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Tornadoes team sets record

Special Correspondent

A Royal Enfield 500 cc motorcycle carries 37 men of the Army Service Corps

Bangalore: The seemingly impossible happened here on Thursday: A motorcycle carried 37 men. This feat was accomplished by members of the Tornadoes, the motorcycle team of the Army Service Corps (ASC), who at other times ride motorcycles to meet the logistics needs of the Army.

They have been performing such daredevil acts for 21 years now, and apart from thousands of spectators and mediapersons, Lt. Gen. S.K. Sahni, Director General of Supplies and Transport and Colonel Commandant of the ASC, was present to watch it.

In the Indian Army, the Despatch Rider, or DR as he is commonly called, is a person on a motorcycle who delivers letters and messages; the motorcycle is like his weapon.

The members of the ASC Tornadoes displayed their skills during the Asian Games in 1982 and the Commonwealth Games in 1992 and at other events.

Earlier, they created a world record by forming a human pyramid of 181 persons on 15 motorcycles that covered a distance of 600 metres maintaining perfect balance. In June 2004, they broke their own record of 30 men on a single motorcycle by carrying 34.

According to ASC sources, the motorcyclists of the Brazilian army created a world record of 48 persons on a motorcycle but they used a 1,200 cc vehicle for that. The Tornadoes use a modified Royal Enfield 500 cc motorcycle.

Capt. Anurag Malhotra, Capt. S. Chibber and Naik Krishna were the men behind Thursday's adventure and they made two complete rounds of the ASC parade ground, balancing the rest of the team on their shoulders.

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