@ Prabhu : The Croc pics are really good.. Do have any more of them apart from the ones present at your blog..! I never knew big crocs also existed in India...!

they are,but in sumits cam, but wait(for long) for shree's and sunils pics

Bleeding from the leg showing signs of stopping. .

Was truly impressed with the FZ. NOt too much about the power, but more about the way it handled the curves. I dont know yet if it is the rider, or the bike or both. Nevertheless, the combination was perfect.

Nice riding with Sunil sir, making sure everything is in place and nice company to be with. Will not forget the occasional "Phaatt" from the silencer. Loved your bike!

Srikeerthi, I wont forget your gizmos man, and the way you blast past all of us when need be(when you feel like?). I first thought you were a lil too quick on the unsafe side but riding behind you for quite a few kms, I later realized that you took the precautions when it was required. Hats off to your riding skills.

Sumit, I like your sedated style of riding. The kind of riding I see maturity in. The kind of riding you need, to own a superbike and not kill yourself. We'll catch up soon.

Prabhu, nice riding with you. The bullet proof rider, keep on riding until you see a wall in front of you. You could be a good competitor for endurance runs I can see a lot of experience in the way you ride, all that you collected in the All India trip and the Himalayas and many more.

Ajay, finally I join you on a long ride! I'v ridden with you quite a few times but not on a multi day trip. Nice riding with you man.

Jenson is a friend of mine from college who decided to join us in the last minute. He will be joining us on more rides on his TBird.


All in all an amazing experience.Will not forget the blast to Top Station. About 35kms of winding smooth tarmac and almost no traffic. One of the issues with the 200/220 is the stand scraping while taking a curve and if the suspension play is present. I plan to do something about this on my 200. This was the first time I was taking my bike on 1000km+ ride. I've done quite a few 700km trips but this is the first time a 1000km+ trip happened.

Owing to all the criticisms of Bajaj quality, I had begun to have negative feelings about its reliability and about the bike itself, but this mindset washed away after a few long rides I'v had including this one, and I realized its not such a bad bike after all. Not a squeak all the way, the suspension felt good, the engine showed no fatigue after long hours of high speed cruising, took it around the corners getting my knees pretty close to the ground! It's only 25k kms old, but I guess I have no reason to be bothered about reliability like the way it has been projected by many.

I was extremely busy at work on the previous night and could not pick up the cam from a friend. No pics from my side but expect a million of them from all the others.

And my problem is Prabhu has the USB cable for my camera
Will get hold of a USB cable and start uploading the pics tomorrow

Nice updates and cool pics, especially the eyes of the crocodile.

Oh you too have an excuse! Good :P

Get a card reader. Camera USB are too slow.

Yeah, will do it tonight

and he puts me as an excuse all the time, even his mobile data cable will work with cam

Sumit, nice excuses to escape, but failed incredibly.

I have been waiting for pics from Keerthi; both yercaud/hogenakkal and current trip. Hope to see them soon.

no excuses
my 6500's cable won't work for the camera

Forget the thanks giving posts and the mobile cable posts, and post some pictures, will you guys?

@Prabhu: The first croc picture looks scary! If you have more, do post them. I am sure it'll make for some pretty good viewing.

Great pics guys.

As Aryan said the first croc pic is quite scary, nice photography but we want more

didnt know that the croc pic will have attraction, as I was seeing this right from my childhood. There were a couple of crocs which were very long and gigantic, when they move from one cage to other, all the other crocs will leave the pool making way for these.. those were missing now

when after the SLR pics pour in, these pics will not stand a place. have appended all the croc pics I have at the end...

PrabhuBravo - Tours on wheels: Munnar

Not true. My pics even if from an SLR will be mediocre . Don't know how to use it

Awesome... !!! Good to see you back on road buddy.
You all had a great ride. I really missed it ...

hmm 3 SRLS on a trip SriKeerthi, Sunil Sir , Sumith... my expectation is more.

@Sunil Sir - you should have given me a call , he he