T R A N S P O R T ROAD Largest traffic safety oath event Most traffic safety oaths Police Department, District Gwalior, Madhya Rajasthan Patrika, a daily morning newspaper Pradesh organised the largest single-day event of published in Rajasthan, organised a mammoth road traffic safety oath in which 1,01,985 participants, safety and traffic awareness campaign series in assembled at 330 different places across the January - March 2016. Titled ‘Aaiye, Bachyeing district, took the safety pledge on Jan 12, 2016. Jeevan’, these events were held at seven different The event held under the leadership of places across the state from Jan 13-Feb 25, 2016. Superintendent of Police Harinarayanachari A total of 2.33 lakh people took part in these Mishra involved 75 educational institutions, govt campaigns – 25,000 at Chomu, 30,000 at Bandikui, offices, associations, NGOs and the public. It was 26,000 at Tonk, 27,000 at Sawai Madhopur, complete in 15 minutes from at 10.00 am. 40,000 at Jhunjhunu, 35,000 at Hindaun City and 50,000 at Dholpur. They comprised groups of students, youth, government employees, social First permanent licence to drive with feet workers, businessmen and general public, who first Vikram Agnihotri (45) of Indore, MP, who lost both his upper limbs at learnt the traffic rules and then took an oath to 7 years trained himself to do all the chores with the feet. Having follow them. learnt to drive, he purchased an auto gear shift car on May 15, 2015 and started to drive with a Learner’s Licence under the Invalid Carriage category. He applied for a permanent driving licence but was rejected on the grounds that there was no provision in the Motor Vehicle Act for issuing a licence to a person driving without hands. He took it as a challenge and approached higher authorities up to the Union Transport Ministry and finally got a permanent driving licence issued to him on Sept 30, 2016, becoming the first such person to obtain it. 2 0 4 transport 2017.pmd 204 24-03-2017, 15:26 T R A N S P O R T WR: Longest journey on a solar powered bicycle Sushil Reddy (b March 11, 1989) of Mumbai completed the longest journey on a solar powered electric bicycle covering Handmade chopper cycle 7,423.88 km across nine states/UTs in 79 days from May 8 - July Sixteen-year-old Dhyey Bagdai of Rajkot, Gujarat 25, 2016. The Sun Pedal Ride undertaken on a bicycle fitted with developed ‘DLB’, a 7.75 ft long aerodynamically 240W solar panels started and ended at Mumbai, having passed designed chopper bicycle that weighs 8.85 kg. It through cities like Surat, Jamnagar, Jodhpur, Bikaner, Amritsar, runs faster than normal cycles. He has used an iron Chandigarh, Delhi and Jaipur. The bicycle was provided by bar in the chassis to reduce impact in the event of Hulikkal Electro India Pvt Ltd. an accident. Most motorcycles ridden by a woman First concept hybrid motorcycle Sonia Jain (b Oct 19, 1986) of East of Kailash, Ruzbeh Gav Master (b May 19, 1997) of Surat, New Delhi has Gujarat, a final year diploma student of automobile ridden 100 different engineering, built a hybrid propeller driven models of motorcycle by blending different technologies motorcycles, the together in eight months completing it by Jan 10, highest number by a 2016. The 9 ft long, 2 ft high hybrid bike runs on woman in the both electric battery and petrol. Its unique features country, as of include a patented multilink suspension system and August 16, 2016. a four-speed front and reverse drive system. She rode each bike for a minimum 5 km to 500 km. The motorbikes varied from 60 cc, 63 kg Sunny to 1811 cc, 360 kg Indian Roadmaster. WR: First automobile manufacturer to organise all-woman bike ride to the Himalayas Royal Enfield, a unit of Eicher Motors Ltd, organised Royal Enfield Himalayan Odyssey 2016, an all- woman bike expedition from New Delhi to Leh, Jammu & Kashmir. The team comprising 25 women from different parts of the country was flagged off from New Delhi on July 9 and flagged in on July 23. Besides the 15 bikers, the technicians, doctor and back-up truck driver were all women. transport 2017.pmd 205 24-03-2017, 15:28 T R A N S P O R T WR: Largest parade of same model bikes The largest parade of Royal Enfield motorcycles was organised in Vashi, Navi Mumbai on Jan 26, 2016 by Nigel Rich, founder of Royal Enfield Owners, in association Largest parade of out-of-production with Manigandan motorcycles Manjunath and As part of the International Jawa CZ Yezdi Day Ride4India. The event 2015, Bangalore Jawa Yezdi Motorcycle Sports on Republic Day Association (BJYMC) organised the largest witnessed a gathering of gathering of the out-of-production Jawa Yezdi 857 Royal Enfield bikes bikes, in which 537 Jawa and Yezdi model bikes from across the country lined up for a 3.22 km joy ride in Bengaluru on July at Centerone, Vashi around 9.00 am. 12, 2015. Bikers from Mangalore, Mysore and Jawa Nanna Jeeva group also participated in the rally. The 2-stroke bikes had stopped production in India in 1995-96, which meant that the youngest bike in the parade was at least 19 years old. The event was planned and executed by Jose Martin Franklin and his team. WR: Largest road safety class Longest tricolour motorcycle parade Deputy Regional Transport Office (DRTO), Borivli, Mumbai in Blitzkrieg Riding Club of Pune, Maharashtra association with Mahindra & Mahindra and Brahmakumaris organised organised a unique motorcycle parade in the city the largest road safety class at the SRPF Parade Ground, Jogeshwari on August 15, 2015, in which 249 bikers wearing on Jan 31, 2016. It was preceded by a bicycle and motorbike rally the Indian Flag colours lined up in the saffron- that was flagged off from the Bandra-Kurla Complex. The class was white-green formation and covered a distance of attended by 2,168 participants though the rally had witnessed 56 km. The rally started from Platinum Auto, participation of over 3,000 riders. The event, conducted under the Wanwadi at 8.00 am and ended at Poona Football leadership of DRTO chief Ravindra Gaikwad, was aimed to create Club Ground, Gahunje by 11.00 am. The triple awareness of road safety and to prevent accidents. line of bikers was 800 ft in length, making it the longest such tricolour formation of bikers. It was also the largest parade of Royal Enfield bikes by members of a single club as on date. Most scooter rallies Mumbai-based Sportscraft India has successfully organised 27 Monsoon Scooter Rally events since 1986. Motorsports enthusiast Shrikant Karani, assisted by a team of professionals, has been the driving force behind these scooter rallies held during the Monsoon season. The 2016 edition of Gulf Monsoon Scooter Rally held in Mumbai had a participation of 54 riders from across the country. Syed Asif Ali of Team TVS Racing was the winner. Four-time champion Shamim Khan of Team Mahindra came second. Nidhi Shukla of Team Ceat was adjudged the best lady rider. LIMCA BOOK OF RECORDS 2017 2 0 6 transport 2017.pmd 206 24-03-2017, 15:29 T R A N S P O R T Largest all-woman bike rally The 2016 edition of the all-woman bike rally organised by Bennett Coleman & Co Ltd – Languages Division attracted a record participation of 5,554 women riding two-wheelers for 8-33 km in 10 cities across the country on March 13, 2016. Celebrating the spirit of womanhood on the occasion of International Women’s Day, the event was held simultaneously in Aurangabad (400 riders), Bengaluru (472), Delhi (1,214), Kolhapur (989), Kolkata (70), Lucknow (112), Nagpur (372), Nashik (382), Pune (972) and Thane (571). The rallies were conducted through BCCL publications NavBharat Times, Maharashtra Times, Ei Samay and Vijay Karnataka. Largest motorbike rally Freedom Ride 2015, a motorcycling rally held in Bengaluru on August 15, 2015 had a participation of 1,986 bikers covering 70 km from Hebbal flyover to Nandi Hills in Chikkaballapura. The rally was flagged off at 6.30 am and flagged in at 9.00 am. The event, marking the 69th Independence Day of India, was organised by Bangalore RD350 Club in association with Team Topenders and 25 other biking clubs. Most vehicles with same registration number Daffodils Public School, Mirzapur, UP has 10 vehicles with two series of VIP registration numbers, acquired over 16 years from 2000-2016. The first series bearing registration number 0001 includes five four-wheelers and a two-wheeler – a Tata Safari Storme (UP 63 Y 0001) registered on Feb 12, 2016, Mahindra Maxximo (UP 63 T 0001) registered on July 13, 2015, Hyundai i10 (UP 63 N 0001) registered on Sept 21, 2011, Tata Safari Ex 4×2 (UP 63 K 0001) registered on June 30, 2008, Hyundai Santro (UP 63 C 0001) registered on Jan 19, 2000 and a Honda CBR 150R bike (UP 63 W 0001) registered on April 18, 2015. It is also the largest such collection of motor vehicles with the same registration number in the country. The second series bearing registration number 1000 includes four four-wheelers – Toyota Fortuner (UP 63 P 1000) registered on April 18, 2012, Honda Amaze (UP 63 X 1000) registered on Oct 14, 2015, Honda City (UP 63 K 1000) registered on Oct 24, 2008 and a Mahindra Maxximo (UP 63 T 1000) registered on Nov 5, 2015.