Rider Mania - RTMC Ishtyle


Rider Mania.. Well the name tells you what it means and lemme add that this is the one and wonlee huge ass Royal Enfield gathering in India. It also means that If you attend this event, you get to see all those funky modded enfields, meet those huge tatooed biker buggers, hear all the thump that an enfield makes, get to know how those leather clad bikers are actually chilled out at heart, see how liters of beer are consumed in such short spam, hear all the swear words in Hindi, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu and English at one go and on top of all you get to RIDE to where the event is happening.

Rider Mania is always the home for all the RE owners. They need to do two things in life.. GO TO LEH and ATTEND RIDER MANIA. Trust me both are quite orgasmic :-)


Rider Mania this year was hosted by The Rolling Thunder Motorcycling Club (RTMC) which I was a part of. Rider Mania was held at Ooty this year. Hosting an event of this propotion is not an effin joke and loads and loads of planning and work went into it. Commitees were formed, jobs were properly delegated to people, the running around started happening. The RM weeekend finally came and this is how it went :-)

RM as I said is an event for RE owners. Boys ride bikes and Men ride bullets are quite true when it comes to an event like this. For startes I did not own an enfield now and on top of that I was banned from riding because of health conditions. Mera Bhai Souperman comes to the rescue and says that he will ferry me to the venue in his car. I landed up at his place in Bangalore on the morning of 23rd Jan and that started off the RM fever. Me, Soup, Kutu and Molu started off in Soup's ikon and stop over at Kamat Lokruchi for breakfast. Some yumm chow chow bath and idlies and chai later we head out again to see a bunch of bikers riding up ahead. All our boys wonlee. I lower the window and with full josh yell to them and all.. what a nice it was :-). The roads from Bangy to Ooty were all good excepy for the stretch btwn Gudulpet and Bandipur. We land up at Ooty in the afternoon and what followed was a good lunch. The evening goes of in bugging the volunteers who were doing their jobs and chumma roaming around Sterling Resorts.

Evening decended upon ooty and along with it the chillness came in too. The cold reached my farthest place by the time it was 8 in the evening.. well it was that friggin cold. Saw batches and batches of bulleteers arrive at the venue. Accos for the night was already arranged at YWCA and Youth Hostel for everyone. I went over to the Youth Hostel at night to catch up with the Chennai fellows. It was Ravi's birthday and his balls and bumm were properly taken care of inspite of his struggle and retorts.


Rider Mania - DAY ONE - 24th Jan 2009.

Woke up to shower and quickly get ready. Ajith was screaming SADDLE UPPPPPPPPPPPPP and all the other abuses also followed. There was DODO grinning from ear to year and then there were the Megalaya riders who were with us too. The rest of the chennai fellows who stayed at conoor also landed up and at about 10 AM all were ready to leave for the venue. There were totally 90 plus bikes from Chennai and what followed was an awesome entry into Sterling Fern Hill. Registrations quickly happened and ppl settled down pronto. The afternoon saw the biker events happen. There was the usual figure of 8 and the the biking lemon and spoon clubber with a slow bike race. There was arm wrestling and then the BIKER Olympics. The night saw a HUGE fackin party happen where all the biker boys and babes lets their hair down and danced to the mujik belted out by the DJ. The usual catch up session with people around India happened here and there and it kept happening after the party outside the party hall in the open and in the cold. To me.. it was great catching up with all my buddies from the various club in India. There were bear hugs everywhere and every single one of em were yelling abey bosadike and behen ki lawde and waatha and all that... Ahh what a music to ears.

Rider Mania - DAY TWO - 25th Jan 2009.

Day two was more or less like day one. Biker events happening. There was a huge ride around Ooty and I pillioned with Jishnu with Firang's D40X around my neck. Got some awesome snaps of some 500 odd bikers riding around the ghat roads of ooty. The clubs came up with their presentations in the evening and the prize distribution followed with people dancing and jumping on stage. What followed was another hair raising pardy that lasted till the dancers dropped. Anukaran from Wanderlust entertained a bunch of us with his good singing and guitaring and I finally staggered abck to my bed at 4.30 in the morning

Day Three - Day after RM :-)

Woke up and after a quick breakfast, me and soup left for bangalore and thanks to the traffic on Mysore road and thanks to Soup showing us around Mysore and thanks to that yummy food at Fishlands and thanks to us finding Vittal's house at Jayanagar.. we landed home at 8 PM. I found out that my return train ticket was not confirmed but still me, soup and monis bhai went off to the station to see if I could get a seat to chennai. NO FACKIN WAY MAN. The train was bursting at its seams with people. Soup pulled a few strings and I finally got a cabin seat on a Volvo. Took out my pillow and bedsheet and slept on the floor all the way to chennai.

All in all an awesome weekend

An awesome Ridermania

An awesome drive to ooty

An awesome volvo ride back to chennai

to top it all

An awesome set of friends :-)


Peace
Dosai

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