EL PRESIDENTE

Un-social media...

- VIR ΝΑΚΑΙ Traveller and co-founder of Helmet Stories

I recall when Harsh and I began writing on the Helmet Stories blog. It was a place to share our stories that never got heard or published through the usual media. So, the blog was a place for us to be our actual selves back then. At the start, I don’t think it ever occurred to me that people were really reading and following anything we said. We started to get an inkling one day when Harsh was riding to Royal Enfield’s Rider Mania (what is now Motoverse) in Goa. My daughter Gia was a baby, not even a few months old, so it must have been 2010. Harsh called me in the middle of the day and was like, “I got stopped on the road and someone who said Hey, it’s Helmet Stories, we read everything you put up and love it! Never imagined we would ever meet you.” Harsh went on to say, “People actually follow what we put up on the blog, t