Bangalore bikers central zone Adda meet!

Date:30-3-2010

time:2300 hours

"Welcome Rain in the middle of a hot summer, no power,7 BBians(Bangalore Bikers) stuffed into a 6'*10' room, a candle lighting up the room, hot paranthas accompanied by cold sev puris,golgoppas for starters,two guys going click click on their cameras, cake cutting by John, one bengali and a vietnamese conversing in kannada! conversations on biking and touring and photography! a bye with hopes of meeting again!" - this pretty much describes the first Adda meet of Central zone of Bangalore Bikers!

Recap: John decided that.. well his own words:

"Friends,

Bbians are located everywhere in city. Lets make some spot where we can give a regular adda. Say after office around 7 pm / 8 pm come for a tea/coffee, have short time chit chat..watch around and go. It can happen every Saturday or Sunday evening. Time always we will fix by discussing in this thread as we have many night shift bbians as well."

i am actually in Bangalore south but the adda of south zone is like 10-12 kms from where i live, and then i saw that banashankari was in Central zone :p i observed the thread for a couple of days, sumanth and eric responded so i thought what the heck! if not south then central, i scratched my head thinking of a suitable adda and then i remembered a Kolkatta chats corner opp Janatha Bazaar, Ajay had introduced me to this place. So i suggested this place and everything was decided upon, the meet dint happen yesterday but today everyone showed a lot of enthusiasm. Sumanth,Eric,Pranesh,Ninja,Deepak and finally John - these were the ones who made it.

Avinash,Avin - these were the ones who missed out!

they have an excuse though, Rain - Bangalore got some respite from the sweltering heat in the form of a welcome shower :)

The south zone guys were already meeting,having chosen an adda and we dint want to be left behind so we thought we will meet up today! Sumanth a.k.a Black fire,Niranjan a.k.a Ninja a.k.a. Red Indian:P:D, Eric and me were already looking forward to it, SMSed Pranesh( a wing/bull rider), called Avinash n Deepak,John posted that he would join us, Avin said he will "drop" in as well. so anyways we were waiting for the clock to hit 1930 hours, i went down and saw that my bike was coated with dust, cleaned it quickly, my shoes had been washed so had to put on the lace and all, so got a bit late, went to Deepak's office, got a bit late there too, Ninja had called twice already :p so me and Deepak reached there and Ninja and Pranesh were sitting on the katte, Sumanth n Eric came and we ate golgappas, it started raining. Ninja took a few pics of the golgappa guy, he got embarrassed! :P Ninja was like- one pic in Nikon, one pic in my Canon! :P i was holding sumanth's cam and clicked a few vehicles still on the road! they were so good that i deleted them instantly! :P and then John came, he got some plain cake, he cut it and the clickers got clicking! and then we had hot paranthas with dahi n pudina chutney with cold sev puri! Yummy! and then John n Eric thought they wud test their kannada speaking skills on each other ;) i stopped them from further Balathkar of kannada! :P Me and john discussed about the Puttaparthi ride. i had almost decided not to go after hearing a lot of peoples opinions but after talking to John, i think i will most probably go! :) All the different food items were first clicked by Ninja n sumanth, they even clicked each other's cameras :P and then we pulled John's leg about his age(read "its about time u got married,John" age:P) the same "John- i am 20+ and me - more like 30-" wala talk and then we left looking forward to meeting up again!

I came home,knew it was late, rang the bell, no response, m like "crap! major scene tonight, m finished!" and then i peeked in2 the key hole and saw there was no key and then i noticed that the Zeus was missing and i dug into my pockets and took out the key thinking its my lucky day :D;) and then got in!

Thats all from me folks, u might see some pics when i figure out how to put pics in blogs! :P

Ride Hard

Ride Safe

Cheers

HOTSHOT

The RCB vs CSK match!

Date:23-3-2010

Time: around 2 am

I went for the match! Yeah!
5 pm, an old friend, i dint even know was in town(He is in IAF,posted @ Kanpur) called me and said, what are you doing in the evening, i said no plans and he said he had 3 VIP tickets for the match and they were only two(the other guy had come all the way from mysore on a Fiero and he is as I type on the way back!) i agreed instantly, and told all my friends who were with me about it! they could not hide their envy! so i came home and hurried to Nayandalli and met up with them and we went to the match, i had taken my dio cos
1. I cudnt think of leaving my bike all alone in some cramped space where she cud get scratched,have her stickers stripped off her and wat not!
2. Helmet- i dont have a helmet lock and i dint want to carry my helmet to the match!
i had to take my old Kimi Raikonen helmet cos my CROSS wudnt fit inside the dio.
so we reached there with plenty of time, parked the vehicles in some street and then as we were searching for the gate to our stand, the CSK team bus arrived! everybody crowded around and i was caught amidst it all cos due to traffic the bus was still right next to me and then people saw Venkatesh Prasad and got all excited and then i also clicked a couple of pics and then when the bus started moving, everybody BOOOOOOED them, lollz that was too good! and then i check my back pocket and realize someone has picked my pocket! DAMN! around 1.5k in cash, some important visiting cards,a few photos,rare coins! Debit card( thank god i just had a copy of my Driver's License!) i was kinda put off! then we entered the stadium. what an atmosphere! it was amazing! the crowd was great too! IPL ROCKS!!! and then what to say about the match! you all saw it on TV! v ate a few pizzas n a cold coffee! great hospitality,they were serving us @ our seats:). And yeah when Uttappa hit those 3 sixes, my moodiness cos of my lost wallet finally kinda dissappeared! Mom called when there were two overs remaining to tell me to leave then only else it will be late, i pretended i cudnt hear her( u know- hello.. hello.. cant hear you.. hello.. hello.. call you later.. bye... CUT!). Now CSK knew they had lost it but still Albie Morkel n Badrinath thought they would have some fun, Albie hit a huge six, it hit the edge of the stadium roof.And then when we won! i was really happy! one of the thoughts in my mind was- i lost my wallet cos of u guys and now after beating you i feel a lot betterand then we were on our way back home, there was a cop riding pillion behind a guy on a platina and the rider was not wearing a helmet! how i wished i could taken a pic! but i was riding and yeah! and then came back home! logged in and here i am!