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Hero Honda and Videocon presents Raid Tamilnadu 2011
Hero Honda and Videocon presents Raid Tamilnadu 2011
15 cbz extremes and one hell of a ride across entire tamil nadu. event was sponsored by HH cbz extreme, videocon mobiles and tn tourism in association with a upcoming biker forum named yourbhp.com. The entire team including event managers, riders, stunters were from tamil nadu and I was the lone guy to be selected from Hydeabad, AP. Event kicked off on Jan 10 from Marina beach at Chennai and sorry to say it was the most horrible ride i was ever part of.
Yourbhp.com was handling the entire arrangements and were our sole point of contact and heads during the ride as they were riding with us. Riders with no driving license were allowed to be a part of the ride. People were allowed to ride with no helmets at times and worst, a lot of them even rode around kodaikkanal with alcohol bootles and gettng drunk. Most of the rideres were treated real bad in terms of language, food supply and even bending the rules when it came to the heads of the event.
There was nobody to complain to or raise a voice as even the incharge of the entire event at times had no lid, and rode at times under alcohol influence. The ride was suppossed to be aimed at "ride safe " concept and to my utter disbelief all the basic rules were broken during this ten day event. The event was organised by a event management firm named Impact & red chillys based out of Chennai.
A lot of places were covered during the event like Chennai-pondicherry-cuddalore-chidambaram-kumbakonam-tanjaore-trichy-pudukotai-tutucorin-nagercoil-kanyakumari-tirunalveli-madurai-kodaikkanal-erode-coimbatore-salem. We were riding to new towns every day, visiting Hero Honda outlets and doing city rides and few places stunt shows were performed by stunters.
Stunt bikes had no headlights but were forced to ride along even during night times to meet deadlines. More often or not breakfast were served around noon and lunch around late evening. Almost half the gang would get drunk in the hotel rooms (Stay courtesy by Tamilnadu Tourism) and hardly anyone would be upon time to start the new day at the decided time. Apart from a handful of riders, everything was a goner in teh entire trip. Worst case scenario, there were 3 accidents with in one day and two more during other days. On being questioned and raising concern with the mangaemnt and incharges I happenned to be left as a loner and became a not so called team player in their eyes. After the first accident, the backup vehiccle driving along let the shocker of life stating there was not even First aid.
A ride that was organied with not even the minimum concern for riders or anybody involved. I somehow manged to hold on till the last day and back in Hyd now. Utterly disappointed with the entire trip. Hope some one from Hero Honda or Videocon mobile is listening and going forward will work with bettr event mangaement firms especially when the event itself is sponsored by such huge corporate firms. Overall a good lesson learnt.
15 cbz extremes and one hell of a ride across entire tamil nadu. event was sponsored by HH cbz extreme, videocon mobiles and tn tourism in association with a upcoming biker forum named yourbhp.com. The entire team including event managers, riders, stunters were from tamil nadu and I was the lone guy to be selected from Hydeabad, AP. Event kicked off on Jan 10 from Marina beach at Chennai and sorry to say it was the most horrible ride i was ever part of.
Yourbhp.com was handling the entire arrangements and were our sole point of contact and heads during the ride as they were riding with us. Riders with no driving license were allowed to be a part of the ride. People were allowed to ride with no helmets at times and worst, a lot of them even rode around kodaikkanal with alcohol bootles and gettng drunk. Most of the rideres were treated real bad in terms of language, food supply and even bending the rules when it came to the heads of the event.
There was nobody to complain to or raise a voice as even the incharge of the entire event at times had no lid, and rode at times under alcohol influence. The ride was suppossed to be aimed at "ride safe " concept and to my utter disbelief all the basic rules were broken during this ten day event. The event was organised by a event management firm named Impact & red chillys based out of Chennai.
A lot of places were covered during the event like Chennai-pondicherry-cuddalore-chidambaram-kumbakonam-tanjaore-trichy-pudukotai-tutucorin-nagercoil-kanyakumari-tirunalveli-madurai-kodaikkanal-erode-coimbatore-salem. We were riding to new towns every day, visiting Hero Honda outlets and doing city rides and few places stunt shows were performed by stunters.
Stunt bikes had no headlights but were forced to ride along even during night times to meet deadlines. More often or not breakfast were served around noon and lunch around late evening. Almost half the gang would get drunk in the hotel rooms (Stay courtesy by Tamilnadu Tourism) and hardly anyone would be upon time to start the new day at the decided time. Apart from a handful of riders, everything was a goner in teh entire trip. Worst case scenario, there were 3 accidents with in one day and two more during other days. On being questioned and raising concern with the mangaemnt and incharges I happenned to be left as a loner and became a not so called team player in their eyes. After the first accident, the backup vehiccle driving along let the shocker of life stating there was not even First aid.
A ride that was organied with not even the minimum concern for riders or anybody involved. I somehow manged to hold on till the last day and back in Hyd now. Utterly disappointed with the entire trip. Hope some one from Hero Honda or Videocon mobile is listening and going forward will work with bettr event mangaement firms especially when the event itself is sponsored by such huge corporate firms. Overall a good lesson learnt.
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