Trip to Lohegad Boat Club, Lonavala

Yeah! That’s the place where the Yezdi Club had been to on this Sunday, the 10^th of June. And man was that a trip to reckon.

Every one of us was suppose to gather at Dutta Vada Pav in Panvel at 8 in the morning. So Jude and me fuelled our beasts and hit the road at 7 in the morning.

‘Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa’, 1^st funny incident of the morning:

If you haven’t guessed as yet, that was me. As Jude and me were ripping our beasts, there came a speed breaker on the road. And the rest was history. Jude spotted the speed breaker and slowed down, while I was engrossed in my craziness and missed it. And when I saw, it was too late. So rather than trying to do something foolish I screamed ‘aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa’ as I took off in the air from the speed breaker and my scream lasted till I landed safely on the road. But trust me that was fun.

Pravin jumping out of a cab on Mumbai-Pune Expressway, 2^nd funny incident of the morning:

While we were all riding on the Mumbai-Pune expressway, suddenly out of nowhere a man starts yelling from a cab with his half body outside the car and half inside. Don’t worry there wasn’t any kidnapping or hijacking situation. It was just our dear friend and rider Pravin jumping from his seat in excitement seeing us. He must have really wanted to join us at that very instant had his mother not tied him down in the cab (just kidding).

We meet Matu, oops, I mean Mathew, dumb guy with hot wife, 3^rd funny incident of the day:

We were sitting at this small hotel on our way and waiting for Nitesh when a hippy guy turns up out of nowhere. He says he is planning to open up a biker point and keeps blabbering about it non-stop for the next 20 minutes before he plans to leave. But he wants to take our pics to put up in his joint so we wait for him. Yeah finally he turns up with something good, a good-looking chik he calls his wife and some stupid digital camera. He even promises that if anyone of our pics are put up on walls of his joint we’ll get garlic bread with cheese and coffee on the house. Now that was the only thing that sounded good to our ears. Yeah and he kept blabbering many things which if I start listing down you’ll probably doze off. I guess he was an optimistic guy, or should I say over optimistic.

‘Sheru tries to overtake Benny on the Ghats’, 4th and, the funniest incident of the day, or should I say the entire 2007(Sheru I’m really sorry):

In Lonavala, after a small stop, we headed towards Lohegad. It had rained, so the roads were wet and also the roads were completely covered with gravel. So every one of us were riding pretty safely. Mandar and Happy had long gone and I was ahead of everyone (God only knows how).

Suddenly I heard Benny’s bike roar behind me and I quietly waved him to go ahead. Talking about Benny, man can he ride? He is one guy who I guess has done some black magic on his bike, coz whatever the condition of the road or weather, he keeps ripping his bike. Trust me nobody can control a bike like Benny.

What Benny has to say about it ‘For me it’s like meditating where I focus only on the road and come what may nothing can break my concentration’, yeah dude, whatever.

But here’s the best part, after Benny crosses me, Sheru appears in my rear view mirror. And without a second thought I wave him to go ahead as well. I see a U-pin bend right ahead of us and then these two daredevils, Benny and Sheru are zipping ahead of me pretty fast. As I take this turn, I find Benny waiting on the edge of the road looking back. Then I spot Sheru and I was scared to guess what had happened.

Sheru had tried to overtake Benny on this bloody hell of a U-pin turn and his bike had skidded. He was about to crash head-on with a big boulder and get himself converted into a wallpaper.

Folks apart from these two hilarious incidents there were many but I guess this was getting too long. Like Jude trying to bet with me over a wine shop which existed near Dutta Vada Pav and he never noticed it and said there was no wine shop near by and lost the bet for which he had to pay our breakfast bill.

And yeah, I have also attached the pics that Benny had shot. The pics have come so good, trust me, if Benny doesn’t do good at his present Job at Weed Catalogue, he can start of as a nature photographer.