The Official Pune Offline Meet(G2G) Thread

[Devilpulsarian]

Someone please brief about tomorrows ride....!

[TenHut]

... shame there are no girls...

whats this sms channel abt?

ooops...:P




Join in for a ride tomorrow to lavasa.
The roads to Lavasa are in their true essence backroads, of good quality tarmac, occasionally bestowed with cowdungs,speedbreakers and potholes. But even this road with potholes thankfully is a very short patch and is an absolute scaled down model of the Isle of Man TT circuit, cutting right through a handful of villages. The rest of the backroads are ghat sections with good quality tarmac.
I always like to remind myself the following for every ride though : the turns and twisties arent exactly simple ones. Many are sharp and to add to the bane of the problems a dozen of them are blind corners. Oil spills and surface irregularities are rarely to be seen so theres your breather.

People are to meet at Chandni Chowk at 5:45 am and throttle towards lavasa at the latest by 6:15 am.

Saad mate ! You in ? Should i be waiting on you at the Ivory Estate Arch?

P.S. I am bored !

[surojit]

P.S. I am bored !

good to see u postin...

n u bored since wednesday? entertain urself with ur green goblin...

[Devilpulsarian]

I am a girl and you can use the SMS channel for dirty talks with me.

People are to meet at Chandni Chowk at 5:45 am and throttle towards lavasa at the latest by 6:15 am.

Saad mate ! You in ? Should i be waiting on you at the Ivory Estate Arch?

P.S. I am bored !

I am definitely in, Shall meet you at 5:30 tomorrow.

BTW Please wake me up, if you can...

[rohitlc]

im in for the ride i will meet u guys at 6.00 at CC.

[TenHut]

good to see u postin...

n u bored since wednesday? entertain urself with ur green goblin...

The green goblin is being abused and is being put to an endurance test every single hour of my 28 hrs a ride in a 24 hrs day. Its hardly getting any sleep !
Tbh...I am worried that I am riding too much and riding it only at high revs. Can someone chime in and share their experience of riding a bike at high revs all the freakin time?

I find myself in need of consulting a rehabilitation centre in the near future. I have gotten addicted to the peak power output of the Ninja at 8K and 11.5K rpm. Any gear, any Speed..chug it into a gear at 11.5K rpm and momentarily you forget your own name! The linear power delivery is clearly felt ans is mind numbing ! You want that spurt of adrenaline to last longer though and this is where the Ninja fails you. The trip doesnt last very long and you are in constant search of that one HIT again that you know is not gonna come

In certain some sentences to come, I am gonna call this Ninja 250R underpowered. You may call me an idiot for calling it that right now, if you may wish ! Dont get me wrong though...the ninja is potent enough to get you big skin grafts and elephantastic bone marrow surgeries, it may even make you elligible for one of those highly funded futuristic experiments to make Bionic Humanoids ! Plainly put, it can and will get you in situations which will have you pray for the judgement day, and that it shall do with sheer speed.
In India, if you ask me, anything more than 50kmph is a potential Death ! And India is a very small playground for the Ninja. I am beginning to fathom the the utter uselessness ( if such a word ever existed ) of anything upwardly 250cc on our roads. Get me right...you sure will come accross patches where with your balls tied to your forehead you may even hit 300kmph, but more often than less, you shall be putting yourself in the way of death while hitting those marks. Its how successfully and safely you can achieve high speeds with a certainty of having a good cup of american expresso after your ride, that counts more to me than just hitting those speeds by disrespecting and ignoring all the possible consequences of attaining Inertia on our roads !!

So yeah, I dont want a Death Machine with a 1000CC bike but I wish the Ninja could give me the HIT for a longer duration than just merely teasing my innocent childish like mind by dangling the SPEED carrot in front of my eyeballs.

In the wake of the near delivery of my new Suzuki Hayabusa/Yamaha R1 ( I am not disclosing which bike yet cause there are certain ppl and I want them to keep guessing about it ), I have found myself thinking about the rational behind buying anything bigger. I dont want the Death Machine tag that the four cylinders currently carry on our roads. I want something only slightly faster. Something that will enable me to encourage this great sport of biking to my own kids...something that will guarantee that I shall survive that long!

P.S The Ninja 250R is underpowered, that being my point, the rest is just rambling !

[nitrosatya]

I guess i will not be coming since the PUC of the bike is not valid.

Sorry guys!

[ritwik23]

The green goblin is being abused and is being put to an endurance test every single hour of my 28 hrs a ride in a 24 hrs day. Its hardly getting any sleep !
Tbh...I am worried that I am riding too much and riding it only at high revs. Can someone chime in and share their experience of riding a bike at high revs all the freakin time?

I find myself in need of consulting a rehabilitation centre in the near future. I have gotten addicted to the peak power output of the Ninja at 8K and 11.5K rpm. Any gear, any Speed..chug it into a gear at 11.5K rpm and momentarily you forget your own name! The linear power delivery is clearly felt ans is mind numbing ! You want that spurt of adrenaline to last longer though and this is where the Ninja fails you. The trip doesnt last very long and you are in constant search of that one HIT again that you know is not gonna come

In certain some sentences to come, I am gonna call this Ninja 250R underpowered. You may call me an idiot for calling it that right now, if you may wish ! Dont get me wrong though...the ninja is potent enough to get you big skin grafts and elephantastic bone marrow surgeries, it may even make you elligible for one of those highly funded futuristic experiments to make Bionic Humanoids ! Plainly put, it can and will get you in situations which will have you pray for the judgement day, and that it shall do with sheer speed.
In India, if you ask me, anything more than 50kmph is a potential Death ! And India is a very small playground for the Ninja. I am beginning to fathom the the utter uselessness ( if such a word ever existed ) of anything upwardly 250cc on our roads. Get me right...you sure will come accross patches where with your balls tied to your forehead you may even hit 300kmph, but more often than less, you shall be putting yourself in the way of death while hitting those marks. Its how successfully and safely you can achieve high speeds with a certainty of having a good cup of american expresso after your ride, that counts more to me than just hitting those speeds by disrespecting and ignoring all the possible consequences of attaining Inertia on our roads !!

So yeah, I dont want a Death Machine with a 1000CC bike but I wish the Ninja could give me the HIT for a longer duration than just merely teasing my innocent childish like mind by dangling the SPEED carrot in front of my eyeballs.

In the wake of the near delivery of my new Suzuki Hayabusa/Yamaha R1 ( I am not disclosing which bike yet cause there are certain ppl and I want them to keep guessing about it ), I have found myself thinking about the rational behind buying anything bigger. I dont want the Death Machine tag that the four cylinders currently carry on our roads. I want something only slightly faster. Something that will enable me to encourage this great sport of biking to my own kids...something that will guarantee that I shall survive that long!

P.S The Ninja 250R is underpowered, that being my point, the rest is just rambling !

high revs???i thought u knew a nut named sagar! jokes apart...people say that its not safe running ur engine at high revs all the time but then people do say a lot of things that are not entirely true. the only consequences will be that you will be spending a little more money on maintenance than usual and u'l have to do that at shorter intervals. my bike, which people say is quite "unreliable" runs at high revs all the time and its still in damn good condition. its just that i take care of it more than usual and that is the reason that she rewards me with such good performance.

about ninja being underpowered....well, once you get used to a bike, u are going to feel that its underpowered. if u'v seen FASTER then u'l know wht i'm talking about. even those guys say that "Now i need More power". so just enjoy going around corners faster.therein lies the real thrill of riding.

[Motorcyclist]

hey man... we planning a kolhapur g2g somewhere during 1st week of feb... why not wait a few more days???

Wokay buddy! 1st week of Feb it is!

[nitrosatya]

@Tenhut:
That is exactly what some of us thought when Ninja was launched! Making a jump from P220 to Ninja 250 is not huge! As compared to price difference, the power jump is not much! 3Lacs for 13 more bhp!

The superbike rideablity subject has been done to death in the import section. You will buy the R1! That is my guess.
And when you start riding with C.O.P.S., i hope you will not forget us mortals!

[Motorcyclist]

[RANT]

Wasnt able to make it for the ride!!...got Navi'd by friends!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Whoever goes to watch a movie at 7 freakin 30 in the morning, on a hungry stomach, after being locked up from 5 in the morning!!! (OMG- too many !, mods dont warn!)
They even took away and hid my elbow guards....(man are they dead if I dont get that back!)

[/RANT]

[inder.cool]

Some of the photos from Kaas Lake

2 Karizmas




Ankit



Bike Lineup 1



Bike Lineup 2




Riding Gear




Alok and Nikhil..pls. pardon the crowd behind..




Kaas Lake




The Creepos

L-R: Inder, Surojit, Praveen, Sagar, NV, Rohan, Ritwik.




The Group foto

Standing:
L-R: Sagar, Praveen, Ritwik, Rohan, Surojit, Motorcyclist, NV(Dunno what's he doin with that odd expression ), Inder, Kashif, Ankur, Ram

Sitting:
L-R: Vivek, Alok, Vishwas, Ankit, Mayank, Niks, Ashu.




Windmill Farm, Satara




Log of wood




Fleet of Windmills




The vegetation below




The group pic




The Flora




Look who is buzzzzzzzzzzzzzing around..






Having Lunch..eh..





Couple of Swans enroute Pune




That's all folks..!!

[inder.cool]

Set 1

Pics for ppl viewing in office..

[inder.cool]

Set 2

Pics for ppl viewing in office..

[rohitlc]

Lavasa

hi these are some of the pics from today's Ride