deltaforce

hello guys,

this was my maiden ride on my machine..

and also this is my first post for a ride..! i hope u guys like it

just came back yesterday from a two day tour of mumbai-shrivardhan-diveagar-mumbai.

my fingers are aching alongwith all the movable body muscles .. hence will type and post the log in a day or two..

but here are the teaser pics and stats..

STATS:

iternary - mumbai - panvel- pen-vadkhal- mangaon- diveagar-shrivardhan-mangaon-vadhkhal-pen-panvel-mumbai.

total distance covered- 529 Kms. ( including a 50 km detour to alibaugh)

bike - yamaha FZ

avg speed - 55 kmph ( approx)

top speed - 101 KMPH .

condition of roads - good - 70%
average - 20 %
below average - 8 %
horrible/no road - 2%

mileage - 36 km /litre.

teaser pic attached.

deltaforce

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Aryan

Topic Approved.

Nice to see you touring on the FZ. Do give us the ride report of the FZ apart from the triplog and some mouth watering pictures, ofcourse Mr.deltaforce!

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ketan_r15

Waiting for ur trip log and pics buddy..
Congrats for ur maiden trip and wish u lots and lots of rides in future.. Welcome to the league of long riders.....

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deltaforce

hey thanks man..

will post the pics and log in 1 or two days for sure.. i am too tired to type today..it is a sweet pain....

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MotorBreath!

Well congrats dude.. btw even i toured Mangaon yesterday.. what time u came back??

angelo_co

Congrats on the first long ride. hows the road from mangaon phata to shrivardhan? when i visited last month i took the road from goregaon phata which had some really bad patches. i wonder if your route was better. did you take the coastal route to alibag or did you ride 50km's back to nh17 and take the diversion to roha?

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animeher

Goregaon phata is usually bad. U should take Sai ghat road, which is closer, as well as in top shape for the most part.

deltaforce

I started from my dindoshi flat @ 4.50 AM , I was expecting some cold , but not the kind of cold it was. Woke up @ 4 , answered nature's call, and packed myself up, with gloves et al, I was pretty excited.


Started the bike at first crank, sometimes I feel awkward about the fact that the thing does not have a kick start , I personally wanted one. I had expected lesser cold in the arrey/jogeswari stretch but it was suprisigly cold , temp range in early 20, ( that is what the timex watch showed.)


western mumbai was a breeze, I breezed pass a gang of bikers , possibly XBHP members, looked like they were going on a ride, too.


Stopped @ the Macdonald's @ kalamboli for a pee break, did not rip the bike at all, was in the 60-65 range on the speedo console.


The fun started after I crossed panvel, it got so cold that I could not beileve that I was somewhere near mumbai which is notorious for its heat and humidity. The temp kept dropping and dropping and @ one point of time, it was 8 degrees, on the highway, stopped over @ pen and had a smoke as it was just too cold and my hands and feet shivering badly. My complaint of me not enjoying cold beacause of staying in mumbai was not there anymore.!!


it was early morning and the FZ standing in front of the tapri was quite a sight and the locals were just leching and ogling her.!!


from here on the sun was up and just giving light, no heat whatsoever, the cold did not allow me to increase my speed more than 70, as the wind was just getting to me.


Here something stupid happened, like an idiot I missed the left at vadkhal and went straight to alibaugh..!! I was sensing something had gone wrong... but did not again stop til civilization.. at alibagh, I had a tea and asked the chaiwalla for the highway, he was just staring at me as I came from some other country, he said that vadkhal was 25kms behind me.!!


I was stunnned by dis one.. and headed back to the turn and here is where I addded the extra fifty to my odo meter. Now the cold was lessening into a breeze and I flew off from here on the NH 17, traffic was scant and this was the first time I crossed 80, then 90, then 95, but the roads were not allowing me the increase it further.


The fifth gear of the FZ is just like a cruize gear , shifting speeds is slow and difficult , so u have to shift down to overtake. The handlebar and the riding postion gives you an amazing feeling of control, and not to mention the tyres, in this ride I took the small twisties,with so much confidence because there was not the slightest hint of the tyre not having traction on the road. It is just rock solid, and you can actually perform the manevoures that are a part of moto GP races.


Came to mangaon, and from here to shrivardhan are some really awesome twisties. Let me tell you guys, if any one is a little crazy about the twists and curves..... this is the road for you... 90 degree blinds, hairpin turns, zig zag , and all coupled with a butter like smooth and empty road .. this strecth was most fun in the ride to shrivardhan.
Camped at diveagar and enjoyed the beach, pics r on the post.


The road from shrivardhan to diveagar is plain horrible and in some strecthes there is no road at all.
This road is one who makes u feel each muscle in your body, and such stretches are dere for 7-8 kms .


The ride back was also fun, the moring sun was making things warmer and the cold was dere in some places and not that much in others. It was a heady cocktail of warm and cold air, and hence I enjoyed this stretch at 60 -70 kmph.


The ride from the mangaon – pen was just a little over an hour considering I was doing speeds of 90-100 kmph. I touched 101 kmph on my bike. My top speed so far . I think it can go another ten. Maybe 15 also. I was back at home by 3 pm.


It was the first and awesome ride of my very own machine and I had enjoyed every bit of it.


Planning to go to pune next, depends on the situation that time..! planning to have tea and bun butter @ good luck restraurant @ FC road and buy some Osho chappals also. !!


pls tell me whether the DSG jackets and gloves are really worth .. planning to buy that also.. depending on the extent of kadki.!

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me is rossi

Congrats... feels liberating. But i would always do it with a gang of friends.

btw no offence but that mileage figure is suckier than a zma!

silver_falcon_46

Great ride. How come such a low mileage? It doesn't look like you traveled at high speeds too!

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