Awesome pictures, specially the flowers. Since childhood I have seen my parents enjoying gardening, that makes me take note of the flowers any place I go. Although I am not an avid gardener, but I do dabble once in a while.
What brings your keen interest to photographing the flowers?
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Originally Posted by ast.ggn I had a Thunderbird 500 for touring purpose, which I sold due to various niggles. RC was never meant for touring, it was bought as a fun bike and for short trips. |
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Originally Posted by Red Liner I wouldn’t dare ride that 390 in the city, let alone tour! |
Agree, unless you get to ride frequently on tracks or around hilly roads, its not comfortable doing anything else on it. RC390 is a totally NO NO for me, riding posture is too committed to make it a usable bike for anything else.
How long has the RC been with you? With 390 Adv available, do you still want to keep the RC?
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Originally Posted by ast.ggn Now the guys had noticed that we were not from the area in all that gear and bags in the saddle, they started gesturing towards us. One of them showing middle finger multiple times and all other kinds of Hindi explicits you can think of. |
I was once in Haryana, enroute to Dehradun, passing through village area on state highway somewhere between Karnal & Ladwa, Yamuna Nagar. While I was waiting behind a Scorpio for the traffic to pass the narrow bridge, I closed up behind the Scorpio for vehicles trying to squeeze in jumping the line. This Swift guy trying to squeeze in seemed offended at my gesture asking him what he was doing? He drove ahead of the Scorpio and blocked it, steeped out and started yelling and mentioned that its a Uttarakhand vehicle looking at my car number plate and that i was trying to act smart and he seemed to be trying to gather people against me.
Fortunately the Scorpio guy seemed to be of a nearby town stepped out and intervened and managed in a while to make this guy step aside with some persuasion.
He was hyper for nothing, and to me it seemed that his last visit to Uttarakhand didnt go well given his driving nature with some local cabbies.
I do notice in hills that the cabbies are locking horns between their town Cab association and the next town cab association. Although not all cabbies are the same. These hill station cabbies also gang up against out of town tourist who are loud and drive recklessly. He seemed to be a victim of that.
In the end its always advisable to not engage with anyone while travelling and traveling at nights are a big NO NO.
I had some work in Panipat so I used that route, otherwise I don't prefer travelling through Haryana villages. Ideal route to Dehradun from Delhi is through Meerut bye-pass & Muzaffarnagar bye-pass, it has new wide multi-lane highway away from villages.
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Originally Posted by ast.ggn she jumped in front of the bike and tried to grab one of them by his shirt. When she shouted at them, they realised that it was a female in all that gear and they almost lost control of the bike. Before anything else could be done, they sped off. |
Totally uncalled for, its better to let them run away and get rid of them than to get into wrestling unknown of the result in an unfamiliar land. Think of the famous dialogue from the movie BAZIGAAR.
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Originally Posted by ast.ggn With quite a few butt breaks, fuel refills, slow and steady we reached Gurgaon at 3 AM. By that time both my palms were blue in colour due to pressure on wrist from RC. It took 3 days for the numbness to go away.
It was a 650 kms return journey covered in approximately 19 hours. |
My back hurts just by thinking of you riding 19 hours (650 kms) on a RC390.
Pls avoid riding into the night specially when solo or with your wife. Its too dangerous to take a chance on the dark highways.