Bike race in top gear

Adilabad: Some enthusiastic and adventurous youth of Adilabad are conducting bike-racing competitions among themselves on Adilabad town bypass road of NH 44 especially on special occasions like festivals. It is surprising to see the youth participating in bike racing competition in  broad daylight around  12 noon from Chanda (T) Crossroads to Mavala crossing on bypass road of NH-44 on July 7.

However, police have no clue about bike racing being held on NH-44 though they were being organised regularly on NH-44 and sometimes in late night on the road between Sanjaynagar Colony to Indira Priyadarshini stadium in Adilabad town.

The 5 km distance Adilabad bypass road of four-lane National Highway- 44 has become a venue for bike racing by youth from well-to-do families and betting thousands of rupees on bike racings with 220 CC and 150 CC motorbikes. Sometimes, these bike racings are also held using ordinary bikes too. Apart from the bike races, the youth bike riders do bike stunts.

The Mavala gram panchayat point was taken as starting mark and Chanda (T) village crossing in Adilabad mandal as an endpoint or vice versa in the bike race for 5 km distance on NH-44.

These bike races were named after cinemas Dhoom-1, 2 and 3 and Race in which bike races are popular. One can see youth riding costly Kawasaki Ninja bikes in Adilabad.

The bike racing information is kept secret and passed onto the participants mobiles. These bike racings are being organised by youth themselves late at night avoid the attention of police or others.

G. Santosh of Adilabad town who had a passion towards racing bikes said bike races were being conducted among the closed network of youth and that too late night. One can see the youth riding costly and modern bikes with 80-100 km speed on main roads and even in the bylanes of Adilabad.