Zubin Jaafar: The man who rode motorcycles across 40 countries | What Drives Me | evo India

Some people have motorcycles on their bucket list. Zubin Jaafar has ridden them across 40 countries on six continents and is already planning the seventh. At India Bike Week, Zubin sat down with evo India for a conversation that started with the best motorcycle for world travel and ended somewhere in the Patagonian mountains chasing a Megadeth farewell tour. In between, he talked about the crash in Ladakh in 2014, the one where he somersaulted onto the tarmac, had a fellow rider go over his fingers, forgot he had just hit the tour leader, and then received a hug from a half-naked man in the Himalayas. He walked away fine. He got back on the bike two minutes later. That decision, he says, changed the trajectory of his life. This episode of What Drives Me goes into what it actually means to assess your own capabilities as a rider, why not taking risks is like drinking non-alcoholic beer, and how a traditional Indian family background became the very thing that pushed him to keep breaking out of boxes — literally and metaphorically. He also talks about the Royal Enfield Bullet 500, his uncle put him on at age nine, the Harley-Davidson Iron 883 he bought in London, the Yamaha Tenere he would pick for any world trip on a budget, and the Bonneville he sold in the UAE that he has not quite gotten over. The world is huge, he says. He will not cover it in this lifetime. He is doing his darned best, attempting to anyway. #evoIndia #whatdrivesme #indiabikeweek #bikers #motorcycles #bikes #bikerlife Want more #ThrillOfDriving videos? Subscribe to the evo India channel: https://bit.ly/2VfzioP Read our stories here: https://evoindia.com/ Buy #EvoIndiamagazine here: www.evoindia.com/magazine Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/evoindia/ Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/evoindia/ Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/evoindia Official merchandise on 100kmph: http://www.100kmph.com/evoindia