Good one, Sunny! Keep them coming.

@Manan: Wondering how that horse let you sit on its back. Bravo! You always entertain us. Looking forward to see your customary stunt pics.

Thanks all! for encouraging me for my agile behavior, however I am thinking of start charging XBHP for modeling and Stunting (for a change not on bikes)....

Well it was an amazing ride once again. And to those who had a query regarding who is Capt. Ravee? He is an amazing person, I first met him in FRMC ride and there we shared numbers. When this ride was finalised I requested him to be a part of this ride as he showed willingness when we met last. He joined us for this ride on his Intruder and companied by his and now our friend also Col. Georgg in the Pajero.

Till Thursday night we were brainstorming for the places that can be visited, finally it was confirmed as Kasauli...We gathered at India Gate at 5:00am, wherein we could only start to flag off by 5:45am as our dear Anurag sir just got up at 5:00am . Well finally we made a move.....

Day 1

Starting from India Gate, we moved with a target to reach Kasauli by 11:00am. We asked our friend in Pajero to ride with us till border and then from there we will continue with our machines and we will wait for him enroute to catchup with us.

Well, we continiously ridden our beasts and my little monster towards Kasauli on NH1, here Sunny got to see the Delhi-Lahore-Delhi bus for the first time, we took small stopover at one of the aloof restaurant/Dhaba for the breakfast and to wait for the Pajero to catch up with us, there we called up Col. Georgg to check his location and to our surprise we got to know that he has already crossed Ambala and is ahead of us.....We thought we will catch him further as we are anyways on bikes faster than his car, however when we reached Kasauli, he was already there with around 1 hour gap from us. Well we were tired enough so decided to take a rest in our resort (Bird View Resort) that was already booked for us by Capt. Ravee.

Though the place was good and beautiful, however for people like us who are just wont say 'YES' till the time it is not atleast 100kms ride in the hills, we were disappointed. So we started brainstorming where to go and what to do, finally we decided let's not waist the beautiful weekend by staying only at one place and finally we zeroed down on Narkanda.But what about today? not to worry, in the eveing Capt. Ravee took us to a beautifull place some kms ahead from the resort and mind it, it was beautiful (Pics will speak). we came back from there with the feeling of nirvana and had a nice chit chat session on the rooftop of the resort and decided to retire for the day at around 12:30am as we had to get up early in the morning around 6:00am.


To be continued...

wow, that was a wonderful writeup for the first day Manan ... loved reading it...
waiting for pics aswell

The stupendous first day log by Manan has to be accompanied by some pictures!

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The Intruder's chrome under the morning yellow sunlight


Anurag Ashok enjoying his time on the torquey Intruder


L-R: Capt. Ravee on the Intruder, Dr.Manan Ch'vedi on the N250, AAshok on the Intruder


Everything looks so beautiful under the setting sun


A cute furry dog in Kasauli


Aliens have landed and they want to know the technology behind the Intruder and the Busa, but we couldnt be a sport because of our NDA with Suzuki


Age and profession no bar when it comes to enjying motorcycling, these high profile men are a proof of this



The man on a mission

At the sunset point in Kasauli, what a wonderful place!



ANother high profile man showing his flexibility


Dr manan with a high profile pose


Capt. Ravee medidating at sunset point, Kasauli


The helmet catches the sun




From the Kasauli hotel terrace

More pics to follow soon...

Amazing! I am not able to select 'my favorite' one from the lot. Thanks, Sunny!

P.S.: If these are Day 1 pics, we are in for a treat then!

feast for the eyes. waiting for more.

Amazing Sunny San , Irresistible seriously.. Maginificent peice of work done. Load of aplause for you guys on sucessfull completion of the trip.

Please bring it on.. desperate to see some more outstanding peice of work

Splendid and marvellous shots Sunny Bhai bring them on want to see more

Superb stuff there. I'm at the loss of words here.

photographs are just amazing

superb, really no words to say...........

Day 2

Well suddenly I have started feeling like my profile has gone high on XBHP

OK! let's continue with the day 2, on day as usual I got up sharp at 6:00am and starting waking others, well I did not know that rest of the riders retired late by 2:00am last night, god knows what they were chating. Well still when I went to wake our Army team, found that they are already getting ready so I was not the only one got up on time. around 7:00am Sunny got up and following him it was Samrat Ashok...ooops Mr. Anurag Ashok....as usual he needs to someone to wake him up. But I must say during this ride I understood that age is no factor to refrain you from enjoy, one must see the bubblee ness of all our riders, even Anurag sir is so fun loving and jovey that I never expected, rather never noticed it earlier on our short G2Gs.

Well that's seperate. We ordered our breakfast and cleaned up our bikes. Capt. Ravee actually washed his bike. We tried to contact Hotel Hatu to book the rooms in advance but all the time we were unable to get through it, as mobile phone were not getting proper connections and landline were not working fine. So we decided to make a move, we all moved from the resort at 9:45am.

Leaving from there we constanty ridden till the time roads did not make us say "No I can ride it more", and then finally we stopped around 30-35 kms from Narkanda and took rest somewhere in the middle of the road (No Town, No People, No Civilaziation). It was not because of the long riding but because of the road conditions after Shimla. We rested their from 2:00pm till 3:00pm and then made a move. Finally, we reached Narkanda at around 4:00pm and straight away went to Hatu Hotel, but to our dissapointment we could not get any room there as it was all booked by some local political party and we were left with no option bu for looking anyother place. We were lucky that we got another resort "Tethis Resort" and to our pleasing surprise it was even better then Hatu Hotel. Wow! what a beautiful surroundings and nice little huts to stay and that to away from normal public, enroute to Hatu peak. We kept our stuff there and made a move towards Hatu Peak, but this time Anurag sir played a bad boy and did not go with us as he wanted to stay back and take some panaromic pics.

Well we went up and stopped at the Hatu Lake and believe me that very moment when I saw that lake it has reminded me all the pain that I went through when I went their last time because of my broken knee ligament during one stunt attempt. Well! no pain can stop me ...oh that was an overconfident statement ...but, then in the hut where I stopped and rested for a while last time was not empty anymore as it has got people to live in there. That was a nice shephard family, who treated us with tea. I would like to thank Mr. Farroque and his family who without even knowing us offered us tea with full delight and pleasure, on just small statement by Col. Georgg "Amma, aapkey haath ki chai peeni hai"...

Well after having tea and some pics there, we made a move towards Hatu Peak, where we again clicked some nice shots and met human's best friend, you'll get to see in the pics. As it was sun going down in getting colder and colder...we finally got back to our resort and had dinner and had nice chit chat session once again and called it a day at around 11:30pm.

amazing photographs Sunny!! Day by Day your motographic skills are scaling heights. Eagerly waiting for the remaining set of photos.

Da1 saw us chatting late into the night under the clear Kasauli sky and a cool night:


Capt Ravee

The Intruder never fails to garner gasps with its loads of chrome:


Anurag Ashok the philosopher and the mentor (thanks to him for some wonderul advice):


Now that Manan has set the pace let me pur in some Day 2 pictures as well:

Chandigarh and Kalka from Kasauli@7 AM




^Capt. Ravee cleaning the Intruder in the morning at Kasauli

And the result was this:


This:


And this:




The sky was blue and the chrome on the Intruder looked astounding:



Manan the narcissist:


Anurag making a firm resolve to quit smoking, just after this last one that is



Manan testing and certifying the Busa for hill rideability




Manan striking a terrific pose

More pics coming soon!

a picture is worth more than 1000 words....
simply stunning...

an amazing log followed by some spectacular photos...