Motorcycle Music

There are a few songs that u should listen if you have motorcycle in ur blood, On the top of this list is
"Born to be wild " by steppenwolf , it repersents what real bikers are supposed to be and this song sounds especially better in the movie Easy rider  where Peter Fonda and his friend ride into sunset and the movie is also amazing its more like a documentary on american culture

The Next song would be Turbo Lover by judas preist, jus check out the video and you will know why its a good motorcycle song and the other song u should look out for by the same band is "Hell Patrol", "Hell Bent for leather" and "Painkiller"

If your just the instrumental type try Joe satriani "motorcycles blues", u will feel like kick starting ur bike and ride to eternity

And Enternity its is one of my Favourite bands Iron Maiden has a few motorcycle songs in disguise
Try listening to "From Here to Eternity" the best part of the songs are the lyrics which goes about a girl falling in love with a motorcycle  and riding and crashing it

There are a hell a lot other songs about motorcycles and if you listen to them u will enjoy biking further

Road King Test

To Keep or Not to Keep- KEEP!!!!!!!!!!

I do not know if this is the same with everyone but when you buy a used classic bike like a yezdi, jawa enfield etc there is always this dileama if the bike is ok or should u consider selling it etc and this nonsense will keep going on and on ur head like forever till u decide , I went through this with the CL-2 as i got the bike had spent a lot on bringing it to a rideable state and bang the gear breaks and the engine was screwed anyway and then six months is the sentence for the bike and it had to time in the mech shop gathering dust and the cost of doing the bike is already on your head and the pain of it gathering dust.

Then one fine day its done up and the cost of if it already paid, once u ride it home u will see all ur dilemas melting away, what u now experience is sweet pleasure and the irony is this pleasure is only because u waited and went through the pain and guess wat u wont experience the same if had bike in a good shape , the experience of making a bike beaten up run like the wind is jus amazing and thats when ur passion actually comes out so if u brought a bike and aint good jus work on it and u might feel what i jus raved about

CL-II Noise Busters

Finally two weeks ago got my CL-II back, fully done up. The bike did have its share of problems , i got the bike the next day rode to work on my way back home, poof!!! it stopped . It would start but if u put it in gear and move, the bike would die . There was electricity, there was fuel flow but no power , it was like 1+1 is not equal to 2 , tried cleaning the spark plug but still no response , the day was hot as hell and a 4km push awaited , hell yeah i pushed it all the way home and not a clue what went wrong. The next day morning being a sunday started it again same problem checked if there was fuel flow within the carb even that was in place with no other way out called senthil my mech and he asked me to come and pick up our grand old man. i went in my jawa and picked him up and as the saying goes , He came ,He saw , He conquered , the problem was a loose carb bolt which was letting air in through induction and yes a tightned nut the bike was fine but the next day i took the bike to tidy things up and yes it runs just fine

but the other problem was the noise and my wife actually got down from the bike and walked away she said she couldn take it so time for noise busting , so went to the mech yesterday  added the cores and wow what a noise i just love the way it rides its smooth as butter the only irritant is the pin noise hope it dies down soon

CL-II Mrthyoma Amrutham Kamaya

There is a sloka in veda which goes like this

Om Asato Maa Sad-Gamaya |
Tamaso Maa Jyotir-Gamaya |
Mrtyor-Maa Amrtam Gamaya |
Om Shaantih Shaantih Shaantih ||

Meaning:
1: Lead us from Unreal to the Real,
2: Lead us from the Darkness to the Light,
3: Lead us from the Fear of Death to the Knowledge of Immortality.
4: Om Peace, Peace, Peace.

And i am amazed how this can be applied to my CL-2
1. Lead us from Unreal to the Real,
I brought a cl-2 hoping to use it without much work but the engine was screwed and the gear box was screwed too , hence from the ureal dream of riding the bike was rusting in the mech shop for 6months
2: Lead us from the Darkness to the Light,
But my knowledge of the engine in a yezdi was theoritical but with the help of the mech i was through the engine assembly process thus leading me from drkness to light

3: Lead us from the Fear of Death to the Knowledge of Immortality.
Finally the bike roared to life hence from death to life

Pure Bliss

I have visited so many temples and temple to my understanding is a place where u can experience god and be at peace at yourself. But now people look at a temple as place where there unreasonable demands can be made and where they pay huge bribes to get the job done and i hate that outlook.

God never asked anyone to pray to him nor did he asked them to do anything if some events happens to them , it we who promise that we will do something for god if he does something for us

Each old temple atleast 500 yrs + old was built for some reason the Thanjavur temple was built cos raja raja had won battles with lot of blood shed and the wealth he had got from the battles was used to build a temple , the Hiradyaeshwarar temple in thirunindravur was built beacuse a mad man who wanted to build a temple but couldn afford it and nobody helped him so he built one imaginatively in his heart and even fixed a date for the kumbabhisekam at the same time a king was building a temple and had the kumbabhishekam on the same day but lord siva came in the kings dream and said he had to go to the other temple and the king went to this place couldn find the temple and then on enquiry meets this person and build a temple for him

Anyway when we visit these temples there is a positive sensation a feeling that the job will be done but the sensation of god has happened to me only once and its at vellaingiri

Siva is a person who is in constant meditation who has great wisdon and also easily the one provoked
and if u want to experience him jus go to vellaingiri , the formless worship of siva is at chidambaram and its quiet an experience infact the temple has been built on numbers based on human body

The place where temple located is the center point of world's magnetic equator.^[16]

Three of the five Panchaboothasthala temples, those at Kalahasti, Kanchipuram and Chidambaram all stand on a straight line exactly at 79 degree 41 minutes^[17] East longitude - truly an engineering, astrological and geographical wonder. Of the other two temples, Tiruvanaikkaval is located at around 3 degrees to the south and exactly 1 degree to the west of the northern tip of this divine axis, while Tiruvannamalai is around midway (1.5 degree to the south and 0.5 degree to the west).

The 9 gateways signify the 9 orifices in the human body.

The Chitsabai or Ponnambalam, the sanctum sanctorum represents the heart which is reached by a flight of 5 stairs called the Panchaatchara padi - pancha meaning 5, achhara – indestructible syllables – "SI VA YA NA MA", from a raised anterior dias - the Kanakasabai. The access to the Sabhai is through the sides of the stage (and not from the front as in most temples). The Chit sabha roof is supported by four pillars symbolic of the four Vedas.

The Ponnambalam or the Sanctum sanctorum is held by 28 pillars – representing the 28 agamas or set methodologies for the worship of Shiva. The roof is held by a set of 64 beams representing the 64 forms of art and is held by several cross-beams representing the innumerable blood vessels. The roof has been laid by 21,600 golden tiles with the word SIVAYANAMA inscribed on them representing 21600 breaths.^[18] The golden tiles are fixed using 72,000 golden nails which represents the no. of nadis exists in human body. The roof is topped by a set of 9 sacred pots or kalasas, representing the 9 forms of energy. The artha mandapa(sanctum) has six pillars denoting the six shastras (holy texts).

The hall next to the artha mantapa has eighteen pillars symbolizing the eighteen Puranas.

Anyway Chidambaram is also like any other temple but to experience god u have to go to Vellaigiri

Vellaingiri is a place where Siva sat down and meditated to console the loss of Kanya Kumari who told siva if he couldn make it on time to meet her she will leave her body and our siva did miss the time and she left her body to console himself he came to vellaingiri near coiambatore and ended up meditating there , the magic here is that when we went there was lots of mist and on the top of the mountain it was damn cold and the mist would sprinkles like water giving a feeling ur being sprinkled by god himself

One day at my office i was told about this place by Mr.Manigandan and he said there was a group of people going from TPL headed by Mr.Shankar ,hence we booked tickets for Jan 27 thDhanasekar were waiting helplessly for me and the meeting was going on and through the glass i saw them leave and immediately told my boss am late for my train and got out only to know they have left ................ but they had told my other colleagues to tell to come to station and Satya took me in his scooter caught with mani midway to station and barely made it to the train aaaahhhhhhhhhh............ wat a sigh of relief

we made it to coimbatore and took a taxi to foothills of vellaigiri where Mr.Shankar Mr.Palaniappan and all were staying with there other colleagues we woke by morning four and mind you no toilets and we took bath collected our food packets and left to start the momentous journey . We had hired a local tribal as guide and we got two guys who had this experience before and they were the most amazing persons i have met

It was early morning 5:30 when we started and we were given a bamboo stick to aid in climbing and breakfast , lunch some oranges and candy and all were in our back packs and we had torch lights to aid us at dark as we started i was going on saying that there are steps its too easy jus like tirupathi wats the big deal and also that the stick is useless and i can manage and later i realised how wrong i was

As light creeped in slowly i could here so many birds chirping and i could see the lush forest covering on both sides

 we had to cross seven mountains to reach the top and this aint like tirupathi where u are constantly going up here u have to go up and come down each mountain to reach the seventh mountain and so went on

 we went on and we completed the first mountain snap of Mani,Palani and shankar after the first mountain on the way we encountered jungle fowl and we were also told that we could encounter wild elephants and that we dint and we took a break and continued to second mountain and we saw a spring were we filled our water bottles the water was pure and sparkling and it was cold and drinking water by itself was an experience

At the third mountain we had our breakfast the plan was at second mountain but there were too many monkeys to eat in peace

so we had our breakfast and went ahead to complete the third and take the fourth...................more on this in the next post



CL-II come back

ahh!!! finally my CL-II after six months could be ready by this week i hope

The things which are getting done are
1)Engine rebuild with a pad in crankcase for better compression
2)Front fork overhauling
3)General checks

She will be good to go

The painting is yet to be decided but i beleive in performance and not looks

Anyway let me explain about the pad in crank case to better understand that we have to understand how a two stroke motor works

The above image gives u an idea the air fuel mixture comes through the reed valve inlet but on a yezdi there is no reed valve jus a opening and the piston when its coming down it pushes the mixture to the top through the transfer port and compress the same by going up and then combustion and exhaust

Now the pad , shape of U comes and fits in the middle of the crank case and between the flywheel , so what it effevctively does is reduces the space in the crank case, so where for example u can fit one glass of water now only half a glass can be filled but the amount of the mixture that is comming is the same hence the force at which the mixture moves above the piston through the transfer port would be higher thus improving the comprression and the torque which equates to instant accleration this is something like a turbo charger where more air fuel mixture is forced into the engine

This was developed in 80's by Mr.Ashok and his Mech Mr.Durai they worked this and after many broken pistons cranks and seized engines they finally came up with the right size , but this alone will not help for getting the full benefit carbs have to rejetted and we need unrestricted bottle exhausts but the riot this will create its safe to keep rest standard

awaiting the RIDE!!!!!!!!!!

Justified - Rama killing Vali

Rama killed valli in  hiding is that right? The protector of Dharma itself does not walk the path of Dharma !! How can it be true , how come Rama with all his prowess kill some one in hiding

Below are the various justification

Rajaji's view

Owing to the protective virtue of Indra's necklace, Rama could not have met Vali face to face and vanquished him, just as Ravana could not be conquered by the gods. Rama could kill Vali only when himself unseen. And still the question stands, why should Vali have been killed at all?

Perhaps the answer is to be found in what Kabandha said to Rama in gratitude for being released from his curse. "Through Sugriva's friendship you will recover Sita," Sugriva's help not Vali's. And so Rama went in search of Sugriva, found him and pledged his friendship and consecrated it by fire. Sugriva had committed no unforgivable offence against Vali. Yet Vali, with his supernatural strength, persecuted his brother. Hearing the latter's complaint, Rama had pledged his word to kill Vali and restore to Sugriva his wife and make him king as his part of the contract of alliance. Thereafter, Rama had no alternative. To kill Vali from cover became an inevitable necessity. Rama erred in running after the magic deer to please his wife.

Consequent on this, difficulties and sorrows and conflicts of duty pursued him. If we keep in mind that when God takes a lower and limited form by His own ordinance, limitations follow and we should not be confused thereby. This is my humble view as against other explanations propounded by the pious.

Valmiki Ramayana View

In valmiki ramayana when valli after being hit by rama arrow goes on a spree of quesstions and questioning rama on how he can kill some one who is faced away in battle ie( killing someone from the back) and that he has done no harm to rama and he is monkey eating fruits and living in forests and he also tells rama that he would have brought ravana by his neck if he had asked him and goes on on but rama replies to him saying that valli acted unjustly and abused sugreeva's wife and that the law of the manu dictates if the king punishes the guilty the guilty will enter heaven absolved from sin but if the king does not punish the guilty , the king will bear the bolt of the sin comitted by the guilty at that time Bharata was the king and rama his brother was doing only what the king should do plus valli is just an animal and when u hunt u kill animals in hiding and its the nature of hunt and hence Rama justifies killing Valli

COORG WILDLIFE SOCIETY

The last time i visited coorg was in March and i was captivated and wat captivated me more was the coorg logo than the scenery and i have a big  one in the back of my car and when i went to coorg i went in a hired cab which had a sticker of an elephant with jungle beat return below and the driver explained me that thats a mysore sticker and there was some healthy competion between coorg and mysore but i have got both the stickers on my car as i love both the places both has its own charm and both are covered by forest

The other thing capivated me is my Jawa was originally a coorg regestired vehicle and the prev owner used to work in the coffee plantations and i imagine the good old days riding jawa in the twisties in the cold weather must have been amazing but gone are those days and now my jawa is in sunny chennai reminicing the age gone by

The best thing about coorg or mysore is that u have national park every within100km and free flowing river and the people are polite the food is funny but its good  but the worst part is though coffee is from coorg coorgies make horrible coffee its unpallable but noting beats Madras for its coffee any way if its adventure u want then coorg and mysore it is