Dilip has been Chief Test Rider and Road Test Editor of MotorIndia Magazine and has the unique privilege of test riding almost every two-wheeler available in the country today. Every two wheeler has been personally tested by him for at least 2500 kms each. This includes highway riding between cities - mostly on roads between Mumbai and Goa, and in-city riding in Mumbai, Pune, Kolhapur, Karad, Belgaum, Satara, Panjim and the whole of Goa. Also apart from the above cities in Mumbai-Goa belt, he has ridden extensively in Bareilly, Lucknow, Gorakhpur (U.P), Jamshedpur (Bihar) and also in Madras (where he bought his first bike), Delhi and Calcutta. He can therefore claim to have a fairly good idea of the road and traffic conditions in all these cities and their mofussils.

Dilip has owned and ridden many foreign bikes in Singapore and Malasia for many years while he was working there and has participated in Dirt-Track races in Singapore. Also as Senior Export Executive for TELCO for six years, it was his job to intimately know the traffic and road conditions of the foreign countries where he was selling TATA trucks and buses. He thus understands very well what 'Indian Conditions' mean.

Dilip is a graduate Mechanical Engineer of the University of Roorkee and an MBA from XLRI, Jamshedpur. He is also an Associate of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers of U.K., a Corporate Member of the Institute of Industrial Engineers, USA as well as a Chartered Engineer and Member of the Institution of Engineers, India

He is also a visiting faculty at B.I.T.S., Pilani, one of the premier technical universities in India and educates students at few Management Institutes in Pune.

...phew!! have we missed anything...
Dilip loves trekking and is off with his sack to the mountains whenever he finds time and he never misses playing shuttle with friends every morning.

Last book read : Owners Manual of some bike I have been testing.