Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Image of a Biker/Biker group

I always had the perception that the so called bikers are wild, indecent, difficult to get along with and live far from the human culture, far away from the mainstream. I never wanted to be a part of a riding group for this one and only reason.

Lately I decided to give it to try to see if what I have heard and believed is right or wrong. Better see it with eyes and hear with own ears that keeping prejudice, I thought. Searched the net and found out RTMC, got Bamboo’s ID from the yahoo group list and contacted him for more information. I still remember the first thing I asked him… “Is this an active group?” Only later could I find out that RTMC is one of the most popular groups in India. Bamboo guided me to one of the announce rides conducted by RTMC and what I saw was entirely different from what I thought about the group. A group of gentlemen, nicely maintained bikes, some accompanied by their wives, some with their friends, hard to find any kind of attitude, a totally different atmosphere and experience, experience which changed my whole perception and decision was taken to be a part of the group .

I waited for almost 3 months for the second announce ride to happen and that led my way to the prestigious Rolling Thunder Motorcycle Club.

I have noticed few things at the first club meet I attended at the Value Lanes camp at Chikenhalli. Some are fond of racing, some more interested in maintaining the machine in its utmost condition, many are photographers and all are riders. Most of them come under the category ‘travelers’. One good thing about a traveler is that he/she is comfortable with any kind of situations, surroundings and they are the most comfortable ones with diversity.

Tuesday, February 20, 2007

Ride Logs: Kanva- A day out with RTMC

Ride Logs: Kanva- A day out with RTMC

Nicking

RTMC believes in baptizing the newbie before induction to the group. This process washes away all the impurities that may happen to have in a newbie’s body and soul due to the direct contact with the outside world- a world full of polluted corpuses all around. RTMC has qualified priests to do the job.

My nicking went on like this… (still not finalised though)

From: pravin prakash

To: bullet-bangalore@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 10:20 AM

Subject: [RTMC] Bingo!

Hey just got an interesting name for Jobin George...
:)

Was sitting around and wondering why the juices were
not flowing.. kinda wierd fello :) this fellow Jo,
Mallu and all... kinda nice of him to wait for the
idea's to roll and then suddenly I was thinking
JoJo... so boring.....JobinGeorge.... and
JobinGo...and BINGO!!!

That's him!

Bingo!

:)

Spot on.... :)))

Yup, You got it.....

BINGO!

;-pp

ps: What say people???? Howzzaaat???

From: muthu suruli

To: bullet-bangalore@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 10:38 AM

Subject: Re: [RTMC] Bingo!

Just proves why you are the acclaimed high priest when it comes to baptism!!

mamada

From: suban.walia@wipro.com

To: bullet-bangalore@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 11:22 AM

Subject: RE: [RTMC] Bingo!

I firmly believe that the priest has a mallu bias. How dare he offer to give respectable names?


From: Arun Jayaprakash

To: bullet-bangalore@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 11:33 AM

Subject: Re: [RTMC] Bingo!

I was about to suggest Mojo Jojo.


From: Sukesh

To: bullet-bangalore@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 11:31 AM

Subject: Re: [RTMC] Bingo!

JoBIN GEorge... Binge :)

better than bingo

From: sanwalkam2002

To: bullet-bangalore@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 11:37 AM

Subject: [RTMC] Re: Bingo!

Hehehe,

Its awesome :P! 'Bingo!' was going mad with the thoughts that he
escaped a nickname!
No wonder people call u 'the priest'!

Cheerzz

Cam

From: Mahendra Kumar

To: bullet-bangalore@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 11:41 AM

Subject: Re: [RTMC] Bingo!

Yes i too feel the same ......

Why can't it just be JG (Jigalo Gigolo)

Peas

Mahendra

From: pravin prakash

To: bullet-bangalore@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 3:40 PM

Subject: RE: [RTMC] Bingo!


Suban... don't worry.... the second most preffered
life form is Punju :))))

;-pp

--- suban.walia@wipro.com wrote:

> I firmly believe that the priest has a mallu bias.
> How dare he offer to
> give respectable names?

From: pravin prakash

To: bullet-bangalore@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 3:51 PM

Subject: [RTMC] Binge & KDY

roll today.... KDY Easha!!!

And yes, Bingo defnitely is too clean..... I like your
Binge better... more 'Biker' there than a wimp :)

Hey Jobin George.... just as you were settling into
the assumption that you might have a nice 'clean'
name.... Binge it is!!!

Welcome Binge!!!

;-pp

From: muthu suruli

To: bullet-bangalore@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2007 5:02 PM

thx binge.(btw, is that his final name)

From: suban.walia@wipro.com

To: bullet-bangalore@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2007 5:38 PM

No !!! "Behenji"

From: lonsomecrow

To: bullet-bangalore@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2007 5:58 PM

"Joe Behenji" ...With respect my friend :-)

-:)

Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 4:38 PM
Subject: [RTMC] RTMC seal of approval!

Abhi - List is too long - throw up your favourites
Conrad - Crank/Rod
Dev - Dick Gere
Jobin - Binge

Anyone thought about naming that bugger Sam????

;-pp

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