The Official Kolkata Offline Meet(G2G) Thread

[AnirbanB]

Yes. I have completed this 2500km 10 day trip last December. Went till 16,000 feet - zero point, north Sikkim. Visited India-China and India-Bangladesh borders. Another kolkata Xbhp member was with me for the first 1/3rd part of the trip. Rest was done solo.

Experience was amazing. Will post the trip log when I find time.

@ Ani,

What is Gorkhaland issue ? Sorry i have no clue about this.

I really wanna hit darjeeling soon. All the way to shiliguri - Darjeeling from Bangalore on my 220

Some give me hope with better updates

Gorkhaland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Please consider North Sikkim. No point in riding all the way from Bangalore and missing Gurudongmar lake/yumthang valley.

Do check out Praveenkm and Saparsh's logs here at Xbhp. Both of them helped me a lot.

[sunny9830687955]

WOW!!!!! now things getting hotter we really need to meet.
guys please try to come on 11th at cc2

[MACH50]

however I will love to ride there but I’ve doubt about our bikes, it can afford that stress or not.

@ Ani,

What is Gorkhaland issue ? Sorry i have no clue about this.

My last visit to Darjeeling was 4 years back. And road is absolutely fine. But I hardly had seen bikes there. Couple of pulsar i have seen tough at the main town in Darjeeling. Coming down is quite a bit tricky so far i feel. And also those sumo zeep drivers also crazy...

I really wanna hit darjeeling soon. All the way to shiliguri - Darjeeling from Bangalore on my 220

Some give me hope with better updates

My 95' Suzuki Shogun,I leased that bike to one of my junior pals studying at a Boarding in Darjeeling.These college dudes used to race over there........yes on mountain roads.But my Shogun has been returned to me now.............bcoz of the same Gorkhaland thing where,the party bans any college goers from using bikes.Now my Shogun wud see restoration soon,it wud be ready for Darjeeling n high altitude again.So dont worry,Bikes are very much rideable there.Only the owner has to know the limits of his respective bike and ride.Bcoz on the steep downhills,Bike's engine wud be tested as it has to be high amount of engine braking rather than conventional braking.The conventional braking has to be applied very lightly all the way down..........such as the bike remains movable but slow due to engine braking.Most bikes used by locals are Yamaha RX100s,Fieros and Samurai or Shaolins.Main moto of going very steep down hill is to be very slow in order to avoid overspeeding which may land u in valley thousand feet below and complete overturning of the bike due to sudden wheel lock on braking.Mind it........the G forces are not gonna be very easy on us while goin down such steep,people on bikes may throw up easily.We have to do it in a cooll,comfortable and adventurous way.

@ ANI........yes Gorkhaland issue is a bother.I hope by the time we go,issues wud be settled,or we can head to Gangtok straight away through the lower reaches of Teesta.I rode some kilometres on a Pulsar 220 from Sikkim Manipal Instutional building to Rumtek monastery.Roads are better suited for safe biking there.We can even scale the reaches of Tsongo lake and above till Helipad region around Baba Mandir with bikes.I dont know about the reaches of Northern Sikkim and the region around Yanthung La(17,000ft).Roads were closed due to snow then !!!!!

[neil_1668]

The roads are very upright. The most dangouris thing would be while going back down. As we have no idea about hilly road driving so I think that would be very risky. An expertise can define it better.

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Here is what.... "Engine Braking" comes into play. . .

[on wheels]

WOW!!!!!
the thread is getting hot now.
I think, on uphills and steep roads, HH Hunk would not be a better option. Its too heavy(149kg) and only having 150cc engine producing 13bhp.
Lets see......!

[MACH50]

WOW!!!!!

on uphills and steep roads, HH Hunk would not be a better option. Its too heavy(149kg) and only having 150cc engine producing 13bhp.
Lets see......!

Joy baba mosh...nath !!!!! bolo joy

[sunny9830687955]

joy baba mosh...nath !!!!! Bolo joy

......................joy baba mosh...nath !!!!!......

[johnblr]

it may sounds crazy but i really wanna do this darjeeling trip soon and on bike. I really don't know why i feel some sort of emotional attachment for Darjeeling

[drvmtm]

biking on wheels is not that difficult,trust me. my bike i took its delivery from gangtoks bajaj show room only,still its reg number is sk 01.i took the bike on jan 05 and i soaked up all the beauty in the hills till sep 08.did numerous trips to gantok-derjeeling-siliguri-and various parts of north bengal and sikkim as i was doin my study their.....
its not to worry ,
stick to your lane and know your limits and voila thats it.

@gibran- june will be hot,if you r ok wit that then go ahed.

[drvmtm]

derjeeling

u can go to derjeeling by various roads.all roads are not steep.
from siliguri the road is very very very nice,built by British,the toy train will accompany you upto ghum....nice exp .

if you take the pankhabari road that one is really steep and i mean reaaaaaallllly steap,better to avoid that.
more info needed,then ask me.

[johnblr]

I am getting Getting hope...and i do remember the pankhabari route while coming down. Not on bike It is a crazy route for sure.

You got a PM drvmtm

[soumen.sam]

Yes. I have completed this 2500km 10 day trip last December. Went till 16,000 feet - zero point, north Sikkim. Visited India-China and India-Bangladesh borders. Another kolkata Xbhp member was with me for the first 1/3rd part of the trip. Rest was done solo.
Experience was amazing. Will post the trip log when I find time.

Thanks dude for your feedback..

Bikes are very much rideable there.Only the owner has to know the limits of his respective bike and ride.Bcoz on the steep downhills,Bike's engine wud be tested as it has to be high amount of engine braking rather than conventional braking.The conventional braking has to be applied very lightly all the way down..........such as the bike remains movable but slow due to engine braking.Most bikes used by locals are Yamaha RX100s,Fieros and Samurai or Shaolins.Main moto of going very steep down hill is to be very slow in order to avoid overspeeding which may land u in valley thousand feet below and complete overturning of the bike due to sudden wheel lock on braking.Mind it........the G forces are not gonna be very easy on us while goin down such steep,people on bikes may throw up easily.We have to do it in a cooll,comfortable and adventurous way.

Exactly, more than our bike’s performance, tuff riding skill is require, as we are very much unaware about all possibilities of driving at hilly roads. People there use to drive bikes and cars by using the engine braking power, always drive downhill at 1st gear by slowly accelerate etc.

WOW!!!!!
the thread is getting hot now.
I think, on uphills and steep roads, HH Hunk would not be a better option. Its too heavy(149kg) and only having 150cc engine producing 13bhp.
Lets see......!

Dude don’t worry I knew many ppl who had done Darjeeling trip on their pulsar 150. But each bike needs to ride single. So I don’t think that the capability of our bikes would be a big factor. But if we go very high like Yanthung La(17,000ft) then too cold would be a problem for bikes.

But we can decide how far to go after reaching there, after observing the current circumstance, how far we/our bike can afford it etc.

We can make a basic plan by targeting few easy spots at lower mountains as I’ve told and after reaching there we can upgrade our plans. I thing that would be good.

it may sounds crazy but i really wanna do this darjeeling trip soon and on bike. I really don't know why i feel some sort of emotional attachment for Darjeeling

Me too dude.. its just my dream to trip Darkjeeling/Sikkim on bikes. But it would take at least 6-8 days min for this kinda trip and due to my job I think it won’t be possible before Dec.

[soumen.sam]

The roads from Shiliguri to Darjeeling are just speechless. Beside the road when the Toy Train crosses that was just awesome. And more over the roads are very much wide but just few turnings are looks awful. Shiliguri to Darjeeling is just around 65km to 70km but Shiliguri to Gangtok is over 100km

Bellow few images those I can manage and by seeing the roads you can feel that “yes, its quite easy”. And also the video you must watch.

(Gangtok-Sikkim Road Trip)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2m-HO98m_F8&feature=player_embedded

[MACH50]

always drive downhill at 1st gear by slowly accelerate etc.

theres no need for acceleration,ur bike wud roll away under huge G forces as usual.U need to have a firgginly strong engine for continous riding of that sort.Otherwise I think one needs to stop at end of evry steep down one traverses, for the engine to cool down.Absolute overheat in low pressure zones calls for engine seizures.

Riding is mostly through High altitude straights.Of course throughout the trip u wud encounter steep downs only when goin ridiculously higher,like Tiger Hill,Jorapukuri,or Tsongo lake(this sikkim's downhill road makes those Jeeps n Sumos smoke brake pads and engine erratically !!!!)of those steeps...........Although wid Bikes,issue is totally different,light weight machines are stressed less.Light weight vehicles too gains slower momentum under Gs.Its not the Bike's power or torque which comes into calculation goin downhill.........its simply how good the engine construction is.Air cooled 4 strokes with good air flow does wonderfully cool.2 strokes are not stressed at all.Also good engine oil also does tricks in these regions.Last of all well maintained bikes can take all of it.

[sunny9830687955]

guys we really need to meet , lets plan to meet on 11th at cc2