WSBK India

....... Indians.... are so good at shooting themselves in the foot - especially when money is involved.


Personally - if I were a rider, I would be really wary of racing there. The standards for safety in India are


so low, and I'd have no faith in the decision making of the corner marshals. Not to mention - god forbid


a rider got hurt - the last thing he'd want to see would be the inside of an Indian hospital. Knowing what


traffic is like on a normal day when the area is not packed with zillions of fans - you could figure on spending


at least 3 hours in traffic trying to get to a hospital if you needed one. And if there's a betting shop somewheres


taking bets on the number of riders to arrive at the following race with food poisoning, I'd bet my house that


at least 50% of them would be arriving at the next race sick as a dog.

I know when we travel to India for work the amount of immunization's we have to take are enormous; I would suspect it’s the same for most traveling there?  You need to take your own water, don’t lean against any signs (good chance of being electrocuted) and don’t plan on getting anywhere quickly.


While there you'll lose weight and most likely have the trots if you decide on sampling the local cuisine, or least this is the experience from visiting the New Delhi area of India, might be different in other regions.

Other than cholera and hepatitus, I don't bother with the other shots. The friggin' meds they prescribe for malaria make you sun-sensitive, ill-tempered and are very hard on the liver ... and they're only about something like 55% effective. I know several people who've come down with malaria despite taking the meds. With malaria if it's your time to get it - you're gonna get it. Lived all over India and never had it. Had one dear friend who was in India for the first time - only in Delhi 3 weeks (a place not known as a hotbed of malaria) and he came down with it.


 


There are simple rules for staying healthy in India. Stick with bottle water. Eat only HOT freshly prepared foods. Eat veg. Bring packets of dry soap (like little tear-off tissues) and wash your hands before eating. I take a few capsules of wormwood and a few of charcoal powder twice day which really helps keep the parasites away. I eat street food if it's freshly cooked right in front of me. In Calcutta that is the best way to eat. And do not eat food from Hotel Kitchens. I've managed to go years without getting sick. Last time was during monsoon season, and the rains were so heavy that in some streets the water was up to my crotch. During monsoon, the sewage rises and mixes with the drinking water and it gets into everything. It was the one time I'd managed to get stuck in a big city during the monsoon. Come the monsoon - all bets are off. Just about everybody gets sick. I keep my tea glass and a thali (metal plate) in my backpack for most of the meals I take.