The Official Pune Offline Meet(G2G) Thread

[Alibaba]

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)

@murtaza 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.

Wokay sir!

[Sharan_R]

@TenHut

+100 to that. You put it Perfectly.

[KTJ]

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 !

I like this guy!!

@TenHut: the video about the hand signals is quite informative, just a query: shouldnt all these signals be performed with right hand?? as at times it may be necessary to declutch the engine to prevent it from stalling??

[Devilpulsarian]

WARNING: Wall of TEXT !

Inder and Gentlemen,

Apartheid..............I say...........

U, Satyen, Vishwas are real hungry mongers...........

Spare the rod win the child........!!!

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

Wooookaaay........Jai & Veeru ride together.........

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

"Bajaj DIDN'T do it" should be the real word here....
Even I was of this opinion a few days back...till I met MG...

Anyways, I gues u already know that FI had even smaller mirrors...Bajaj has elongated the mirror stems slightly on the DTSi version.
The Difference: Slightly better/wider view but its jerky and vibrating. As an aftereffect the mirrors on DTSi vibrate more than FI...
220s fairing needs a lot more support/rearrangement to come up with something better....

[antz.bin]

"Bajaj DIDN'T do it" should be the real word here....
Even I was of this opinion a few days back...till I met MG...

What did he tell you?

Anyways, I gues u already know that FI had even smaller mirrors...Bajaj has elongated the mirror stems slightly on the DTSi version. I knew that The total length of the DTSi mirrors is a full 7cm longer..

The Difference: Slightly better/wider view but its jerky and vibrating. As an aftereffect the mirrors on DTSi vibrate more than FI... Still as useless as they were before. But I prefer vibrating image to no image

220s fairing needs a lot more support/rearrangement to come up with something better....

The solution to this particular problem is to reduce the weight of the mirror itself.

[phoenixflight]

WARNING: Wall of TEXT !

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

Sunday ride to Lavasa would be awesome. Can't make it on saturdays as I got to bloody work.

[satyenpoojary]

folks, would the Dagdu sheth Ganpati temple be super crowded on weekends?
Wanting to go there sometime Saturday...

[rohitlc]

folks, would the Dagdu sheth Ganpati temple be super crowded on weekends?
Wanting to go there sometime Saturday...

yes it will be. u got my PM

[satyenpoojary]

Any jugaad possible??

(got the pm)

[rohitlc]

Any jugaad possible??

(got the pm)

abt dagdusheth? vishwas might be able to give u some ideas.

[trustvishwas]

Do I look like Jugaad baba?

Edit : No! Don't answer that.

Dagadusheth darshan on weekends is possible if you wish to stand in queue for an hour or so. Not more. If you go sometime around 2.30 - 3 am, the crowd will be much less.

[niranjanvaidya]

Is the meet confirmed for today? who all are coming?

[rohitlc]

meet in confirmed.

[rishabhshukla14]

Is the meet confirmed for today? who all are coming?

Why you changed your profile pic
The older one was awesome...

[antz.bin]

The official thread for the South India Exploration Ride is up. Do pour in your suggestions.

http://www.xbhp.com/talkies/tourer/14735-riders-cause-south-india-ride-against-exploitation-through-child-labour.html

@G2GBaba... Motocafe? I ll be late.