.

Shinde has been an explorer since his childhood days and he started touring on a bicycle when he was in school. Being a farmer’s son, he says that he could not afford anything better. As he grew up, the urge to explore became stronger, which prompted Shinde to start saving.

Shinde purchased Bajaj Platina in 15th Aug 2015 and started his first road trip on September 1. Since then, he has covered most of India such as Gujarat, Rajasthan Delhi, Haryana, Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, UP, MP, Uttarakhand, Bihar, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, West Bengal, Karnataka, and North Eastern States.

Shinde recounts some interesting challenges that he faced along the way and explains how Platina never failed him. He talks about this one incident in Manali, where he was stopped by authorities. He was told that his Platina was too small to take on the high mountain roads and he has to find other alternatives if he wanted to visit Leh and Khardung La. Unfazed, Shinde met the collector in Kullu, explained his situation and got the permission to take his Platina to the world’s highest motorable road.

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