ISSUE 12 | DECEMBER 2019
BC FORUM
BIKERS CLUB ® | MAGAZINE | PAGE 43
JOURNEY TO QUAD BIKE DESIGN CHALLENGE SEASON 4
DEDICATED TO ALL MEMBERS OF TEAM TRIVAYANTHRA
Summer vacations, the only lazy time we spend in
home sleeping and doing nothing. Those were the
days when we, a group of friends dedicated to attend
an internship on quad bike designing at "Sree Chithra
Thirunal College of Engineering' conducted by 'FMAE'
(Fraternity of Mechanical and Automative Engineers).
Being an automobile enthusiastic, we were all excited
to build this off roader. While some were sad as they
had to sacrifice their summer vacations for a 15 day
workshop ! Yet those sacrifices and efforts were worth
a try.
This workshop was none another than once in a
lifetime experience that we were given the
opportunity to create something on our own.
Learning basic skills from designing, finite element
analysis to hands on building quad bike, our mentors
Mr. Ravi Robin, Mr. Aditya Rao and Mr. Anil Singh
Mehta shaped us to better engineers. After seeing 'go
kart' racing team "Mechkartoons" of 'SCT College,' a
question raised in our minds. Why can't we start a
motor sporting team in our college? This question was
fueled by our mentors.
By this thought we approached many teachers of our
department, yet none were willing to be our guide for
project. The first hinderance in our journey ! Yet, we
didn't give up and finally found our guide Mr. Pradeep
Raj. There was something positive about him that
made our ideas strong enough to covey. The next step
was team formation, assigning a captain, manager
and a team name. Being the first quad bike team
from Kerala, we decided to put the name
"Trivayanthra." And this is how Trivayanthra evolved,
lead by a female captain with an eye-catching tagline
"reviving up for a change." From that day to today it's
been a cakewalk for us.
The Next hurdle in our journey was finding a space to
build this vehicle. The college authorities were not
sure if we were capable of manufacturing and denied
permission to work at college and at last we had to
build our vehicle at terrace of a house. The first task
was designing our idea. We got 5 member team from
final year which made our designing process easier.
Their constant dedication and hard work made our
dream bike come into pictorial representation.
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