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നമസ്കാരം (Namaskaram), வணக்கம் (Vanakkam), ನಮಸ್ಕಾರ (Namaskara)!

Welcome to the spirit of biking brotherhood!

Welcome to xBhp's South India Tri-State Mega get-together. Bikers from Bengaluru, Chennai, Cochin, Coimbatore, Kottayam, and Thiruvananthapuram will converge at Yercaud carrying the message of safe riding, with the same spirit.

1. Itinerary

1.1. Chennai/Bangalore

Bangalore: 19th June 2010
Saturday, 05:00: Meet up at Silk Board; paper check!
Saturday, 06:30: Leave Silk Board junction
Saturday, 08:30: Reach A2B, Chinnar; breakfast
Saturday, 09:15: Leave for Krishnagiri
Saturday, 10:30: Meet up with Chennai team at Krishnagiri

Chennai:19th June 2010
Saturday, 03:45: Meet up at CTC, Nandambakkam; paper check!
Saturday, 04:15: Leave CTC for NH4; two brief halts at Saveetha Engg College and Kanchipuram
Saturday, 07:00: Reach HSB, Vellore; breakfast
Saturday, 07:45: Leave for Krishnagiri
Saturday, 10:30: Meet up with Bangalore team at Krishnagiri

Bangalore-Chennai Combined19th June 2010
Saturday, 11:00: Leave for Salem (via. Dharmapuri)
Saturday, 12:30: Reach Thoppur AAB for lunch
Saturday, 13:30: Leave for Salem
Saturday, 14:15: Reach Yercaud-Salem junction; one team leaves for Yercaud, other waits for Kerala-Coimbatore teams

1.2. Trivandrum/Cochin/Coimbatore

Trivandrum 18th June 2010
Friday, 15:00: Start from Trivandrum
Friday, 16:30: Refreshment break at Kayamkulam
Friday, 17:30: Refreshment break at Alapuzha
Friday, 20:00: Reach Cochin; meet Cochin members; rest!

Cochin-Trivandrum Combined 19th June 2010
Saturday, 04:00: Meet at BP Petrol Pump, Edappally; paper check!
Saturday, 04:30: Leave for Valpara
Saturday, 06:00: Refreshment break at Athirpally
Saturday, 08:10: Reach Valpara; breakfast
Saturday, 08:45: Leave for Pollachi
Saturday, 10:45: Reach Pollachi; fuel break
Saturday, 11:00: Leave for Tiruppur
Saturday, 12:15: Meet with Coimbatore team

Coimbatore 19th June 2010
Saturday, 10:00: Meet up at Nilgiris Nest; paper check!
Saturday, 10:30: Leave for Thiruppur
Saturday, 11:30: Reach Thiruppur; meet with Thriuppur team and wait for Kerala teams
Saturday, 12:15: Meet with Kerala team; refreshment break


Cochin-Trivandrum-Coimbatore combined 19th June 2010
Saturday, 12:30: Leave for Salem
Saturday, 14:00: Reach Salem out-skirts; lunch;
Saturday, 14:30: Leave for Salem-Yercaud junction; meet with rest of teams

1.3 All States Combined

Saturday, 14:15: First team of Chennai-Bangalore leaves for Yercaud
Saturday, 15:00: Second team of Chennai-Bangalore leave for Yercaud along with Kerala-Coimbatore teams

2. Accommodation

* Hotel 1 - MM Holiday Inn
* Hotel 2 - Aishwaryam Inn (near to lake; 1.5 kms from MM Holiday Inn)


3. Costs

* Trip cost: Rs. 900 (includes food, accommodation & facilities)
* T-shirt cost: Rs. 115 (for those who have ordered)


Note: Fuel costs and other pit-stop expenses not included.

4. Group riding etiquettes

Do's

* Communicate the hazards on the road to the people following you through hand signals.
* Enact the hand signals that the preceding rider displays.
* Ensure that the rider following you is visible on your RVM.
If the rider following you disappears from your RVM, slow down. If he still does not appear, pull over. Chances are that he would have stopped.
* Maintain a decent distance between your bike and the bike you are following.
There should be at least a 2-second gap. The one-second gap mentioned in many online tutorials and sites are suitable only for US highways and the likes. Back on our roads, we have everything - animals, humans, vehicles (small and large ones, many of them), potholes, speed-breakers, and what not. Probability of hard braking is higher on our roads.
* First time riders must ride up front and, preferably, follow an experienced rider.
* Spread out a little around corners. Most will need a little extra space.
* On four-laned, median separated National Highway, the default formation is staggered, unless a single file is called for.


Don'ts

* DO NOT use the right-most lane. Leave them for the speeding cars and Volvo buses.
* DO NOT cross the yellow/white lines and venture in to other lanes.
* DO NOT go past your lead or go behind the sweeper.
* DO NOT ride too close with the preceding bike. Make sure there is enough distance and you are visible on his RVM.
* DO NOT slow your way down, and then zoom back up to the group.
While it may be fun to goof around with your bike when you’re alone, it can create problems with the safety of the group.
* DO NOT stop midway to attend a phone call.
This would slow down the entire team and there by delay the schedule. You can call back the missed call numbers when ever the team takes a break. All people who are close to you would know that you will be riding at that point.


Overtaking in staggered formation
If there is a slow-moving vehicle (truck, for example) in the lane the group is riding, go for a single-file formation. Ensure that you have enough space between you and the preceding bike, and that you maintain your position (slot) in the formation. Move to the overtaking lane. Overtake the truck one at a time, and only from the right side. If the road ahead is clear, you can move back to your lane and continue in staggered formation.

Hill riding

* Leave way for vehicles coming uphill.
* Honk the horn and watch out for oncoming traffic at every curve and hairpin bend.
* Be extra cautious while overtaking slow moving vehicles. Trucks and buses can render you with no road space.
* If you stop at a hairpin-bend, make sure that your bike does not obstruct the path of a bus or truck that is taking the bend.


To conclude, common sense and presence of mind helps a lot!

Courtesy:

* Group riding - Art of Safe Riding
* Riding etiquette

Click the above links and read the contents.

Other Pointers

* DO NOT litter any place. Dispose the waste in the dustbin.
* DO NOT smoke at places where smoking is restricted.
* DO NOT carry plastics where ever it is banned.
* DO NOT stop on the ghat section where there are monkeys. You will have to regret if they snatch something valuable from you/your bag.


5. What to carry?

Service your bike - Get your bike throughly serviced before the ride (engine oil, brakes, electricals).

For your bike:

* Bike papers (RC, Insurance, PUC, Road tax, DL) - all in original (for Non-TN bikes) and a xerox copy.
* Spare key - put that spare key of your bike in your bag! If you do not have a spare key, get a duplicate one.
* Control cables (clutch and accelerator), fuses, chain lube, waste cloth.
* Tools - Carry basic tools, puncture repair kit (one set per group).


For you:

* Cash for petrol/trip payments/emergencies.
* Travel light! Apart from what you are wearing, a spare t-shirt, walkers/slippers, shorts/bermudas, undergarments, towel, toiletries.
* Rain suits (just in case it rains).
* Warm jacket / thermals (if you are susceptible to cold weather).
* Extra cash to be on the safer side (emergencies).
* First-aid kit.


ATTENTION:
You will be turned back on the ride day if you fail on any the following pointers:

* Any invalid or missing bike papers.
-Non-TN bikes must have original documents.
-TN-registered bikes coming from other states too must have original documents.
* Mandatory riding gears - Helmet, shoes, jacket (if not armoured, at least a wind-resisting thick one, or denim jacket), and gloves. If you do not have any of these, do procure it.


Other Important pointers:

* No stunts, over-speeding, or rash-driving.
* Each participating bike must have both the rear view mirros (RVMs).
* Pillion rider must be equally be geared as the rider (exception gloves).
* Fill up your bike's tank and check your bike's tyre pressure on the eve of the ride day. Fuel/Air stops take away a lot of the riding time.


Final list of participants will be posted soon.

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johnblr

Well Dear Friends,

Its time to make something bigger. Yes, another InterState Get together. And definitely expecting all of our new friends and ofcourse golden members of xbhp (Senior members).

Its pretty easy to make interstate gtg with chennai xbhpains. I believe its bit tough for other cities. But still If our friends from Hyderabad, Mumbai and other cities wanna be a part of this giant meet, you are most welcome.

Destination : Yercaurd (Tamil Nadu)

Date : 19 and 20 June, 2010

Meeting Place with Chennai Friends : Krishnagiri

Interested Riders from Bangalore (As per the form)

1. Praful Tripathy
2. John
3. Sankara Subbu S
4. Anil Devasamudra
5. Asim Khan
6. Harshit
7. Satish
8. Nisarg Tuli
9. Navnish N
10. chetan
11. Rathish
12. Danish Siddiqui
13. Trần Trung Thành
14. Allwyn Dinakar
15. Julian Micheal
16. Sidharth
17. Ravi Sanjeev
18. Vinod
19. Chetan
20. Shishir K
21. Narayanan S
22. Tejesh
23. Ashok
24. Nagaraj
25. kushal
26. Arnab Maity
27. Ronald Luiz
28. Sakthi Ganesh
29. Amanullah
30. Prakash Sanjeev
31. Gautam Dogra
32. Neil D'souza
33. Sumanth Raj urs
34. Justin
35. Manohar A S
36. Nitin Girish
37. Kishore
38. Zamaan Haseeb
39. Ram Kumar
40. Srikanth T N
41. Niranjan
42. Vishwanatha
43. Shailender Kanwar
44. Manas Murmu
45. Nagraj
46. Arjun R
47. Anand
48. abijith
49. Riyaz Basha
50. santoosh
51. Jagjot Singh
52. Abhinav
53. vinayak kuntoji
54. Ajay
55. Prithvi
56. vamsi krishna
57. Bharat Kumar

Tentative

58. avinrichards
59. scarecrow
60. Sudeepnbr
61. Xenologik
62. Rossiter

Interested Riders from Chennai (As per the form)

1. Kiran
2. Ganesh .R
3. Dinesh
4. Aparajith
5. Athul
6. Karan
7. Sriram Krishnan
8. Deepak
9. Praveen
10. Amitav Mishra
11. Prahlad
12. Aswin
13. Mukesh Kumar
14. Tarun
15. Raghav
16. Madhu
17. Tarc

Interested Riders from Cochin

1. Lijo K
2. Swaroop
3. Vivek Regunath
4. Rijas
5. Roshan
6. Tintu Mathew
7. A.Jayamohan

Interested Riders from Coimbatore

1. Ritesh Vasani
2. A. Suresh Kumar
3. mahesh
4. Aravinth

Tentative

5. Aravind - FZ-16

Shivanshu

MG brother- you know how to make things happen man....and the ideas you come up with and the implementation of the plan is superb.... helmets off to you Sir

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Aryan

@MG: We posted the thread together! I have deleted my thread as it was a duplicate of this thread.

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satyenpoojary

Duh- Duplicate
Is it like one for each state each

Edit: Never mind, fixed by Aryan!

We will do our bit of interstate G2G, when we stay back in Delhi for a night enroute to Leh :P

Waiting for the Goa thing to click! Its about time xBHP has a mega g2g!

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strider

fantastic initiative john... Iam in for the ride as long as the rain -gods have some mercy...

johnblr

That sounds cool as i dont' have access to edit the post directly. So will be sending pm's to mods to edit the post with necessary info.

Aryan

@John: I have updated the header post with the latest content.

Thanks.

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MG

Wastalking about it to John the other day. We will make this happen this year.

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manohar_manu

I'm in for this.

@John, i think you can use your second post to update confirmed members list.

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