[Photo Feature]: Great Indian Ride - West Zone - xBhp.com : The Global Indian Biking Community

rachitkohli · 01-06-2011, 12:15 PM

Details:
This was a journey termed as 'Great Indian Ride' organized by Mahindra & Mahindra in association with Indiabikers.com .

There was an online contest where over 20,000 bikers applied from all over india. This was called as 'Best Job in India'.
Tons of article floating on the web. For example about the details, please refer. I pull out one article from many from the web : India's best job is now up for grabs!
They selected 20 bikers from the applicants based on certain criterias for this ride. 17 guys & 3 girls. Fortunately I made through & got selected & was stunned to find other xbhpians too, i.e. Urvashi from Pune & Ashish Pandey from Delhi.
This ride was basically to promote their first & new motorcycle - 'Stallio' a 110cc bike. Motive was to test its potential, prove it by this endurance rally that this can be used beyond just 'commute'.

About the BootCamp:
Before starting for this ride, we had a Boot Camp training in Pune. They prepared us for this endurance journey. Boot camp was to motivate our confidence, test out potentials, facing situations, team work, discipline. Made us do rock climbing, rappelling, early morning Mountain climb, mid-night jungle venture, staying in tents in middle of forest, hurdle sports, etc.

20 Bikers will be divided in four teams of North, East, West & South.

Manali in the North, Goa in the West, Gangtok in the East and Kanyakumari in the South. We had two service vans with us. Mahindra Zylo & Tempo Traveller. Crew with us consisting of a Team Leader (taking care of everything), Service Engineer Head & Sales Officer
of Respective areas where we are riding that time, a Paramedic, Professional Camera Guy to shoot our entire journey with a Direction person, a mechanic & all possible spares with us.
I got selected for the West Zone. Me & Urvashi along with other 3 riders where in this team. We covered a distance of over 7000kms, riding for a month through - Starting from Goa, Maharashtra-Gujarat-MadhyaPradesh-Maharashtra. We had to give a visit to Mahindra 2 Wheeler Dealers in various places, they welcomed us in a very big way. This came to an end in Nagpur (Zero Mile of India), where all the zones came together after a month. The finale was grand, had ramp walks, press conference followed by a big party.

Some links on net :

Mahindra Stallio Great Indian Ride culminates in Nagpur Mahindra Stallio riders spread message of safety in unique pan India rally

My Experience:
This journey was a huge experience in itself. Initially, thought touring & riding for month for 7000kms will be a huge challenge on a mere 110cc basic commuting bike, without discs. But later we started getting so use to with this steed. And must say the kind of terrains we rode on, it stood wonderfully. The suspensions where really superb. We rode 40% of our ride on gravel, rocks, no-roads. The team was superb, couldnt forget the days we spent together venturing this beautiful part of India.
We been to places where a person wont 'decide' intentionally to visit them. As there are no fascinating & popular things to see. But still they are 'naturally' to beautiful. Enjoyed each day. New Day, New people, new places, New terrains, new food.. And everything on a Bike.... Just awesome!!! Indeed was a best job

Writing detail log is impossible for me of each day, so I summarized it all here. Videos are been uploaded regularly by them on Indiabikers.com or Youtube.com/Indiabikers . Our videos specifically our of West Zone.
Will upload lots of pix over the next days.......

For now.. BootCamp Pix :

We had our accommodation in this hotel of Pune - The Corinthians

Some gears we received

On the way to the forest - Garudmachi

Getting briefed by the Captain, the trainer for the while we stayed in forest

Rock Climb

The tent

Mountain we climbed early morning

Made some fantastic riders & friends

With Mr. Viren Popli

With the anchor, we had for small introduction show

Our task master A. J.

Randoms:

Urvashi madam

We with Anand Mahindra

So the boot camp finish.. Now the ride pix..!!! Will post sooonnnnnnn...

sunilg · 01-06-2011, 05:43 PM

Seems you had fun, Rachit.

Approved.

satyenpoojary · 01-06-2011, 05:52 PM

wow! finally!

rachitkohli · 01-06-2011, 06:03 PM

Yeah.. we indeed had loads of fun. Could say.. spent best moments of my life.
Made wonderful friends. This kind of journeys reflect on the life too. Getting disconnected from the world & venturing out on this kind of rides, exploring the country & finding beauty in every possible scenes we see is amazing.
Ride pix will be uploaded sooon.. Am having tough time, getting a way out of over 2000 pix

manan_in_2000 · 01-06-2011, 06:25 PM

Cool! I could see Chintoo_sbk as well in the pic with Anand Mahindra.....

rachitkohli · 01-06-2011, 06:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by manan_in_2000

Cool! I could see Chintoo_sbk as well in the pic with Anand Mahindra.....

yes manan.. even Ashish was with us..!! He was later riding in the North zone..!

frankpilli · 01-06-2011, 06:48 PM

Where is the MOJO

payeng · 01-06-2011, 06:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by frankpilli

Where is the MOJO

Interesting question

rachitkohli · 01-06-2011, 06:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by frankpilli

Where is the MOJO

Quote:

Originally Posted by payeng

Interesting question

haha

This was about the stallio

.. Nothing about the mojo

payeng · 01-06-2011, 06:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rachitkohli

haha

This was about the stallio

.. Nothing about the mojo

In retrospect, it was always about the Stallio.

By the way how is the Stallio to ride..?? You need not be diplomatic about it

01-06-2011, 12:15 PM	#1 (permalink)
rachitkohli HardRider Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: New Mumbai Posts: 2,009	Great Indian Ride - West Zone Details: This was a journey termed as 'Great Indian Ride' organized by Mahindra & Mahindra in association with Indiabikers.com . There was an online contest where over 20,000 bikers applied from all over india. This was called as 'Best Job in India'. Tons of article floating on the web. For example about the details, please refer. I pull out one article from many from the web : India's best job is now up for grabs! They selected 20 bikers from the applicants based on certain criterias for this ride. 17 guys & 3 girls. Fortunately I made through & got selected & was stunned to find other xbhpians too, i.e. Urvashi from Pune & Ashish Pandey from Delhi. This ride was basically to promote their first & new motorcycle - 'Stallio' a 110cc bike. Motive was to test its potential, prove it by this endurance rally that this can be used beyond just 'commute'. About the BootCamp: Before starting for this ride, we had a Boot Camp training in Pune. They prepared us for this endurance journey. Boot camp was to motivate our confidence, test out potentials, facing situations, team work, discipline. Made us do rock climbing, rappelling, early morning Mountain climb, mid-night jungle venture, staying in tents in middle of forest, hurdle sports, etc. 20 Bikers will be divided in four teams of North, East, West & South. Manali in the North, Goa in the West, Gangtok in the East and Kanyakumari in the South. We had two service vans with us. Mahindra Zylo & Tempo Traveller. Crew with us consisting of a Team Leader (taking care of everything), Service Engineer Head & Sales Officer of Respective areas where we are riding that time, a Paramedic, Professional Camera Guy to shoot our entire journey with a Direction person, a mechanic & all possible spares with us. I got selected for the West Zone. Me & Urvashi along with other 3 riders where in this team. We covered a distance of over 7000kms, riding for a month through - Starting from Goa, Maharashtra-Gujarat-MadhyaPradesh-Maharashtra. We had to give a visit to Mahindra 2 Wheeler Dealers in various places, they welcomed us in a very big way. This came to an end in Nagpur (Zero Mile of India), where all the zones came together after a month. The finale was grand, had ramp walks, press conference followed by a big party. Some links on net : Mahindra Stallio Great Indian Ride culminates in Nagpur Mahindra Stallio riders spread message of safety in unique pan India rally My Experience: This journey was a huge experience in itself. Initially, thought touring & riding for month for 7000kms will be a huge challenge on a mere 110cc basic commuting bike, without discs. But later we started getting so use to with this steed. And must say the kind of terrains we rode on, it stood wonderfully. The suspensions where really superb. We rode 40% of our ride on gravel, rocks, no-roads. The team was superb, couldnt forget the days we spent together venturing this beautiful part of India. We been to places where a person wont 'decide' intentionally to visit them. As there are no fascinating & popular things to see. But still they are 'naturally' to beautiful. Enjoyed each day. New Day, New people, new places, New terrains, new food.. And everything on a Bike.... Just awesome!!! Indeed was a best job Writing detail log is impossible for me of each day, so I summarized it all here. Videos are been uploaded regularly by them on Indiabikers.com or Youtube.com/Indiabikers . Our videos specifically our of West Zone. Will upload lots of pix over the next days....... For now.. BootCamp Pix : We had our accommodation in this hotel of Pune - The Corinthians Some gears we received On the way to the forest - Garudmachi Getting briefed by the Captain, the trainer for the while we stayed in forest Rock Climb The tent Mountain we climbed early morning Made some fantastic riders & friends With Mr. Viren Popli With the anchor, we had for small introduction show Our task master A. J. Randoms: Urvashi madam We with Anand Mahindra So the boot camp finish.. Now the ride pix..!!! Will post sooonnnnnnn... __________________ ..»».. I will rather ride my Bike thinking about God, then sitting in a Temple thinking about my Bike.. »».. Mumbai - Leh - Mumbai June '09 :On xBHP: Ride With me to Leh Blog : Mumbai - Leh - Mumbai : 21 Days, 6500kms. Journey to Heaven..June'09 GreatIndianRide - West India on a 110cc for over a month 2nd, Mumbai-Leh-Mumbai : July'11 (blog coming soon)

01-06-2011, 05:43 PM	#2 (permalink)
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01-06-2011, 06:03 PM	#4 (permalink)
rachitkohli HardRider Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: New Mumbai Posts: 2,009	Yeah.. we indeed had loads of fun. Could say.. spent best moments of my life. Made wonderful friends. This kind of journeys reflect on the life too. Getting disconnected from the world & venturing out on this kind of rides, exploring the country & finding beauty in every possible scenes we see is amazing. Ride pix will be uploaded sooon.. Am having tough time, getting a way out of over 2000 pix __________________ ..»».. I will rather ride my Bike thinking about God, then sitting in a Temple thinking about my Bike.. »».. Mumbai - Leh - Mumbai June '09 :On xBHP: Ride With me to Leh Blog : Mumbai - Leh - Mumbai : 21 Days, 6500kms. Journey to Heaven..June'09 GreatIndianRide - West India on a 110cc for over a month 2nd, Mumbai-Leh-Mumbai : July'11 (blog coming soon)

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