anants_220

March 2009.

It had been around 7 months since i had been riding a Pulsar 180 without any major accidents.Immature as I was,i believed nothing could bring me down.And then something i felt was my best friend did,alcohol.Half a bottle of rum and 2 beer bottles down,i recieved a call from one of my old friends.He was drinking about 15kms away from my house too.One thing led to another,and an over-emotional-when-drunk-me got onto my bike with another guy.

Thankfully even in the inebriated state,i remembered my best friend always nagging me to wear a helmet.And so just as something God makes you do once in a while,i wore my open face helmet and forced my friend to wear my full face.And off we went.

From here on,I remember 3 things -

1.Friend trying to wake me up.
2.My bike leaning.
3.Seeing my helmet visor scraping the road.

Next morning when i woke up,I just got off my bed like nothing had happened.And reality stuck.Apparently,I was riding last night,completely drunk,slept while riding cause the road was straight and didnt need too much attention,fell,was taken to a clinic,cleaned up,brought home by friends.
Thankfully we both had helmets on.Even the police were surprised how 2 guys piss drunk could have enough brains to wear a helmet.
A cop took us to the station in the patrol van.Had to spend 4 hrs in the police station listening to lectures that made sense but was let off easily after paying 800 bucks.

Pillion just got a couple of stiches on his palm but i had them all over me.

Here are the pictures that my friend took the same night





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2 videos too






Lesson learnt-Mixing alcohol and riding is the worst thing you can do to yourself and your family and friends.
On the brighter side of life,i got 2 weeks off from college.

I wasnt on Xbhp back then and now that i am i make sure something like this never happens.Hoping that atleast one member will learn from another's follies.

Now I take extra precautions each time i sit to drink



And this was not the first time I had been on a bike after having some drinks.This was just one time my luck ran out.But what could be better than not losing a limb/dying and still learning a valuable lesson !

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I am very angry and happy with you at the same time. Angry because of obvious reasons. Happy because you have the guts to post this up online openly. The best thing about this is that people might get some sense in their heads:

1. NEVER DRINK AND RIDE
2.ALWAYS WEAR A HELMET

Thanks for posting up and being a better human being now! I am glad that nothing serious happened to you that day.

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anants_220

I wasnt a member then.So you can't blame me.Guys in my college do this everyday

If i tell them,they think I'm a scared puppy.So i have just stopped trying now.Can't save everyone,can we ?

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Anant, I am more than Happy to see your courage to post it here and enlighten people about How this Mix of two things has made a Blunder and you ended up having Serious Bruises and some injuries.

If we as a whole take this as a Lesson and learn never to mix these two activities together we can save our self from fatal unfortunatess and someone else's too who might be with us as that point of time!

Wearing the Riding gears like a Nice lid saved your head!
No-one is Blaming you Anant, Everyone in this world would have done something like this,today I am writing something here because i persoanly have witnessed/exprienced it myself.
I know what is the importance of it! So many people attached to you get involved if something happens to you!


It is just a Sheer irresponsibility of a person if he is drinking and riding,It will slow down the reflexes,
If you are not concerned about your life,Please think just once,Just once about a lot of people who are attched with you. IntroSpect.ask this question to yourself!

You are Definately a Great Rider and a courageous individual Anant ,Would love to meet you in the next meet!
See you!

Ride Safe,Ride Long!
-LP

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anants_220

Next meet.I see.Do me a favour then.Book tickets for Mumbai.I'm riding down from chennai.See you there. For the effort,tea,smokes and fish are on me
Thank you for the appraisal No one called me a good rider before
Waiting to see you someday soon too.

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L.P.

Gaawd!! That would be expensive one, will try to meet you once I come to South India,Sometime MID This year!

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Mid this year ? So you can travel back in time too
Tell me where you stay in Delhi.Im coming now.

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sorry to say but for me you are one of the stupidest biker here in xbhp. there is no excuse for ignorance.

I wouldn't post my accident if it ever happened to me, but again.. if i was you, i would never drink n ride/drive at the first place.

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anants_220

I'm honoured my friend.And glad that you wouldn't make the same mistake ever.

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EL LOCO DIABLO

Would i be insensitive to the issue if i told you i was laughing my bloody ass off, going through this thread? Atleast it saved you the cost of anasthesia for the patchwork on your body . But great initiative nonetheless, posting your own drunk pics lets see how many come forward like this, scars and all. Bad thing is this is stopping me from starting my drinking.

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