The Official Mumbai Offline Meet(G2G) Thread

[rachitkohli]

@Rachit
nice pix man..which cell phone?
i hope you had a wonderful valentine day..

yes yes..! had a lovely one.. thanks

@rachit: great pics

thanks Mr. Ninja

Mom doing fine now....she started working today!!!

BTW nice pics!!

Oh great to know about your mom..!!
And Thanks

cool pics rachit! enjoying life huh? chal lets ride to leh

real enjoyment is up there on the Himalayas.. For LEH ride Leaves & approval part, no problem.. Just working on the other part $$$

Sexy pics Rachit, had fun, eh!

thanks spidy..!! superb fun

[spiderweb]

MUMBAI SAFETY MEET UPDATE:

http://www.xbhp.com/talkies/xbhp-offline-meets-g2gs/11838-mumbai-safety-meet-greater-good.html

@Ketan: help me collect all the points we discussed in case I forget sumthing.

[dineshsamtani]

cool pics rachit! enjoying life huh? chal lets ride to leh

me too!! me too!! just thoda jaldi bolna.....have to take leaves from office

[Mastermind]

@ Rachit I saw a parachute in one of the pics .................paragliding ka charge pata hai ???

[rachitkohli]

@ Rachit I saw a parachute in one of the pics .................paragliding ka charge pata hai ???

yes Paragliding & lot of water sports are conducted out there. Its superb. Charge for paragliding is 400 & for other water sports its around 300-500.
Am sure, this prices are highly negotiable.

[ketan_r15]

MUMBAI SAFETY MEET UPDATE:

http://www.xbhp.com/talkies/xbhp-offline-meets-g2gs/11838-mumbai-safety-meet-greater-good.html

@Ketan: help me collect all the points we discussed in case I forget sumthing.

Spidy I was out of city yesterday so couldn't login.
Now checking the thread. Will try to remind if you missed anything.

@ Rachit, Very nice pics! Congrats for the ride!

[mitz]

yes Paragliding & lot of water sports are conducted out there. Its superb. Charge for paragliding is 400 & for other water sports its around 300-500.
Am sure, this prices are highly negotiable.

17 of us did Paragliding there & per person charge was negotiated by the girls in our group upto Rs 190/-
Rest of the rides were bargained per person as follows:
Banana boat : 100
Bumper ride : 500 for 3 persons
speedboat : 200

[ketan_r15]

Rode to the CITY I HATE the MOST() yesterday. For the first time I rode a P220 DTS-Fi for such a long distance. And what a nice experience it was.




A few things I noticed..

Ohh so good things:

All I can say is Bow down and respect that torque.. I like it especially because am an R15 owner No matter what gear you are in or what speed you are at, just wring the bloody throttle and you automatically find yourself in the power band of the bike. Wow So little gear shifting.

Rode with THE BEST lighting combination I've ever come across after the R1's headlights. P220 projectors with Raylux HIDs worth 6.3K Trust me, it was like carrying your own small Sun with you at night was loving the reactions on the face of fellow road users especially cars

Bike felt quite stable in heavy cross winds on expressway. may be coz of the heavy weight

LOVED TO THE CORE the growling and howling of the 220 cc engine with pipercross performance air filter It was sweet music inside the helmet. And it was also inviting lot of street racing losers on Pune streets for traffic light GPs

Things I missed of my R15

Missed the fantastically comfortable seat. My saddle was sore even before I reached Khopoli It's just a matter of getting used to. Not to mention I was once an owner of P200 But because of that up-straight seating position no wrist pain at all which I come across on my R15

That little refinement. Bike was giving jerks in traffic at crawling speeds after a full day's running. Again, may be I wasn't used to the clutch setting I guess.

Gears are rock hard Believe it or not even after a full day's ride I wasn't able to find the neutral in one go R15's gears are butter smooth

After using those Volvo B7R's mirrors on R15, I was left with very limited view on 220's RVMs. At night it was even worst. Due to fairing vibrations, mirrors were vibrating so badly making the view blur. Many times I mistook a two wheeler for 4 wheeler due to blurred headlights

Though the projector with HID set was THE BEST I've ever seen till date, I was mostly forced to use only one of the 2 beams. Because once you switch the beam, those HIDs take time to heat up and glow in full power. So for those 2-3 seconds you are left with very little light. I guess the twin beam setup should solve this problem.

Like R15's, the digital fuel meter was in a mood to make fun of me.

Anyways, Thanks a lot Mandar and Ajinkya for the help Really appreciate that.

[satyenpoojary]

Like R15's, the digital fuel meter was in a mood to make fun of me.

Nice to read the comparo!
Waise the digital fuel meter in almost all bikes will show you wrong reading if you park it on side stand, or you switch the bike on while its still leaning...


(doing it on mainstand or without any lean would mean that the readings are farily accurate!)

Psssst: Anyone in Mumbai Pune willing to lend me a 220 too, I am bike less for this week! So can do with a small ride on it back home!

[rachitkohli]

@ Rachit, Very nice pics! Congrats for the ride!

thanks ketan..!!

17 of us did Paragliding there & per person charge was negotiated by the girls in our group upto Rs 190/-
Rest of the rides were bargained per person as follows:
Banana boat : 100
Bumper ride : 500 for 3 persons
speedboat : 200

vow that was dirt cheap man..!! Girls are best at this things..

[ketan_r15]

Nice to read the comparo!

Waise the digital fuel meter in almost all bikes will show you wrong reading if you park it on side stand, or you switch the bike on while its still leaning...


(doing it on mainstand or without any lean would mean that the readings are farily accurate!)

Hmm..was aware of it a bit. On my R15, while running with 2 sticks of fuel, when I break hard the reserve counter starts off Then riding on straight road again for some time stops the reserve fuel's blinking bar. grrrr..

Even yesterday, very close to Mumbai I was running with 3 sticks of fuel on 220 and just after a coupla kms I looked down to see only one stick and the red reserve mode light On. I was like.. Found a petrol pump near Chembur and filled in 100 bucks of petrol but still the reserve light was On

Anyways, the bike had clocked 26K but still was in mint condition Very well maintained Ajinkya

[anil14975]

Psssst: Anyone in Mumbai Pune willing to lend me a 220 too, I am bike less for this week! So can do with a small ride on it back home!

take mine

[satyenpoojary]

take mine

Thanks! Your bike is @ Mumbai right..?
I need to get to Mumbai from pune, so need a bike in Pune

Once in Mumbai, I will have my small-slow-RTR

[spiderweb]

MUMBAI SAFETY MEET: THREAD UPDATED with all the DETAILS in the first post.

http://www.xbhp.com/talkies/xbhp-offline-meets-g2gs/11838-mumbai-safety-meet-greater-good.html#post379657

Read every point carefully n make a backup in your mind or NO RIDE...

[satyenpoojary]

^ Shucks! Sab kyo daal diya... this could have been so much fun!

I checked... this is what THEY feel SHOULD come to make it better here! None of them is true... almost!