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  • Well, now gotta play fingers on keyboard for a while. lot of words to put together. Wat an ammazing day we had.

    If you had spoken with me i-day then i assumed u r already used to with my language...so here i go ....

    The i-day ride thread was open almost before 15 days. Post after post, good number of viewer, replies on that. We all were concern about safety, group riding rules regulation etc. The thread took serious turn when our senior heads Ajay and Sunil Sir started posting. Each of them had extremly important roles behind the success of i-day ride. I had direct contact with them I realized that without their support we might not seen the successful ending of I-day ride.

    Meeting point was an important issue. Sunil Sir, Prajwal and other members concern was remarkable to find out the meeting point. Wholeheartedly I would like to thank Avin and Shadez to give me time when i decided to give a search around silkboard about finding proper meeting point. And finally we got and it was absolutly perfect i felt.

    Total riders were divided into 4 and Ajay had to lead Group D. Collecting numbers from me and doing contact with Group members was remarkable sincerity from Ajay's side. I really appreciate that Ajay.

    I was absolutly tensionless when Sunil sir took the responsibility for flags. Just think guys without his support how you did plan to carry flag on ur bike. Sunil Sir's activities here just tremendous. Hats off to you Sir.

    Friday morning I went to Ajay's place and we both washed our bikes. Many thanks Ajay for sponsoring me wax polishing The body of the bike was just like a mirror. I didn't want to ride the bike before i-day ride start. But i had to

    Evening went to petrol bunk. Filled with sufficient petrol, checked tyre pressure. Egine oil changed. Everything set for the i-day. Waiting for the morning. Wether took turn to dark. And my face so. Started pouring slowly later heavily. I really thot at least 30% riders won't make it but i was surprised to see our enthu bikers at the meeting point. Few riders drop out but still 40+. Just fabulous.
    I was the first person to reach at the meeting point and i think it was my responsibility not to be late there. In a short break sunil's sir and many more along with him arrived. Spirit increased inside. Started feeling the day. It was an cool morning to see Rockyy with us as well though he was not able to come along with. Thanks for coming Rocky. Thanks to Kaveri as well for coming and saying us hi!

    Akhil bhai started checking docs, sunils sir done with the flag job. Group leaders are ready to lead. 4 groups are ready now. Akhil was leading the first group A, Me group B, Ajay Group C and Santoosh Group D. We departured. It was really painful traffic. Group got splited in heavy traffic jam. Akhil stopped front to gather the riders again. I reached second. Updating me about the status behind by Ajay was another remarkable job. Finally all together again. Started. Our plan to take breakfast break at A2B.We did. Few riders along with Ajay missed the break point and went front. I decided to catch up them and bring them back (got a chance to open my throttle ). Finally got them back.

    Fun started from this place. We were just celebrities on that day.

    Our photographers are ready. Here we go







    Camera : Ajay
    Photographer : John
    Last edited by johnblr; 08-18-2009, 12:03 AM.

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    • ID Ride

      John Sir,
      What are the future plans? Yeh Dil Maange MORE!!
      Quote:
      Originally Posted by sheelpriye
      Please understand that by advocating proper riding gears, I/We aren't gaining anything. Its for You:)

      Bang your head, while standing opposite/close to a wall, speed @2-3kmph? Hurts?
      Increase your speed & watch the fun, when someone falls from a Motorcycle,unfortunately he can't choose which way to fall best & hurt himself less.

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      • Originally posted by johnblr View Post
        Well, now gotta play fingers on keyboard for a while. lot of words to put together. Wat an ammazing day we had.

        If you had spoken with me i-day then i assumed u r already used to with my language...so here i go ....

        The i-day ride thread was open almost before 15 days. Post after post, good number of viewer, replies on that. We all were concern about safety, group riding rules regulation etc. The thread took serious turn when our senior heads Ajay and Sunil Sir started posting. Each of them had extremly important roles behind the success of i-day ride. I had direct contact with them I realized that without their support we might not seen the successful ending of I-day ride.

        Meeting point was an important issue. Sunil Sir, Prajwal and other members concern was remarkable to find out the meeting point. Wholeheartedly I would like to thank Avin and Shadez to give me time when i decided to give a search around silkboard about finding proper meeting point. And finally we got and it was absolutly perfect i felt.

        Total riders were divided into 4 and Ajay had to lead Group D. Collecting numbers from me and doing contact with Group members was remarkable sincerity from Ajay's side. I really appreciate that Ajay.

        I was absolutly tensionless when Sunil sir took the responsibility for flags. Just think guys without his support how you did plan to carry flag on ur bike. Sunil Sir's activities here just tremendous. Hats off to you Sir.

        Friday morning I went to Ajay's place and we both washed our bikes. Many thanks Ajay for sponsoring me wax polishing The body of the bike was just like a mirror. I didn't want to ride the bike before i-day ride start. But i had to

        Evening went to petrol bunk. Filled with sufficient petrol, checked tyre pressure. Egine oil changed. Everything set for the i-day. Waiting for the morning. Wether took turn to dark. And my face so. Started pouring slowly later heavily. I really thot at least 30% riders won't make it but i was surprised to see our enthu bikers at the meeting point. Few riders drop out but still 40+. Just fabulous.
        I was the first person to reach at the meeting point and i think it was my responsibility not to be late there. In a short break sunil's sir and many more along with him arrived. Spirit increased inside. Started feeling the day. It was an cool morning to see Rockyy with us as well though he was not able to come along with. Thanks for coming Rocky. Thanks to Kaveri as well for coming and saying us hi!

        Akhil bhai started checking docs, sunils sir done with the flag job. Group leaders are ready to lead. 4 groups are ready now. Akhil was leading the first group A, Me group B, Ajay Group C and Santoosh Group D. We departured. It was really painful traffic. Group got splited in heavy traffic jam. Akhil stopped front to gather the riders again. I reached second. Updating me about the status behind by Ajay was another remarkable job. Finally all together again. Started. Our plan to take breakfast break at A2B.We did. Few riders along with Ajay missed the break point and went front. I decided to catch up them and bring them back (got a chance to open my throttle ). Finally got them back.

        Fun started from this place. We were just celebrities on that day.

        Our photographers are ready. Here we go







        Camera : Ajay
        Photographer : John
        Nice one John.. more pics to come am sure

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        • Originally posted by johnblr View Post
          Well, now gotta play fingers on keyboard for a while. lot of words to put together. Wat an ammazing day we had.

          If you had spoken with me i-day then i assumed u r already used to with my language...so here i go ....
          Nice writeup there John, hope we will to get to ride frequently (more R2G plz).....

          Originally posted by stormtrooper
          Hey John. Lovely first write-up from you. I will re-post your first write-up tomorrow morning if nobody else does. I know there's lot's more to come. Darn, this thread is so hot that things are getting lost.

          Ps: Sorry to the Group D guys for forgetting to miss the turn-off point at Sholgiri for breakfast. Sometimes when I ride, I just want to keep on doing so. Thanks to Tejesh, who was in my group (Black ZMA) who realised this and dropped off his pillion at Sholgiri to continue to stop me. And for John who did open up his throttle and escorted us back to the rendevue point.
          @Ajay
          It was nice riding with you, never knew you had a camera till we reached A2B, else we guys would have taken some pics on the way.
          It was really nice of you to warn us about the rain/drizzle so early in the morning.

          Still expecting a writeup & pics from you
          Last edited by samschenker; 08-18-2009, 12:13 AM.

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          • Nice write up Jhony...

            Originally posted by johnblr View Post

            Camera :
            Ajay
            Photographer : John
            Ha ha , I cant stop laughing typical John
            U.S on FZ6

            Wayanad- LEH 09 - Coorg - Muthathi - Bye Bye 2008 - First G2G - 07

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            • [IMG]file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/vijith/My%20Documents/My%20Pictures/Picture%20021.jpg[/IMG]few from my side....

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              • Nice Write up John...
                I guess its not even half of wat has happened. Hope you're drafting more and more to post here...
                Waiting for that...
                Sudeep P Nambiar
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                • nice one there john
                  a small contribution from my side.. my side of the story right up till where yours starts.

                  Well my day started with a call from Tejesh at about 4:30 am on Iday.
                  It was raining and he was concerned about the ride. I called up john and he in his ever so confident tone said "come what may, the ride is still on".. this was the real wake up call for me. I mean at 4:40 in the morning with just 3 hours of sleep you are just looking for a excuse to sleep.
                  i brush up and get ready and move on to the first meeting point where i am supposed to meet bishal(devlish) manu (manubaht) and ameet(beowolf)

                  ameet confirmed that he was not coming because it had rained in pretty bad at his place and there was major water clogging at his place.(although i just think he was just lazy to get out of bed..)

                  manu joins up and we see manju(dragon rider blasting away followed by bishal. we quickly follow suite, only to encounter traffic at 5:30 in the morning ,after a little supermario with the bikes between the trucks we decided that this was not taking us anywhere. Soo we decided to jump the median .(we didnt want to be late you see)..

                  Then we reached up at the meeting point only to find 40+bikes and riders lined up B-E-Utifully and a lot of familiar faces. Soon Ajay (strider) came up to help with the flag . I distributed the I day badges that i had got and From here on its been an adventure of all sorts..

                  more after johns next batch..
                  - You spend half your life before you realize your are ordinary, you then, either are too lazy to change or you do the extraordinary and change the world!

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                  • It was nice to see one of my first xbhp pal kunals




                    I still do remember years back four of us(kunals, me, ajay n gautam)rode together at kanakpura road



                    Keep in touch buddy

                    Few more snaps around A2B



                    Avin and Vijith



                    Our Eric



                    Satish and punch me. Who is having lots of riding pic and videos





                    The Manager of A2B requested us to park bike infront of the restaurent. They took many snaps which you may see later around the A2B walls. Satish / sidhu requested to take and round turn for video shots. Still waiting to watch them. Hope they won't make us to wait longer. One of the most experience rider Santoosh was with us. After doing night shift work he came us to say hi but later on he joined with us till breakfast. Many thanks santoosh for leading a group with your excillent riding skills. Sunil Sir sponsored breakfast though we want to pay him back. Money was collected from few riders which Sunil sir never want to take. The amount will be handover soon to Sunil Sir. From the breakfast point Vijith, Maverick, Santoosh, Tejesh and few more riders went back.

                    Akhil was the one who was leading the entire group. Ajay was doing fabulous tailing. Such an awesome road to open the throttle. But when we are in a group things are different. We need to think for the group not for our indevidual fun. Few riders was pushing me to open the throttle which i never did as i have many riders behind me who may be not comfortable on high speed. They left the group and riding front for their own fun which was not appreciatable being a part of group. We just can think in this way if R1 can controll the throttle for a group then being a owner of 160cc, 180cc can't we controll ? I just believe when i m in group i have to think for everybody. Its just every1 should thing for every1. If one single member is not comfortable with speed then we need to sacrifice our own fun otherwise i am not eligible to ride in a group. Anyways overall all new members were fabulous in a group riding except few. I really appreciate all of you to maintain formation and maintain group riding rules.

                    Anyways on our way suddenly we noticed some1 giving us signal of changing the lane to take the route towards KRP dam. And it was none but our Akhil. We finally reached to the dam.

                    Last edited by johnblr; 08-18-2009, 01:19 AM.

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                    • nice write up john,
                      waiting for more pics n video's bro
                      YAMAHA
                      HONDA
                      IDEAL JAWA

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                      • OMG... me !!!? so seriously

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                        • Originally posted by johnblr View Post

                          Our Eric



                          Do u want racing, John ?! hahahah
                          P/s : miss u, guys

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                          • Originally posted by vijith.unnithan View Post
                            [IMG]file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/vijith/My%20Documents/My%20Pictures/Picture%20021.jpg[/IMG]few from my side....
                            nice ones vijith..

                            loved the shot of the ONE with its babies.

                            again john super work on the write up.
                            - You spend half your life before you realize your are ordinary, you then, either are too lazy to change or you do the extraordinary and change the world!

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                            • Originally posted by avinrichards View Post
                              nice ones vijith..

                              loved the shot of the ONE with its babies.

                              again john super work on the write up.

                              Thanks, da

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                              • again john super work on the write up.
                                i m laughing in the future.. when John older he can write a novel about "Life of xBhp riders" will famous
                                John come on.

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