The Official Mumbai Offline Meet(G2G) Thread

[chetanpulsar]

well guys... reached home just now... guess i'm the last 1 to reach home....
so i can proudly announce it as a "No CRASH" ride...



Trip Log... coming soon.... (most proly...)

for now i can say it was my 1st 1000+ kms ride with xBhp...
Experience : Awesome
Feelings : Unexpressable
Fun : to the CORE

Nice to hear that.... "NO CRASH" and you guys enjoyed a lot !!

[calvin]

Nice to hear that.... "NO CRASH" and you guys enjoyed a lot !!

well we did....

a lot

[Anup Abraham]

Good job Calvin, also had got some update about you and Rossi being in the Top 20 in some category..if that was true let me know more..sounds interesting....

So Finally Calvin is totally ready for Long rides.... ;P..
Study exam is closer than anything...

[satyenpoojary]

well guys... reached home just now... guess i'm the last 1 to reach home....
so i can proudly announce it as a "No CRASH" ride...



Trip Log... coming soon.... (most proly...)

for now i can say it was my 1st 1000+ kms ride with xBhp...
Experience : Awesome
Feelings : Unexpressable
Fun : to the CORE

Woah that sounds like a neat rap song...
Gimme a beat here...

Experience : Awesome,
Feelings : Unexpressable
Fun : to the CORE
1000 KMs down, and the a55 is Sore!



BTW Heard some of you guys managed to be in top 20! superkewl!

[cosgeo99]

Rossi in top 20, coool.

WAitin for the logs yaaar....................

Howz marcus, nyone in touch with him.

[ketan_r15]

well guys... reached home just now... guess i'm the last 1 to reach home....
so i can proudly announce it as a "No CRASH" ride...



Trip Log... coming soon.... (most proly...)

for now i can say it was my 1st 1000+ kms ride with xBhp...
Experience : Awesome
Feelings : Unexpressable
Fun : to the CORE

So here u r.. I was searching for u in the Prove urself G2G thread..
Cool man.. so u n Rossi must hav got those bottles of Oil..right..? Well something is better than nothing.. Congrats dude.. n more than that what's imp is u guys enjoyed ur ride...
Bole toh zakaas...

[spiderweb]

CLOCKED: 1149 kms.
MUMBAI-AHMDABAD-MUMBAI
2 Days

the xbhp guys who made it& a few comments as well...
Spiderweb - ZMA R (Me, Am a good rider)
Calvin - R15 (he is good n consistent on a long ride, but his sutta breaks)
Meisrossi - P180+K&N (as always... Ols chap n experianced)Atul (A2) - Apache RTR (well you got passion, but you need experience)Mani - Pillion (pure Fun as a Pillion)
Merwyn - Splendor (that does 110+ kmph... a few more rides will improve your safety knowledge)

Met a few guys from Pune too,
Billa (RSA) - FZ16
Shihsir Shetty (xbhp) - R15

Pune da Paaji was way beyond for any of us... thats just a personal opinion. The guy from Agra gave him a really good fight.
meisrossi made it to TOP 4
Calvin made it to TOP 20, got out in the explain your passion, speech round or something...
He was trying to make love to his bike, werent you CALVIN? n I think judges dint liked that, LOL!
Someone broke my fastest slow biking record,
I was 11 seconds (as same was in Mumbai).
He did it in -7 seconds,
other one was -3 seconds,
n apna paaji Mani made it for 3 seconds...
am not the fastest anymore!

Rossi n calvin ended up with a bottle of CP1 each, n with a Castrol windcheater each...

***& YES again a no CRASH ride, CHEERS to all who made it a Success... GREAT FUN!

@Ketan & Anirude: Dont worry guys, NXT time for sure we'll ride together...

[ketan_r15]

^^ You mean anirude didn't go for this ride..?
I mean reading ur last linemade me ask this question.....

[46wannabe]

Anirude has earned a ton of my respect despite not making it for the ride. After all, without him, Mumbai xBhpians wouldn't have even reached Ahmedabad, forget, top 20!
As for Vikram and Kalyan, Well, im speechless yaa.

[calvin]

Good job Calvin, also had got some update about you and Rossi being in the Top 20 in some category..if that was true let me know more..sounds interesting....

So Finally Calvin is totally ready for Long rides.... ;P..
Study exam is closer than anything...

1. Thanks Bro...
2. Well i always wanted to join you guys for the trips but for some or the other reason i was not able to ride.. but this time there was no excuse taken from my parents side...
actually i told my mum that i'm going for the event on 22nd but did'n't told her about going to Ahmadabad, told her about the destination just before moving out... so there was no time for my mum to discuss things with dad about letting me out...

3.

CLOCKED: 1149 kms.
MUMBAI-AHMDABAD-MUMBAI


Spiderweb - ZMA R (Me, Am a good rider)
Calvin - R15 (he is good n consistent on a long ride, but his sutta breaks)

thnx

meisrossi made it to TOP 4
Calvin made it to TOP 20, got out in the explain your passion, speech round or something...

Ahem Ahem... i was in Top 15

He was trying to make love to his bike, werent you CALVIN? n I think judges dint liked that, LOL!

Abe ab bas bhi karo yaar...

Someone broke my fastest slow biking record,
I was 11 seconds (as same was in Mumbai).
He did it in -7 seconds,
other one was -3 seconds,
n apna paaji Mani made it for 3 seconds...
am not the fastest anymore!

kya farak padta hai yaar tu toh cunsistent hi raha na... thats what matters...

[atulaherwar]

pppplll


plz start givin me ur ids...im sendin it across

[calvin]

pppplll


plz start givin me ur ids...im sendin it across

[email protected]

[me is rossi]

hey guys!...sorrry for the late update....anyways...
we started offf from fountain hotel at 2-2:15am...lotsa cancelling/new people coming in etc...finally there was
calvin (R15)
spidy (zma)
atul (RTR)
amitraj(the bullet top 20 mein-mumbai)+pillion
me.(180)+our new friend mr. Mani paaji.

we rode for a pleasant 70-odd kms.. getting the formation right and stuff, telling people not to overtake from the left. As the Kms began piling and the night started becoming darker; the various tips that i could impart were given. Honestly it was a tough task to lead the group or at times be the guy who goes back and forth to ensure everybdy's safety...spidy was doing a great job of leading as well. we stopped at a petrol pump at vapi, tanked up and we left. The weather was starting to get cooler and the density of the trucks higher. Further spidy stopped at a dhaba, where he claimed to have had the best chicken handi ever. We decided not to stop there, instead ppl had sutta, leak and we were off. After another 85 kms there was another small hotel where we decided to take a break.We just had a cup of chai and kahri ; as a heavy meal would have assured someone dozing off. It was around 4am now, We had covered a decent 150 kms in 2 hours, just perfect. I was honestly surprised at everyones endurance levels. Nevertheless we had another 350+ to go and the 3 hrs to dawn and another 5 hrs for the heat of the sun to pierce us!! after the dhaba i started to lead. The the darkness and the fatigue + the urge to sleep in the cool air whooshing past your face, had visibly become a worrisome factor for most of us. so i stepped up the gas, luckily for me people caught up. The trick was to keep everyone awake cause the high speeds required attention, the bikes were also powerful enough to keep up.Although it charged up people like Mr.amitraj beyond our control!! and he started showing some death defying cuts and stuff which was totally unecessary!. that guy got my balls in my mouth quite a few times, coz i didnt wish to sit besides him nursing hime the next day in the hospital till his parents arrived!...anyways he was lucky quite a few times. we cause of the speed we covered a good 180-odd kms by 6-7am. now it was jus another 200kms left. The 6-lane highway construction had huge traffic jams in places delaying us further. Meanwhile We had aslo managed to take quite a few snaps , courtesy: mani paji and his i-phone. I guess atul also had taken quite a few. We covered the 6-lane highyway cutting through the heavy traffic. As predicted the heat started stepping up. WE somehow manged to cover the highway and reached amdavad. Now the last task at hand was finding the venue. I luckily could comprehend gujrati, so managed to figure out the way, but unfortunately our overzealous friends, also went in 5 different directions to ask the address!!!...i was *cuking irritated, the heat was acting upon me. I and calvin were together, we manged to catch hold of spidy and waited for atul, who was momentarily lost. By then a crowd had gathered around, the R15,zma and the 180. atul came, now spidy wanted to fill petrol, fcuk! now all this was happening around 1.30! i was worried that the registration would close! i told spidy to tank up and reach the venue.

I and atul finally made it to the vnue and the rest of the gang trickled in. We just got off our bikes, registered ourselves and entered the venue. I changed into our XBHP shirt as i was wearing a full sleeve shirt. I went in for the event, I Had honestly practised the slow-biking and the figure of 8's. I started with '8'. I was clocking 36sec in my practice sessions in gravel. BUT guess wat kahaani mein twist, it was sand out there!!!!. the first 8, i tried to do a power slide which i suppose i had almost mastered in gravel, but here the sand jus collected in my tyre treads and became a huge heap, and i ended up makin a hole on the first corner. so I fcuked up the timing there, and later i just did normal 8 's and did mini power slides. I managed a sad 51 secs. Next was slow biking, which i believe is my forte`. i was clocking 1 min 5 secs in gravel(practice). here the sand was gripping like crazy at the same time it was not supporting the weight of the bike. It was becoming very uneven once the bike passed over it. So I tried my best of not counter balancing with the handle which i normally do. just tried to plainly balance. I managed a 53 secs there, but touched my foot once as the engine died out suddenly; so it came down to 47 secs.

I got through to the top 20. Next was fast slaoming, here i was pitted against the galdiator guy from mumbai. but this time there was a difference i had practised this course like crazy and with 10 obstacles! the reson was, i had fallen off the bike in mumbai in the same event and did an embarassing 52 secs!!...i did a 21 secs this time and even beat the gladiator by 4 secs.!! sexy.. next round was the q&a round. ppl were asked as to why you are a passionate rider, i answered...

passsion for me is finishing a 9 hour shift, getting on the bike and riding for 12 hours continuosly throughout the night and participating in the event.
passion for me is sleeping on a petrol pump coz we had to ride further.
It was my dads passion to buy a bike, so he had this cutout of a hero hnda sleek in those days in our cupboard where we saw it every day.
I dedicated my existence in that event and my biking endeavours to XBHP.com

I was selected to the top 4, alongwith,
Paaji(roadshaker)
THe agra boy
Ironbutt!..

Some serious competition there... the next round was slow slaoming, which i had never practised for due to time constraints. I was offered mr.siddhesh's FZ-16 for the round which i refused(like an idiot) coz i felt i had to win the round purely on my skill and not coz of a bike swap(phew! watever)..i was dehydrated, sleepy, with lots and lots and lots of pressure; belive you me when you have the whole xbhp, sandeep gajjar, old fox and sunil g giving you a best of luck it can crack your nuts. i was sweating like crazy in the amdavad heat, it around 3pm, the sand was emittting tons of heat my shoes were boiling. the previous nights dinner was khari and a cuppa chai!...was feeling dizzy at times. The race started, i took the first obstacle perfectly, nice slow and big. The above factors started acting upon me as i started looking at my competitiors. I touched my feet once, then the circles became smalleer and smaller and my confidence lower and lower, finally i touched down twice and i was on the verge of crying!! coz i could smell delhi from where i was, trust me. AND I DIDNT WANNA LOOSE. I eventually gave up, coz my body gave up. icpuldnt feel the forearms for some time as i was continusoly pumping the accelarator nad the clutch at the same time to ride the bike between 0-1km/hr. I and i ron butt were out. Paaji and the agra boy had a nail-bitting final. The boy showed lot of balls, but did a mistake of loosing confidence in himself where as he had a chance of making it.

We all were happy as we got oil and jackets. took lots of pics which i can see nowhere. I personally apologised to the judges for letting them down as i was only Xbhpian in the top 4. neverthless i thought from a nobody in mumbai i managed a top 4 place. I really wish to participate in many more such events. i would love to go to delhi if i can afford 4-5000 rupees of just petrol. We came back had a very nice Ac room and met 2 new friends, merwyn and siddhesh. great guys. Had sumptous dinner at hotel Decent. Trust me the best tomato soup and paneer chilly ever. went to our ac rooms and collapsed.

The ride back home was very much organised and full of pics , which i cant see anywhere, atullllllll......saaale upload kar dont be another cosgeo We had another amazing dinner at a dhaba near vasai. then went home.

Awesome,crashless and a very memorable ride for me, in the years to come.


P.S. No offence, but Trust me it was a huge gamble to have riders who had not done a single ride above 3-300 kms (overalll also)+ none of them except me & spidy had night riding experience as well.! but we pulled offf a 1000kms+ ride safely.
Kudos to you ppl.!

[rachitkohli]

^^^ vow.. that was a very nice, clean & a straight log rossi.!
i could visualize u ppl riding on those streets, highways among the trucks & in the dark without much food..
you guyz had an indeed fun man..!!! The passion to do this for the event is a winning achievement in itself.. @meisrossi.. congrats yar for coming in Top 4, thats not a childs play either..!
Heartly congratulations to all those riders who had a passion & desire to make it to that event with a fact of 1000 kms ride.. U all are inspirations..!
Great going bros..!!

[saif71184]

Am just back after a long vacation, Congratulations to Rossi and Calvin well done guys Mumbai and xBhpians are proud of your feat .

Wishing Marcus a speedy recovery.

Thanks Joey for those updates.