This year marked the 5th birthday of my nephew Siddhu AKA Venkat Siddharth on 16th January. Incidentally it was my second brother-in-law (Kishore)'s birthday too, although I dint bother to ask the number of candles they used. Cycle or Bicycle has been a significant object of desire in my childhood life and occasionally even now. All my school days went in dreaming about riding my own Hero Ranger cycle one day. Every time my Dad used to make a deal of getting first rank for a cycle. And every time I won, he used to suffice the deal with a poor compromise like buying me a silver ring with a pearl (yeah, right I loved rings), buying a second hand lady's BSA SLR or a second hand HERO cycle. At that time I decided that I will buy a cycle with my own money one day. So, finally when I got settled in a full time job in 2007 half way across the globe from my home, I started searching for the best deal. To my surprise I realized, Madison, WI seemed to be the bike (US bicycle) capital. Every body in summer set out on bikes during evenings and weekends. Its amazing to see the whole family going beside the road together each on their own bike- one for day, one for mom, one for sister, one for brother and one for the little brother. Obviously there were series of bike shops that had a wide range of bikes. It took me a week to research and convince myself to afford a bike for $230. But when I told this to my colleagues at work, I got disappointed to learn that the winter was about to start and its not worth to spend so much for a bike. Theres no way one can ride a bike during winter in Madison, trust me, I have been there! So I managed to get a third hand bike for $50. It was good too, for those few days during the fall of 2007. So technically I never bought a brand new bicycle until
Siddhu's birthday this year. Happy Birthday dude and thanks!
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