It took a few years, but the power of dreams ensured that my very first motorcycle in 2011 was, in fact, a Yamaha R15. One was the mighty Yamaha R1, which symbolised the distant ‘someday’ dream, and right next to it was a magazine cut-out of the Yamaha R15, which had just gone on sale in India. Funny enough, I still have the very same motorcycle posters from my college days in my hometown bedroom cupboard and there were two that really captured my imagination. Riding these two bikes transported me 15 years back to when I was an undergraduate college student supposedly studying business management but mostly just dreaming about motorcycles.
