carry on the good work. got to wait another 2months for the next issue.. all the best..

You're very welcome! I truly meant what I said. The next time can only get better for you.

My tip on on-location speaking was a general comment and not directed specifically at anyone. But from my experience, that is a good thing to do, especially when you want to make great videos better. Even if there is no script, at least a few notes on the how the 1 minute delivery should flow. Like I said before, it made a huge difference to me in the way I present at work.

Bought the magazine last night from the newsstand..Outstanding staff..My impressions..

Finally a magazine for Bikers by the bikers...

It's different.

Like no other....

Motorcycles are alien objects for my wife..She never flipped the various magazines and literatures on automobiles that I load up the house with. She was engrossed reading this mag for two hours and was smiling...

Kudos to you..Sunny and team..this is a live spark plug to ignite the passion..

Bring it on.. It's more we want..

Just got my copy yesterday and really loved it, a true work of art...Kudos! Looking forward to more...lots more

Keep it up guys

Magazine is superbly written.

But I'm not able to play the DVD which came with this issue. Any pointer for that? Can something be done on that part? I've heard so much about the DVD contents that I want to see it even more eagerly.

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@mods... noticed a typo in The Issues page xBhp : xBhp magazine inaugural issue on stands 29th sept 2010 - Exclusive DVD with two full length Ducumentaries

Is Bunny Punia not a part of the team?

its awesome...

Finally got my piece of opium, or at least i thought it was.
Maybe i expect too much but i thought it would be so perfect in terms of capturing the essence of biking that i would stop writing and just prefer reading.

The mag has articles that i have read before, which is ironic for a first issue because am sure everyone else would have read the magazine before hand on the forum. Which beats the purpose. The whole charm of holding a magazine is to be able to read something new, something fresh, something that you felt you would have written. I am not troubled by the teething trouble of typos as such, but by the lack of ingredients that cannot be left out in a magazine as focused as this.
The lack of perfection is ok. That it looks a bit hurriedly put is fine too. That it lacks a bit of finesse is fine too.

But what is not fine is the lack of some explosive writing. A jolt, a slap in the face of other magazines and an energy so great it could only be matched by fusion. It gets my blood racing but it doesn't burst my veins.

I want it to give me a heart attack.

I want honesty and passion and pulitzer winning writing.

I want scathing criticism of stuff that is wrong with biking, manufacturers and the riders. I want admiration for what is right. I want the best. I want this magazine to be better than the rest of the corporate beehive that is the publishing world these days.

I want you to admit that bandit at 10 odd lakhs is like spending a million dollars on your marriage and then recording the video in monochrome. I know whatever you have said is right. It is probably the thinking man's bike. But then i want to also read what is wrong with the looks. Of why in India with lack of choices if i have hard earned money i will want to follow my heart rather than my head.

I know am expecting the world but then this is our world ain't it? Biking and everything related to it.

But them am also the guy who in a job interview refused point blank to the editor of a car magazine to be writing minutes-of-the-meeting type reviews and argued for half an hour how articles should have passion, soul and a story rather than just boring numbers and a coroner's account of the death.

I hope you will get better as you go. And i really wish that you do.

bon voyage to us all.

PlanetDSG is selling the mag for Rs. 64!

i think no he is not . saw him anchoring some car show the other day on a news channel

I want honesty and passion and pulitzer winning writing.

Who doesnt? But only if wishes were horses. In fact if they were I would do with more bhp's in my Ninja! On a serious note, there's a LOT of writing between the homely postcard and the Pulitzer winning work. And you, me and lots of others exist somewhere along the way Nothing to be disappointed about with that.



The mag has articles that I have read before, which is ironic for a first issue because am sure everyone else would have read the magazine before hand on the forum. Which beats the purpose. The whole charm of holding a magazine is to be able to read something new, something fresh, something that you felt you would have written.

The magazine has articles which you knew about. The real charm of the magazine lies in the 'fragrance' of the printed page and ink, the reflecting light of the bedside table lamp and the uncluttered two way navigation and yes - that sound which you hear when the turning page makes while it mates with the page below to produce another page with relatively timeless content. The fluid, hyperlinked character of the web can never hope to emulate, even if you see on a drab Kindle.

Truth be told, due to the public nature of the activities we do, you know what to expect in the magazine. However, the final presentation and the distilled information you have in it is mighty different. Along with articles like Pulsar Saga, Vespa, CB1000R in Chandni Chowk etc - which were only a preview or a digital media forum (a video).


Last but not the least - there is a huge audience which is not on xBhp that has to be showed a lot of things which have been going on the forums and the club - and that is the biker who picks up the copy from the newsstand and gets sucked it from page one.

You can take the pulitzer, I'll take those million converts who realized on reading the mag that they'd been missing a life while missing biking.




But them am also the guy who in a job interview refused point blank to the editor of a car magazine to be writing minutes-of-the-meeting type reviews and argued for half an hour how articles should have passion, soul and a story rather than just boring numbers and a coroner's account of the death.

Good you told us this beforehand.

I hope you will get better as you go. And I really wish that you do.

We all need good wishes like these, don't we eh!




As for the rest in your essay, I really do appreciate the time taken to put it together, it was fun reading it but it I feel most of the criticism exists on the non-tangible plane. More like the ingredients for a crime thriller than an A4 sized bedside companion that lets you dream of biking each night. I would just like to say one thing - thank god McDonalds doesnt make spicy veg burgers although I am sure that I would like them that way only!

I know the charm of the yellow light bouncing off the walls and being caught by the canons and nikons of the world. But no matter how much a pretty picture it makes you remember the book and the bulb, not the other way round.

And regarding target audience i would like to tell you where i work every client will first tell me the need to impress a target audience and then vegetate me with the need to impress everyone. And i tell them even Jesus Christ failed at impressing everyone. Get your core bunch happy and they will become the evangelists and rest will follow i say.

lastly the non-tangible stuff is what attracts us to getting half ass off the saddle, knee on the ground and frentic prayers on the lips to make sure the guy coming from the janpath slows down for you take the exit towards rajesh pilot marg at the speed faster than that at which you entered the roundabout.

I know am bordering on being a pest so i will stop before you forget that i do appreciate the magnitude of this undertaking and the need for it.
Cheers and luck then.

lastly the non-tangible stuff is what attracts us to getting half ass off the saddle, knee on the ground and frentic prayers on the lips to make sure the guy coming from the janpath slows down for you take the exit towards rajesh pilot marg at the speed faster than that at which you entered the roundabout.

I am not sure we want that literally, but yes judging from the response so far we have manged to get many people on the saddle, many people clicking and many to wear at least a helmet. Even time takes its own time to progress, so we will progress sweet and steady.

I know am bordering on being a pest so i will stop before you forget that i do appreciate the magnitude of this undertaking and the need for it.
Cheers and luck then.

No certainly not, I sincerely appreciate you taking the time to write down honestly what you feel, I really do. For me feedback and criticism is using someone else's experience for my benefit .

ANd yes we must meet up, but I will be the guy coming from the janpath slows down for you take the exit towards rajesh pilot marg at the speed faster than that at which you entered the roundabout. (Sorry those are three too many smilies in one post, discouraged.)