Alan Braithwaite and wife Pat, both 73, had landed from London a day before we meet them. We assume they will be jet-lagged septuagenarians, especially Alan, since he recently signed off from the Cambridge's Royal Papworth Hospital after an open heart surgery in November 2019. When his doctors declared him fit to take a flight, he took the first flight here. "We have long family connections in India. My grandmother was born in Mysuru, my grandparents got married in Mumbai, my mother was born in Belgaum and my parents were married in Shimla. But after Independence, we were sent back to the UK, and I was born in London, which is incredibly boring," Alan laughs, telling us why he is in India.

The couple has done two trips to India, one in 2013 and another in 2017. "We love India, so we like coming back. On our last trip, we were driving down to Kerala after visiting the Belgaum home where my mother was born. And suddenly, we heard this noise." It was the Bengaluru chapter of the Harley Davidson driving past. "I looked at the pack of bikes and thought, India has to see a Morgan 3-wheeler."