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Mangaluru :<\/strong><\/p>\n

City-born UK Bangalore-resident Sushanth Shetty, 28, is aiming high on adventure next time round.<\/p>\n

Sushanth in a self-challenge- The East India Express – planned a 12,000 km ride across 12 countries, and seven time zones – alone and in 15 days. But his goal went awry due to certain variables he could not control. His next adventure in 2016 will be well planned and executed.<\/p>\n

Sushant who was in Mangaluru, told TOI: I’m working on something big which needs lot of funds. That’s why I cannot reveal what it is as of now. The plans should firm up in the next six to seven months.<\/p>\n

This is the first visit of Sushanth along with Patrick”- the Hayabusa to his home-town. I visited Manjeshwar, my dad’s home town and later to mother’s place Sajipa, near Ira village (Bantwal Taluk). I took Patrick where I thought he would not go. He enjoyed it and so did I running him on the red-dust laden quarry roads. I did not think he would take it, he did sportingly.”<\/p>\n

Regarding his East India Express ride, what he would do differently, if he had a go at it again? Pakistan is unreliable for the next decade. Interestingly if I had been granted entry, the day I would have reached Lahore there was a bomb blast. Imagine that. I just wonder what would have happened to my plans. But since that did not happen, I would prefer a hotel for solitude between the rides and would have lied to ride earlier part of the year as the bitter cold made my progress difficult. If it was warm I would have covered more distance. As far as Patrick – I would not change him for anything,” Sushanth said.<\/p>\n

While Sushanth will leave for UK in two weeks, his Hayabusa would leave India for UK in about two months’ time after getting him serviced at a dealership in Bengaluru.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday Sushanth went to Moodbidri where he met some enthusiastic bikers and then rode three Ghats – Agumbe, Kudremukh and Charmadi. He will rest at one of his friend’s estate in Sakleshpur and reach Bengaluru by Thursday.<\/p>\n

A Josephite, Sushanth did his mechanical engineering at MS Ramaiah Institute and then MS in Motorsports Engineering from Coventry University, UK. He is working for Ford Europe.<\/p>\n

source: http:\/\/www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com \/ The Times of India \/ Home>City> Mangaluru \/ by Stanley Pinto, TNN \/ February 24th, 2015<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mangaluru : City-born UK Bangalore-resident Sushanth Shetty, 28, is aiming high on adventure next time round. Sushanth in a self-challenge- The East India Express – planned a 12,000 km ride across 12 countries, and seven time zones – alone and in 15 days. But his goal went awry due to certain variables he could not … Continue reading Hayabusa rider plans big for 2016<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nris-pios","category-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17190"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17193,"href":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17190\/revisions\/17193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}