Someone plz let me know if i can bring along my frens at the grand finale i delhi on 22nd..?

Absolutely! more you bring - the better it is going to be. Feel free to bring as many friends as you want.

@Sunny/OF/Sunil G/ Shailay: What would be the approximate time the team would be reaching Delhi? There might just be a dhaba G2G in the early hours on Sunday morning (0730 hrs.), by any chance the team can be in Delhi before that?

@Kriss: that is not the actual reason stated by old fox. We were laughing at you because of our ingenious and diabolical plan of gagging you up and running away with the R1 after you have won it in the finals, the complete deal was that I will take your R1 and OF the busa. We are sorry about that in advance.

Yes, we have made it...circumnavigated our amazing country on two wheels. Two, nay three very fast sets of wheels.

Without doubt, the Passion Hunt was the harbinger for this ride. But in addition, for us, this meant a lot more than that. This ride had to be a statement of adventure, of the biking spirit and of riding safe. We carried with us not just expensive bikes with custom paint but the image and respect of thousands of bikers across the country. We just could not let them down and we are glad we did not. And we did not need any special 'skills' to ride long and safe. Just a level head on responsible shoulders...an attitude where being safe was more important than creating mere impressions. A focus that never wavered from its target...of putting across the statement of 'safe riding' that is a lot more macho, fun, memorable and adventuresome than those reckless, usually helmetless/shoeless/mindless morons who would repeatedly rush past our superbikes in dense traffic just to put us down.

We rode through tens of cities and past hundreds of villages. Communicated with people who spoke tens of different languages and hundreds of dialects. At times both sides were reduced to 'smile-drenched' sign language. But through it all, the overwhelming general interest and romance of biking, especially on big bikes, shone glaringly bright. those not knowing either hindi or english just spoke the key words of their questions....rate/price....mileage....speed. We got mobbed by frenzied kids and adults of a village between Vizag and Vijayawada. We were feted by strangers, given amazing discounts at hotels when we told them of the India ride on 2 wheels, got asked about the bikes by people from across the social, intellectual, financial and professional spectrum. A case in point....between Hubli and Pune we saw three 'masked' cars being driven, obviously some new model on test and overtook them to stop and take a few pics while they went past. They didn't go past us but stopped next to our bikes and the test drivers started taking pictures of our bikes with their phone cams.

Well....the tales are endless as the experience has been tremendously enrichening. We sit here on completion of the full circle, satisfied, happy but strangely void too. The goal gives impetus and without one the 'pace' becomes redundant. Guess it is time to scan the horizons of possibilities afresh and look for new things to do.

Wish us luck in that and be with us as you all have been through this journey and those in the past. Believe me....this ride would NOT have been possible without you all xbhpians across the nation. You were our lifelines through the places we rode through. You were the reason for this journey becoming an embedded part of our memories for life.

A huge 'hurrah!!' for the spirit of motorcycling.

See you again sometime...

OF