Best Wishes

My Best wishes to all the people paticipating in this ide, i hope they have a safe and thill filled time.

great initaiative~!

GIR I - One 1000cc, one 250cc + two scoots
GIR II - Two 1000cc's + two race bred 150's
GIR III - Three 1000cc's + a quick 250 ????

From 100cc city commuting to touring on supersports, India certainly is Shining~!

nice write up Old Fox... actually i should say excellent write up... makes you want to start saving up money to buy an R1 even sooner

Friggin brilliant writing right there!

Damn, makes me literally want to throw everything to the dogs, work 16 hours straight everyday and get my Street Triple ASAP!!!

How come you guys didn't get an aftermarket double bubble???

Nakeds or faired... BOTH!!!! \m/

Old Fox sirjee.....pretty nice write up and 1st hand experience of both the Rs i.e R1 and the R15...!!

btw, whos the "panditji" in some of the pics...??

Very nicely written, and for sure raises my urge to save a hell lot of money for one

That makes the two of us. More painful for me actually as I have ridden the bl*%#y thing already.
The double-bubbles are comin up soon.

Thanks Inder. The human inside the 'panditji' (he was real btw) couldn't resist the R1's charms. Had his own pics taken with his phone camera. Talk of the universal appeal of superbiking.

Thanks @rickyshh. And happy 'saving'

Nice to hear that the feel of SuperBiking is spreading accross most of the areas....!!!

And moreover he looks so happy posing with the R1...

Old Fox, great writing. You have now been infected with The One. There is no cure.

You said it. I even have an acronym akin to AIDS here. AHMS (Acquired Hyper Motorcycling Syndrome) An acute mental, intellectual, spiritual and psychological contagion who's only cure is 90+octane and 150+ on ze road, at least once a week!!

The first disease communicated to Humans by non-living creatures unlike the african green monkey!

Awesome writeup Old fox and mistakenly I read the duplicate post again , realised, still finished it again ..

My cheery Hello! to a fellow researcher there

Now that's the best compliment I've received of late. Thanks buddy.

would definately like to know when you guys would be hittin Mumbai........may be some sort of superbike procession or something could be arranged. Im sure the lads from here would be up to it cause all of us love showing off our bikes.

Great job. All the best for the trip and the riders...
Happy ridding

The Passion Hunt India Roadtrip : Black and White I : Run In Episode 2





Pics taken by a Nokia N73

After the first run-in ride it was time to run in the second r1 for the Indian trip. This time we had the branded R15 and one Castrol R1 which is 80% complete (as far as the paintjob in concerned). So we had the following line up:

• Castrol R1 : ridden by Sunny
• Black R1 ridden by Old Fox
• Castrol R15 ridden Manan Chaturvedi
• Black Karizma ridden by Ashish (Himalayan tiger)

We left Delhi at 12PM odd and are relaxing at Aravali Resorts after doing 100 odd kms. Both the R1s are performing fantastic, the R15 is riding the inertia and the Karizma is also keeping up effortlessly without any strains associated with the R15 on the truck infested highway.

Manan just commented "there is no replacement for displacement" wrt to his ride

More updates :

Day 1: Delhi - Jaipur























Day 2: Morning : NaharGarh (Jaipur)

We woke up at 5.30AM today (and I am pretty sure we woke up the rest of the hotel too with Manan switching on his inbuilt radio for our entertainment). This would be a long day with us doing photography in Nahargarh in the morning and attending a biker meet at The Rock in C Scheme in the evening.

So off we went towards the fort following the twisting roads. It was still pitch dark with the moon indicating where the sun will rise from.

I actually raced up the twisties with a lot of confidence on the R1. There might be two reasons for this daredevilry: 1. It was pitch dark, i knew there would not be any vehicle thing around the corner (anyways I was taking precautions by sticking to my side of the road) and 2. Since it was dark I could not see the road surface and the gravel which did not hinder with my confidence.

Later i rediscovered that its easier going up than coming down on downhill roads on front-end swooping down superbike.

PHOTOS: Sundeep Gajjar (Sunny) and Old Fox (where ever mentioned)



In the morning


2 minutes after sunrise




The x effect

Now the riders and posers one by one:


Sunny with the Aviator (thanks to Ashish for the fantastic eye ornament)


[G]Old Fox sporting the policewallah look


Manan sporting the Arnold look


Ashish ji




The Trials of a Superbiker



































Day 2 : Evening

After a rest in the hotel during the day we headed for The Rock, a fantastic hang out place in Jaipur (C Scheme). The owner is is a fantastic guy who arranged to call a few superbikers while I informed some xBhp members in Jaipur. It turned out to be a fantastic evening with a very nice cold coffee, lemonade etc.

The highlight was definitely meeting up with the R6 racer, Vikram, who has recently relocated from Dubai to Jaipur. Poor him, he was really missing the roads in Dubai, specially the tracks. We did manage to learn some nice things about track racing from him though at the coffee table.


The R6


Hayabusa 08


Helmets Station


The R6 meter




The fantastic Fireblade: i really miss this bike!