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**darkknight** · 06-29-2009, 03:05 PM

Don't know what SB is Upto

(Caption: Desperate times call for desperate measures)

SOrry ,Couldn't resist especially after the pic by u of me in MJ pose I had to come back with Photo repartee

special thanks to bibek for mailing me the pic

**rachitkohli** · 06-29-2009, 03:08 PM

Originally posted by bibekjyoti.de View Post

P200 managed to ride to the top of the hill as well as R15 ...even a Honda Shine (non XBhp) and a 6 years old Enticer with a pillion except the famous karizma.

Karizma r not prepared for that terrain

Originally posted by darkknight View Post

Don't know what SB is Upto

(Caption: Desperate times call for desperate measures)

SOrry ,Couldn't resist especially after the pic by u of me in MJ pose I had to come back with Photo repartee

special thanks to bibek for mailing me the pic

SB kya kar raha hai ye ..!!

did SB got an enticer.?

**beruoist** · 06-29-2009, 03:17 PM

Originally posted by darkknight View Post

Don't know what SB is Upto

(Caption: Desperate times call for desperate measures)

SOrry ,Couldn't resist especially after the pic by u of me in MJ pose I had to come back with Photo repartee

special thanks to bibek for mailing me the pic

Hahahahahaha...

Now i knew why SB was always looking to cutoff for some time from the junta...also there was some noise coming out thru out the trip...and sumone was explaining it was engine,chain etc etc

**spiderweb** · 06-29-2009, 03:23 PM

Originally posted by darkknight View Post

Don't know what SB is Upto

(Caption: Desperate times call for desperate measures)

SOrry ,Couldn't resist especially after the pic by u of me in MJ pose I had to come back with Photo repartee

special thanks to bibek for mailing me the pic

Dat BUCKET is pasted there...

& the rear ground part is burned to look good I guess, lOlz!!!
good job DK, proud of you.

@SOMEONE: was yelling that HE loves DIRT RIDING... Here you go ride more than DIRT!

**Ram_thegreat** · 06-29-2009, 03:40 PM

Victor's Viewpoint

Thanks to all! It was really the best adventurous trip so far. Really feel sorry for those who have missed it. Specially Ankit who cudnt make it and also for MG/Inder who cudnt complete it.
Here are the pics from my mobile... It will be soon updated by Mayank/Ankur's cell phone pics soon by EOD.

Enjoy the trailor!
For the rest of the movie on Picassa click here

**samudranb** · 06-29-2009, 04:02 PM

Originally posted by ankit63 View Post

Boy o Boy!!!! What is this!!!!!!

hahahhahahahahhahaha..... Laughing My Ass Off!!!!!!

Where is the 14BHP power of FZ16.....

It could never get funnier than this..... and they say it.." Lord of the Streets"

Dude... no amount of power could have helped you here... because it was PURE SLUSH. Or as some people call it "Chikkal"

Here's is my version of the trip. I dont know if this is what counts as "logs" but it sure as hell gonna be on my mind for a long time

Going off the beaten path Mousses, Muses and Musings

Any comments are absolutely welcome. My apologies if i upset someone.

My apologies for the delay in posting the pics.. they are all over 4 MB, and I need to process them first, before posting. Dnot have that much time right now... I have missed my last 2 deadlines (and am gonna miss the next 2

) already.

They should be up my saturday-ish.

**RoadZilla** · 06-29-2009, 04:09 PM

@ Samudra

Bro...the blogs and third party sites are blocked at my office...and i am sure it must be also for rest of the people.

Could you please post them as thumbnails.

**tourer_kashif** · 06-29-2009, 04:16 PM

Originally posted by Ram_thegreat View Post

Thanks to all! It was really the best adventurous trip so far. Really feel sorry for those who have missed it. Specially Ankit who cudnt make it and also for MG/Inder who cudnt complete it.
Here are the pics from my mobile... It will be soon updated by Mayank/Ankur's cell phone pics soon by EOD.

Liked this one the most.

Photo me to kutch zada hi dangerous lag raha hai

It seems the guy at the lead is falling off the bike.

**tourer_kashif** · 06-29-2009, 04:19 PM

@Samudran : Even I canot read your log. Plz copy paste the text content of ur log in this forum

**inder.cool** · 06-29-2009, 04:22 PM

First of all, my apologies for not completing the ride..the first ever..!!

Originally posted by bibekjyoti.de View Post

P200 managed to ride to the top of the hill as well as R15 ...even a Honda Shine (non XBhp) and a 6 years old Enticer with a pillion except the famous karizma.

Karizma r not prepared for that terrain

Karizma bhi pahunchti hai yaar...but its just that i was not in a mood to mess the bike and then get all the nuts and bolts re-fixed..!!

Originally posted by niranjanvaidya View Post

^^ Nice snaps there...damn...missed the trip...

BTW...could not see Inder anywhere in any photo except the intro one...where is paaji?

Sirjee...rode some 30% of the ride but them stopped as i was hearing many rattling sounds coming from my bike..!!

Originally posted by Shadowboy View Post

Hahhahaa...i won't comment on that let DK take over---DK sir app kidar ho

Originally posted by ankit63 View Post

Even I am wondering wherez Indy

(Inder).... he is not there in any pic.... even in Ram's.

Originally posted by darkknight View Post

Ahem..Ahemmm...I m here...but will post about inder later

Monday pressure at office

Well, i m just waiting whats is store for me from DK...

Nothing nice thats for sure..!!!

Originally posted by beruoist View Post

Actual Inder,MG and The honda aviator guy decided to stay back in the half way... unwise decision

Ya, it was un-wise for the ride..but i felt it would be good better to be on the working bike side and not the on the broken bike side(Hope MG and the aviator guy remember that bullet guy

)..!

Originally posted by MG_Biker1806 View Post

@dk & kashif-Take care guys.Dk update your status once you are got X-Ray report.

Ya..pls. update soon..!!

**inder.cool** · 06-29-2009, 04:25 PM

@ Kashif and Ankit:

Log from Samundran

Going off the beaten path

“Zor laga ke…” “Haisha…”

“Come on… push!!”

“Harder!!”

“HARDER!!”

“Just a little bit more…”

“Yes!” “YES!!” “YEESSS!!!!”

“Woohoo!!”

Yes, we really made all of those noises, and more, yesterday.

No, we were on a biking trip.

Yes, there was one girl, but S. was with someone. And she was with the Mumbai group.

No, she was not the one making the noises.

If the above phrases are not what you hear on a normal biking trip/xBhp GTG, well, that’s because we totally redefined both with the trip to Rajmachi this Sunday.

But I am skipping forward. Let me start at the beginning.

The Beginning

Woke up at 5 past 5 (finally), after snoozing my 3 alarms at least 5 times each. Still managed to fall asleep on the pot though. (My previous day’s helmet hunt had really taken a lot out of me :P )

Got to Chandni chowk CCD (C4D) at 5:45, and blurted out my apologies to MG, Kashif, Ram, Sameer, Mayank and Ankur. (Someone told me MG had come from Satara, and that he had gotten up at 3:30 to get to C4D on time. If so, ). They told me they were still waiting for a couple of other guys. Phew.

Samuel arrived shortly, but we decided not to wait anymore for Inder, as most of us were inexperienced. So we split, agreeing to meet at the tapri at the junction of Dehu road split.

Then, began the lovely ride to Lonavla. The weather was just fine. The cool wind, made only cooler by the mud spray from vehicles in front of you. The rain, wiping off the mud from your visor. With Inder and MG, who had caught up with us at the tapri, leading and sweeping respectively, we had an absolutely safe and uneventful, but beautiful, ride.

Then came the right turn to Zapper hell / off roading heaven.

The Middle

After some initial doubts as to whether our bikes would be able to take the terrain, we decided to go for it. Of course, our morale was not helped by the fact that Inder’s bike developed some kink, and he and MG turned around soon. Nor by the couple of bikes coming down, who took a look at the one TVS victor in our midst, and wished us all the best.

As we kept persevering, however, we did find more company going up. Members of the Bullet-riders group, the Roadshakers, soon began overtaking us. We of course had no option but to stop our 15kmph rides, to let them thunder past at speeds exceeding 60-70kmph. We all silently said a prayer for all the crabs that these guys must have squashed.

The couple of tough (or so we thought) patches that we encountered, we managed to get through them without much damages. We helped each other through, we pushed, we pulled, we cheered. And we waited to see how the RoadShakers handled these tough patches, but they seem to have had enough. Well, xBhp-1, RS-0

.

Once we reached the “base camp”, we had awesome poha, and cooled our heels a bit. We were joined by a few of the Roadshakers , and the whole of the Mumbai group of xBhp here.

The next couple of hours, we trekked up to the fort, where a few of us were looking to begin their modelling careers, and the rest were just content to stop and rest after every 15 minutes. (Lugging a 120 kg bike up to that level is no easy feat, I tell you!)

The 1 hour trek was well worth it though. The fort was good. The view even better. The fog that moved in below us, made us feel like we were walking on clouds.

And then began the trip back.

The Beginning of The End

While we were busy feasting on the excellent almost-home-made food, and chilling, the Gods must have been having a conversation something like this:

Loki(Norse god of mischief and evil): I am bored. Let’s do something.

Rain god: You wanna play poker?

L: Naah.. did that last millennium. Lets do something different!

RG: Like what?

L: You see those bunch of guys with bikes down there at Rajmachi?

RG: Wait let me put on my contacts… Yes, I see them. What about them?

L :Well, they think they are going to go down very easily.

RG: Well, so?

L: HeehaaahAAAHAAAAAAahaaHAAHAAAAHAAAAAAHAAAAAA…

Any hopes that any of us might have been harbouring about the way down being a lot easier, were quickly dispersed when it started raining. To top it all off, Mayank’s FZ’s brakes got locked. So while a couple of us left to help them out, the rest parked by the side of the road, and waited for them.

Rain, and daylight, forced some of us to move ahead however, while DK and a few others waited for the rest.

Within a few minutes, we hit our first “tough” patch. It was as expected, except that we had forgotten to take into account GOATS and COWS. But we all managed to navigate the mud, the stones and the livestock without any mishaps.

(Loki: Damn! The goats and the cows did nothing to them! I must step the game! Rain god! Please make it rain harder!!

Rain god: Heehee! This is gonna be fun!)

Have you ever had your bike go to the right, when you turned left? AND, turn to the right, when you turn right?

And go back, when you have applied all the possible brakes, including your feet? And turn perpendicular to the line of motion, while it is doing that?

Yes? Really? No, I meant in real life, not in a nightmare.

Well, that’s what happened to all of us. We slid. We fell. We got up. We fell. We fell when we tried to get up. We got up when we fell.

The laws of physics did not apply on those 50 metres of not-a-road.

By the time we finally managed to get everyone’s bikes up and across the patch, I had lost 10 Kgs. I thought Sameer had disappeared.

Me: Looks (huff puff) like (huff puff) the worst (huff puff) is over. (huff puff)

Ram: I (huff puff) think (huff puff) so too.

Loki: Hahahaha… that’s what YOU think!

Well, to make a long story short, soon, we were no longer on roads. We were riding our bikes on rivers of red mud. Actually, “riding” is probably not as accurate, as “navigating”.

I can proudly say that during this stretch, I fell only twice. I could blame it on the cakes of mud that somewhere had my shoes inside them. I mean, I was without any brakes!!

The End

After what felt like decades, we got to the rocky patch. We finally managed to put our bikes in 3rd gear, as we flew over rocks, splashed our way through newly born streams, skidded through mud patches. An in the process, got ourselves the best ass-massages that one could ever dream of.

We soon reached civilization however (which just means that we found some semblance of what used to be roads at some point of time). We got lost, we found our way. We caught up with MG, and the rest of the bikers, had some chai, and all too soon, it was time to go.

Final damages:

* 1 Pulsar with broken mudguard (broken intentionally, as the last option, because the mud got stuck and the wheel just wouldn’t turn).
* 1 FX with a twisted handle and a broken leg guard.
* 22 people with slightly broken egos, and a renewed respect for the forces of nature.

The ride back to Pune was fun too, and for different reasons, but that’s another story altogether

.

**RoadZilla** · 06-29-2009, 04:32 PM

Are pics there?...I am not able to see any pics.All I can see is just text.. Wud be great if someone plz post'em up as thumbnails

**darkknight** · 06-29-2009, 04:34 PM

^^ Koi koi insaanon ko sharam hi nahi aati hai....STILL TYPING AWAY TO GLORY...

For those who are wondering Inder "paaji" kaha hai...

toh here's the real story...

I have never seen anyone especially the one who is is so active on forum so shit scared on any ride..

we literally had to coax & cajole same as u do a school kid on his first day of school...par inder tass se mas nahi hue....

Inder ..tune toh zma owners ki naak,kaan,izzaat sab kuch katwa di....

Spidey :is bande ki wajah se MG didnt come up and there was no one to represent your Zma clan.Isko nxt meet mein toh Khunal Khunal ke maarna...

aur toh aur..."paaji" bhaag gaye...ruke tak nahi...

Picture abhi baaki hai dost...but MG has advised not to go too overboard..

hence only writing what is permissible and not what was felt

**RoadZilla** · 06-29-2009, 04:40 PM

O! This was the real story.... Even I was waiting DK's words

**samudranb** · 06-29-2009, 04:40 PM

Originally posted by tourer_kashif View Post

@Samudran : Even I canot read your log. Plz copy paste the text content of ur log in this forum

Originally posted by ankit63 View Post

@ Samudra

Bro...the blogs and third party sites are blocked at my office...and i am sure it must be also for rest of the people.

Could you please post them as thumbnails.

Blogs are banned, but biking sites are not??!!! Your IT guy must be a biker too!

There goes my fool-proof-plan of boosting traffic to my blog!

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