Mini S&B at Chennai on 23 Oct

At the usual haunt ie., Presidency Club, but on the terrace this time

Sloggers and Bloggers meet at Coimbatore on 03 May 2018

Finally we had a S&B Meet at Coimbatore as per Raju's desire since long. Unfortunately Chaturvasi could not make it, so it ended up as a B meet.
We met at the Symphony restaurant of The Grand Regent. Though it was planned to have the buffet we ended up ordering a-la-carte.
Some photographs below

 Dr DS presenting a copy of the longest crossword to Ajeesh

Raju, Dr DS, Self, Ajeesh

When 1Across, CCS and THCC met

A gathering of the like minded from 1Across, CCS and THCC was held yesterday over tea/dinner at Sindh Kitchen, Malleswaram Bangalore. The food was mentored by Caroline of CCS and was a gourmets delight as you can see from the menu below. Also attached is a group snap.

Back row -  Vinod Raman, Mohsin, Kishore, Sridhar Vedantam, Self, Bash Ashok.
Middle row - Unnikrishnan (Anish's father), Hari Mannarsamy, Rashmi Gopal, Viraj Divecha, Ajeesh, Anish Nambisan, Lahar Appaiah.
Front row - Shuchismita Upadhyay, Aadhvik Ramkumar, Sowmya Ramkumar, Caroline, Kaustav Datta, Mona Sogal.

IXL- 2017

Attached are some photographs from the IXL 2017 finals

 Rengaswamy

 Suresh

 Rengaswamy and Suresh

Finalists Narayan, Arvind and Venkatraghavan

Finalists Jose, Lahar and Madhup

 Visible here Sowmya, Ramki, Ramesh

 Visible here Kishore, Rengaswamy, Aakash

 Aakash, Balaji and Dr Satyen partially

 Suresh collecting his memento from Mr Rajiv Gowda the Chief Guest

Venkatraghavan IXL-2017 Champion

The finalists with the organisers

First Row - Narayan Mandyam, Lahar Appaiah, Vignesh Kiran, Aniruddh Jeganathan, Kaustav Dutta, Himanshu Rajurkar, Vasant Sreenivasan, Rengaswamy, Ramki Krishnan, Vasant Rao Ekbote

Second Row - Kushagra Singh, Self, Jose De Abreu, Madhup K Tewari, Vivek Singh, Arvind Ramaswamy, Rajiv Gowda, Venkatraghavan S (IXL-17 Champion), Sreenivasan, Ochintya Sharma (MC), Ramesh Jaganathan, Suresh Dorbala, Supriya Mithal, Sowmya Ramkumar, Prasenjit Sarkar, Abhay Phadnis

Some more photographs will be added on receipt from the organisers

When LV met Ramki

Ramki and his son met LV at Kochi

Kumaresh, Ramki and LV

S&B Meet No 9, Sunday 03 Dec 2017, Chennai

I was great to meet up with old friends and new. New friends being Ram (Ramani) and Prasad (Sree-sree), As usual at Chennai Bhala did all the legwork and we met up at our favourite haunt, Platinum Point at Presidency club. Some snaps attached below.

 L to R - Self, Bhavan (Buzzer), Subramaniam (Ramani/Ram), Bhargav, Ajeesh, Rishikesh (Gridman/Chaturvasi), Ramki (KrisKross), Dr Satyen Nabar (Dr. X), Bhala (xChequer), Padmanabhan, Prasad (Sree-Sree), Rengaswamy

Last minute drop outs due to fever/other commitments were Devanathan (Arden), Shrikanth (Afterdark) and Abhay.

Vignesh, Rajalakshmi and Suresh Babu were the others who could not make it.

Bye then till we meet again

15th International Jawa/Yezdi day

At the 15th International Jawa/Yezdi day attempting a Guinness World record for the most out of production Jawa/Yezdi motorcycles gathered at one place. Riders came in from Mangalore, Bombay, Pune, Pondicherry, Kerala, Tamilnadu. The final tally for the record was 409 though many more came in after the deadline.
One rider completed a solo 8000 mile journey over the past one month on his 1975 model Yezdi, returning early this morning. He went from Bangalore to Leh/Ladakh, Lahaul-Spiti and returned via Rajasthan, Gujarat.

 Reached early to get the number 1 tag

 My bike

Phot credits: Kuldeep, Kishore's son. (I forgot to carry my phone and camera)

For some more photographs/videos of the event go to the following links

https://www.facebook.com/bikersofindia/photos/a.1623249771042080.1073741848.220117744688630/1623250167708707/?type=3&theater

https://www.facebook.com/bikersofindia/videos/1623610474339343/

https://www.facebook.com/bikersofindia/videos/1623280537705670/