Feeling Good

Its been a long time since i wrote a post and thats because frankly my life is being wasted in office except for a few bilssfull weekends going out of station to visit some temples and ofcourse a good bath in a river

                     So lets go on with the current story , The last ride i had was a trip to yelagiri astride my Jawa but was pained that  once i cross 60kmph the bike would cut off as though it was ceasing and there was something cutting the fuel off or the bike was not breathing better , after that the next experience is with my cl2 my mech has been detiorating these days and was doing a piss poor job on my bikes , the worst part of this is the lame excuses he gives me like the jawa doesn cross sixty because it needs to be rebored , i am not stupid

 
The Myth

              Generally we are told by the mech that touching and screw or nut will create a havoc on the bike and we are also scared bout it and esp. with parts like the carb. timing etc but the truth of the matter is its not so.

Feeling good

                Last saturday was at home and there was a power cut so bored without the idiot box I was going through my laptop and found Jawa's owners manual and workshop manual, when i was going through this there was this rush inside me and i just got out and looked at my jawa , it was dusty and dirty and it craved attention , so cleaned it but it dint start and with much effort it did start but was not sounding good , i knew the bike was not running properly so took my  chances and removed the carb air filter and went inside my house and stripped the carb to pieces and cleaned the whole thing and then assembled the carb together all with help of the owners manual and workshop manual and started the bike and i was blown away it was doing wheelies again and that makes me feel good and i am feeling good.....................but not now all that work my body has taken a beating and till now i am down






























 

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

The Ultimate Motorcycle

Vasanth , Rajaram and Venkat all have posted there dream bikes but dream bikes are always subject to change why because either u achieve ur dream or there is a bike always to replace it example my dream bike is a Ducati 916 this bike was a work of art in fact its in Smithsonian institute in the art gallery and this bike is synonymous with the ducati name and it brought ducati in mainstream it was the same bike that won 4 superbike championships with Carl Forgaty and before this ducati was also in racing and they were successful with there first bike a 125cc grand sport desmo followed by a 250 and then came the legend Mike Hail wood whose father wanted his son to race on a ducati but he was not able to convince the factory to build a bike for his son so he ordered 200 bikes so his son can race and the legend lives on but the irony is ducati was originally a radio making electronics and electrical company but after there factory was destroyed in world war 2 they started making mopeds and followed by appointing the great tagollini who gave ducati the desmo and L-twin which is what still they make
               ok lets get back to dream bike now my 2nd dream bike slowly replacing the 916 though i am fighiting the temptation hard is the ducati desmocidici its about i dunno guess a crore in india and its got a 200bhp L-four engine with titanium valves and all the bells and whistles its a motogp bike for the street same as an f-50 for ferrari

but all these keep getting replaced because am sure there is going to a better bike which ducati might bring out

Then the quesstion what would be the ultimate motorcycle the answer in material terms would be the bikes to come in future years but that kind kills the idea of a dream bike . But what an ultimate bike is it should be soul of the all motorcycles it should be a definition of motorcyle with only the basics and not a fancy gizmo , it should be something which tingles ur senses and lights u up and takes you to everyplace u want to go ie it should not jus be a track weapon or dirt racer it should be something of everything it should be fully mechanical and not some software engineers wet dream with lots of microchips and finally it should be from a place where industrialisation began and hence my friends i give u the ultimate motorcycle

Its a 500cc single which is the soul of any  motorcycle and its the basic machine with no fancy gizmos and its a delight to look at it and a pleasure to ride and its the ultimate truth

Italian Affair

This about a short romance i had with an italian beauty she had this curves which makes u hug her tight and hold her hands and caress them and the experience was amazing i met this naked beauty when i was in dubai i saw her standing all by herself and went to get a better glimpse of her and when  i was about to get close to her there was this whiite guy found out he was an italian and he had also recently come to dubai and so i ended up talking to him and befriended him he was guy he used to come to office in a R6 and he was also had the italian beauty with him and she was jus amazing .the italian and myself used to hangout in the evening together and he also realised my  passion for motorcycle and offered me the  beauty the first few times were in the parking lot and slowly he gained confidence in me and we started going out for late night rides the expresssway to abudhabi was jus amazing and more amazing was the italian babe she was a MV Agusta BRUTALE had a 1078cc 170 bhp engine that jus used to flip ur mind we used to touch speeds that were taboo and this about my experience one and the most memorable one so as usual it was late night and me and my friend left to ride  and we were going on the usual road and a white porsche 911 jus came crusing next to me and inside was a sheik in usual white robe and was snarling at me and we stopped at a signal and u know ur pluses start rising u break a sweat the adearline pumps up and the signal turns green and bang in first i was doing 100k and i had gone through all the gears and the porsche was next to me i had to do something and bang came down two gears and the bike did a wheelie and zooom i was off the porsche was a small spec in my rear view mirror i was going faster than ever gone in any mode on road and i was scared and shivering and let off the throttle and then i heard the grunt and roar of the porsche charging at me and both realised that speed camera we braked hard i got to side of the road and i jus parked the bike and i was shivering scared and its a feeling u can never describe it wat everyone should do once by an insane motorcycle and blast down the road at breakneck speeds but as i said before it was only a breif affair and i realised that when i came back to India  and i also realised that riding down the road on an enfield or jawa is pure bliss the feel of these bikes can never be replicated

thats the beaut i was talking about

Die Cast -II-Hot rods & Muscle

So after the Shelby Cobra  the next acquisition was a Volkwagen beetle & A Chevy Bel Air followed by Chevy Covertte 1957&1959 followed by a  1932 Ford 3 door coupe this had a flat head V8 and its specially favoured by the Hot Rodding community for 2 reasons a) the flat head V8 and b) the ultra cool looks this very car would be the basis for many hot rods

But i wanted to expand my collection further i went and got a Fiat 500 or it was called Topolino italian for Mickey mouse look at the front of the car what does it remind you

after this my recent purchase some week ago was the best i got myself a Ford thunderbird , a chevy Sting Ray and Chevy Impala

and out my collection the impala and the chevy covertte are the best in detail wise they even have an engine  pics of my collection soon

Die Cast Obssession

When i was young my friends used to collect stamps some used to collect coins and i used to collect car toys but i used to buy hot wheels and the first one i got was a pontiac firebird trans am it was red and had a bird decal on the hood the car was ultra cool and it started the passion for vehicles but the ride on my dad's jawa was the one that pulled me to two wheeles but i did buy lots of cars, but losing them at a faster rate and slowly i grew over it i forgot all about the Lamborgini Countach and Ferrari F-50 or the Great F- 40 in which the doors can be opened But Countach was a favourite as the doors opened upwards and small lever under the car will open the pop up headlights and i was facinated anyway now the lost fire has been reindled some time last year i saw this beautiful example of a shelby cobra

 which i bought without any hesitation and now this has become my latest obsession buying die cast models and my collection has grown to 11 cars and all are from the early fifties to the late sixtys and no new ones and i am buying in scale of 1:32 to 1:28 and not the big ones as i like all of them to be of the same size and my  latest acqusitions are so good they even have an engine on the inside and more about this in my next post

The Value of humility

Kubera, the god of wealth, was very proud of his boundless fortune. One day, he organized a gorgeous dinner. Kubera invited Lord Shiva and Parvati to dinner wishing to show off his riches. But, the couple denied Kubera's request and said that he could feed Ganesha instead. Kubera laughed and said 'I can feed thousands of children like this."

Ganesha went to his palace and sat down to eat. He started eating all the food placed in front of him. As was the custom, more and more food was served to him as he did not say that he had enough. Soon there was no more food in the palace and so Kubera ordered his troops to get more food from the surrounding villages. But Ganesha continued eating and there was no more food to be found. Still very hungry, and not satisfied with all the available food, Ganesh started to devour plates and dishes, the furniture and all the content of Alakapuri, the main city of Kubera.

When he achieved to gulp down the whole, the child Ganesh threatened to swallow Kubera himself. Frightened, the god of wealth rushed forward to Shiva's feet to implore his help, since the Ganesh voracious appetite seemed to be unlimited.

Kubera became very frightened. Ganesha told him, " You promised my parents you will feed me. Now, I have to eat you up as I am still very hungry ". Kubera ran away and pleaded with Shiva to save him from Ganesha. Shiva asked Kubera to give up his pride and serve Ganesha a handful of rice. Kubera went back to his palace. By this time, Ganesha's stomach had become very huge but the child was still hungry. When Kubera served a cup of rice with humility, Ganesha's hunger was satisfied.

Whats the difference?

What is the difference between the new motorcycle and old ones, The difference is old ones were international models whereas the new ones are indian specific underperformers

Take the jawa for example from 1960-1970 it was sold around the world from americans to the russians all used the bike and it was affordable in india too but now no american uses a pulsar or a FZ but they use a FZ 1000 whereas we get an FZ 150 but in the good old days all where international models and the quality was also international quality our bikes are running for past sixty years after all the abuses but the bikes these days wont run for more than three years

I was on my way back home and there was an uce enfield riding before me belching white smoke can u beleive it a new bike that smokes after paying a lakh and half now thats the quality we get

The same company in 1980's used to run rigorous checks i was told by my mech once an enfield is manufactured its taken on test ride for some 200km the engine fully checked and the other test was ride the bike without the hands between two walls enough for the bike to go through and the handlebars wont touch the walls and now u get a smoking bike that aint fair.

A true motorcycle

a true motorcycle is the one that makes u smile when u open up the throttle and tear up the most fun part of any ride is a) all the petrol heads getting to gether  and b) the tear up. The lunacy in tearing up is second to none especially if ur riding a yezdi or jawa the tear up is amazing

when u and ur buddy are riding next to each other and ur buddy goes from fourth to third opens the throttle wide and just blasts off and its followed by u  doing the same thats one of the best parts of our rides

everytime i ride with vasanth or kannan sir this is wat we do kannan sir accelerates and i catch up with him and overtake him he will accelerate again and its simply amazing to watch the blast of blue smoke and the roar of the engine its not eco friendly but i dont give a damn

anyway to have a true motorcyle is not to own a liter class bike or something like a two-fifty ninja or a six fifty ninja blah blah .... but its to have a motorcycle that is going to make u smile the one that lets u use all the gears and ride it to its limits and u aint gonna do this on a liter class bike

Plus what an enfield (the old cast iron) or yezdi or jawa would do  is take  u to the 1960's or 70's and u feel like an outlaw  a rebel and that rebellious feeling can only be from a motorcycle like ours

Love is all u need

Why do u like ur yezdi jawa or enfield? why r u so passionate about it?

Is it because they are powerfull or they are fast lets be honest guys the modern bikes definetly perform better and there is no denial to it,our yezdi puts out a measly 13bhp and if its a jawa its just 12 and RX puts out 14 but at just 100cc and the latest boxer 150cc puts out 12bhp that being case its not power

Is it  because of styling atleast jawa or the old yezdi has some charm but the cl-2 or roadking they look like a boxer or herohonda dawn or something like that so it aint because of styling

Handling lets be honest again the bikes come only with half turn and to change direction u have to apply considerable force and literally hold the bike by its neck and drag it and braking,now wat does that mean

But all of us always talk about how beautiful they are and how fast we went and how we overtook a r15 (this would have been in traffic or the r15 rider must be going slow)

Now the question why r we so passionate about our bikes its because they breakdown give us huge repair bills and still breakdown its like u have to pay constant attention to them maintain them and kajole them and that my friend is what makes us mad about them, they look beautiful cos we love them and they are fast to us cos we love them and these bikes have a soul each one of our bikes already have a part of us in them the funny thing is they all look different vasanth roadking is definetly different from venkat's though they are the same bike. all our bikes have there own personality and we love them for that . This reminds me of what i was told when i was young.

When i was some ten years old my  dad used to work in Hotel Connemara and there was a manager in the hotel he used have an enfield and he used booze everynight till he lost his senses and then head home and one day i asked him how do u managed to get home  every night after drinking so much he cooly smiled and said my enfield takes me home and he said it will go on the beach road platform but somehow it will take him home unscathed , i do not wish to argue if it was his bike that took him or if the delerious man was lucky to go home every night . what i liked was the confidence he showed on his machine and he looked at his bike as though it was his care taker and thats the way i feel about my bikes and i think that my jawa as a cowboy and the enfield as brit gentleman and all my machines are older than me and yes they take care of me and i take care of them like the beatles song that goes llike love is all you need love is all u need

Krishna is a bhramachari!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

One day Durvasa muni came to riverside and the message went to krishna 

So, Durvasa the great Sage was announced.

"He is on the other side of the river, Lord", spake the messengers, and "and he sends his deep respects".

Then Krishna went into the deep chambers and said to Radha, "Radha, Durvasa the great Sage is come, my dear. We must feed him".

"Oh, then I will cook the food myself" said Radha, and Krishna was very happy at this thought. So he went back to the Hall of Audience, and not long after, Radha came in with all the cooked food. "Yes, the meal is ready my Lord. And I will take it myself to Sage Durvasa".

"Wonderful, wonderful!" exclaimed Sri Krishna, pleased with the devotion of his wife to the Sages.

"I'll go and come," said Radha, and hardly had she gone to the palace door when she remembered the Jumna was in flood. No ferryman would go across. She came back to Krishna and begged, "My Lord, how can I take the food? the river is in flood".

"Tell the river," answered Krishna, "Krishna the brahmachari [The celibate, or who has taken the vow of celibacy] wishes that the way be made for you to pass through."

And Radha went light of heart, but suddenly bethought herself it was a lie. Who better than she to know whether Krishna be brahmachari or not? "Ah the noble lie, the noble lie," she said to herself, and when she came to the river, she said, "Krishna, the Lord, the brahmachari, wishes that way be made for me to pass through".

And of course the river rose high and stood still, but suddenly opened out a blue lane, small as a village footpath, through which Radha walked to the other side. And coming to the opposite shore, she thanked the river, and saluting the great Sage Durvasa, in many a manner of courtesies and words of welcome, spread the leaf and laid him the food.

Durvasa was mighty hungry and he ate the food as though the palm of his hand went down his gullet. "Ah, ah," he said and belched and made himself happy, with curds and rice and many meats, perfumed and spiced with saffron, and when there was nothing left in leaf or vessel, he rose, went to the river and washed his hands. Radha took the vessels to the waters, too to wash, threw the leaf into the Jumna and stood there to leave. Then it was she who remembered, the river was in flood. Sri Krishna had told her what to say while going and not what to utter while coming back.

Durvasa understood her question before she asked - for the sages have this power too -- and he said, "Tell the river, Durvasa the eternal upavasi [He who fasts] says to the river, 'Open and let Radha pass through to the other shore.'"

Radha obeyed but she was more sorrowful. "I have seen him eat till his palm enter his gullet, and he has belched and passed his hand over his belly with satisfaction. It is a lie, a big lie," she said, but she went to the river thoughtful, very thoughtful. "River," she said, "Durvasa who is ever in upavasa says open and let me pass."

And the river opened a lane just as wide as a village pathway, and the waves held themselves over the head, and would not move. She came to the other shore and returned to the palace in heavy distress. "Yes, nature is a lie, nature believes and obeys lies. Lord, what a world," She said to herself and going into the Hall of Sorrowing, shut herself and began to sob. "Lord, what a lie the world is, what a lie."

Sri Krishna knew the cause and cadence of this all, and gently entered the Hall of Sorrowing. "Beloved, why might you be in sorrow?" he said.

"My Lord," she answered, "the river believes you are a brahmachari, and after all who should deny it better than me, your wife? and then I go to Durvasa and he eats with his palm going down his gullet, and he says, "Tell the river, Durvasa who is ever in upavasa asks you to open and let Radha pass." And the river opens herself, makes a way large as a village pathway, and I pass over to this side. The world is a fib, a misnomer, a lie."

"The world, my dear, is not a lie, it is an illusion. Besides, tell me, is my body your husband, Radha?"

"No, my Lord."

"Is my mind your husband, Radha?"

"No, my Lord."

"Then what is it when you say to yourself, 'Krishna, my husband?'"

"Assuredly something beyond the body and beyond the mind -- the Principle."

"And tell me, my love, can you possess that, can you possess it?"

"No, my lord, how can I possess the Absolute? The I is the Absolute." And she fell at the feet and understood, and lived ever after in the light of the Truth.

Ride the ruins- Last Part

Ride Back home

so we went inside alamparai and solo & myself went to climb up the walls, the walls in the corner had steps as it was a fort so we climbed up and down below rajaram was taking snaps of the wall, insects and ocassionaly us

thats a pic of me and solo on top of the tower and climbing down and after that we walked to shore and found vasanth and the gang over thereand as usual vasanth the insane wanted to go for boating and he and aquin went to enquire about the charges and they returned in vain as it was expensive but vasanth made good of it by standing on a boat and thinking its a surf board

so after some time there all the guys were near the shore while myself and rajaram went to explore and take more snaps and after that we all assembled near our bikes

and we left to have a very late lunch at Mamalla , trouble already started on my bike my fuel tap was leaking and the bike was not starting and we had to push start everytime and so with that back of my head and running low on fuel we started and then we went on riding and vasanth was riding behind me and when i found a fuel pump and refuelled only to realise that they do accept cards and as usual vasanth to rescue he gave me cash to pay and we started again ,while others had already left so we started  riding hard in 80s -100s trying hard to catch up and we stopped where Mr.Kannan met this person we had actually stopped before a house and Mr. Kannan asked for a smoke the guy gave the cigarattes and kannan paid he said i do not run a shop this my house and he had given because Mr Kannan asked and he was speaking to us and Mr Kannan started to open my bike to check after much try he cleared my carbs increased the idol and got it in shape and we all headed to mamalla and we reached mamalla only to find aquin and solo missing and after some waiting we called solo who said aquin bike had stopped and he was towinng it and after food we realised that aquin had come to reserve and that being the reason for bike not starting . Anyway we all left for home since it was day before independence day there were cops all over ecr checking but none of us were stopped and we reached our

homes after one the most splendid rides