The Official Mumbai Offline Meet(G2G) Thread

[RAKHSUP 26]

Koyna ride is planned for the next weekend....which is a good sign..lets hope that there is more participation on rides than in Forums....

Cheers,

Nxt weeknd ? is it on Sunday or Saturday?

[RAKHSUP 26]

Hmmmm....thanx man...!! That trip seems to be a good one...

@Anup: Dude i had posted those pics after that ride. but then our site crashed.

@Inder: As per your request Sierr.. .

(Mind you these fotos are partly clicked by Razor and one of my friend whos not on xbhp. So plse dont praise me for it. im pretty modest you know )




























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[chetanpulsar]

Am delighted to see those pics Pushkar..... yesterday night we had a blast.... some of the valneshwar riders (the old guys) were present.... Me and Anup were more than happy to see such presence after a long time......

Here's the link to Valneshwar Pics and first Malshej ride pics(MotorBreath's request fulfilled )

I will not comment on my presence on the next week's ride.

Btw... just called up Marcus.... his mom picked up the phone... and said hes unwell... I did not dare to ask anything more... just said will call later.

Mumbai event update: none of the xbhpians made it to the top 20 ..... Anirudh/Calvin/Sumit tired hard but in vain.

[snehmads]

Bhai log, I recommend Dive Agar. It is 3 Km long virgin beach & hadly any crowd. Was there on 7-9th Feb.
Some pics here.

[ketan_r15]

Hey guys... i think m the first one here to post after the event..? I mean amongst the participants..???

Well was gr8 day today.. yeah i know very exhuasting and tiring..but that's the catch guys.. You dont spend hours under the scorching sun everyday...or do u..?

Guys when I reached home my mom, actually, couldn't recognize me.. Skin had turned that dark...

The start of the day itself was an eye opener for all those who were present at Juhu beach.. i mean the crowd.. awesome fleet of some 20-30 bikers... Too cool...

Then the afternoon lunch ride to Juhu.. I still m laughing my #$%^ out when I remember Aman's face..hahaha... yelling at Spidy...
It was something else yaar..the sort of attention we guys got while riding together.. Cool...

Great event overall.. Atleast I myself, being honest to my heart, did much better than what I performed at Pune.. What say DK n Ani..?

Hard luck guys, no one from XBhp managed to make it to top 20.. But that's just it..As Calvin said, bring'em on at Lavasa, n our true passion of biking will start flowing.. Anyways, what we did their justifies our passion...

Best luck to guys who r planning to attend the A'bad event..

ShadowBoy - Nice meeting u dude...also RajR, or shud I say Roger as pronounced by Aman.. Nice attempt..

Calvin n Anirude...Guys ur bikers were lookin like one of those Vardenchis creations..(Pardon me if the spelling is wrong)

Spider..Bhai mere..tu bina matlab logo se pange mat le yaar.. Just kidding.. nice time with u...

@ (Aman) x 2... u two were two cool dudes..

DK... lai bhari event zala re bala....

Me is rossi...dude, nice glares there...

Rest all...fantastic time with all of u n nice meeting all those whom i met for the first time...


I think this much of thanx giving speech is more than enough...right?

Hope to see the same stregnth during our long rides...
Ciao....!

PS :Will post the pics soon...I dont have many though...DK and all the guys with cams..plz post ur pics asap...

@ Mg.. Hope u had a safe and nice ride to Satara...and also ur friend.. I mean..hats off to that fella man..riding all the way from Delhi to Mumbai and now from Mumbai to Bangalore.. that too with a pillion girl...fhewww..Was that girl with him right from Delhi..?

[anirude]

gr888 fun we all had today will try full on at ahmedabad cud we get the confirmed riders list flowing im going for sure everybody else lets decide quickly as we dont have that much time

[chilled_fire]

So Dhaba Hunt ride was a good one..had to go through a lot of pain...Marcus met with a minor accident and will be on bed rest for a week or so...Malshej never happened as it was way too cold for me to ride...(i was wearing slippers)...Shiva was unusually disappointed and could be seen on his face..(dont worry dude will make up for it)...

All in all a great time and good to meet all the Mumbai Xbhpians that i longed to meet...

Participants:
Chetan
Sumit
Calvin
Shiva
Ajinkya
RazorB
MotoB
ChillerFire
Marcus
Atul***war
Spiderweb
Winzee
and myself
...did i miss anyone....

Koyna ride is planned for the next weekend....which is a good sign..lets hope that there is more participation on rides than in Forums....

Cheers,

Oyee! when did u guys leave then ??
And what happend to marcus ?? , the way chetan has described the call .... am worried, hopefully hes doin good.

[46wannabe]

Me, Ripper(Rohan), Durvesh and Viren(my friend pillion with me) reached Juhu beach before everyone else. Sharp at 08.30am

We waited for what seemed like the longest 60minutes of our lives. Okay I exaggerated the last part. But anywho, we didn't require any sort of honking or headlamp dipping to know you guys arrived. First it was two geared fellas, followed by 2 more and then Spidy and others.

So we all went to the spot opposite Mochas and parked our rides randomly. Pleasantries exchanged and queries about missing riders done with, some of us were hungry and thus headed to the nearest one of the popular Juhu-beach stalls. A few minutes later the Panvel gang arrived. I specially loved the two moving "Wall-E" replicas. They were simply too cute. For those that couldn't comprehend, imagine two R15s stripped off their front fairings leaving just the two(extra wide)RVMs. Courtesy: Anirude and Calvin.
Customary phot-op done with, we headed out, all 20-30 of us towards the event location.
We enetered into the outside parking area(the event area was obviously pandalled and -fabric walled). The line up of bikers for the registration tables was crappy. In true Indian-fashion, read, unorganised. But I guess we could live with that. Once the formalities were over, we all re-grouped and decided to make a big entry. All the Mumbai xBhpians(atleast those who could make it) together. Lining up the bikes inside the event area, one after the other, soon Dheeraj,(I believe that was his name. Correct me if I'm wrong), the MC for the day, said, "why don't y'all rev up your engines and give us a grand wake up for the morning?"
Well he didn't actually say that, but then who cares. On that high(rev) note we all were waiting for the process to start. the rules were read out and pretty soon there were bikers lining up for the "Figure-of-eight" round. It was slightly different from the Pune event, in that here we all had to do "4" complete 8-rounds in the least possible time. The slow biking round followed up immediately. Anirude was competing with Vijay Jain(Wheelieboy) and Vikram (Me is Rossi). I think Vikram was the slowest here, with Anirude as the first runner up. Yours truly was up against an R15 dude and an Avenger Uncle who by the way, was genuinely surprised to read my helmet. For those who haven't met me search for a red Boolean with perm. marker rantings all over in the Helmet Thread. Ok, enough of virtual posing now. I was the slowest among these 3. Although at the end, despite Anirude and Calvin shouting on the top of their lungs, I throttled up! Forgetting that the test was for the 'slowest' and not for 'wheelspins'. Heehee, felt really stupid after that. But then those mud-tracks are very tempting even for a non-stunter like me.

Next up, was the questionnaire round. I don't know how many sets of questions were used, but everyone didn't have the same set of questions. I'm pretty sure I did well in that one. Was a piece of cake. By now it was almost 01.30. And the registrations were allowed upto 2pm. So we went ot for a lunch break. That was a ride in its own. From parking our bikes in a NO-Parking area(I shall come back to this later) to fuming at one of the maniacal riders who was showing off his stupidity when we were returning.

We stopped for vada-pavs and some of those classic Energy Drinks(TradeMark). As for the parking, turns out it was a no-parking zone between "5-9hrs." We couldn't care less for whatever that discreet info meant, except that it was 2.10pm and hence....
Our great Mr. Spidy decided to do an impromptu Juhu ride-around. We all followed with Winzee leading. Some of the riders were going too fast for city roads. We eventually managed to slow them down and were doing a much safer city-cruising speed. The Mumbai xBhpians had their fare share of on-lookers and jaw-dropped by-standers in the run.

When we just a turn away from the event site crazy lid-less guy comes speeding on his stroker and screeches hard, right in front of startled women and children. Ripper(Rohan) and a couple of others were at the lead of the pack just about to take the final left turn and this chap speeds through again, much to Rohan's amazement and anger I might add.

Finally we were waiting again for the results of the first elimination round. An initial total of 170 participants was cut down to just 68. Most of us made it to this list. But our names were announced almost towards the end. So was kinda frustrating for some of us. The next round was the Slalom round. Aman(the.absurd) was my favorite amongst our group in this one. Calvin gave him his '15' to ride for the slalom, along with a word of advice and caution not to hurt his bike.

Apna, Aman-ji blasts through the slalom all safe and sound & quick too. On his way backwards in the slalom, he brakes hard at the end almost losing it. But I hear he saved the bike with the leverage he got from his long limbs. Now, he was at the last track on the opposite end of the ground from where were standing. Before Aman could even start the R15 again, Kalyanji(Calvin) had already reached the spot, Flash Gordon style. "Score gaya bhaad mein, mere baby ko toh kuch nahi hua na" seemed to be his attitude. But it was all in fun and good humor. Aman has promised a ride of the R1 for a week to Calvin. Woh baat alag hai ki none of us made it to the final round.

I managed a DNF(Did Not Finish) in the Slalom round. Reason being, the other 2 competing with me had almost finished theirs and I just lost concentration. It had nothing to do with the females present though.
I headed home early along with Aman(the.absurd), Winzee and Viren(pillion).

Stars of the show: 1) Biker on a blue Gladiator
2) Biker who came down from Agra directly to the show, riding all the way on his Royal Enfield TBTS.
3) Vardenchi's entire garage of custom bikes were on display. Including the famous skeleton bike.
4) Pinaaq(an old acquaintance I know from Pune) With his awesome control on his 220. The same guy with the AStars on a stripped 220 as pictured on the Pune Blog on the Castrol site. His 220 had one huge Torque-happy rear sprocket. And I really mean HUGE!!!
5) Sumit on his FZ. Fun to watch.
6) Malcolm and Badal Doshi. The latter being a famous name among the Motocross circuits.
7) Experienced fellas, throwing around their expansion chambered strokers and modded fieros.

No major crashes. Just a few minor spills. Sadly, some idiot flicked Vijay Jain's trusty yellow helmet. Really fu@#all some people can be. But.......

Pics will take some time guys. Please bear with me. For now just a pic of the Juhu Beach line up.


Anirude: All the best my friend. Do us proud.

[chetanpulsar]

Oyee! when did u guys leave then ??
And what happend to marcus ?? , the way chetan has described the call .... am worried, hopefully hes doin good.

Nothing much happened.... unfortunately while going to Malshej(at 12am)... just before the Kalyan naka... Marcus skid his rear tyre and crashed badly.... I was behind him... it was quite a bad accident . For a second I was so shocked that I could not understand what to do, Spider came running and we picked up Marcus from the middle road and took him to the sides. The trucks were pretty fast behind us and if Marcus was alone that time... then it would be a very different story. Later we came to know that his front tyre/tube burst while riding... coz it had punctured and after opening the tube, we got to know that the tyre was torn a bit... while the tube was cut badly. Got the tube changed, and took bike back to Thane.
Marcus suffered some bruises and internal injuries.... I dont think anything else much happened to him... though nothing was visible from outside... he had his right shoulder in intense pain and some back ache too. The doctor said theres nothing much to worry.
His bike is fine. We all went back home after leaving Marcus at his place.

Will call up Marcus tomorrow morning to check on him.

[46wannabe]

Do let us know Chetan. Wishing him a speedy recovery.

[ajinkya]

oh crap thats bad man

[satyenpoojary]

WTF... Marcus had a crash! Damn..... am sure he will be back in action in no time....

[MG]

@ MG:

Wild Life Santuary: Radhanagari Wildlife Sanctuary | Kolhapur | Wildlife Sanctuaries

Oh this one.

You will hardly find anything there.Rest is your wish

Well I think MG sir is reading this... So may do the needful...

I have no problem.Let me know what needs to be put up.

Koyna ride is planned for the next weekend....which is a good sign..lets hope that there is more participation on rides than in Forums....

If Koyna is planned for next week then what about the plan for 7th-8th.
Btw I went to Koyna 2 months back and you guys can check the picture here.
Some tips
1) Try to ride through the Warandha ghat(Just before Koyna) with the morning light.It will be the best experience of the whole ride.
2) No petrol pump after Chiplun.So make sure that you guys have enough fuel for the final 80 km(bothways) from Chiplun.
3)There is only spot from where Koyna is properly visible(See in the pictures)

[ketan_r15]

Me, Ripper(Rohan), Durvesh and Viren(my friend pillion with me) reached Juhu beach before everyone else. Sharp at 08.30am

We waited for what seemed like the longest 60minutes of our lives. Okay I exaggerated the last part. But anywho, we didn't require any sort of honking or headlamp dipping to know you guys arrived. First it was two geared fellas, followed by 2 more and then Spidy and others.

What..??? Where...????

Dude I was there at sharp 8.50 am(even though the time decided was 9.00am) dead opposite to that off Mocha.. Not a sngle rider was present there. Spent a few minutes here n there and then while I took a smoke, Shadow boy with his brother n RajR arrived there. They were the only guys apart from reaching at 9.00am.

Where were u then? Were u waiting somewhere else? Cause I was right in front of Mocha and didn't see u at all...

anyways, nice write up...

[ripper]

@ketanR15: We passed mocha, took the U-turn and were looking out for a parking spot, since we couldn't find any (other than the Police parking) we went to the pay and park where we waited for the rest of the guys. Joey called up spidey and asked where they were, only to get the answer, arre aur aada ghanta lagegea....the la XBHP way.

Its surprising that you failed to notice 3- full geared bikers pass from your side. Anyway,in the end the event was good without any goof ups, i just liked the formation wala entry into the event.

Look forward to seeing all of your for any further events.

PS: I feel we should stop posting pics and logs in this thread. We could use the Mega Event thread for all the experiences Instead. Just my opinion!