International Jawa Day today
Mysore :
About 300 bikers this morning took out a rally with their precious good old Jawa and Yezdi bikes vrooming on the main roads of city to mark the 12th International Jawa Day.
The roads came alive with the sounds of Yezdi and Jawa as their owners took out their pride and joy to mark the day.
These iconic machines, called the ‘King of Roads’, were manufactured by the erstwhile Ideal Jawa (India) Ltd.
The rally, which was organised by Jawa Friends Club, Mysore, began in front of the house of late F.K. Irani, Managing Director of the then Ideal Jawa factory in city and passed through Nazarbad main road, Hardinge Circle, Doddakere Maidan road, Chamaraja Double road, Narayana Shastry Road, Devaraj Urs Road, JLB Road, Ramaswamy Circle, Saraswathipuram Fire Brigade road, Apollo Hospital Road, Vijaya Bank Circle, Vishwamanawa Double Road, Kukkarahalli Lake road, Open Air Theatre road, Hunsur Road, Vontikoppal Road, KRS Road, Jawa factory Road and will culminate at Prestige Function Hall near Columbia Asia Hospital later in the day.
Sameer, one of the organisers, speaking to SOM said that this year’s Jawa Day has been organised by about 40 friends who own Jawa and Yezdi bikes.
He said that every year, for one day, people across the city and from neighbouring Chamarajanagar, Madikeri, Mandya, Bangalore assemble at a specified place and will be riding Czech-made or Czech-inspired motorcycles Jawa or Yezdi to celebrate the Day.
‘We celebrate this day to show people that our motorcycles are still in use, and to just have some fun,’ he added.
Kishore and Hemali couple, who have come all the way from Bangalore to participate in the rally, said that over the years, these bikes have attained an iconic status as they are no longer available. If available, they are sold for over a lakh.
He also said that though the day is celebrated in Bangalore too, I wanted to celebrate the day in Mysore as it is the birth place of Jawa and Yezdi bikes.
Kishore said that he owns a 1995 model Yezdi Roadking and added that his bike is serviced in Mysore.
Madhusudhan and Keerthana from Mysore, who are participating with their 1996 model Yezdi Roadking said that it is for the third time they are participating and added that it was awesome to ride with numerous bikes manufactured by Jawa.
The motorcycles were manufactured at Ideal Jawa (India) Ltd., the first automotive company founded in collaboration with Jawa Motorcycle Company, Czechoslovakia in Mysore.
Production of these motorcycles stopped after Ideal Jawa shut its operations in 1995.
source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> General News / July 13th, 2014