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THE JAWA
THE JAWA

JAMBOREE
JAMBOREE

Jawa Ibex Trail, named after the

mountain goats known for scaling

ridiculously steep inclines, just how

far up did the Jawa motorcycles
make it? Let’s find out.

Text Varad More Photos Kaizad Darukhanawala

We were on our way to Tso Moriri kept egging me on to give it all I’ve
from Hanle. It was a very fast trail got. And so I did. Slotted in fifth, we
with hard-packed dirt stretching were clocking about 115 kph along
for about 150 km, ideal to stand on the hard-packed trail that opens up
the ’pegs and ride with liberal use to the scenic Tso Moriri lake. This
of the right wrist. It was actually was the last leg of the Jawa Nomads
my second run on this same route Ibex Trail 2019 ride that was flagged
within a span of two weeks. Earlier, off from Leh about a week ago. Over
I was here on a mid-segment the past seven days, I’d exchanged
adventure motorcycle riding exactly multiple Jawas that were allotted to
the same path. This time, though, the media folk, from the classic Jawa
I was riding an eloquently designed Jawa to the Jawa 42 to the Bombay
street bike that pays homage to its Customs-built Jawa 42 scrambler
predecessors, the Jawa 42, with which totally blew me away. I shall
a lower ground clearance than an explain why a bit later.
adventure bike and a setup designed One thing these bikes had in
mainly for comfortable road riding. common was their simplicity and
But somehow, the bike constantly bare-wheels character — a truly

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