[KarthikK]

And once the photoshoot completed, here is what the rest of the BHPians did that morning before leaving

Official photographer Schoudhury at work


Royalcruiser zapped!



Asdon trying out the Ninja's riding position



and n_aditya: When will this craze for posing with my green bike end?



Nikhilb2008 on the Ninja, guyfrmblr in the background, Surjith and KiloAlpha checking out the CBR250R



Mrs. KiloAlpha with kid, and Guyfrmblr's parents in a discussion



More posing - sajands with the FZ1 and Asdon on the Ninja. The photoshoot attracts attention even from the four-legged creatures. The dog checks out whether this CBR250R engine is a liquid cooled. single cylinder unit or something else



This petrolhead dog deserves a team-BHP membership - it now checks whether this is the ABS version or non-ABS version of the CBR250R



Condor gets Condor'ed , in a different way (giving Condor an image of himself)



Guyfrmblr and Nikhilb2008 checking out the Ninja now



Schoudhury makes the FZ1 look like a FZ16 / FZ-S




Loading the luggage into the cars




Chetan_l and his better half involved in a discussion while the posing madness was in progress



FZ1 - solo picture



Ninja - solo picture




Shishir_bn and his better half, with ku69rd advising him on which superbike to buy



Portrait tribute and dedicated to our fantastic official photographer Schoudhury - who brilliantly multi-tasked with taking care of his cute son, and simulataneously ensuring that all the events were covered in his camera (@others - refer to page 3 for his full coverage). Many times I observed that he had carried his kid in 1 hand and D-SLR in another hand and still covered all the events of the meet, definitely not an easy task. Thanks a lot @Schoudhury, on behalf of all the BHPians!


After this photoshoot completed, we had a group photo session in the badminton court by 10.45am, pictures of which are in Schoudhury's post on page 3 -
http://www.team-bhp.com/forum/team-b...ml#post2687394

We then proceeded to remove the cars one by one and departed from Eagle eye resort. The offroading route followed on the exit section, and then there were the bad roads and finally the mind-blowing roads through Bhadra forest where all the drivers had a blast till we reached the main Aldur-Balehonnur highway at around 12 noon.

More on the proceedings in my next post. To be continued...

[ku69rd]

Originally Posted by n_aditya

I wonder why Mahesh looks so upset.

Aditya Sir, You can have all the adulation that the world can give. Remember that means lesser people scrambling upto my bike...guess you got to know what am hinting at.
On the Contrary, your bike does have a better street presence than mine because of the color. GREEEEEEEN

Originally Posted by KarthikK

19.35 kmpl for a 1000cc monster sounds great. I guess the convoy's "high" speeds were like running a splendor at 40kmph mileage zone for your FZ1

Karthik,
Bingo, the convoy's hi-speeds were in the economy zone for me, not complaining at all. There have been trips where the mileage has dropped to less than 15 with liberal use of right hand

[n_aditya]

Originally Posted by ku69rd

Aditya Sir, You can have all the adulation that the world can give. Remember that means lesser people scrambling upto my bike...guess you got to know what am hinting at.

Sigh! But this pic of you reminded me of a kid in a candy store who was pouting his lips because he was denied any candy.

Originally Posted by ku69rd

On the Contrary, your bike does have a better street presence than mine because of the color. GREEEEEEEN

Saar, lets paint the FZ1 Ninja Green. That way you will also get the attention

Originally Posted by aviorp

Ninja - Just love it in this colour

Attachment 890916

Excellent click saar. This is my wallpaper now.

[IronH4WK]

@KarthikK: excellent pictures and even better captions! bravo! now, before i come searching for you, better upload 'em mugshots!

Originally Posted by n_aditya

Sigh! But this pic of you reminded me of a kid in a candy store who was pouting his lips because he was denied any candy.

Originally Posted by n_aditya

Excellent click saar. This is my wallpaper now.

an excellent shot indeed!

[KarthikK]

Originally Posted by IronH4WK

now, before i come searching for you, better upload 'em mugshots!

Awwk! what mugshots?
I've covered all the BHPians in those pictures, haven't I?? So now you know who is who.

P.S - will dig into the camera's memory card and find if there are any more mugshots to upload tonight.

[BulZire]

Karhtikk, wonderful shots man. I didn't know that you do such a good photography.

I missed the meet due to work in office, but feel for it now.

[ssjr0498]

My trip meter read 668kms and I filled 20+18.8= 38.8liters of petrol thats an average of around 17.11kmpl, this includes 99% AC while driving back and around 95% AC while driving to the destination, plus the frequent 2nd-3rd gear session on the twisties.

I couldnt have asked for more from my car. All of this from an engine that didnt have a coolant reservoir!! Nice!!

@Mahesh sir, @Aditya.. Have convinced my wife to let me have a 600. Soon, I would be joining the gang!

Cheers
Shrey

Note from Team-BHP Support: Speed info edited out as it could give an impression of irresponsible/careless driving on public roads.

[n_aditya]

Originally Posted by ssjr0498

@Mahesh sir, @Aditya.. Have convinced my wife to let me have a 600. Soon, I would be joining the gang!

Hope the 600 is not a NANO but something with two wheels.

[shishir_bn]

I got around 14.4kmpl ~45lt of diesel on my XYLO for 650kms.

[ku69rd]

Originally Posted by shishir_bn

I got around 14.4kmpl ~45lt of diesel on my XYLO for 650kms.

Shishir,
Guess that's not even one tankful of diesel for the mighty Xylo. Out of vested interests how much does a Xylo hold to a tank?
14.4 is very decent mileage for a huge MUV like a Xylo.

[condor]

Originally Posted by ssjr0498

@Mahesh sir, @Aditya.. Have convinced my wife to let me have a 600. Soon, I would be joining the gang!

Shreyansh, how about a FZ-1 ? And in black, to complement the OHC ?

http://classifieds.team-bhp.com/buy-.../-Other-.html/

That'll make it two monsters in your garage.

[KarthikK]

Continuing from where I left off...

The convoy reached Aldur town at around 12 noon and 2-3 gas guzzling monsters (including mine) had to tank-up. Shrey's OHC VTEC, my T-Jet and someone else's car got the fuel filled up while the rest of the cars waited. Soon we departed towards Chikmagalur. I was behind the brilliantly driven Verna of Sajands/Condor throughout this time. The convoy stopped at a huge IOC bunk before Chikmagalur where the rest of the convoy refuelled, and then proceeded to stop for lunch by 1.30pm at a restaurant called Soundarya Sagar, if I remember correctly. The families and couples went to a separate section, while we stags sat along with bikers in another section of the restaurant.

Post lunch, the group split up. Asdon, guyfrmblr, ssjr0498, Schoudhury and myself wanted to try the freshly laid roads of Chikmagalur - Sakkarepatna - Kadur - Arsikere - Tiptur - Tumkur - Bangalore route. Shamanth stayed back in Hassan on personal work, and the others wanted to stick to the tried and tested Chikmagalur - Belur - Hassan - Bangalore route. I must add to the other group's envy by saying this - the Kadur route was smply mind blowing. You guys missed it. I don't remember a single pothole on that route except for a 1km stretch near Tiptur . The 'tried and tested' pothole ridden stretch was simply no match.

The route taken by the 'explorers' - Asdon, the Jet, ssjr0498, guyfrmblr and Schoudhury



The 'tried and tested' route taken by the rest of the convoy



After entering NH206 around 2pm, somewhere near Arsikere Asdon signalled to us and pulled over for a photoshoot of our 5 mean machines. Here are some of the photos of the photoshoot. My camera settings were improper and I hadn't noticed that - my bad. Sorry for the below-par image quality on these ones.























After the photoshoot, we proceeded along the way, and ended up losing asdon somewhere near Tiptur. ssjr0498 askd me to lead the way since I had the MMI GPS navigator and had the bypass and exit routes on all the towns we encountered. The remaining 4 cars cruised at decent speeds and munched up miles quickly. We stopped for a break in the hot afternoon by 3.30pm, and continued the journey homeward.

After entering Tumkur road and passing through the umpteen toll gates, we lost guyfrmblr somewhere near NICE road entrance. ssjr0498, Schoudhury and I stopped for a short break after entering NICE road and chatted for a while before we split up and continued homewards. Schoudhury took the NICE exit towards Electronic city, but ssjr0498 was with me throughout and bid the final goodbye when he turned at the Shell petrol bunk on Bannerghatta road. I reached home by 8pm. The fantastic BHP mega meet had come to an end so quickly, wish it could have been longer. It was a weekend well spent and the whole event was organized to perfection by asdon. The bikers were brilliant, the cars were amazing and the high point of the meet was getting to know the faces behind the handles that we see posting stuff here day after day on team-bhp. We should definitely plan up these meets more often than once a year.

With that my chronological T-log ends here. It can't complete without the customary 'thank you's.
- Thanks to asdon for organzing everything from start to finish.
- Thanks for the awesome meet guys, and for participating and making it a huge success. Hopefully the next one will come sooner than expected. Over to asdon for that
- Thanks also for the comments on this thread, glad to know you guys didn't find the long T-log / Photologue boring
- Hope the non-attendees this time make it to the next meet. I can't wait for the next one to happen.

P.S - will shortly be uploading a few more random snaps that are leftover in the camera's memory card

[sajands]

Hi All,

Better late than never, here are the pics from my side. I wil not try to say much as everyone else have spoken in length of the meet.

But still, few lines, Thanks to Asdon for the brilliant organization of the whole meet, Everything was in place. Right from start, the biker boys stole the limelight and by now they deserve to be nominated for the awards

The drive was the best part, once we hit the open roads, i guess somebody whispered Gumball, and next thing you know is everyone were setting lap times but with safety and road discipline in mind .

Overall, the meet was good, good to hear only cars, engine, turbo, ecu chip set, bikes and road trips than excel, project dead lines, follow ups..........

Enough said, let the pics do the real talking...

Second set to follow.....

-Sajan

The meetup


The famous W124


The lineup start's


The bikes arrive...


Roll call


The big boys,


Biker boys, plan how to steal thunder....


Let the drive begin


Catch the safari, looks straight from a movie scene, mafia chasing the witness


The truck manages to get away...I guess this is why Check Engine started..


Open Road=Gumball/Cannonball


Much talked about Type R


I see a CBR,


Now, that's what I call dresses to ride,


1st pitstop


Bhpian's Ahoy!!!


Rides...


Condor's inspects the T-Jet and Verna's spoiler spec's


Honda Cousins, ready to eat the road.


All lined up, ready to drive


Ninja reaches the checkpoint, Condor and Nikhil plan the next check point.


Nikhil, thinking when he is getting his green machine


Ok, everyone off the van and into the truck


Army truck, no time to stop and ask for engine specs


Now, that's what I call flat out...


Different type of curves, too hot to handle


Another pitstop before the twist and turns begin.


Hot rides


Spotted the rare Condor.....


Low angle shot...

[asdon]

A 5 star thanks to karthik for the detail and fantastic logs and pictures. Thanks to S Choudhury,Avinash, Condor, Chetan & Royal Cruiser(forgive me if I miss any name who has done a snap upload) for those great uploads. Sajan has just started and I know theres more to come as condor had the advantage to getting behind the cam, as Sajan managed the curves. And Thanks to the biker boyz for making the event so special, funny initially we started discussion to keep the convoy upto 80-90kmph to make room for the bikes, , we know now that bikers did economy to keep us within viewable range. Thanks to everyone for participating, without you guys event would not have been a hit, how good or bad the organizer be.

I know this is bit early, but here's at teaser..... next Meet location, a beach, 520km from Bangalore, as good as a private beach, resort on the beach, not much explored.... a two night event to give us more time to chit-chat, explore the surroundings more, rest more and no more off-roading with hatch & sedans, more 4 lane driving, now question is Guess the location!!!

Guys, sorry for being little OT, please continue your posts with snaps and write-ups.

[sajands]

the second set of pics,

The W124 family


T-Jet standing tall and driven with perfection


Black beauty


So, what was your top speed on the flat open roads?


I need to call for replacement tries for the civic


I think i can slip in a AMG tuned engine into the W124


Man, I need to get a Type R engine and good tire's for the Civic if I have to beat that mod city


Green Mean Ninja, had eveyone's eyes on her


Behold the mighty FZ1


Now, this is called road grip


Biker's plan the route ahead


Off-roading anyone?


Post lunch talk on the drive on the twist and turns and handling


Fishing and boat rides at the same time


Fishing and mobile at the same time, now that's called multi-tasking


Tell me about yourself, the interview conducted by large group


The talk was on F1 and street racing


Immortals, i mean the bikes


Verna meets the CBR


Bikes rest under a tree while bhpian's plot the stop for lunch


After lunch, bikers all set to burn rubber on the road


Dare to stand on the FZ1


Thats all folks, until the next meet happens.

-Sajan

Best pic, Ninja gets set to overtake the civic