No 10 baby!!! by this time next year we’ll be number 1 or 2 maybe 5, and that’s a promise from the entire rickshaw challenge crew. Check the top 10 weirdest rallies hereRead More
Tracing Tea, the international collaboration of four students and a film crew who have a love of tea strong enough to survive 15,000 km in three-wheeled auto-rickshaws, celebrates the 350th anniversary of tea’s introduction to Britain. The expedition will trace stories entwined with tea, tales of espionage, warfare, philosophy and medicine. Concerned that Land Rover’s...Read More
Rickshaaa! (2006) A Film on Three Wheels, a documentary about autorickshaws: “They think they are the Michael Schumachers with their personal Ferraris… on the goddam roads!!!” Trailer A look at the Bajaj autorickshaw factory in Aurangabad, India. Footage shot for the documentary.Read More
Pic of the week is the Tuk-Tuk in Laos No sudden screeching. I see the crash coming a long way off from the back of my tuk-tuk: a sheet-metal “three-wheel” auto-rickshaw stinking of petrol… Full article hereRead More
With the Indian Autorickshaw Challenge, Aravind Bremanandam has built a brand around the humble tuk tuk. Pitted roads. Desert sands. Hilly terrain. Hairpin bends. The Budapest to Bamako rally (also called ‘The Great African Run’) tests driving skills. For most participants, this annual trans-Saharan rally is an addiction. But no amount of e xperience seems to...Read More
Firang CEOs + autorickshaw ride = tourist-safe India Ride was part of initiative to renew foreigners’ confidence in Mumbai post 26/11 terror attacks Fifty corporate biggies of different nationalities went sightseeing in Mumbai in autorickshaws yesterday. The joyride was part of an initiative to change visitors’ perception of urban India, which, the hosts said, suffered...Read More
DHL India employees go wild with a special custom autorickshaw adventure! Mumbai, India. February 15, 2009 – The India branch of DHL Global Forwarding just treated its employees to an unforgettable a day of team-building challenges that involved driving and racing autorickshaws – motorized, three-wheeled vehicles that are an iconic symbol of the Indian subcontinent....Read More
