The chain of my bicycle has become loose, it keeps slipping. Don't make it!''A voice broke the mid-day silence. The bicycle maker heard the voice, and nodded his head yes. And he proceeded towards the bicycle with the tools including the bicycle wrench in hand. Tighten the loose chain. In an instant the chain was tightened, the bicycle repaired.

Dai took 20 rupees money for bicycle repair and put it in his pocket. And smilingly, he returned to his shop. And said, 'What to do is your job. Had to do the job, otherwise how to run the house?'

has been three decades. Kul Bahadur Rajwansi's journey of bicycle repair is going on and on and on. A city in the race to become a major commercial city has its bicycle repair center at Itabatta Chowk South. He has rented a shutter. Inside the shutters there are bicycle making accessories . Bicycles arriving for repairs outside the shutters . Which he is repairing and running daily. 

In the year 2032, he was born in an ordinary royal family of Mechinagar, Jhapa. Born in a farming family, he continued his studies along with housework. Our family was farming. At that time, elders used to say that you should read, if you read, you will be happy,'' he remembered the past when he found him in his own shop while he was making a bicycle, 'I also started going to school . Continue the study with me.'

is what she is reading. To run the household, they had to find firewood from the forest and bring it and sell it. That the compulsion to buy rice and sell it after pounding it . However, he was closely observing the society along with his family and he understood all this . He continued to move forward combining studies and life experiences.

He passed his SLC from the local Adarsh ​​Secondary School in 2051. But, not only by reading, I thought that one should also have skills in one's hands to live life, at that time . If you have skills, you can earn money . "My father said that if you can earn money, you can easily eat it," he said.

He had a strong opinion that one should have skill in life. And, within a few days of his SLC, he went to India's border market Naxal to learn how to make bicycles. At that time, the East-West Highway had been built. However, it was not as big as it is now. Buses and trucks were seen sporadically on the highway. They were not as ants as they are now. Be it a long trip or on your way to work somewhere nearby . Bicycle was the main means of people. 

There were many bicycles on the highway. Whether the postman brings the letter or the office managers. The means of transportation was the bicycle. The tinkling bell of the bicycle was louder on the highways than the hoarse horn of the bus.

It was difficult to see the motorcycle. Sometimes it seemed like a crowd of people to watch motorcycles. Just as people have a motorcycle in their hand today, at that time they had a bicycle in their hand. Whether it's a city or a village, bicycles were the rule. Seeing that Ekchatra Raj, the Kul Bahadurs saw the future in the skill of repairing bicycles. They thought, if you learn to make a bicycle, you can save your life . 

He was sent to Naxal to learn bicycle repair work after SLC and stayed in Naxal for 9 months . Working around the clock, I concentrated on learning bicycle repair. When you know how to make a bicycle . He returned to his own village. And at the end of 2052, a small camp was built in the south of East-West Highway located in Itabatta. And started making bicycles. My first day's earnings were 20 rupees. I made money by making bicycles in my own shop,' he told the past with a smile. 

In this way, the journey of bicycle repair that started in 2052 continues till today. How many bicycles has he built till date? Who made them? He does not remember. However, in his childhood, he said, ``You must have skill in your hands . Otherwise, how will you live your life?' With that thought, he is independent today. And he is also known by the nickname of 'bicycle maker'. 

When he started the bicycle repair business, this brick kiln market was not as prosperous as it is today. Today there are skyscrapers, then there were thatched, wooden and bamboo houses. Kakadvitta had to run to see the concrete houses covered with zinc . The highway was not as wide as it is today, it was small. Tanti's Tanti shops were not open . There were small shops with tents hanging on the pillars of the house . Which was picked up after nightfall . There was a grocery store across the market. Who saved the existence of the market . 

However, it has been three decades since Kul Bahadur started making bicycles, his age has already reached 50. What's not in the kiln today ? A city cinema has been built, a five-star hotel has opened. Countless big and small hotels have opened. How many shops will there be clothes, groceries, etc.? Hardly could be counted .

When Kul Bahadur was starting to make bicycles, bicycles were sold here like ants, the sound of tinkling bells was the identity of this city. Today, except for one, bicycles are not seen in the city . The sound of bicycle bells is rendered anonymous by electric horns.

The rule of motorcycles in the city began, the bicycle slowly disappeared . Who will ride a bicycle today? Government school students, mason workers, tea plantation workers . These are the only people who ride bicycles these days. A little rich people are ashamed to ride!,' he told the current situation that he is seeing, 'the number of people who ride bicycles has decreased . Along with that, the bicycle also decreased.'