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Building engines is Anil's first and last love. He shows PREMA MANMADHAN his new superbike that he built.
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Anil and his superbike.
HIS VALENTINE is a dazzling beauty named NIYKADO. She is not Japanese. She is Indian to the core. This tall, dark and handsome 25-year-old belongs to the inventor brigade. So, he has no time for the human kind of valentines. The man and his sleek machine are inseparable, for the glamorous bike is a labour of love. It took Anil C.C. seven years of research and patience to build his NIYKADO. (NI represents the middle letters of his name, YK for Y2K, A for alteration needed with many parts and DO for demonstration.)
Working model
NIYKADO is a working model of Anil's dream machine that will be fuel-efficient, get good marks for pollution control and will have very little engine vibration, because, he says, it has a six-stroke engine. Anil made this motorbike single-handed, collecting parts from old bikes and remodelling them painstakingly to suit his design. He has yet to apply for a patent. "I have used parts from 15 vehicles and bought other parts needed to design and create this six-stroke bike," he said. Right now, there are four stroke bikes in the market but not six-stroke ones, which will consume less fuel and cause less pollution, Anil reasons. The engine inside is his proudest creation, that's what makes NIYKADO so special. "This engine is my baby and it is a system for which I researched from the time I can remember," the determined young guy said. But he can ride his beauty only in the small yard of his house, for it is custom built and has no certificate for roadworthiness.
Childhood passion
"With zero facilities for any research and development, I would sit at home, after my job, well into the wee hours of the night, grinding, cutting and remodelling parts. Sometimes, I had to discard some parts four times, redesign it and then succeed. All I used is an ordinary lathe, so I took 11 months to build her," said Anil, who works with an auto dealer now. He had worked in two wheeler workshops earlier. Even while at school, Anil was more interested in two wheelers than books. In Class V, he made shock absorbers for his cycle and later pedal brakes, all by himself.
"I kept wondering about new things to invent. I used to be sorry that light was already there, and heating and cooling devices. I wanted to make something new. I made a four stroke engine for a bike, while I was doing my automobile engineering diploma, but by then the system was already in the market," a disappointed Anil said.
He believes both theory and practical knowledge are equally important to deal with any machine system. NIYKADO's engine will work with petrol, diesel or gas, Anil says. So smitten by NIYKADO is Anil that he got a jersey made with NIYKADO embroidered on the chest.
The world of engines fascinates him. Anil was among the top four in a national contest for technicians conducted by a company dealing with two wheelers.
Anil is happiest while fiddling with metal, creating designs and doing research on new systems that he conjures up. Going several steps further from fuel-efficient two wheelers is an ultimate ambition, the mother of all dreams, of a vehicle running with negligible or no fuel!
An ardent reader of anything automobile, Anil longs for a well equipped R&D facility where he can translate his other dreams to reality.
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