The BattleCat III completes 580 days this weekend, and I plan to take her on a nice long ride.
I have been keeping track of her odometer since I took delivery on 25 April 2022, but I lost parts of the documentation for the first 100 days (till 03 August 2022) in a crash.
However, from what I have, here’s some interesting data that shows my averages:
- I ride 67.48km a day.
- I use up 2.96 litres of petrol every day.
- I go 2.48 days between full tanks.
- I rode the maximum distance in September 2023: 3,802km.
- I rode the minimum distance in October 2022: 1,434km.
I also have other data I could glean from my records, like intervals between servicings, tyres, air filters, oil, brake pads, and chain-sprocket changes, for example. But right now, this itself is insightful.
Motorcycling gives me wings, truly. It keeps me sane. It gives me time to think, to talk to myself, to sort out issues in my mind, to free myself from the shackles of my own baggage, to bring clarity to situations, and to, at times, escape. Recently, it has also been the instrument of connecting with the woman I love. Nothing bonds you like opening throttle as you and your pillion stand up as one on your footrests, she hugging you tightly, while the motorcycle hurtles forward, front shaky, rear fishtailing, over slippery, gravely, rocky terrain that threatens a painful death & horrible disfigurement on one side and brilliant, unseen vistas & breathtaking landscape on the other!
In many ways, the BattleCat has saved my life. By making it worth living.
