In search of Krishnabai mandir.. Wai..

This was a ride i did this saturday (15th May 2010) for personal reasons.. thats the reason did not post this in the meets section.
Asked a good friend of mine who readily agreed.
So now we were two riders..
Black Avenger 200 - Tejas
Black P220 - Vaibhav

Black Arrow.. All Black P220 arrives..

Happy to annouce the arrival of The Black Arrow.. My pulsar 220 dtsi finally arrived today with navi mumbai registration..

First Impression (Negatives) -

* Suspensions feel stiff..
* Display goes off - I dont know about this.. but if the bike is kept on idle for a while (like about 2-3 mins) the Display goes off.. Is this the inbuilt feature like Auto Off or some problem with the display.. Has anybody had this problem. Or Should i take it to the service station and get the display changed?

Some pics attached.. Thanks to Anup..

Side view..

Mumbai to Little Rann of Kutch

Dates - 25th Dec 09 - 27th Dec 09
Destination - Somewhere around Ahmedabad - Mount Abu? Black buck National Park? Rann again??
Riders
Karthik - D125 .. called KK in the log..
Vaibhav - P180 .. Me..
Amit - P200 .. Mr.Patil or Darthie..
Dhananjay - P220 - Dj..

Distance covered - 1370kms

In search of the Valley of Flowers...

Planned my most dreamt ride to get Leh'd.. but as destiny would have it.. had to cancel it for my career :)
so i was still in hibernation for nearly six months..No rides.. only commuting is what i was doing...
finally a plan came up.. courtesy.. darth lucifer..
we need to find the valley of flowers he said.. in Maharashtra ...

where did we ride??
destination - Kaas (25kms from Satara)
distance - approx 300kms from Kings Circle
total distance covered in the day - 599 kms according to the odo..

Riding to the beach.. again...

Destination - Bhatye beach, Ratnagiri
Distance from matunga - approx 370kms
time taken one way - approx 8 hours (including an hour of break for breakfast and other stuff)

It was a saturday night.. all of us were laughing our hearts out at Sankets jokes.. and in the talks came the plan to ride in a group after a long time..
all of us there were eager to ride.. Vinod had plans of a 500km ride starting Friday night.. but they had to change all that because of me..
thank you all very much for that gesture..

so it was again deepak who had to find out a destination .. and this is what he sent on the mail..
excerpts from the mail..
"With initial places being decided at Tambarde and Kunkeshwar in Malvan- it would only be possible to leave on Friday night. Leaving on Saturday morning riding for 550 kms and then returning back the next day wouldnt make much sense. So I've shortlisted a place called Bhatye Beach in Ratnagiri. As per info from my colleague who is from Pavas which is close to Bhatye, there are ample and inexpensive accomodation options to stay overnight. Here's the pic of the beach. Googled around for a few snapshots of the beach and got this (seems pretty clean):

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/78/154084585_6411a3a066_o.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/53/154084615_7649676b1e_o.jpg

http://www.konkandarshan.com/tourist/images/bhatye_big.jpg "

so it was decided.. Bhatye beach it is going to be..

Riders list
Deepak -- P150
Revel -- Hunk
Vinod -- P180
Sarang -- P180
Vaibhav -- P180
Dhananjay -- P220
Alkesh -- P220
Glen -- Zma
Arjun -- Zma
Sanket -- Zma
Parimal -- Zma (he joined us later at the destination)