Kartik Ware

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Managing Editor at Motoring World

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Issue Special KTM 390 Adventure: Konkan - Better Get Moving

1 day ago | motoringworld.in | Kartik Ware

More from Motoring For thousands of years now, human beings have stood around, pointing at faraway places. I’m pretty sure that’s how our ancestors got wherever they did without the convenience of Google Maps. All they had was first intent and then direction, most likely without any clue about their destinations or the consequences. Not like they had an abundance of choices back then, considering the absence of ‘civilisation’ as we ‘know’ it, and because they were truly travelling to survive.
’Bar Talk: Supermoto Madness

3 weeks ago | motoringworld.in | Kartik Ware

I’m a bit giddy with anticipation these days. After nearly three months of hemming and hawing, the good folks at Bajaj finally confirmed that the KTM 390 SMC R will be launched in April 2025. And I’ll get to realise a 20-year-old dream of having a proper factory-built supermoto in my garage. It’s never too late to get the right motorcycle, eh? And a supermoto, by intent and design, is more right than most.
’Bar Talk: Going Places?

1 month ago | motoringworld.in | Kartik Ware

More from Motoring As I type this, I’m sitting in a plane, shortly after take off from Delhi. Somewhere far below, I imagine friends rolling through Rajasthan in a car. How I wish I was with them, instead of jostling for elbow space with the gentleman next to me who clearly cannot decipher what disgusted looks mean. In this cramped seat inside a high-pressure tube occupied by 200 people, I cannot help but be struck by the contrast between being transported and travelling.
Issue Special: RE Goan 350 - Goan Are The Days

1 month ago | motoringworld.in | Kartik Ware

More from Motoring Goa has a way of turning me into more of myself, for better or for worse (I like to think it’s always the former). Maybe it’s the vastly diminished frequency of traffic signals, but I suspect it runs deeper than that and is usually aided by a bottle lined with condensation. Goan beaches are beautiful, but I prefer looking at them from a comfortable distance. I also don’t quite care for the timbre of the Konkani language; it sounds a touch too brusque to my ears.
Issue Special: San Storm - Topless Hope

2 months ago | motoringworld.in | Kartik Ware

A church is an idea older than a convertible, but there’s no contest as to which is more fun to be in. And how about this — once upon a time (1998), someone had the idea of making a small convertible in India, with the complete vehicle assembled in Bangalore, and a fibreglass body made in the land of churches (among other things). A convertible tub made in Goa? Isn’t that one of the aptest automotive expressions possible in India?
Aprilia Tuono 457: Friend Shaped?

2 months ago | motoringworld.in | Kartik Ware

‘It’s rather nice to not have my thumbs trapped between clip-on ’bars and the tank.’ That was the first thought that came to mind when I sat on the Aprilia Tuono 457 and turned its handlebar lock to lock. And after letting the naked bike inhale the long-gone Nandi Hill Climb’s serpentine uphill run, I watched the Tuono’s stainless-steel exhaust headers as they seemed to turn golden before my very eyes.
’Bar Talk: Riding Write

2 months ago | motoringworld.in | Kartik Ware

More from Motoring It is 2025, and by now, I’ve spent the better part of my life swapping handlebars and keyboards. Steering wheels, too, but that’s a different matter. I like to think I am the most honest version of myself when I write about motorcycles. Having determined eyes scanning the road is obviously a superior experience to unfocused eyes pointed at a screen — but not by much. In fact, whenever I am riding, I am also looking forward to writing about it.
Issue Special: IBW 2024 Konkan Ride - The Flow State

2 months ago | motoringworld.in | Kartik Ware

Photographs by India Bike WeekI utterly dislike repetition. Especially when I’m writing, unless it’s a meaningful callback. And since I asked my fellow riders on the trip to contribute to this story, there are going to be a lot of echoing thoughts ringing through the next few pages. It’s a good thing I don’t mind repetition when it comes to rides down the Konkan coast, then. What follows are only some of the meandering thoughts that came in and went out of my helmet on the ride.
’Bar Talk: Old Flames

Dec 30, 2024 | motoringworld.in | Kartik Ware

More from Motoring They say that getting old isn’t for the faint of heart. No wonder, then, that ageing has little effect on motorcycles. Sure, there are many who say that old motorcycles belong in scrapyards, that they are relics which are no longer relevant. However, old bikes are always only a restoration away from being what they were built to be, perhaps even better.
Issue Special: RE Bullet 350 & 1957 G2 Bullet - New Old Stock

Dec 23, 2024 | motoringworld.in | Kartik Ware

More from Motoring If two-wheeled nostalgia were poured out of a bottle, it’d take the form of a Bullet. It does seem like 350cc worth of long-stroke combustion-chamber volume beats the most like a human heart. And perhaps forms a bit of our general DNA, too, actually; given the Bullet name’s 92-year existence, 69 of which it has spent in India, it’s very likely that most of our population is simply genetically predisposed to falling for its loping charm.