BICAR - Nemali

 

A day in this Monsoon !

9:30 am – Vashi – Raining heavily. The only 3/4ths I had is pushed in the sanitizing system popularly known as the erstwhile Siemens Washing Machine. The thought of getting out of PlatForm #1 at Kurla Station from the Dadar end and walking to bus stop # 313 and I contemplate. How much more of this Kurla stink prarabdha :)

10:00 am – I can’t wait more, decide fast – Go or No Go ? Ok Go but not Kurla for today. Caught the 505 AC BEST AC bus, hoping they too bent to the NMMT competition and made the Santacruz one too available.

10:31 am – Captured the time image in my mind (Very essential to remind you of how much time u waste during long bus journeys in Mumbai). Some P.R.Sarkar(Creator of Ananda Marg & also Subhash Chandra Bose’s Spiritual Guru) book to read on the go. A paragraph or so and my strong currents within are taking me away to the 4 wheelers on the road. Ghosh ! I need one, but who’s gonna drive in this traffic, chauffer of-course will do :)

IDEA !

Till we actually own a vehicle, let’s build the backlog for the car I want to drive on road. It can be classified in the category of a BICAR(Purely inspired from a Liger or a Tiglon). A 3 seater Bike which has the comfort of a Car for the passengers. Ok let me get going…..

1. Bicar category with code name – Nemali (Peacock in a the language most widely used in Carnatic music songs)

2. 3 seater. One behind the other. Each seat is as comfortable as a Sedan car seat (Mercedes Benz for instance)

3. Size half of a large hunch-back car of the order of Liva. 2 Bicars kept touching each other in a parking lot should take the same space as a Swift.

4. 2 Bicars can be attached to each other side by side and can travel together too. It should amalgamate and then look like a Innova-Type car with 6 seats.

5. 100% water submersible (Mumbai monsoon ready)

6. Amphibious (Flood affected Orissa districts ready)

7. Centre of Gravity like our BEST double-decker buses (haven’t heard any of them sliding during a turn or a speed over-drive)

8. Light weight (pt. 11 to clarify it further)

9. Manual Pedling over-ride. So the nature freaks can call it a day :)

10. Fuel neutral engine. Any fuel anytime.

11. Can be parked erect. Easy to get back straight. Looks like Space shuttle when it’s parked up erect.

12. Cheaper than regular bike.

13. Average better than the best commercially successful MOPED

14. Excellence in Design, oh ok agronomy, etc

15. Fastest ever motor on road with full load (3 ppl with avg wt. of 100kgs each)

16. Economy version has speed locks (RTO lock, Police lock & a Army lock). So while each of these lock depts can use the full speed, regular citizen cannot without having all the 3 keys (oh yes, Politician’s son can get all the 3 keys easily)

17. Suspension is better than the best (who is it BMW/Mercedes)

18. The circular glass door opens in a Semi Circle (secret design!)

19. Camera cover all over. Feeds processed and analytics streamed to an online portal to rank pilots on ethical driving :)

 

Stakeholders - any additions/editions? Agile fellows help me re-write the backlog appropriately.