Kailash, whom i got to know from xbhp stayed very close to my house. He informed me that he & his biker buddies will be riding to Palm beach road on 31st jan 2010 for a professional photoshoot for a newly launched site magazine named 'Motoroids'. He invited me to join & i agreed initially. I invited my friend Percy for the ride & he agreed soon enough. It was 30th jan & i was supposed to attend some unplanned late night party with friends so called up Kailash & informed him i wouldn't be able to attend the ride since it was supposed to start early morning by 7 am & I would be back home not before 2 am that night. He replied back that he would be coming back from his late night shift at 3 am & still gonna attend the ride at 7 am so why can't I manage ? I had no answer other then saying "I'm in for the ride"
Got back home by 1.30 am & confirmed with kailash that I will ride with his group tomorrow. Tried to sleep soon but couldn't sleep till maybe 2.30 am.
Got up at 6 am with a combination of my various alarms & Percy's call. Got ready in a jiffy & met percy by 6.45 in my garage. We both rushed to fill up petrol in our bikes & then went to kalbadevi & meet kailash's group finally. After searching them for some time, we finally saw a group of Pulsar 220 's parked in a small lane shining away to glory. We joined them & introduced ourselves. Kailash introduced us to rest of his buddies & then we all were on road by 7.15 am.
All those guys on Pulsar 220 's were absolute rippers & we saw them zooming far ahead of our humble bikes even though we were on our top speeds. Kailash was nice enough to halt for us at intervals & let us catch up with them. After a small halt for tea break Kailash offered me to test drive his brand new P 220 . I had never ridden a bike above 150 cc before but who can deny such an opportunity so I took the keys of P 220 & handed over my FZ Keys to Kailash. We rode nonstop to vashi where we met Kailash's photographer friends waiting for us in parking lot of a mall. We lined up our respective bikes & took a small break. Clicked some nice pics there.
After that we all headed to palm beach road. In no time we all were riding there at speeds of 100 +.. It was an amazing feeling to actually ride on such high quality roads in mumbai. One of Kailash's frnd had a minor fall while attempting a stoppie.. No casualties whatsoever to both him & his P 220 .
Finally we all were on a patch of virtually traffic less road where Santosh-the photographer explained us how he wants to shoot the pics. Accordingly, we rode in groups & formation & finally got some nice pics. Thereafter it was stunt session by Kailash & frnds who pulled off some excellent stunts on their Pulsar. Percy & myself were just spectators since this was the first time we were seeing actual live stunts like wheeling, stoppies, burnouts etc. We wanted to try out some normal stunts but it was a strict no from my side since my baby fz was just a few months old. Few pics of the stunts
Anyways, we participated in shooting all those stunts by others while an interesting young village guy passing by on his puny little bike said to us that even he does stunts & he started off. His stunts were way better then all of the Pulsar gang & everyone appreciated him.
It was nearly 12 pm by then so we decided to return back home. Now it was my turn to test drive the pimped up Pulsar 200 of maddy with the loudest exhaust note due to his papercross air filter. it was an amazing 2 ride that loud monster which crossed 120 kmph with ease. We took a small lunch break @ Mcdonalds before heading back home which was basically a speed run from panvel to marine lines in less then an hour. Clocked my personal top speed on my FZ @ 124 kmph. Had a wonderful short & fast ride.
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