The Official Pune Offline Meet(G2G) Thread

[abhi9665663488]

hi punekars ...

i m new here .....

[Sharan_R]

Damn. Missed a good ride indeeed. Photos look great!
Should have come for this instead of going somewhere else.

Vishwas sir, Should have listened to you!

[TenHut]

Not pertaining to the (being GAY) topic at hand... I actually found this Pune-SmileStone-Pune ride to be actually better than the numerous Pune-RK-Pune rides.

It was a fantastic ride. Tbh I came for this ride because Vishwas had called for it. I know his rides have good turnout....good speeds and good roads...are on time and one is back home by 12 pm at the most. Good ride indeed.

@TenHut.. I feel, The reason such technical topics are not discussed on this thread is because there are tons of technical threads to discuss whatever topic you want to...

So because there are other threads for technical topics we beat the same gay bush out here ? We can discuss technicalities in the other respective threads without being kids in the pune thread.

Who says that me and Tenhut are not on talking terms? Also about the mess on this thread didn't tenhut specifically mention -

Yeah ! all those who are saying I should have picked up a phone and called Vishwas...well I talk to him everyday...I could include his name in the last sentence because he is the only one I know who wont be offended by what I say. He has my blade and I have his Ninja right now..and this happens often...I go to his place for dinners and am good friends with his wife and kids and untill time permitted I used to meet him just about every alternate day. My beef is not with vishwas or any other person in particular..my beef is with the general attitude which lacks of anything to do with bikes. So hurry not to take the moral highground saying I shouldn't be flaming here. The flaming is HERE on the forums because HERE is where its needed the most...not on a bloody damn phone.

Its funny how people think I am only aiming this at Vishwas. Infact I aint aiming it at him at all...I am aiming it at those who jump onto the jokes he makes and start ridiculing the newbies. Vishwas or others like Satyen Poojari aka our Fuehrer may do it for they share a different rapport with the newbies. YOU cant cause you aint them and you are as much a newbie as the newbie you are ridiculing. Now who am I aiming this at ?

Dear TenHut,
I liked your post of gay jokes. I am new to xbhp and would be grateful if you humour my newbie question - when you say "gay", does it mean the non-straight sexual kind of gay or does it mean that the jokes are idiotic/foolish/stupid etc. This is a serious question so thanks in advance for the reply.
Regards,
Maneesh

Dear Icemang,
I dont think you are new to xBHP. When I say "gay" I mean both..the non straight sexual kind of gay and I mean jokes which are old as dirt. But mind you I don't mean the idiotic/foolish/stupid jokes. What may be idiotic to me will be smart to someone else so who am I to decide on that ? Your is a serious question indeed and I am glad to have made myself available to you to answer it. My beef was more with newbies feeling left out because ppl single them out..whether the newbie particularly deserves it or not is not of any concern to me. Maybe he does and maybe he doesn't. The problem is if I ridicule you and although you might deserve it..the other newbie who doesn't deserve it and has nothing to do with you and I, will watch our conversation and think the whole bag is a bunch of loosers. Get my point now ? Newbies like Sirhud thought this and left. Oldies like Tourojith saw this and left.

[antz.bin]

@ everyone - i have a question of how and which is the better way to improve the peripheral vision and in corners is it safe to take corner from right side of the white marker or ride on that side as compared to left side of the white marker.

Hello dear friend... Allow me to help you out.

For your query on Peripheral Vision... give this a read

http://www.xbhp.com/talkies/hard-torque/5216-seeing-riding.html

Or watch this:

http://www.xbhp.com/talkies/xbhp-videos/15944-xbhp-talk-2-sandeep-goswami-aka-old-fox-vision.html

As for cornering, what kind of corner are we talking about?
For starters Left hander or right hander ?

For more info on how to corner... read this:

Turning: The Art of Safe Riding

I guess the diagram on that page will help answer your query.

[nitrosatya]

Well well, this was one of the reason why my posts reduced in this thread. The overall standard of Pune XBHP was reducing by day. Many old members don't even check this thread anymore. Many posts don't even refer to biking as such!

My suggestion to newbies: Please don't try to prove yourself in any overzealous ways. There are professional track racers in Pune XBHP. People who have more miles on their bikes than your age. You stand to be ridiculed.

My suggestions to the older members[not age wise]: Please don't single out the newbies just because of their incomplete gyaan and attitude. And lets create a more healthy atmosphere here.


On a good note, it was a great ride. ZXRs, YZFRs and CBRs all blasting down the road in the morning!!

Cheers! And ride safe!

[vkavadia]

My suggestion to newbies: Please don't try to prove yourself in any overzealous ways. There are professional track racers in Pune XBHP. People who have more miles on their bikes than your age. You stand to be ridiculed.

I'd love a friendly and more bike oriented atmosphere...

If I'm not wrong, there used to be a pre-decided topic for each G2G.. Introducing that concept again would be good..

[inder.cool]

Did anyone get/buy the current xbhp magazine?

[satyenpoojary]

Did anyone get/buy the current xbhp magazine?

I got it a few days back and thank you for making me realize that I forgot keeping it in my laptop bag!
I had a quick glance of it and it has some stunning KTM writeups... There is a brilliant duke pic there too! And the true wanderers writeups too!

[inder.cool]

^ You coming for the G2G on wednesday? Pls. get it that time..I need to have a look at it..

[trustvishwas]

My suggestion to newbies: Please don't try to prove yourself in any overzealous ways. There are professional track racers in Pune XBHP. People who have more miles on their bikes than your age. You stand to be ridiculed.

My suggestions to the older members[not age wise]: Please don't single out the newbies just because of their incomplete gyaan and attitude. And lets create a more healthy atmosphere here.

No one would be ridiculed. Anyone can ask really any kind of question even a stupid question but he would not be ridiculed . . . . i.e. unless he is hell bent on not listening and wants to get ridiculed.

I'd love a friendly and more bike oriented atmosphere...

If I'm not wrong, there used to be a pre-decided topic for each G2G.. Introducing that concept again would be good..

+1 to you.

If you know, I was the one who suggested this format. The format suggested by me was a 20 min/half hour by one guy talking about anything related to biking. . . . may be cornering, may be touring, may be off-roading, may be engines . . . . absolutely anything related to biking. Rest of the time can be devoted to bakar session.

However, even after tremendous efforts by niranjanvaidya and a formal lecture by Antz.bin, no one showed the slightest interest in discussing anything related to biking. So I understood that this is just a time pass G2G having no actual relevance to biking and modified my behaviour accordingly.

[amitredefined]

Pretty serious... hmmm apologies for my post yesterday...

[vkavadia]

However, even after tremendous efforts by niranjanvaidya and a formal lecture by Antz.bin, no one showed the slightest interest in discussing anything related to biking. So I understood that this is just a time pass G2G having no actual relevance to biking and modified my behaviour accordingly.

How about another try? We could decide the topic here and interested people could look up the net for related information...

There's always something new to learn and it doesn't necessarily have to be about future upgrades to biking technology.. we could discuss the stuff they write in the 'hard torque' section..

[JAKRAP]

If you know, I was the one who suggested this format. The format suggested by me was a 20 min/half hour by one guy talking about anything related to biking. . . . may be cornering, may be touring, may be off-roading, may be engines . . . . absolutely anything related to biking. Rest of the time can be devoted to bakar session.

However, even after tremendous efforts by niranjanvaidya and a formal lecture by Antz.bin, no one showed the slightest interest in discussing anything related to biking. So I understood that this is just a time pass G2G having no actual relevance to biking and modified my behaviour accordingly.

Well there is only one solution. Reward in cash or kind!
Lets say you have a 20-30 minute session every g2g, there should be some reward for the guy who soughts to present the same. THe idea could be on anything related to motorcycle parts to ways to ride.

Lets say that he gets a free dinner, paid equally by the rest of the members in the G2G. Ultimately the risk on each of the other members would be 10-20 bucks which i believe is something everyone can contribute to. Lets call it the cover charge! If you forget to bring your cover charge, you can pay it as petrol

Any member can take up a topic and do a detailed analysis on the same and present before the group. Since there are automobile experts and noobs (like me) in the group, the noobs can always learn something or other and the experts can always chip in.

Now there can be situations.

1) Situation 1: Too many presenters.

There are a lot of guys who want the free lunch and there is a commotion to present. . We could do it on a random pick up of lots for each week.

2) Situation 2: Too less presenters.

If tHis fails to cut ice with most, we could randomly pick up some one from the group and allocate him the task. And it would be his duty to turn up and present the same to the group (subject to the persons availability). If he doesnt turn up or present, he would have the honors to pay for the entire group in the next G2G!! How abt that.

N.B. I know there is a loophole in this for Cash rich lazy bums who can get away by paying for the dinner. The world over, people with money often get their way. And since everyone is benefitting from the same, we would rather not worry!

[trustvishwas]

How about another try? We could decide the topic here and interested people could look up the net for related information...

There's always something new to learn and it doesn't necessarily have to be about future upgrades to biking technology.. we could discuss the stuff they write in the 'hard torque' section..

Like I mentioned earlier, we can talk about absolutely anything related to biking . . . even biking related jokes, stories about recent rides etc.. . . . otherwise the purpose of G2G would be just a meeting of friends . . . .

We have serious tourers, off roaders, racers, test riders, guys having tremendous technical knowledge but we lack will power to make proper use of it.

Also without majority participation, this format will not take off. So majority of guys who attend G2G need to decide the direction which they want to take.

[satyenpoojary]

^ You coming for the G2G on wednesday? Pls. get it that time..I need to have a look at it..

Sir, I did mention that I have not carried it to pune

Well there is only one solution. Reward in cash or kind!
Lets say you have a 20-30 minute session every g2g, there should be some reward for the guy who soughts to present the same. THe idea could be on anything related to motorcycle parts to ways to ride.

Lets say that he gets a free dinner, paid equally by the rest of the members in the G2G. Ultimately the risk on each of the other members would be 10-20 bucks which i believe is something everyone can contribute to. Lets call it the cover charge! If you forget to bring your cover charge, you can pay it as petrol

Any member can take up a topic and do a detailed analysis on the same and present before the group. Since there are automobile experts and noobs (like me) in the group, the noobs can always learn something or other and the experts can always chip in.

Now there can be situations.

1) Situation 1: Too many presenters.

There are a lot of guys who want the free lunch and there is a commotion to present. . We could do it on a random pick up of lots for each week.

2) Situation 2: Too less presenters.

If tHis fails to cut ice with most, we could randomly pick up some one from the group and allocate him the task. And it would be his duty to turn up and present the same to the group (subject to the persons availability). If he doesnt turn up or present, he would have the honors to pay for the entire group in the next G2G!! How abt that.

N.B. I know there is a loophole in this for Cash rich lazy bums who can get away by paying for the dinner. The world over, people with money often get their way. And since everyone is benefitting from the same, we would rather not worry!

Well lucky me, I was a part of that discussion there, and mind you it was an excellent one prepared by NV/Antz

The problem wasnt the presentation... the problem (IMO) was that the people who were present and who appreciated the effort did not really make a lot of noise about it on the forum. The members on the forum didnt really feel the pinch of missing the training, and so the 'next' scheduled training got delayed and no one took the owenrship and it didnt happen! So the very active forum members continued discussing the other topics and the initiative lost its momentum.


THAT asides, I know for a fact that Antz is busy researching on a 'revolutionary' concept about 'shaving the head' (dont jump the gun!) which we will discuss sometime this week. xBhp meet or not.

Anyone interested?