The Official Pune Offline Meet(G2G) Thread

[princesirohi]

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I have started with Shivneri and plan to do as many as possible with the WAKS. Edutainment tours for the whole family.

i have done sinhgad, purandar & koraigad this season. will search for WAKS..??

Hi Prince,
For a start you can visit the forts in the vicinity of Pune, if your sole purpose is trekking rather than a long ride.
I did Lohgad, Visapur & Tung alone. Lohgad has been like start of every rainy season. But I loved the trek to Visapur, especially when it is raining. The entire route is filled with small water streams, truly refreshing.
Tung is easy too. Nothing much too see, but less crowded as compared to other two.
At the base village you can park your bikes & also have excellent food.

But my sincere opinion if you love trekking & have love for nature, join few good trekking groups. You will see yourself going to the places which are known to the locals but not known to the public! I have few contacts of really good groups, if interested then PM me.

And do not forget to read about the forts you visit so that you will undretsand the historic importance & places to see. There are many remains on these forts, which people do overlook or do not understand what they really are.

i have already visited the most common forts around pune many times,.... still do it every year... since i enjoy... i have been in pune since last 8 years or so.

i love both biking and trekking, so i ride upto the point road allows and then trek. sometimes it is a complete ride only since road leads to to fort like sinhgad or purandhar. at some other forts you need to trek.

regarding trekking groups, i know them well, and used to do treks with "yuvashakti" some 6 years ago.

whenever i visit a fort i study it first and take a map of fort along with me.

so what i actually need is partners, most preferably couples, so that it can be more fun.

anybody interested.

[icemang]

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@icemang : man... aint she orgasmic? am afraid tho that she will be just another ducati perhaps, thanks to the insanely high price + govt taxes etc. :'(

I don't think so. Originally, a price of about 5.75L had been estimated for the Bonneville. That time too as now, Triumph was to get it into India in the CKD format. 3 bikes were to come as CKD - the Bonnie, Speed Triple and Street Triple. The others including the XC (@#$%^&* Triumph) were to come as CBU.

I don't know if import duty on the assemblies for CKD bikes as been increased in the budget. If so, then yes, the bike would be costlier but not as bad as the the Ducati series. Triumph has enough worries as it were to handle one more in the form of price.

[princesirohi]

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anybody planning to attend InterState G2G.

[icemang]

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anybody planning to attend InterState G2G.

[MENTION=15693]princesirohi[/MENTION]. No idea. But, tell me, is your signature literal or rhetoric? Don't want to draw any conclusions from your post count hence the genuine question!

[princesirohi]

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@princesirohi. No idea. But, tell me, is your signature literal or rhetoric? Don't want to draw any conclusions from your post count hence the genuine question!

Hmmnn... well...it seems you missed some action...

here it is- some members of xbhp, do marketing of the stuff they sell, on xbhp, and even go on to the point that they give misleading information or half truth kind of information to novice members and these novice members generally believe that truth is where the general flow is going. now these marketing ppl doesn't like if somebody tries to post correct information or tries to question them. these marketing ppl generally do not like to indulge in serious technical discussion and stay clear of it, if you try hold any serious discussion, they indulge in personal attacks and talks in a language belittleing you. i have been in several such incidents, and now it has come to the point that i have decided not to take part or try to start any serious discussion, just read, enjoy, say hi hello, and thats it....atleast till some time.

there are also some members, who think that all my posts are useless and i post just to increase my post count. these members attack me personally from time to time for no reason at all, and will simply jump in to attack me personally, even though they are not a part of the discussion. some of these members even try to do so on facebook. now since you have asked, i will present my side of the picture- you must be aware that some ppl like to hang out on facebook, these ppl are always online and all there electronic gadgets are synced with facebook to give them sec by sec update, and whatever happens in there life instantly gets updated on facebook more often with a photo or a video even trivial incidents like "had dinner"... going to sleep etc etc... in a similar way my fav hangout place is xbhp, so i am online a lot of time, just because i love bikes. biking and xbhp. and when you are online a lot time, your posts are bound to increase and its not the other way round. man i am also a normal person with job, family and lot of things to do...i am not online most of the time just to increase my post count, c'mon there are better things in life. besides show me a single person whos all posts are technically valuable only.

so .. i have been under a lot of personal attacks due to above two reasons and i feel i did not get proper justice by mods, even after informing them that some particular member is attacking me again and again for no reason at all.. maybe because they also have a business to run.

till now i have tried to remain calm and composed even during extreme personal attack, but after last episode i decided that enough is enough.


that is why -- to all those who think i am here just to increase my posts let it be. and to all those who think they can attack me personally and get away with it.. try it next time and i will show you.

sorry for taking up so much space and time.

even i dont like that line in my signature... but somehow.. it seems .. now i need a visible deterent ...


anybody going to interstate G2G, this time they have included maharashtra also.

[icemang]

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Hmmnn... well...it seems you missed some action...

here it is- some members of xbhp, do marketing of the stuff they sell, on xbhp, and even go on to the point that they give misleading information or half truth kind of information to novice members and these novice members generally believe that truth is where the general flow is going. now these marketing ppl doesn't like if somebody tries to post correct information or tries to question them. these marketing ppl generally do not like to indulge in serious technical discussion and stay clear of it, if you try hold any serious discussion, they indulge in personal attacks and talks in a language belittleing you. i have been in several such incidents, and now it has come to the point that i have decided not to take part or try to start any serious discussion, just read, enjoy, say hi hello, and thats it....atleast till some time.

there are also some members, who think that all my posts are useless and i post just to increase my post count. these members attack me personally from time to time for no reason at all, and will simply jump in to attack me personally, even though they are not a part of the discussion. some of these members even try to do so on facebook. now since you have asked, i will present my side of the picture- you must be aware that some ppl like to hang out on facebook, these ppl are always online and all there electronic gadgets are synced with facebook to give them sec by sec update, and whatever happens in there life instantly gets updated on facebook more often with a photo or a video even trivial incidents like "had dinner"... going to sleep etc etc... in a similar way my fav hangout place is xbhp, so i am online a lot of time, just because i love bikes. biking and xbhp. and when you are online a lot time, your posts are bound to increase and its not the other way round. man i am also a normal person with job, family and lot of things to do...i am not online most of the time just to increase my post count, c'mon there are better things in life. besides show me a single person whos all posts are technically valuable only.

so .. i have been under a lot of personal attacks due to above two reasons and i feel i did not get proper justice by mods, even after informing them that some particular member is attacking me again and again for no reason at all.. maybe because they also have a business to run.

till now i have tried to remain calm and composed even during extreme personal attack, but after last episode i decided that enough is enough.


that is why -- to all those who think i am here just to increase my posts let it be. and to all those who think they can attack me personally and get away with it.. try it next time and i will show you.

sorry for taking up so much space and time.

even i dont like that line in my signature... but somehow.. it seems .. now i need a visible deterent ...


anybody going to interstate G2G, this time they have included maharashtra also.

Your explanation is thought-provoking. I have never been the target of any online attacks, personal or otherwise and so cannot comment with authority on what you may have experienced. To me, there is always another face of the coin, another version of the story. I did see you getting razzed in some discussion but did not pitch in with my views. Perhaps, if and when we meet personally, our interaction could shed further light on your issues and perspectives.

Since you are quite active on xBhp, could you please info me about the bookings for the Triumphs coming up supposedly in Sep 2013? Thanks in advance.

[whymail]

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[MENTION=33779]icemang[/MENTION] : obsessed w/ being 'triumphant' are ya matey?

[princesirohi]

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Since you are quite active on xBhp, could you please info me about the bookings for the Triumphs coming up supposedly in Sep 2013? Thanks in advance.

sorry bro, i only have that much knowledge as is discussed in this thread -->

http://www.xbhp.com/talkies/news/26556-triumph-start-india-sales-september.html

in my personal opinion, it may take longer to launch then September. and you need to consider the number of sales & service outlets also.

[icemang]

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sorry bro, i only have that much knowledge as is discussed in this thread -->

http://www.xbhp.com/talkies/news/26556-triumph-start-india-sales-september.html

in my personal opinion, it may take longer to launch then September. and you need to consider the number of sales & service outlets also.

[MENTION=15693]princesirohi[/MENTION]. I didn't ask for an immediate reply. Rather, your reply was expected considering your own statement that you are very active on the forum, ergo, would be viewing much more on it, on many other threads than I do.

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@icemang : obsessed w/ being 'triumphant' are ya matey?

Not obsessed, just that early info on the bookings would give me more time to plan the financial aspects of the issue. Got some other friends too working on it and hope to have an answer in a couple of days. Why, don't tell me you are also interested! Hari chhadi wali Kwanja ke saath yeh dhoka

[jeetg]

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Hey Prince

i will be happy to join you but i m not married as yet lolllllllll.
but if you dont have any problem i will join you as an extra member.
just let me know when are you planing for it. even i m happy to go anywhere in weekends

cheers
ride safe

[whymail]

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[MENTION=33779]icemang[/MENTION] : dhokha? na na na na naa re naa re naa re... [daler paaji ishtyle]
and i guess i am beyond the threshold of waiting.
these firangs are inane when it comes to correct pricing u know...
i was just going thru the tech specs of the triumph675 & it churns out an astonishing 100+PS
thats 'almost' 1.5x of what a kawanja650 does! i was like WTF!!!
but but but, i have a dirty feeling that the triumphs will be in 8L+ range when they r released
if it is not & its a bigass badass 'I-F' & if its priced @ the same slot of what the kawanja650 is at... i will be VERY VERY V-E-R-Y upset & will certainly cry like a baby... not to mention the humiliation i will face, getting dusted left-right-center by a machine thats only 25CC bigger than what the kawanja650 is!

[icemang]

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@icemang : dhokha? na na na na naa re naa re naa re... [daler paaji ishtyle]
and i guess i am beyond the threshold of waiting.
these firangs are inane when it comes to correct pricing u know...
i was just going thru the tech specs of the triumph675 & it churns out an astonishing 100+PS
thats 'almost' 1.5x of what a kawanja650 does! i was like WTF!!!
but but but, i have a dirty feeling that the triumphs will be in 8L+ range when they r released
if it is not & its a bigass badass 'I-F' & if its priced @ the same slot of what the kawanja650 is at... i will be VERY VERY V-E-R-Y upset & will certainly cry like a baby... not to mention the humiliation i will face, getting dusted left-right-center by a machine thats only 25CC bigger than what the kawanja650 is!

The 675? But that is a standard street sports type of bike. I thought, from your choice of the N650 that you were more into the sports cruiser category.

The Daytona 675 -> 126 bhp @ 12500 RPM, 74 NM @ 11900 RPM vs the N650 -> 71 bhp@8500 RPM, 66 Nm@ 7000 RPM. Imagine the levels of stress the D is under. Yes, an additional cylinder helps alleviate some of the strain but in turn adds its own complexities. Two bikes, seemingly similar due to equivalent swept volumes but as different in real life as chalk is from cheese.

Considering the kind of competition that Triumph is heading up against in India, I foresee sensible prices for the Bonnie, the Street Triple and the Daytona as a function of their CKD range. The rest of the lot is likely to be CBUed and therefore, prices would be at the wrong end of the redline!

See, whymail, people like us - the white collar salaried class - cannot afford to spend 6 odd lac rupees every now and then for admittedly objects of purely desire (and lust - drool, drool, slobber, slobber) like expensive motorcycles. We may contemplate changing cars of a similar price-point once every 7 or 8 years but not bikes, not for me at least. So a motorcycle costing 6 lacs will be with me for about 10 to 12 years.

What becomes critical here is that my choice has to be such that I will still be able to derive delight from this acquisition even at that age. That is, the bike ages with me. You get it? The bike - be it a Daytona or an N650 or a Bonnie - has stayed the same. It will be I who would have changed, mostly for the worse. My strength, energy, vision, reflexes et al would be significantly lesser in my 60s vis-a-vis my forties. Therefore, I may get a huge kick in the pants out of a street/ super sports type now but the duration of this experience would be very less even now, now that I am in my forties. In my sixties, the bike would force me to emulate my younger bros which would be both dangerous and out of sync. A time would come when I might even make excuses to NOT ride it and that would sound the death knell for the motorcycle aficionado in me. It would be the worst fate ever to overtake a motorcycle rider - to make an excuse to not ride his bike when, in his halcyon days, the absolute reverse held good.

I carried out an exercise yesterday. I got a large colour print of the Bonnie, pasted it on a piece of hardboard and stood it in my garage. Then, I gave it a look askance. And asked myself this question. After another 15 odd years, will THIS bike ask me, as I walk into the garage, " Listen, you old coot, I am the only object you can ride well at your age. So tell the old hag to zip it, grab a six pack, get your fags and your pills and lets get the fark out of here so that both of us can breathe deeply of each other's joie de vivre." And I found the bike telling me all of this and much more, with more colourful language than is allowed on this forum (come to think of it, writing expletives seems somehow more vulgar when there are a lot of asterisks!)

If the N650 does this to you, it is for you. Ditto for just about any such motorcycle which is acquired for itself and not to satisfy the need for non-manual locomotion.

Said a lot, but that is what I thought

[whymail]

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[MENTION=33779]icemang[/MENTION]

[icemang]

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@icemang

You owned a Yamdoot? OMFG, that was THE baddestass bike I have ridden. Only savage power and torque and that snarl when she was opened up on the highway. You know, like yelling " I am so f*****g bad and I f*****g know it so shove that up wherever you want to". I am not afraid of machines but this was not a machine. It was a bloody possessed demon, yaar. And drum brakes. So one pees while riding and craps while braking. Just the sound of that two stroke twin, even at idle, burburburbur. Gawd, manna from Heaven.The yuppie plasticky CBR and CBR RRs etc will leak their oils on their own when they see and worst still, hear that banshee wail from the depths of Hell. Phew! That was one mean b*t*h of a bike. Thirsty for petrol, hungry for blood, the true-blue Yamdoot.

Yamaha will laugh its way to Fort Knox if it brings this bike back today. Control the emissions, then cheat a bit, sell it about 80K and suddenly, the pimply pubescent college kid is armed with a two-wheeled .44 Magnum to hold up uncles and aunties and grin evilly, "Make my day" he he he he. Yamdoot, f**k...

Yes, it makes sense to not wait for the Bonnie, esp if your need is reasonably urgent. If the big T fumbles yet again, I too may have to go for an N650.

Hope to be in Pune in Sep this year. Then we can clink glasses.

[whymail]

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@icemang : hell yeah… the yamadoot was the satan’s ride right out of the gates of hell. still remember the days when i wud stealthily approach a traffic signal, put her directly in the 2^nd cog & after the lights turned green, just twist the right wrist… the beast wud pull just as effortlessly in 2^nd gear right up to 87kmph without requiring any gear change!!! the ultra deeeeep growl of a hidden royal bengal tiger inside the exhausts getting scalded, the beyond-words thrust of ‘torque induction – 350cc twin’ emblazoned on its side flanks & the whiplash effect on my neck & head, to this day remains perpetually unmatched. visibly the largest drum-brakes ever seen on a bike, those were a joke of a thing to shave off speed on such a devil... i always believed that a yamadoot slowed down only when u prayed with ur family-jewels in ur palms, begging it to stop...

she was truly the “ek gear neechey… akkha mumbai peechey” machine! no other bike, ever, gave that kinda devilishly pants-pissing grin the way she did. i still don’t know why-o-why yamaha has been sooooo ignorant of us desi motorcycle enthusiasts since then.

and yes… completely w/ u on the kids of today… cannot even imagine something like the yamadoot in the hands of punny 18 y.o. kids of present days. hell, we will have more college-day crashes than college-day crushes

i had set my eyes on the yamaha mt-01 a.k.a. ‘the hammer’ even since it was launched in mumbai some 7 yrs back – took a test ride of her back then & my life has never been the same, ever since. if there was ever anything better than an orgasm, perhaps imho, riding the hammer was it!

infact, after saving enuff money to invest in a kawanja, i actually visited yamaha dealership a fortnight back enquiring about ‘the hammer’ – sadly the bike is out of production & can be ‘sourced on request’ – the price? a stratospherical 13L ex-showroom. add all the frills n stuff & the cashflow for that goes to mars-atmosphere 15L range.

if i even as much whisper that i am investing in 2wheels @ that cost, i will have a divorce lawsuit + domestic violence case filed on me by u know who!

hence the midlife crisis compromise on the kawanja

ping me once u r back & when we meet, we will talk of nostalgic & glorious days of Norton’s, BSA’s, Truimph’s, MotoGuzzi’s & MV-Augusta’s, besides other things!