The Official Trivandrum Offline meet(G2G) thread

[Doctor Noel]

Was checking my old posts..... Feels so nostalgic..... How I came to Xbhp and met guys and all..... Wow......... Time goes so fast..............

[a.jayamohan]

Reading this does not make any sense to me, thanks to the wonderful sentence structure.

Following is my attempt at understanding this:
When turning into a sub road (on the right side), before making the turn, move to the center of the road. (Put on indicator, show signal etc - obviously yes). When you are in the middle, any vehicle following you will move to the left to pass you. But say instead of being in the middle of the road, you start turning from the left side, to the right, the vehicles following you, will most probably move to the right, and often into the wrong side into opposing traffic which can result in accidents.

Experience is better than the theory...you proved it @Rupesh: Nice findings

[VarunRTR]

Was checking my old posts..... Feels so nostalgic..... How I came to Xbhp and met guys and all..... Wow......... Time goes so fast..............

i also have done this a couple of times in past....feels so good. going through all those posts , 100s of pages, how many rides and all those awesome moments !! feels better than facebook !!

[placebo]

Was checking my old posts..... Feels so nostalgic..... How I came to Xbhp and met guys and all..... Wow......... Time goes so fast..............

Ohh my holy spirit.. annan senti..!!!

[a.jayamohan]

sudeep is down with viral fever n he ll do it if he is able to lift his head up...anyways i have drafted a 2 page pamphlet and given to my friend who does photoshop for page setting work. he ll get me the thing mostly by tonight and i shall share with u guys asap. Hope that should do for giving to the traffic CI for permission and for giving to noel for media publicity and sponsorship purposes.. If there is any changes to be made, we can alter the layout of that, when sudeep gets well and print it in bulk.
@noel...if you can get hold of suresh gopi, then we can go n invite him, get a contact asap.

Good initiative. If you got the specimen then post it here...we can get suggestion from all.
@Sudeep: get well soon dear.

[Nio]

Thanks fellas

After a successful ride its time we get on with the preparations for the Mega event

@Varun: Good going dude. do post a sample in here for us to review
@Sudeep: Get well soon

[The Celebrity]

Is anybody around, who has been for all the rides mentioned in this thread? I repeat, rides, not G2G....

[lijok]

Is anybody around, who has been for all the rides mentioned in this thread? I repeat, rides, not G2G....

The answer must be no

[The Celebrity]

The answer must be no

okay, anybody who can claim to have attended the most rides and is still active in this thread?!

[a.jayamohan]

okay, anybody who can claim to have attended the most rides and is still active in this thread?!

for what

[lijok]

okay, anybody who can claim to have attended the most rides and is still active in this thread?!

ME ME ME
Why da... ?

[Centaur]

Analyzing the cause of various fatal accidents we give some hints for your safety. Please read it carefully and grasp the points.


While riding in motor cycle great attention is needed as the person in the pillion seat tries to adjust a comfortable position for him resulting lose of control to person driving the motor cycle.

1. While entering to a main road from sub road, always try to drive at the middle of the road. Hence the other speeding vehicles from same side of main road try to sidelines left which help to avoid accident. If you try to drive left side instead of middle, the chance is very high that the speeding vehicles from your rear side try to move right resulting head on collision with vehicles arriving from opposite side.
2. Always keep safe distance from vehicles in front of you.
3. Avoid worn-out tires. Bursting front wheel result in fatal accident than rear wheel.
4. While driving from higher altitude to lower, always ensure lower gear position. LOL
   
5. You cannot judge speed of vehicle in a splash of time. Hence while crossing road, at least 10 seconds needed for assuming relative position of speeding vehicle in the road.
6. The accident rate of light coloured vehicle is low compared with dark coloured vehicle.
7. While riding motor cycle, touching front bake lever by hand and foot brake by right leg may increase your confident of controlling vehicle in unexpected moment. Could be a little difficult for the earlier Enfields
   
8. Drunken driving leads to over confidence and lower power of judgment while driving which is the cause more of the total accident caused.

courtesy : Road Safety Club - Kerala Motor Vehicle Dept.

9. Understanding the sentence structure could take a while... please have patience

very valid points but hilarious nonetheless

[The Celebrity]

for what

ME ME ME
Why da... ?

That person is going to do a speech for the campaign... since nobody else has come up with the claim, Lijo is going to be nominated to do the speech....

I love my style...

[Binoy]

That person is going to do a speech for the campaign... since nobody else has come up with the claim, Lijo is going to be nominated to do the speech....

I love my style...

ha ha ha... ya me too loved your style... LOL... what say Lijo?

[Devilboy]

Road Safety event suggestions

Dear Meghalaya xBhp friends, We are just in a preparation for Road safety awareness programme on feb13th at Trivandrum, kerala state. You are the spark for this idea. So kindly do give your suggestion in our Trivandrum thread Thank you all.

First of all, I am glad that Trivandrum xBhpians are going to take up the road safety rally soon. I hope preparation is going well and fine. Anyway, in response to Jayamohan quote in the Road Safety Rally thread of Shillong the following are few of the inputs from my side which I believe would be helpful in the smooth implementation of the upcoming event.

1. Firstly, get few of the xBhpians from Trivandrum for the delegation of work which you will be coming across below.

2. Find some sponsors for the event. You can approach the dealers of bikes, tyres, engine oils, etc for the expenditure which you will be requiring during the event. Likely areas of expenditure are for the Banners, flyers, refreshments etc.

3. Make a small contribution each for the refreshments, banners etc if sponsors are not available.

4. Plan out the route, venue of the event where all bikers could gather up for the flag-off and speech, venue for the refreshments where everybody can relax and have a get-together after the event. A field should be sufficient but depending on the expected number of participants.

5. Chalk out the location where the flyers can be distributed by smaller groups. but keep in mind that the whole group should be split only after the rallying has been completed through all the route. Fro bigger impact its much better if all the riders rides together in single/double file holding the placards containing the slogans rather than to split the whole participants into smaller groups.

6. Attain permission and support from the Traffic Department. Send a proposal to the Authority mentionind all the details of the event including the venue, schedule time, route, expected number of participants, etc and whether police escorts required. Its best to have traffic escorts for the smooth movement of the rally. You can invite Chief Guest from the Traffic Department itself who will take the honour of flagging-off the event. During our Shillong's event, we were honoured to have the DSP, Sir Herbert G. Lyngdoh as our chief guest who not only flag off the event but also led us from the start till the end of the rally. Sir H.G. Lyngdoh was a hard core, passionate biker himself during his youth and still rides his Eleminator.

7. Get the Flyers design done. I am placing a sample image of the flyers which we have distributed during the Road Safety Awareness Campaign in Shillong Meghalaya. Flyers can also be written in English or your own local language, whichever suits best.

8. Get printed one or two banners of size 4x6 inches. banners could contain logos of xBhp, sponsors etc.

9. Invite your pillions: your girlfriend, wife, sister, friend or your friend because the more the merrier. but make sure for a helmet each for the pillion. This was the mistake we made during our event in Shillong which i hope will not be repeated in Trivandrum . Pillions are helpful in holding the placards containing the Road Safety Slogans as well as in distribution of the Flyers.

10. Rally in a speed of about 20-35kmph so that Motorists and pedestrians could read your slogans on your placards. Afterall, the main objective of the rally is to reach to the mass.

11. Appoint each biker to make his/her own placard. Afterall its a team work! Well this is how its done with the least expenditure:
All you need is:
a. hard board or similar material of size greater than A3. Old Carton box, old Signboard boxes could be used.
b. old Flex or venyl sheet where you could write your slogans with marker pen on the blank side of the sheet. This later can be fixed to the board. You can get the disposed venyl/flex sheets from the printing press, etc. If you are not expecting rain on the rally date, you can also used old wall-calendars sheets since the back of the calendars are usually blank and are white in colour.
c. Road Safety Slogans can be easily downloaded from the internet. Just google it out and write in your own style. But do make sure thats its readable from a short distance
d. Finally fix a bamboo/wood so that pillion could hold them during the rally. A lenth of about 3-4 feet bamboo should be sufficient enough for visibility and height.

12. Invite other Biking groups if possible but be limited otherwise the "My Goup" attitude might just spoil the whole objective of the event.

13. Press Release: Send a press release to the Press club so that the event may be covered by the electronic and print media. Afterall, its about the Awareness.

14. If there are any left over flyers, hand it over to the various Bike showrooms so that the awareness continues even after the event is finished. You can request the dealers/manager to include the flyers with the Catalog/manual/receipt/ etc.

15. And yeah! Lastly, Smile at the camera! Spread the message of Road Safety with a smile.

Now the sample of the flyers:
Page 4 & 1


Page 2 & 3 (inner pages)

Pardon me for the small images, tried converting the pdf file to image but didn't work out well. But should you require a better one, then p.m. me.

And ya, the "What is Biking all about?" portion has been taken from the thread "Defination of a Biker" posted by rennycornelius with some additions. The other objective we had in Shillong was not only promoting Road Safety but also educating young motorcyclist about the true passion of biking not in the form of hooliganism.

So, I do hope the above inputs will be of great help for the upcomming Trivandrum event. Good Luck Guys!

Ride safe....enjoy the event...and spread the good message!