Electric Cycles in Rajkot

You can learn this city in a week. The old core, Jubilee Garden and Dharmendra Road, hugs the Aji river. Yagnik Road and the Race Course make up the middle. Then the 150 Feet Ring Road circles the western half past Kalawad Road, University Road, Raiya Road and Mavdi, and nearly everything you need sits inside 6 to 8 km of that loop. Locals won't give you kilometres when you ask the way. They'll say which chowk, which ring.

Next, the BRTS Blue corridor. It opened in October 2012 and runs 10.5 km along the 150 Feet Ring Road and has 19 stations. The buses have their own lanes. On both sides, the remaining carriageway is wide, so you don't get squashed against the kerb as you do on Dharmendra Road or round the Lakhajiraj Road market.

Now, what pays the bills? Bearings. Diesel engines. CNC machines, auto parts, castings. Something like 500 foundries cluster at Aji Vasahat, Metoda and Shapar-Veraval, and along Gondal and Bhavnagar roads. A run from Mavdi to Shapar, or Kalawad Road to Metoda, is about 20 km one way on highway service roads. Saurashtra summer doesn't make that appealing on a plain pedal cycle.

May's mean high is 41 °C, and a dry northerly wind picks up dust from the open land round those clusters. Monsoon is brief and uneven, around 776 mm from mid-June, and outside July to September the Nyari river is dry. So most of the year you'll ride hard and dry, with two or three truly wet weeks in July and August. For roughly two hours after sunrise it's pleasant, and factory shifts ride then anyway.