The Official Pune Offline Meet(G2G) Thread

[niranjanvaidya]

My Barracuda carries a 14T front already pretty silent.

[satyenpoojary]

Yeah yeah I know saar, I meant put it face downwards! uggh! difficult to explain..

:| becomes |:
Where ":" is the face of the sprocket and "|" is the base of sprocket currently in contact.

[niranjanvaidya]

Yeah yeah I know saar, I meant put it face downwards! uggh! difficult to explain..

:| becomes |:
Where ":" is the face of the sprocket and "|" is the base of sprocket currently in contact.

got it saar...you had shared it with me earlier too..

[satyenpoojary]

got it saar...you had shared it with me earlier too..

Common problem in R15 in first rains or in 800-2000 KMs... so

[TenHut]

WARNING: Wall of TEXT !

Inder and Gentlemen,

With the advent of this new riding season bestowed onto us by the good deeds of our heavenly forefathers, I have a lame announcement to make.
The weather is one of those kinds when its warm to bask under the sun and calm and cool in the shadows. Perfect, some may say for riding a motorcycle. Needless to say, I concur ! So why not have a fixed ride every week for us to simply jump on rather than posting " are we riding this weekend?"
I choose Lavasa as this fixed ride destination..partly for I am to ride there every weekend and partly for one can ride to lavasa and be back by 10 am

Now, at the very outset, allow me to make it abundantly clear that riding at lavasa is not about knee downs. Also when you bought your bike they didnt measure your frontal lobe before selling you one. Had they measured mine they never would have sold me the Ninja250R, let alone the Blade !
Hence..
..as a rider it is my responsibility that I stay in the pink of my riding health i.e. I keep sharpening my riding abilities so that I can live to tell my grandson of my stories. Its not about outriding another rider...its about outriding your ownself and what you were riding like yesterday...its about having fun on the road while keeping your reflexes sharp...afterall we all have a family to come back home to.

While riding is great fun a considerable amount of effort should also be towards improving it so that one may at times in the near future look back and say...ahh what a noob i was in year 2010 ! It sucks to stagnate at anything in life and it sucks even more to stagnate when it comes to riding abilties and the set of skills and reflexes required to ride and stay safe ! A ride to lavasa serves the purpose of having fun at riding and improving your set of skills to tackle straights, corners and to become familier with those split second decisions which you will otherwise never encounter on other roads.

I wanna stress on the fact that riding to Lavasa is NOT dangerous ! By no means is it dangerous, if you arent indulging yourself in some wierd whacky riding style.
But the roads certainly are a lot less forgiving.
Lets get this straight ! Any mountaineous road...be it the deals gap in the US of A, or the Mullholland Highway in the US of A again, or Ambey Valley in the US of Lonavla or Lavasa in the US of Pune.....will be a lot less forgiving than any other normal road out there. It isnt always the other guys fault...its also your fault for having read the turns wrong and for having overestimated your ability to react in a particular panicky situation.

So that was the prelude !

The main crux of this post is...every saturday AND/OR sunday there will be a ride to Lavasa which shall start from Chandni Chowk at about 6:30 am.
Riders may start gathering 6 am onwards and the wheels will be set in motion by 6:30am

The general hand signals followed by riders at lavasa are based on this
YouTube - International Moto Signal Comunication

Communication at lavasa is important...hovering of bikes around you like Neo had the sentinels in matrix jumping on him is the worst thing that can happen on mountainous roads. So riders generally ride in a formation Anyone is free to lead the pack of riders but to be honest dont just lead to feel like a hero. If you fcuk up in the front you will make everyone else fcuk up behind you. It is certainly a responsibility of sorts. Then again....if you think you are reading the roads well dont hesitate to be the lead. Being the lead also has its own ways of sharpening the way you look through the turns.

After having left from Chandni Chowk the second halt can generally be taken at the foothills i.e. at the Dam, on the bridge. There the importance to be within your limits will be stressed on once again in a very brief manner or then "ride safe" will be thrown around to each other so that the importance of riding safe gets hardwired into our brains and the uphill climb shall then begin. Maitaining a single file from here on is of utmost importance.

So any which way...if you have ignored everything written above and wanna know what the entire fcukin post is about then here it is..

Rides to lavasa ever Saturday AND/OR Sunday at 6:30 am.
Ride Safe !

[rohitlc]

@ TenHut : nice post.. video, very useful

[trustvishwas]

WARNING: Wall of TEXT !

Inder and Gentlemen,

With the advent of this new riding season bestowed onto us by the good deeds of our heavenly forefathers, I have a lame announcement to make.
The weather is one of those kinds when its warm to bask under the sun and calm and cool in the shadows. Perfect, some may say for riding a motorcycle. Needless to say, I concur ! So why not have a fixed ride every week for us to simply jump on rather than posting " are we riding this weekend?"
I choose Lavasa as this fixed ride destination..partly for I am to ride there every weekend and partly for one can ride to lavasa and be back by 10 am

Now, at the very outset, allow me to make it abundantly clear that riding at lavasa is not about knee downs. Also when you bought your bike they didnt measure your frontal lobe before selling you one. Had they measured mine they never would have sold me the Ninja250R, let alone the Blade !
Hence..
..as a rider it is my responsibility that I stay in the pink of my riding health i.e. I keep sharpening my riding abilities so that I can live to tell my grandson of my stories. Its not about outriding another rider...its about outriding your ownself and what you were riding like yesterday...its about having fun on the road while keeping your reflexes sharp...afterall we all have a family to come back home to.

While riding is great fun a considerable amount of effort should also be towards improving it so that one may at times in the near future look back and say...ahh what a noob i was in year 2010 ! It sucks to stagnate at anything in life and it sucks even more to stagnate when it comes to riding abilties and the set of skills and reflexes required to ride and stay safe ! A ride to lavasa serves the purpose of having fun at riding and improving your set of skills to tackle straights, corners and to become familier with those split second decisions which you will otherwise never encounter on other roads.

I wanna stress on the fact that riding to Lavasa is NOT dangerous ! By no means is it dangerous, if you arent indulging yourself in some wierd whacky riding style.
But the roads certainly are a lot less forgiving.
Lets get this straight ! Any mountaineous road...be it the deals gap in the US of A, or the Mullholland Highway in the US of A again, or Ambey Valley in the US of Lonavla or Lavasa in the US of Pune.....will be a lot less forgiving than any other normal road out there. It isnt always the other guys fault...its also your fault for having read the turns wrong and for having overestimated your ability to react in a particular panicky situation.

So that was the prelude !

The main crux of this post is...every saturday AND/OR sunday there will be a ride to Lavasa which shall start from Chandni Chowk at about 6:30 am.
Riders may start gathering 6 am onwards and the wheels will be set in motion by 6:30am

The general hand signals followed by riders at lavasa are based on this
YouTube - International Moto Signal Comunication

Communication at lavasa is important...hovering of bikes around you like Neo had the sentinels in matrix jumping on him is the worst thing that can happen on mountainous roads. So riders generally ride in a formation Anyone is free to lead the pack of riders but to be honest dont just lead to feel like a hero. If you fcuk up in the front you will make everyone else fcuk up behind you. It is certainly a responsibility of sorts. Then again....if you think you are reading the roads well dont hesitate to be the lead. Being the lead also has its own ways of sharpening the way you look through the turns.

After having left from Chandni Chowk the second halt can generally be taken at the foothills i.e. at the Dam, on the bridge. There the importance to be within your limits will be stressed on once again in a very brief manner or then "ride safe" will be thrown around to each other so that the importance of riding safe gets hardwired into our brains and the uphill climb shall then begin. Maitaining a single file from here on is of utmost importance.

So any which way...if you have ignored everything written above and wanna know what the entire fcukin post is about then here it is..

Rides to lavasa ever Saturday AND/OR Sunday at 6:30 am.
Ride Safe !

Agree on other blah blah.... but when you say Inder and Gentlemen, it sounds as if you are excluding him from a group of gentlemen.

[beruoist]

Hi..Byee



Cheers
Biru

[Controlled Madness]

[QUOTE=rohitlc;493245]all the dogs (pun intended) plz collect your tags tomorrow at meet. satyen bike needs to be taken to the mech. i think. it wont start have not ridden for at least 10 days.]

Are these dog tags custom made or generic??

in either case, what do I do "now" if I wish to have 1??

You already made the dog tags... wanted to show you another one... the US spec one... I found it in my locker @ mumbai!

me interested....
what would be my 'to do' items... in this case

Thanku thanku

I did reply to your post last friday but there was no reply on this topic, so I assumed it was called off. Anyways next time. Where are you? Hyderabad?

yes. in Hyderabad....


this is for reminding me the same

[antz.bin]

Hi..Byee



Cheers
Biru

Where to biru bhaiya?

@Shrinath: Khan saahab refused to help me.

@All My bike now has mirrors in which I can Actually See whats coming behind me! There are minor vibes (when I try to accelerate from 2k RPM in top gear) in the modded mirror, but who cares . At least I can see a (sometimes) vibrating instead of my own shirt/jacket.

Simple MOD: The stalks of the stock mirrors are extended by 2 inches.

Location: Rikshaw workshop in Nana Peth.

Comments: I wonder why BAL could'nt do that in the first place.

[Alibaba]

Where to biru bhaiya?

@Shrinath: Khan saahab refused to help me.

@All My bike now has mirrors in which I can Actually See whats coming behind me! There are minor vibes (when I try to accelerate from 2k RPM in top gear) in the modded mirror, but who cares . At least I can see a (sometimes) vibrating instead of my own shirt/jacket.

Simple MOD: The stalks of the stock mirrors are extended by 2 inches.

Location: Rikshaw workshop in Nana Peth.

Comments: I wonder why BAL could'nt do that in the first place.

Please post pics BEFORE and AFTER the mod..

[satyenpoojary]

Be careful, on a tour it may fall off!!!!
Better stick to the RTRs RVM (and dont steal mine for that)

@Control Madness, Rohit is the right man for it!

[antz.bin]

Be careful, on a tour it may fall off!!!!
Better stick to the RTRs RVM (and dont steal mine for that)

@Control Madness, Rohit is the right man for it!

actually I did buy the RTR thingie.. but the welder person did a good job with the stock mirrors and made me return the rtr mirrors. (thus saving me 250 bux)

@murtuza why do you need pics? check it out at the G2G tomorrow. I have done a very shabby work of the taping (to hide the extended stalks) and dont wish to post pics and get ridiculed publicly. The happiness I get from being able to see behind easily trumps the bad looks courtesy my shabbiness.

[satyenpoojary]

Cool! But still be careful
The fairing isnt really the friend thing in the bike on which you should do the wield job

[antz.bin]

Cool! But still be careful
The fairing isnt really the friend thing in the bike on which you should do the wield job

the fairing wasnt welded, the mirror was removed for the mod. and.. to look at its brighter side,.. I now have collapsible mirrors and in the event I fall over it, they wont be capable enough to stab me.