The Official Pune Offline Meet(G2G) Thread

[TenHut]

but u can simply make the same Tee Shirts in Pune !!
Edited my previous post to share the Dyno test experience of 2010 Blade.

[Mik]

who all are planning to meet at nicks cafe today.

Please send me the route also as i never been there.

NDA Pashan road (going towards chandni chowk..where the road takes a slight bend)
25, Aditya Shagun Mall
Near chandni chowk.

[trustvishwas]

"The only people who are against this are fcuking idiots who are afraid of some squid/noob outbraking them.... This is fcuking great technology". Can be used on track and on the streets.

Actually, only an extremely skilled professional rider MAY be able to outbrake the honda system. This should be mandatory for all bikes above 150 cc.

[shrinathrao]

any g2g plans today?

[Devilpulsarian]

i m ini as exam gets over on 30th

please specify what you are in for??
there are lot of parallel things going on

...???

[rohitlc]

i m in for lavasa ride...

[tourer_kashif]

Updated list:

rishabh - XL
samuel - L
Surojit - M
zmatic(sandeep)- M (2 of them)
Ram - M

rishabh - XL
samuel - L
Surojit - M
zmatic(sandeep)- M (2 of them)
Ram - M
Kashif- M

[TenHut]

i m in for lavasa ride...

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[surojit]

rishabh - XL
samuel - L
Surojit - M and L
zmatic(sandeep)- M (2 of them)
Ram - M
Kashif- M

@mg- take a note of the bold text..get a M and L for me and we also need to clear our previous dues and get the sticker also..

[TenHut]

I am about to post something. That something is gonna be something about the one thing that has smitten me so badly that I am having a tough time comprehending reality, time, space and gravity. I feel like I am on steroids,coke,caffeine,tanine and every other PED out there. My brain refuses to stop processing thoughts about the Fireblade and I refuse to believe that human beings could produce anything as genius as this piece of finely engineered Motorcycle.
At the very outset, however, I must admit that I have a few things I need to settle with a certain few members of our motorcycling fraternity who through no fault of their own have come to think of the Blade as a 'nice' unentertaining bike. I know exactly where this kinda thinking stems from. Pub lore !!!

Pub lore is like a zombie plague, irrational, unthinking and unstoppable.
Allow me to pen a few examples..
1.Twins make more torque
2.Supermotos are quicker than Sportbikes.
3.Fireblades are too 'nice'.
4.Inder has a boyfriend in Mumbai.
5.Vishwas is going to Leh(and coming back in one piece)
6.Sagar has his braking fingers insured for the cost of Keiron Pollard.
7.TenHut is a noob.

Each statement wildly inaccurate than the last, except maybe the last one.
But such is the nature of Pub lore. When one guy tells the other that the Blade is a boring piece of machinery the other tells it to the waiter while ordering his extra cheese on his Uttapa and soon the entire of Roopali knows that the Blade sucks balls. I have often propogated such nonsensical pub lore a countless number of times and have all the more been the victim of one myself. Pub lore is fun.
The living proof that pub lore works is the fact that every tom dick and harry wants an R1. While the R1 is a space shuttle which will get you to the moon and back in its first gear alone( the tallest first gear of all the litre bikes R1 =170 kmph,blade = 160 kmph) it has nothing of which you can even remotely expect to use on the streets. The R1 in my eyes has a shortcoming. It is a race bike made legal on the streets by merely adding a set of indicators to it.
It is like telling an 18 year old kid : " here ...take this bike and suffer the consequences"
The blade on the other hand is a race track bike which can be ridden on the streets, in the air and on water. When you arent throttling the four cylinder its like the blade is talking to you ; 'Fine, if you’re not going to try to be fast, I won’t, either'
The point is...while you are looking for some feedback from the Blade the Blade is looking for some feedback from you. Its a symbiotic relationship.
It fits you like a perfect winter glove.
However regardless of how many counter arguments you put through the heads of some infidels, they - cla click - just - BAAM - wont - cla click - stay - BAAM - down. They just - cla click - keep coming - BAAM

Honda’s 2010 CBR1000RR Fireblade is “nice” in only the same way as a precision-manufactured firearm might be. It’s exquisite in the way it goes about what it does, but what it does is brutal. BAAM! Wait for the dust and smoke to clear, survey the size of the hole, then look down at the sophisticated piece of hardware which made it; “Nice,” that’s the 2010 Fireblade. To understand the new Fireblade you have to understand Honda Culture. New to the Biking scenario the Honda culture is the only one which I want to make MY culture. I am officially henceforth a die hard Honda Fan. I wasnt a loyalist before...untill a brand worth being loyal to came accross. Honda's obsessive-compulsive engineering is evident everywhere.
Allow me to briefly enumerate Honda Culture and engineering in a few bullet points.

• The head of the Honda Workshop in Mumbai is one crazy middle aged guy who has years of redlining superbikes. He himself owns a Hayabusa and has raced at Qatar Losail International like countless times and once in the company of Rossi on a wet track. When I am buying something to the tune of 15 lakhs that is the only kinda man I want to be talking to. Someone who knows what he is selling.
• The exhaust of the 2010 Fireblade sits BENEATH the engine. It is lower than the engine. MotoGP pedigree. Helps your Handling if you are in the league of Hayden or Spies.
• The Blade doesnt sit up and head for the scenery, as many bikes do when you are trialing the front into a bend. Courtsey : Honda race class inverted forks.
• The short owlish nose creates an illusion that you are sitting right over the front fork. In reality, the rider is part of the mass-centralisation. Plonked in the middle of the seat is exactly where the bike needs you to be and the suspension does the rest. The snubby nose mimics the abbreviated proboscis of the RC212V MotoGP bike, something Honda says makes for easier steering transitions at speed. Function and Performance first.
• Kyoichi Yoshii, the “Large Project Leader” for this CBR, came to this assignment after he was the project leader of Nicky Hayden’s RC211V in the American’s MotoGP championship year in 2006. He then sat to develope the current Fireblade on the lines of RC211V
• 23 patents are filed just for the CBR's “technology to assist transitional technique.”
  
• When I first saw no hydraulic clutch on the Blade I immediately raised a smirk and applauded myself for having found a flaw in the Blade. Upon investigating more I realised to my pleasure that I was wrong. Hydraulic clutch is heavier. Honda has cable actuated unit far superior to hydraulic. Again with 20 million patents to their name for this, the lever pull is as light as that of a hydraulic clutch.
• The IIC (Ignition Interfering control or something) determines the change from deceleration to acceleration based on throttle position, crank speed and countershaft speed, and it cuts the ignition for a brief 20ms when engine speed exceeds countershaft speed, reducing driveline shock. It’s a clever system, and works only up to 6000 rpm and only at small throttle openings. Just the way one would want it. At higher RPMs there aint to ingition interference to smoothen the throttle...just raw thrust of power.
• The aluminum frame consists of just four pieces instead of conventional nine. Although the structure is 2.2kgs lighter, Honda says rigidity is up in all three axes: 40% laterally; 13% torsionally; and 30% at longitudinally
• The Blade weighs a little under 200Kgs with Fuel. Equivalent weight for the Ninja 250R = 170 kgs.
• 2nd generation Steering Damper. They say this technology, along with Hondas anti hopping slipper clutch, is alien.
• C- ABS. The only bike with it. Period.
  

Why am I sputterign all this in Pune Offline forum ? I want to share the excitement of having dyno tested and test ridden the Fireblade and to have compared it with the 2010 R1. The R1 was a beautiful thing but I dont have the will to sing praises to it. No hard feelings !

Ladies and Gentlemen I am so smitten by Honda and the pinnacle of motorcycling technology that by the end of this day I would have booked the digital silver 2010 Fireblade.
http://boystoman.files.wordpress.com...de_c-abs_3.jpg

WOOT !

I hope an asteroid doesnt obliterate planet earth before that happens. i am really worried about that. Would you say I am not in the right state of mind?

p.s. Copy Pasted from everywhere !

[MG]

but u can simply make the same Tee Shirts in Pune !!

I know and I agree but since we have a long time association with the Tee guy(More than 6years now) so we try to give the order to him. You can say he is also a part of xBhp family.

[inder.cool]

@MG: I observed one problem on the forum..

When on the Live tracker page..the drop down of 'Quick Links' doesn't work...but when on any other page it works fine..

[trustvishwas]

TenHut, you should be employed by honda for writing their brochures / press releases.

[rishabhshukla14]

...???

Dear Pulsarian, (where have you been these many days)

Please when you come back after a long vacation please try to read all the posts, since your last post.

For now these were the things which were going in parallel:
1. Good Samaritan Mission (details: Good Samaritan Mission - 28th March 2010)
2. Criss's Show
3. G2G yesterday (which never happened)
4. And your LAVASA ride.

Thats why i asked rohit...

I am gona PM yo in sometime just check that out.

@surojit: PM me your number man.

TenHut, you should be employed by honda for writing their brochures / press releases.

+1 ya he really writes well.

You will have a PM in few minutes.

[Devilpulsarian]

i m in for lavasa ride...

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Tenhut was that an urge to control your emotions........

What in the whole world does these dots signify.........

Ladies and Gentlemen I am so smitten by Honda and the pinnacle of motorcycling technology that by the end of this day I would have booked the digital silver 2010 Fireblade.
http://boystoman.files.wordpress.com...de_c-abs_3.jpg

Nooooo.........................................201 0 blade looks out of proportion...
Buy the ONE.....................

Dear Pulsarian, (where have you been these many days)

Please when you come back after a long vacation please try to read all the posts, since your last post.

For now these were the things which were going in parallel:
1. Good Samaritan Mission (details: Good Samaritan Mission - 28th March 2010)
2. Criss's Show
3. G2G yesterday (which never happened)
4. And your LAVASA ride.

Thats why i asked rohit...

I am gona PM yo in sometime just check that out.

@surojit: PM me your number man.


+1 ya he really writes well.

You will have a PM in few minutes.

You are on a PM mission kya....