SURAT: Gujaratis are India’s No one travellers although not of your journey type. Just as if to confirm this improper, Vishnu Mehta from Navsari in South Gujarat desires to race an Express Train from Ahmedabad to Delhi on a bike. The 52-year-old currently has two Limca Ebook records for crisscrossing the region on a bike.

He ideas to cover the 915 km involving the two cities in under 14 hrs and 25 minutes, that’s what it will require the Ashram Mail. His route are going to be Delhi-Jaipur-Bhilwada-Chittod-Udaipur-Himmatnagar-Ahmedabad as well as the bike will be either the 220cc Karizma or 250R Honda.

Mehta has done the same expedition alongside India’s shoreline. In 2008, he entered the Limca E-book of Information for covering 7,084 km from Koteshwar in Kutch to Bakkhali in West Bengal in 11 days, 12 hrs and 20 minutes on a Bajaj Pulsar 180cc bicycle.

The next yr, he made another Limca report for covering the four,196 km from Leh in J&K to Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu in six days, seven hours and 35 minutes on the same bike.

Mehta did not take to motorcycles as a youngster but as a mature 40-year-old. He wanted to immerse his mother’s ashes in the Ganges at Haridwar and at Gaumukh, Gangotri. That is the first time he rode a motorcycle and was hooked to them. “Once I reached Gaumukh, I got the confidence that I could go around the world on my own,” he said, adding that the driving force is the “urge to see the world and have my name in the Guinness Book of world information.”

Mehta’s most memorable experience was in 2010 when he saw a 445-year-old mummy of a lama in Himachal Pradesh. “In HP, there is a place called Nako at the height of 13,000 feet. Very few people live there but it had this mummy in an aluminum room as well as the keys to it were with a villager living 4 km away. I reached there and prayed in front from the mummy with the late Lama Tulku Sadaha Tenjin. Surprisingly, on my way down, I did not feel any tension or chill.”

A father of three, Mehta has travelled over 2 lakh km on motorcycles and over four lakh km on four-wheelers in his quest for journey. He has been to the world’s highest motorable road of Marsimek La in Himalayas at 18,634 feet as well as second-highest pass of Khardung La at 18,380 feet, also in the Himalayas.

“I don’t have any sponsors and use almost everything that I earn from my tourism business into my journey trips. My house runs on our farming income,” he said. Jayshree Mehta, his wife, said, “Initially I used to get very scared when he talked of an expedition but now I have got used to it and am proud of his achievements.”

However, during the last expedition, he got part sponsorship and now he is negotiating with a sponsor for an African expedition on the four-wheeler.

Mehta has also got into the Limca Book through an east-west expedition from Tezu (Arunachal Pradesh ) to Koteswar in Kutch, covering 3,854 km in three days, eleven hrs, 10 minutes in a Toyota Innova car.