The Official Nagpur Offline Meet(G2G) Thread

[hardashh NGP]

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XBHP nagpur's official facebook page..

Xbhp-NAGPUR official

Also first official ride this sunday...

Reactivated my 6 year old account just for this. Looking forward to our meet

[Jitu Gadkari]

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Reactivated my 6 year old account just for this. Looking forward to our meet

Welcome back ashwin!! :thumbup:

"LIVE YOUNG, LIVE FREE "

[hardashh NGP]

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All Nagpur members please note we'll be riding as Nagpur Xbhpians for the first time this Sunday (28-09-2014). Please post here, or contact me or the other recent posters on this thread via PM to join if you are still not a part of it. The more the merrier

[hardashh NGP]

First ride of Xbhp Nagpur

A whole 5 years after this thread started, The First Nagpur G2G has been a success. I will let writers better than me get a detailed report on the small but awesome G2G. Attaching a teaser pic of our meet

[spiderweb]

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Quite a surpize. RIDE SAFE

[princesirohi]

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So Nagpur finally woke up.....keep it up guys...!

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[Jitu Gadkari]

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It was best and first G2G of Nagpur. Was fun riding with Xbhpian. We are planning next ride soon.

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[hardashh NGP]

First Official XBHP Ride report

One fine Monday morning I get a FB message from an old acquaintance. Ive seen this guy around in my old college and know his name and all, but that is all. Guy asks me if I am enthusiastic about riding, and I am like hell yeah! Thats when he, Jitu, asks me if I am on xBhp. Next thing he does is add me to the xBhp Nagpur whatsapp group. I just know him in the entire group. But there is something about us motorcyclists and especially xBhpians, you dont need introductions at all. You know if a person is a fellow xBhpian, you automatically have ALOT in common. Thus, I gel in pretty well within the first few minutes itself. There was an ongoing discussion regarding a group ride and I was the probably the last one to join the group. Fast forward 6 days and we all are eagerly awaiting the next morning, the day we ride. I had already washed my Duke and filled her up, all set to go.

28-09-2014

Ride: Nagpur-Paoni Fort-Gosekhurd Dam-Nagpur
Distance: 220Kms round trip

It was a pleasant morning. At around 6:30AM I reached Zero Mile, our meeting point. Zero Mile is considered as the geographical center of India, and symbolically it was a great place to kick off the series of riding adventures all of us will be having.

Ayush @Ayush41193 ) was already waiting for me on his 200NS. We exchanged introductions since none of us had seen the other. Soon Ayush( @ayu135 ) joined us on his Duke 390 sporting an awesome Alpine star riding jacket. Soon after Rohit( @tripster ) arrived thumping, with his partner on an immaculate Bullet. Rohit was the most experienced rider of our group and arrived all packed and dressed up for his ride to Western Ghats with his wife. Rohit would be starting this journey with the xBhp group. And in a few minutes Jitu ( @Jitu Gadkari ) arrived with his brother on an Avenger.

Jitu was yet to arrive when this picture was taken.


At 7:30 the ride started. The roads were lovely and the three nakeds and the Avenger were having a blast keeping at least a steady 80kmph. The bullet seemed to be lagging but I believe the riders were having no less fun (Right Rohit?). At around 9 we reached Paoni and rather disappointingly, the supposed 17th century fort was nothing but a wall. Still, the ride up till here made up for it. However this was where Rohit was supposed to set out on his own. We bid adieu to the lone bulleteer in our group and surged ahead to Gosekhurd hoping the dam would be better than Paoni.

Thankfully, it was a whole lot better.


The Dam had 33 gates (Counting of which gave some members a headache)


From Left to Right: Me, Ayush, Ayush, Jitu




We started back from Gosekhurd at 12. The ride back was rather dull, due to heat and the constant feeling that the awesome time was about to end. Nevertheless we maintained decent speeds thanks to a relatively empty four lane highway. We stopped for fuel and some men came and inquired about the dukes enthusiastically. Me and Ayush were showered with words of wisdom and what not .

We reached Nagpur by 1:30 and had awesome South Indian food at a local eatery. By 2:15 we all went on to our homes, to continue with our routine lives. What I found on that day were 4 new friends, 4 close friends and an amazing memory.

PS: Shoutout to Nikhil [MENTION=50842]pacificwaters[/MENTION] [I hope I got your handle correct] who couldn't be with us on the ride since he was supposed to start for his bullet ride from Nagpur to Bhutan!

More (and better) pictures will follow this post soon enough.
Thanx for reading.

[Jitu Gadkari]

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Nice write-up ashwin, will continue these rides once in every 2 weeks :thumbup:


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[tripster]

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The most experienced was actually Jitu Gadkari and I was the oldest, that day as @pacificwaters (Nikhil) was preparing for Bhutan. He is actually both in our group. I left in a hurry that day. Waiting for a long ride with you guys. Most probably when Nikhil returns so that we can hear all about the Druk Kingdom

[hardashh NGP]

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I will correct it in the post

[Centaur]

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Any ride in the last week of October? I might be able to join in...

[hardashh NGP]

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[MENTION=34363]Centaur[/MENTION] I guess we could plan something for next Sunday

But diwali and stuff could restrict participation.

[Jitu Gadkari]

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Any ride in the last week of October? I might be able to join in...

Are u form Nagpur brother??

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[Centaur]

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[MENTION=61636]Jitu Gadkari[/MENTION]: nope dude, I'm from Bombay. My wife's been transferred to Nagpur AG's Office, so I would be in and out of Nagpur frequently. [MENTION=18864]hardashh NGP[/MENTION]: Don't think I would be able to make it this Sunday. Most prolly will be in Nagpur from 28th only for shifting and buying school stuff for the kids.

But the transfer's for about a year, so will definitely get in touch
cheers!!