Ricks and Rewards
Oct 04, 2019
4 minutes
Story: Harket Suchde
Photography: Henning Lueke
IF YOU FOLLOW BIKE INDIA ON THE REGULAR, YOU MAY have caught a story we published about this madcap organisation called the Adventurists who organised an event in Morocco where participants raced from the heart of the desert to the coast on 50-cc monkey bikes.
Well, the same team also have a similarly bonkers event in India every year: the Rickshaw Run. The concept is simple. Teams of a couple of people or more fly to Leh, get into their brightly painted chariots, and leave for Shimla with seven days to reach their destination. The route requires them to go via the daunting Spiti Valley, a
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