Bike racing in top gear on National Highway-44

youth participating in a bike racing on Adilabad town bypass road of  NH-44 

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 the broad daylight that is 12 noon from Chanda (T) cross roads to Mavala crossing on bypass road of NH-44 on July7.

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

After Ring Road in Hyderabad, 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 racing with 220 CC and 150 CC motorbikes.

Sometimes, these bike racings are also held with general bikes too. Apart from the bike races, the youth bike riders do bike stunts.   

The Mavala Grampanchayat 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 bikes races are popular. One can see youth riding costly ‘Kawasaki Ninja’ bikes in the Adilabad. 

It is said that some of the youth those participate in the bike races not even do not have driving licenses. The bike racings’ information kept secret and passing onto the participants’ mobiles.

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 in the late nights’.

One can see the youth riding costly and modern bikes with 80-100 km speed on main roads and even in by-lanes in the Adilabad town.