The Official Chennai Offline Meet(G2G) Thread

[Zaphod]

Can someone poke the others through SMS?
I just sent an SMS to bikerfas.

As for me, I will be waiting opposite the Hindu Mission at around 5 AM on my little red riding hood.

@Sunny, Please check your PM.

@Aargee, confirmed.

@Efunds and @Sunny,
I have your balelakkaclavas guys.

If no one turns up, will scoot to yelagiri as Plan B

[aargee]

As for me, I will be waiting opposite the Hindu Mission at around 5 AM on my little red riding hood.

@Zaphod - pls join with Tarc & Amit; hope you would've got the call by now

We'd a good scene of panchathanthram round to make this list
1. Undefineme
2. Tarc
3. Only_Amit
4. SriramEFunds
5. Sunnysideup*
6. mrsrini*
7. rajesh1136*
8. felix.raghav
9. Zaphod
10. Myself

[Zaphod]

Sunny is out for tomorrow. He just messaged me. And so is bikerfas.

[Sunnyside_up!]

Sunny is out for tomorrow. He just messaged me. And so is bikerfas.

Yeah sorry guys, 5 am is a bit too much. That would mean I need to wake up at 4 - bang in the middle of my slow wave sleep.

I would have been game for 6 but no probs. Have a safe and fun ride!

[felix.ragav]

^ coming at 10.11, looks like he forgot to update me :P

@ zaphod: whats with the kaanversayshunal englipiss da?

Looking forward to meet Uncle amit tomo

Riding Pillion tomo Damn I'm going to miss the GS.

Iron Man without the Iron man suit is not Iron man at all
- His Unholiness Sri Swami Nityananda

[rajesh1136]

sorry guys im out too... my backup victor wont cross 70.

so its better to sleep 2row will join next week with my own GS 150

[whizzkid_ram]

DISCLAIMER - The ramblings above are the rantings of a raggedy old bandicoot in the last stages before the onset of senility and in no way should be taken seriously. Any inferences that may drawn are purely the imagination of the reader!!

This is complete ROFL...

Guys, Don't forget to click the pics of BIRIYANI

1400 / 31 = ~ 45 Kmpl

Great man, 130 on the speedo.. FI works

[cbz xtreme]

@ANanth: Super click. FIrst Leh log. Next Kerala Monsoon log.

@All heading out tommorow(whichever place be it): Have a great time.
I have a herculean task ahead (gota face an exam). If there is any meet up planned in the evening, please intimate me. Exam gets over @1. SO expecting to be a free bird after that.

Have a happy et safe journey...

[yellowspunk]

where are we going tomorrow? lol i will keep track of this thread till probably 12am.. please message me the time and destination someone on my mobile..
i'm for the ride as always

[Only Amit...]

where are we going tomorrow? lol i will keep track of this thread till probably 12am.. please message me the time and destination someone on my mobile.. @9962813413
i'm for the ride as always

Well...its 11:52
We are meeting near CTC @5 and heading to vallakkotai

[Tarc]

Just came back from office..going to sleep now..cant make it to the ride guys

[SriramEfunds]

@Tarc, it is ok. Can understand. I should say, this chennai xbhp meet is gathering momentum during weekends. So first rest, ride next!

[xinfii]

Thoughts...

Hi Guys,

You are all probably in the middle of the ride now, to where I don't know. But if you all rode and had fun, thats excellent. I have been watching this thread for a while now and here are some of my thoughts...

• Every week, riders are meeting up and riding somewhere, which is just a fantastic trait. Not many cities do that and most importantly, this flavor lasting in Chennai is very nice to see.
• The turnout in every ride is more than 5 all the time, which is pretty cool.
• However, there has been a little bit of chaos in the recent days. All this has been about timing, place, etc. which ideally is a result of improper organization.
• We can handle this when a person volunteers to put things in order. This does not mean that, one person decides and everyone follows. It means that, one person tries to sense the mood of everyone and voices out the collective opinion.
• It really doesn't matter whether we organize or follow. In both cases, we should try to adapt to the vast majority.
• For ages, Sunday morning rides have started at 7AM, Cozee and we've riden to Mahabs and come back. Its perfectly fine to advance the timing, if we are riding longer distances. But otherwise, I think 7 is a good timing, simply because it will help more people attend the G2G.
• When there is chaos, someone needs to take ownership, call the rest of the folks and make peace. At least thats what I used to do, since communication over the forum for every other thing was impossible.
• I could see that multiple people tried taking responsibility for organizing things and statements were made here and there. This will cause trouble for others who suddenly turn up and read the last few posts. (This practically happens and we can't expect people to flip back pages and read them.) So if you would like to alter the existing plan, try and request the same people who is taking control right now to do it. If that person slacks, try and get him back on the forum or inform him and take control.
• One (not all) of the reasons why I skipped today's ride was because I really didn't want to ride the NH-4 and come back without even being in a location worth visiting. On the ECR is the viewpoint, the Tiger Caves and Moonrakers. At Vedanthangal is a serene location. At Gingee are the beautiful forts on the hill and the very calm broken temple structure. To me it makes sense to at least spend half an hour there, sitting and chatting. Most importantly, in a place like Gingee, shuttebugs will have their time well spent. (Gingee - a set on Flickr) So please consider such an activity too while planning.

Please feel free to comment, these are my thoughts.

[undefineme3]

Just came back. Had a nice ride. Headed towards vallakotai and had a nice chat.

8 people made it
Amit (ZMA)
Sriram (RX135)
Raghav (pillion)
Zaphod (Didnt get your name dude, Sudarshan is it? ) (FZ16),
Ganesh (RX100)
Srini (GS150)
Devanathan (Fazer)
Ganesh (P???)

Thank you aargee for the sneak peak into your rebuilt RX100 and sriram for the snacks

Had breakfast at Motel Highway after parting ways with aargee.

PS: After a few servings, the density of sambar reduces at Motel Highway

[Sunnyside_up!]

Bingo!!

Hi Guys,

You are all probably in the middle of the ride now, to where I don't know. But if you all rode and had fun, thats excellent. I have been watching this thread for a while now and here are some of my thoughts...

• Every week, riders are meeting up and riding somewhere, which is just a fantastic trait. Not many cities do that and most importantly, this flavor lasting in Chennai is very nice to see.
• The turnout in every ride is more than 5 all the time, which is pretty cool.
• However, there has been a little bit of chaos in the recent days. All this has been about timing, place, etc. which ideally is a result of improper organization.
• We can handle this when a person volunteers to put things in order. This does not mean that, one person decides and everyone follows. It means that, one person tries to sense the mood of everyone and voices out the collective opinion.
• It really doesn't matter whether we organize or follow. In both cases, we should try to adapt to the vast majority.
• For ages, Sunday morning rides have started at 7AM, Cozee and we've riden to Mahabs and come back. Its perfectly fine to advance the timing, if we are riding longer distances. But otherwise, I think 7 is a good timing, simply because it will help more people attend the G2G.
• When there is chaos, someone needs to take ownership, call the rest of the folks and make peace. At least thats what I used to do, since communication over the forum for every other thing was impossible.
• I could see that multiple people tried taking responsibility for organizing things and statements were made here and there. This will cause trouble for others who suddenly turn up and read the last few posts. (This practically happens and we can't expect people to flip back pages and read them.) So if you would like to alter the existing plan, try and request the same people who is taking control right now to do it. If that person slacks, try and get him back on the forum or inform him and take control.
• One (not all) of the reasons why I skipped today's ride was because I really didn't want to ride the NH-4 and come back without even being in a location worth visiting. On the ECR is the viewpoint, the Tiger Caves and Moonrakers. At Vedanthangal is a serene location. At Gingee are the beautiful forts on the hill and the very calm broken temple structure. To me it makes sense to at least spend half an hour there, sitting and chatting. Most importantly, in a place like Gingee, shuttebugs will have their time well spent. (Gingee - a set on Flickr) So please consider such an activity too while planning.

Please feel free to comment, these are my thoughts.

+ 100%

@ Praveen - Being A Senior member of the group, you've been able to say quite a few things that as a Newbie, I wasn't ( or rather didn't feel might be taken in the right spirit ).

However as a Senior Member in the larger picture called LIFE - I do have this to share - I definitely felt the lack of co-ordination this week and made several attempts to get everyone to focus but gave up when I saw no point.

@ all those reading this - Praveen's comments are in no way criticisms or pontification - merely mature observations that may make our G2G's even better.

I don't know if this has been tried already, but may I suggest that we evolve a system of listing destinations for the weekly G2G's? Since we are an open and democratic forum, why not allow EVERYONE to suggest destinations and list them down, then interested members can post their names against the destinations suggested. The lists with the highest number of 'ayes' can get priority.

Also remember, that we are a community in perpetuity, so if your particular destination of choice is not selected for this week, it can come up again in one of the other weeks, since we ride every week. That way, everyone has a choice. I dare-say that we will slowly evolve as a group and discover that the destination is not as important as the camaraderie between us.

Though I was disappointed that I couldn't see a consensus emerging for this weeks G2G, I did not want to miss a chance for a ride this week so I did go for a ride with two other like minded souls yesterday, Rajiv (rajivenky) and Anant (Hellsangels) to Mudaliarkuppam on the ECR - a pleasurable and scenic ride. We had a good time and look forward to doing similar rides again and would definitely enjoy more company. I will post pics shortly.