Musician Aneesh Vidyashankar and his mother Jyothi with the restored two-wheeler that has given them memories for a lifetime
But for ‘walking violinist’ Aneesh Vidyashankar, reviving his family’s 1986 Kinetic Honda was never just about engines. Nearly 40 years later, and recently restored, the machine was loved into longevity. Instead, he chose to let it remain itself — repairing only what was broken, preserving nearly 80% of the original finish.
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“The original owner of this bike was my mother,” Aneesh recalls, adding, “She bought it when she was about to join engineering, and this was one of the very first Kinetic Hondas delivered in Bengaluru. “Some relationships go through difficult phases,” he reflects, “but you don’t stop loving them. “It’s not just a scooter,” Aneesh says.
At the heart of most restoration projects lies a simple dream: to coax a machine back to life. It was about keeping a thread of memory unbroken across generations. I still remember standing on the footboard while my mother rode me to kindergarten. Shipped from Japan in pieces and assembled on Indian soil, the little scooter arrived as something of a novelty, turning heads wherever it went. Aneesh himself rode it through college, until a serious accident brought that chapter to a close. Even then, letting go was never on the table. This scooter is a bit like that. So when the time came to restore it, he resisted the urge to replace everything. “It’s our family’s story on two wheels. Download the TOI App.