Btw.... am still thinking about the purpose this rally/ride serves..... coz I dont see any kind of awareness thing happening with this stuff (or any AIDS awareness thing.. ppl know everything already now-a-days).... just my opinion.
Also the timings that are set for this rally.... 3pm-6pm... the traffic would be quite f**kedup, and 30-50 bikes going slow in traffic... wud be a pain in the butt for fellow road users.

PS: No offence meant to/towards anybody/anything.... have a great rally.... ride safe.

^^ Though I'm in for the ride but i agree with what Chetan says 3-6 ka timing and 30-50 bikers riding slow in formation

but i believe we have a solution for that. right wheelie boy??

Yeah, exactly! Are we doing anything on the lines of funding or supporting any hospital/clinic/ etc. ??? Cause otherwise we'd all just be riding and pleasing our ownselves in the process..forgive my ignorance as i haven't been on any Aid's Day ride before..Vijay bro! could you please shed some light on the same??

Allow me please. People across the world do ride for charities supporting a cause. People do rallies to support a cause.

Now what does supporting a cause mean?

It means endorsing the cause and spreading awareness.

How do you spread awareness?

By doing something which makes people standup and notice and attaching the cause to it.

Bikers ride to support a cause, politicians speak, news channels run news or free ads.

I hope it is clear now.

I agree wid u sunny.
Rallying is definitely a support for the cause

If we get some T-shirt or a common porter on each bike or the biker related to AIDS.This will give a more clear message.otherwise it will give the msg of just another Bikers rally.

@kashif: yes we can. But arranging for the ride itself is taking up a lot of logistics. We can definitely just visit some other time.

This ride will be on World AIDS day, hence the main objective, a supporting objective would be - riding safe.

Actuallly i just though It would be difficult to arrange all these thats why deleted that scrap[:P]

Count me in on this .... Lemme know if i can help out with nething ....
am locatedi n thane

Okies.all clear now. thanks Sunny bhai!

Got your point... but am still not convinced.... a rally to make people know about Aids... is something being done for long now, and everyone knows everything about Aids....

We need to tell the down-trodden people of the society to get up and take notice about the causes/cases of Aids. By doing a rally at some of the high-class places of Mumbai.... sounds a bit wierd.. doesn't it ?? Do it where these(the spread of Aids) things happen most....

I am saying this coz, when I told my dad about we (at xBhp) doing a rally supporting a cause, he asked me whats the use or awareness we are spreading ? To this I was put into thoughts, I guess you understand what I mean. Am feeling like its more of self-convincing rally/ride... more of show-off thing (am no way offending anybody ok).

Who will benefit by this, thats what I am asking . Is it just another photoshoot with the help of traffic police or helping somebody about something.

PS: No offence.... just my opinion and doubts.... hope you understand.

^^ u r partially correct my friend.. and so it made me think that.. let's take this ride to Slum areas in South Mumbai rather than Reclamation and stuff with the Red Ribon sticker.

Also, let's contact the "Mtv wassup" ppl to cover this cause(i'll try to contact them).

Also, distributing leaflets on how to avoid AIDS and difference between HIV and AIDS and how the infected ppl should be treated as normal human beings.

Let's visit the places where the AIDS infected people are getting treated, let's be constructive guys.

we are going to have flags n poster on our bike which will spread awareness on aids and our 2 nd IMP moto is safe riding,

and dont worry bout the traffic its sunday, 2nd cops will be riding with us so traffic and all will not be an issue.

@ all- pls shoot your view, opinion, suggestion that will make our ride better

30 - 50 dude we are having more than 150 bikers for the ride, dont worry man thats been solved

well i am planning to tie up with some hospital and some of our riders (if not all) will go and meet AIDS affected people and have a small conversation or something but problem is that i dont have that much of timings for the ride is strictly between 3 to 6, i cant extend it

@chetan : I can understand where you are coming from. However another simple question : Why is there a World AIDS Day after all? Cannot we take initiative to spread awareness every day without having to resort to name a day after a cause?

If you can answer the above then you will understand. Similarly my friend, this rally is to spread awareness by giving it exposure. The club of course also gets the exposure which is also very important.

Moreover, I would like to see you take an initiative, arrange everything post this ride for Mumbai xBhpians. I am sure you will do that the way you want to, we will be with you.

Ok so finally Chetan has become into the rebellious mode..and Sunny at his convincing best....

Well i saw the posts above and read a couple of pages....I can agree to Chetan on the point that AIDS Awareness needs to be spread to places where there is no awareness or less knowledge, places where it spreads the most....

Uptown areas, where people are Educated and Literate would be aware of it.

Sunny, I support your cause and i appreciate your efforts in this...however it can be made better and a ride to say a Brothel or places where there are sex workers operating..those are the places where awareness needs to be created...unlike Reclamation where nobody bothers to even look at bikers...or their big bikes....

Hey Anup, great to have your suggestion. We initially wanted to make this ride only for Safe Riding, but since World AIDS Day was falling around that we decided to club together. In fact it has been misleading when we say that it is only a AIDS day ride. From he beginning I have never been in support of a cause to which we cannot contribute. Thats why, if you see here, xBhp's actions precede the words.

Vijay has worked very hard to get police permission for the ride, we are not collecting at Reclamation and doing nothing. The primary reason why police are with us on the ride is because we are promoting road safety by involving bikers which do not have a good reputation, now how is that?

We can also go to an institution where AIDS awareness is required, but doing everything on the same day will be too taxing. I still believe that we can support only the cause to which we fit into, for example I have always maintained we, performance bikers cannot support a cause like environment (in the pre-crash xBhp), simply because we are expending a non-renewable source of energy and contributing to the pollution in the environment.

Post this ride we will keep our cause exclusively for safe riding. The year should be interspersed with meets catering to causes like adopting an underpriviliged child etc.

How is the for a plan of action?

But, the big but, members have to take inspiration from Vijay and come forward and arrange stuff. You all also make up xBhp and Vijay has shown that it can be done.