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**The Monk** · 05-20-2015, 02:38 PM

re: Benelli TNT 300 | Ownership Experience | The "ITALIAN STALLION" arrives

Thread Approved

Congratulations on this wonderful machine. Do share your thoughts on it now, and after you have clocked a few kilometres on it.

All the best

**Motomonster** · 05-20-2015, 04:57 PM

re: Benelli TNT 300 | Ownership Experience | The "ITALIAN STALLION" arrives

Congratulations. That's one beautiful machine you have got .

**devils_friend** · 05-20-2015, 06:44 PM

re: Benelli TNT 300 | Ownership Experience | The "ITALIAN STALLION" arrives

Congrats on your new possession.

**TheArcher84** · 05-20-2015, 07:48 PM

re: Benelli TNT 300 | Ownership Experience | The "ITALIAN STALLION" arrives

Congrats Buddy, Happy that people do relaise their dream...waiting to hear from you soon...

**krishna77** · 05-20-2015, 07:55 PM

re: Benelli TNT 300 | Ownership Experience | The "ITALIAN STALLION" arrives

Congrats on your purchase. Will wait for a detailed review.

**experimentalhead** · 05-20-2015, 09:32 PM

Re: Benelli TNT 300 || The &quot;ITALIAN STALLION&quot; arrives

Originally posted by The Monk View Post

Thread Approved

Congratulations on this wonderful machine. Do share your thoughts on it now, and after you have clocked a few kilometres on it.

All the best

Thanks Monk. Thank you for your inputs which helped me to finalize on the beast.

Originally posted by Motomonster View Post

Congratulations. That's one beautiful machine you have got .

Thanks @Motomonster It is indeed

Originally posted by devils_friend View Post

Congrats on your new possession.

Thank you

Originally posted by TheArcher84 View Post

Congrats Buddy, Happy that people do relaise their dream...waiting to hear from you soon...

Thanks my friend. Costly dream though

Will unfold the experience soon

Originally posted by krishna77 View Post

Congrats on your purchase. Will wait for a detailed review.

Thank you. Will not keep you waiting for long

**Shreeni0403** · 05-20-2015, 09:38 PM

re: Benelli TNT 300 | Ownership Experience | The "ITALIAN STALLION" arrives

Congratulations [emoji106]

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**acec** · 05-20-2015, 09:44 PM

re: Benelli TNT 300 | Ownership Experience | The "ITALIAN STALLION" arrives

Hey, many congrats. waiting for your review.

**experimentalhead** · 05-20-2015, 10:48 PM

Re: Benelli TNT 300 || The &quot;ITALIAN STALLION&quot; arrives

Originally posted by Shreeni0403 View Post

Congratulations [emoji106]

Sent from Tin Box using Pigeon carrier.

Thanks. Howz your Tornado doing. I am sure you are having a blast

Originally posted by acec View Post

Hey, many congrats. waiting for your review.

Thanks. It will be up very soon.

**experimentalhead** · 05-21-2015, 01:32 AM

Looking back (You may wanna skip this. But please do not curse me)

Dear friends,

You may wanna skip this. Please do not curse me after going through this boring stuff. I am in a mood to blurt out.

I hope everyone is enjoying rides, reading and writing travelogues, upgrading and sharing their technical knowledge, and of course motography. Well, normally I do not beat around the bush, and get to business right away. However, as I begin to share my experiences with my new friend who, I am sure, will take me to places hitherto not explored by me, I cannot help but be nostalgic and retrospective. Where all this started, where I am at present, and where this will all head to. Hope you guys won’t mind me taking that liberty. I am just going with the flow as I put my thoughts in words.

Before I start, I would like to state that I am not someone who possesses immense knowledge about motorcycles and their technicalities. My motorcycling has always been instinctive and pure selfishness of fulfilling my own desires of wandering. I would still put in my best foot forward to provide as much information as possible to best of my knowledge and experience.

Well, when I was 13 I got my first experience of two wheels. But that did not have an engine on it and I was the horse powering it. It was my “street cat” bicycle. I vividly remember how I took it out on a long spin and rode it on by-pass of NH4. I spent days wandering on it.

A year later my maternal uncle got me a “TVS 50 XL”. That was my first two wheeler. Now, request you guys to not to jump on me with piercing words making me a law breaker n all. I was a young man in early teens with no knowledge of laws, and moreover it was a very small sleepy town where there was hardly any traffic and people hardly knew and cared about road laws. Scene has changed now totally. I seriously do not know what my uncle was thinking. But he was too sweet to oblige my demands. My granny complained to mom who was out of station for some training that I am always out all day long on that stupid vehicle. I rode it for couple of years and a “Luna” also joined the family but was sold as couple of our family friends met with accidents while riding Luna. I hope you guys understand the context as I am sure many here would have witnessed and experienced the same in your younger days.

In 1998, I met with a horrible accident on NH4. I was the pillion on a bike which was being ridden by one of my uncles. While we were returning from a temple on NH4, my uncle misjudged and tried to overtake a truck. By the time he realized that he misjudged and tried to hide behind the truck in the front, another truck coming from opposite direction scraped my right leg and I was lucky enough from being crippled. I was severely injured and was bed ridden for quite some time. My mom ensured that we do not touch two wheelers again.

I was completely out of touch with two wheelers till 2010. Now, that’s a mighty long gap. I started thinking about buying a two wheeler for commuting when I reached heights of exasperation due to decline after decline from auto-rickshaw drivers to go to any place. I thought of buying a scooter. In the meantime my best friend bought a Bajaj Discover. I tried my luck to learn a motorcycle with gear. But, despite just way too many attempts I could not learn to release the clutch while in first gear. I resigned to the fact that I could never learn the art of clutch-release and decided to forget geared motorcycles. In the meantime, one of my colleagues informed me about “TVS Jive”. I was amused by seeing a bike without a clutch. It was brand new in the market. I just pounced on the opportunity and bought one for myself. Book and take home next day. No waiting period. I enjoyed it for about a year. Around that time my younger brother who knew much more about bikes bought another brand new entrant into the market “Yamaha FZS”. I still remember looking at that bike for first time on the road and thinking it was some imported bike going by the size of rear tyre. Such was my knowledge about bikes. I attempted again to learn the art of clutch-release and this time around, thanks to my younger brother’s perseverance, I was successful. I came to realize that it’s more fun to ride a bike with a clutch instead of one without.

Around this time, in 2011, one Sunday afternoon, I just took my Jive out for a spin as I was feeling bored at home. I thought of taking it out for couple of Kms ride. But ended up on Bangalore-Mysore ride, and kept riding. I ended up riding around 70 Kms and having coffee at coffee day. While returning, I was just ecstatic. I could feel the air, some kind of happiness which I did not understand. I was refreshed when I returned home and shared how I felt with my mom and brother. That was the time when my brother talked to me about people who travel on motorcycles and who do some really passionate stuff using motorcycles. This was when I was inducted into the world of motorcycling. I was mesmerized. My brother informed me about xBHP and IBA. The very name of iron butt amused me. I giggled and forgot. However, the itch to get a bigger and better motorcycle, the one with clutch was got the better of me. I looked for motorcycles and zeroed in on three Royal Enfield, Honda CBR 250R and Avenger. Avenger 220 was the only one which was available immediately. It looked cool to me. Thanks to Bajaj’s ‘Feel like God’ ads. Went and exchanged my TVS Jive for “Bajaj Avenger 220 DTS-i “without further thoughts. I told you earlier that I work on instincts and utter selfishness. You can add foolishness too.

Once while travelling through western ghats in a car, I just imagined how I could feel if I rode my bike there, and tried to co-relate my imagination with my earlier experience of riding my ex-bike on Bangalore-Mysore highway. That’s when I started to think about travelling to such exotic places on motorcycles. I returned to xBHP and started going through the nuances of art of motorcycling. Ever since as my xBHP status says I am rusted here. I have come to know people, even though I have not met them, who are truly inspiring and are constantly raising the bar. A big thanks to xBHP. Sunny Old Fox sunilg You guys have been amazing with what you have been doing. Truly awesome.

It’s been three years now since I became member of this huge family of bikers all across India, in fact the whole world. I am still learning many a thing about motorcycles, travelling and photography. My small deeds can be checked out by clicking on links in my signature. They are just too, way too, small given what our friends on this beautiful forum have been doing. But, you can still check them out. They are worth it I reckon.

Now four years after being with Avenger (It’s still with me. I am not gonna let it go so soon. However, it’s been reduced to a daily commuter from being a commuter/ tourer), I thought I am ready to upgrade to a more powerful motorcycle. Biking scene in India is going through a paradigm shift and we should consider ourselves lucky to be in this phase. So many choices! Mouthwatering! For last year or so, I started going through review of every bike and started closely following ownership experience threads. From Impulse to Honda CBR to Royal Enfield to Ninja to Pulsar to KTM to Triumph to Hyosung to Yamaha to Harley, even though I did not have budget to afford some of these. I wanted all of them. Such a greedy fellow. I guess we all are when it comes to bikes.

I told you. Read the first line.

Few snaps in order to alleviate the pain you have gone through after reading the above

**R-series** · 05-21-2015, 03:01 AM

Re: Looking back (You may wanna skip this. But please do not curse me)

Originally posted by experimentalhead View Post

Dear friends,

You may wanna skip this. Please do not curse me after going through this boring stuff. I am in a mood to blurt out.

.......................

Few snaps in order to alleviate the pain you have gone through after reading the above

Pics did the trick for me.

Thanks for sharing. Saw the pics first then went through the text.

Congratulation for your ride. Stay safe.

**acec** · 05-21-2015, 03:05 AM

Re: Looking back (You may wanna skip this. But please do not curse me)

Originally posted by experimentalhead View Post

Dear friends,

Where's part two of the story? [emoji13]

**Shreeni0403** · 05-21-2015, 10:14 AM

Re: Looking back (You may wanna skip this. But please do not curse me)

Loved reading it.

But you were supposed to write everything in one shot

Awesome machine, munch more n more miles and do pour in some more photographs

.

**Deathmate.Zed** · 05-21-2015, 11:05 AM

Re: Looking back (You may wanna skip this. But please do not curse me)

Wow you got some serious writing skills man! Awesome write-up! Waiting for the second part

May you enjoy munching miles on the Benelli forever.

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