Name : Abhishek
Age : 25
Occupation : working as Apps consultant with TCS
Bikes owned :
1996 - KB 100 RTZ
1999 - Enfield ( 62 model)
2004 - Rd 350 ( 1989 model HT ) -- recently sold to another RDD member ..
Profiling older / founding memebers.
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rahulsharma_7
- RDD Fan Boy
- Posts: 716
- Joined: Fri Nov 17, 2006 10:16 pm
- Location: Delhi
alignment problems...
Last edited by rahulsharma_7 on Fri Jun 09, 2006 8:55 pm, edited 2 times in total.
BIGGER SPARK BETTER BANG -- GET RDD CDI FOR YOUR 2 STROKES
Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius. --- Henry Shaw
Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius. --- Henry Shaw
Age 18.
Bikes ive Ridden/Owned:-
Grand dads Kinetic thru most of my 7th-8th standard or so...He would let me sneak it out and nights.
Started using dad's Dio since the 9-th onwards for going to school...playing around after school etc etc.
Got my first real bike A p180 towards the end of class 9... again wasnt my bike it was my uncles but he would never use it.
Had a terrible crash.. chassis bent,Tank holed .. so had to get rid of it.
Had a fight with dad towards the end of the 10th and bought a 2nd hand kiney for 800bucks in junk.
Used it for about 6months until i upgraded to an rx100.
Had it for about 20days until i got bored of it(it was in awesome shape but pretty slow)
Upgraded to a slightly ported rx-z...which i was more than happy with...Used it for almost a year and a half.Had to sell it off last month or so.
2 Months later came across my current rx which was in fantastic shape and would powerwheelie in the first 2 gears.Bought it after shitloads of pestering.
So current bikes would be dad's dio and my rxz.
Bikes ive Ridden/Owned:-
Grand dads Kinetic thru most of my 7th-8th standard or so...He would let me sneak it out and nights.
Started using dad's Dio since the 9-th onwards for going to school...playing around after school etc etc.
Got my first real bike A p180 towards the end of class 9... again wasnt my bike it was my uncles but he would never use it.
Had a terrible crash.. chassis bent,Tank holed .. so had to get rid of it.
Had a fight with dad towards the end of the 10th and bought a 2nd hand kiney for 800bucks in junk.
Used it for about 6months until i upgraded to an rx100.
Had it for about 20days until i got bored of it(it was in awesome shape but pretty slow)
Upgraded to a slightly ported rx-z...which i was more than happy with...Used it for almost a year and a half.Had to sell it off last month or so.
2 Months later came across my current rx which was in fantastic shape and would powerwheelie in the first 2 gears.Bought it after shitloads of pestering.
So current bikes would be dad's dio and my rxz.
Name: Sameer aka RDD Filter
Age: 29
Status: Married for 3 years, no kids
Profession: Managing Microsoft Partner Companies
- First bike RX 100 back in 97 in Kerala, it belonged to my bro and he gifted it to me before moving abroad. Started from stock and modded all the way up to rally spec with Shogun pistons, proton chambers etc.
- Came to blore in 2000 and desperately wanted a RD, found eindiancompanies back when there were like 5 people on it. Eventually met Ron sometime in 2001 i think and bought his bike along the way after much difficulty with finances. Gradually reeled in a few members and organized RDD's first meet. The club grew from then and i had much fun on my RD
- Ridden pretty much all noteable indian bikes and a number of superbikes
- More recently owned a CBR600 F3 for a while and had even more fun on that
- Currently puttering around on my scooty and waiting for my R1
thats about it in a very small nutshell
Age: 29
Status: Married for 3 years, no kids
Profession: Managing Microsoft Partner Companies
- First bike RX 100 back in 97 in Kerala, it belonged to my bro and he gifted it to me before moving abroad. Started from stock and modded all the way up to rally spec with Shogun pistons, proton chambers etc.
- Came to blore in 2000 and desperately wanted a RD, found eindiancompanies back when there were like 5 people on it. Eventually met Ron sometime in 2001 i think and bought his bike along the way after much difficulty with finances. Gradually reeled in a few members and organized RDD's first meet. The club grew from then and i had much fun on my RD
- Ridden pretty much all noteable indian bikes and a number of superbikes
- More recently owned a CBR600 F3 for a while and had even more fun on that
- Currently puttering around on my scooty and waiting for my R1
thats about it in a very small nutshell
If i can be.
Name: Jayakrishnan aka Jaggu
Age:30 next month
Profession: Working in HR for www.nousinfosystems.com
First bike owned, Enfield Mofa, graduated to a TVS Champ, handed over bro's TVS suzuki 100, bought RX100 and started moding and lost power and interest, found SHOGUN, crashed out and got my self some rare metal steel plate and 6 screws in hand while on the process.
Was seculded to cars for a year and then the itch became too much and went booked for a 5 speed shogyn which never came out, so went and bought a RX 135, again moded and finally got a 140 kph on speedo bike but the cylinders would get eaten up, so while scratching my head found myself an RD to exchange, got it and started dismantling it and finally got a decent bike but had to abandon at home and leave to Pune and finally landed in Bangalore for keeps and first thing was get the RD here.
While wondering on mechs, met a chap called Motor and bumped into Tom and ol mate and then drag dreams and fun.
Rally bug caught and thought would get bitten but before that one last memorable ride and one Mr Ron really made my dreams come true, thoroughly enjoyed the bike and the D day came and a young chap came and offered and the rally car crashed and finally money went down the car from the bike.
Waited for a while and got myself a CT 100 which is the bike for now, waiting for a cousin to gift me a RD hopefully this month and who knows, life is for living and dreams do come true 
Name: Jayakrishnan aka Jaggu
Age:30 next month
Profession: Working in HR for www.nousinfosystems.com
First bike owned, Enfield Mofa, graduated to a TVS Champ, handed over bro's TVS suzuki 100, bought RX100 and started moding and lost power and interest, found SHOGUN, crashed out and got my self some rare metal steel plate and 6 screws in hand while on the process.
Was seculded to cars for a year and then the itch became too much and went booked for a 5 speed shogyn which never came out, so went and bought a RX 135, again moded and finally got a 140 kph on speedo bike but the cylinders would get eaten up, so while scratching my head found myself an RD to exchange, got it and started dismantling it and finally got a decent bike but had to abandon at home and leave to Pune and finally landed in Bangalore for keeps and first thing was get the RD here.
While wondering on mechs, met a chap called Motor and bumped into Tom and ol mate and then drag dreams and fun.
Rally bug caught and thought would get bitten but before that one last memorable ride and one Mr Ron really made my dreams come true, thoroughly enjoyed the bike and the D day came and a young chap came and offered and the rally car crashed and finally money went down the car from the bike.
Waited for a while and got myself a CT 100 which is the bike for now, waiting for a cousin to gift me a RD hopefully this month
and who knows, life is for living and dreams do come true Wannabe"s Do It Sideways
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powerslave
- High School
- Posts: 305
- Joined: Sat Nov 18, 2006 1:31 am
- Location: Thane(w)
- Contact:
Name: Manas Karekar
Age: 20
Rode a luna when I was 10-11 years old. Hopped on it and rode it just like my cycle. Except without pedalling.
Used to have orgasms over a friend's mofa who used to bring it on our cycle riding trips.
Dad's splendor for 5 years (2000-2005). Learnt a lot from the bike. Big bikes tend to spoil you. They are forgiving. They demand much less skill, much less experience and give much less happiness when you go fast.
Going fast on a small bike is what taught me the simple pleasures of biking. 5 years is a long time.
Then a karizma late 2005-current. When I hopped on to the karizma, it offerred so much potential. I'm not even htrough with pushing it 50%.
People sit on a 17bhp bike and say they're bored. They need more power. More bhp. Bleh. 99% of the times they've not even utilised 50% of their bike's potential.
Sitting on a bike and twisting the throttle and saying I need more power doesn't make you a good rider. even a monkey can do that.
Someone please build a track in Maharashtra. Please. Please.
EDIT: Sorry. College kid here.
Age: 20
Rode a luna when I was 10-11 years old. Hopped on it and rode it just like my cycle. Except without pedalling.
Used to have orgasms over a friend's mofa who used to bring it on our cycle riding trips.
Dad's splendor for 5 years (2000-2005). Learnt a lot from the bike. Big bikes tend to spoil you. They are forgiving. They demand much less skill, much less experience and give much less happiness when you go fast.
Going fast on a small bike is what taught me the simple pleasures of biking. 5 years is a long time.
Then a karizma late 2005-current. When I hopped on to the karizma, it offerred so much potential. I'm not even htrough with pushing it 50%.
People sit on a 17bhp bike and say they're bored. They need more power. More bhp. Bleh. 99% of the times they've not even utilised 50% of their bike's potential.
Sitting on a bike and twisting the throttle and saying I need more power doesn't make you a good rider. even a monkey can do that.
Someone please build a track in Maharashtra. Please. Please.
EDIT: Sorry. College kid here.
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madmaxarjun
- RDD Fan Boy
- Posts: 670
- Joined: Fri May 17, 2002 11:48 pm
- Location: bangalore,dehradun
age 22
started in 97, sisters scooty,bunking school goin to dhanoulti and back.
1998,honda street,did wheeliees,started offroading
2000, passed std 10th got great marks got a cbz
2001, got into stupid street racing ,lost to a stock shogun , got one.
2001, joined rdd.
2003, bought another shogun.
2004, got a junk ht,still in the same condition, will start fixing it soon
2005, bitten by rallin bug again ,sold the cbz got a kari.
started in 97, sisters scooty,bunking school goin to dhanoulti and back.
1998,honda street,did wheeliees,started offroading
2000, passed std 10th got great marks got a cbz
2001, got into stupid street racing ,lost to a stock shogun , got one.
2001, joined rdd.
2003, bought another shogun.
2004, got a junk ht,still in the same condition, will start fixing it soon
2005, bitten by rallin bug again ,sold the cbz got a kari.
Aint no founding member, but what the hell..
Name: Ajith
Age : as you can guess it aint much.
Profession : Hello! Hello!
First motorised two-wheeler i rode was my uncle's Bajaj super at 16. Dad was paranoid about not letting me touch one until i had the age to at least get a learner's license. Got the under 50cc non-geared license and then dad let me ride his Chetak. My first "official" ride was a Hero Puch automatic bought off dad's money. 2 years later, while doing my second year of engineering, bought a splendor off mom's money. Joined "bajajpulsar.com" and learned of rddreams from there. Joined here in mid 2003. First person from RDD that i met was Tom. Then 15 minutes later Danny and then Motor. That trek meet is still a sweet memory. Me bravely pretending to keep up with Tom and Motor (both on RDs). Thank you guys for letting me think i was fast. Sold the splendor soon after and was without a ride for sometime while i debated buying an RD. Numerous meets and few "borrowed RD" rides later (Thanks Motor, Mohit and Leppard!) I figured i was better off with something which i thought would require less of my time (i had the misconception that RDs required too much maintenance). Missed the chance to relieve Jaggu of his RD. Bought an RX which i rode around a little. Got it serviced at some "reputed" mechs while i discovered each one's failings. Got bored of the bike and eventually decided to get myself a second bike and do up the RX as a weekend bike. Changed roles at work and got so locked up that the RX project started crawling. Am trying to wake it up now. That i think is the pertinent history
P.S. : Learned early that my opinions are my own and are best kept to myself unless somebody specifically asks.
Name: Ajith
Age : as you can guess it aint much.
Profession : Hello! Hello!
First motorised two-wheeler i rode was my uncle's Bajaj super at 16. Dad was paranoid about not letting me touch one until i had the age to at least get a learner's license. Got the under 50cc non-geared license and then dad let me ride his Chetak. My first "official" ride was a Hero Puch automatic bought off dad's money. 2 years later, while doing my second year of engineering, bought a splendor off mom's money. Joined "bajajpulsar.com" and learned of rddreams from there. Joined here in mid 2003. First person from RDD that i met was Tom. Then 15 minutes later Danny and then Motor. That trek meet is still a sweet memory. Me bravely pretending to keep up with Tom and Motor (both on RDs). Thank you guys for letting me think i was fast. Sold the splendor soon after and was without a ride for sometime while i debated buying an RD. Numerous meets and few "borrowed RD" rides later (Thanks Motor, Mohit and Leppard!) I figured i was better off with something which i thought would require less of my time (i had the misconception that RDs required too much maintenance). Missed the chance to relieve Jaggu of his RD. Bought an RX which i rode around a little. Got it serviced at some "reputed" mechs while i discovered each one's failings. Got bored of the bike and eventually decided to get myself a second bike and do up the RX as a weekend bike. Changed roles at work and got so locked up that the RX project started crawling. Am trying to wake it up now. That i think is the pertinent history
P.S. : Learned early that my opinions are my own and are best kept to myself unless somebody specifically asks.
Name: Vignesh
Age: 28
Bikes:
1997 HH Splendor ( in hometown )
2001 HH CBZ ( sold )
2003 Yamaha RXZ 5spd ( enjoying it
)
Occupation: Software engineer
My first taste of 2-stroke was dad's Lamby and my neighbours Vijay super. Those things used to guzzle fuel like crazy and I remember the blue smoke screen every morning. Dad sold the scooter for a CD100 and thats when I learned to ride a bike. My uncle got transferred to my home town and he brought with him a 2 stroke in the form of KB100 RTZ. That was an amazing bike compared to the CD100 - lots more powerful and well balanced. Everynight in the name of parking them inside the building, I used to take each of them for like 5km ride. Those were the times...
The rx100 used to a favourite in the school. Anybody who owned one used to be treated with lots of respect. I never got to ride one though. Then came college and dad bought me a Splendor when I was in my final year. Me and my friends used to ride to college everyday (about 130kms to and fro) used to be a big thing for us then. The same bike carried over through my job hunting days and is still running happily back in hometown.
Moved to Hyderabad in 2000 and was desperately looking for a good bike. The only options that time were the cbz/rx135 4spd (5spd wasnt launched yet and wasnt too sure of buying a RD). I had test ridden a few brand new rxg/rx135 4spds and wasnt impressed with it. Finally went ahead and bought the cbz out of my own money. Learned a lot of cornering techniques around Hyderabad's Banjara Hills with a pillion
Anyways the enthusiasm was short lived as I was desperate for more power. Thats when I hit eindiancompanies & rddreams. I felt so relieved to find a community that encourages discussing about bikes given the kind of environment I grew up in - all my relations used to tell about me "he will become a good mechanic" ! I realized what I had been missing all along and was looking for an oppurtunity to move to Bangalore.
2003 - As luck would have it got a new job in Bangalore and I happily sold off my cbz before moving here. I had a sneak peek of the rxz 5spd back in Hyderabad and was so desperately looking for one here. Managed to lay my hands on one and went for my first RDD meet at Ron's place & Sarjapura Road - alongwith Ankz and Leppard. I was so overwhelmed to see the kind of crowd that had gathered there. Met almost all Bangalore RDD crowd there - Ankz, Chris, Danny, *beep*, Salad, Lepp and a few more. When watching Ghost Rider at Rons place I could heard the crowd around me and I felt I was in the right place
The 6 month wait for the warranty to get over was agonizingly long. End of 2003 was when the magic moment happened - the doctor agreed to work on my bike and gave me an intro into the wonderful world of 2 strokes. He taught me to do the basic stuff with the bike and I learned that working on the bike by yourself was the best thing you could do. My feedback can be found under Dr.Jekyll to Mr.Hyde conversion formula on the Customer Feedback section on this forum.
It is that same setup am running till date albeit with a few more grinding work done It has seen me through a few long rides, daily commutes and 3 track day sessions and still running strong and never ceases to bring a smile on my face whenever I take her for a ride.
Bike lover for life
Age: 28
Bikes:
1997 HH Splendor ( in hometown )
2001 HH CBZ ( sold )
2003 Yamaha RXZ 5spd ( enjoying it
)Occupation: Software engineer
My first taste of 2-stroke was dad's Lamby and my neighbours Vijay super. Those things used to guzzle fuel like crazy and I remember the blue smoke screen every morning. Dad sold the scooter for a CD100 and thats when I learned to ride a bike. My uncle got transferred to my home town and he brought with him a 2 stroke in the form of KB100 RTZ. That was an amazing bike compared to the CD100 - lots more powerful and well balanced. Everynight in the name of parking them inside the building, I used to take each of them for like 5km ride. Those were the times...
The rx100 used to a favourite in the school. Anybody who owned one used to be treated with lots of respect. I never got to ride one though. Then came college and dad bought me a Splendor when I was in my final year. Me and my friends used to ride to college everyday (about 130kms to and fro) used to be a big thing for us then. The same bike carried over through my job hunting days and is still running happily back in hometown.
Moved to Hyderabad in 2000 and was desperately looking for a good bike. The only options that time were the cbz/rx135 4spd (5spd wasnt launched yet and wasnt too sure of buying a RD). I had test ridden a few brand new rxg/rx135 4spds and wasnt impressed with it. Finally went ahead and bought the cbz out of my own money. Learned a lot of cornering techniques around Hyderabad's Banjara Hills with a pillion
Anyways the enthusiasm was short lived as I was desperate for more power. Thats when I hit eindiancompanies & rddreams. I felt so relieved to find a community that encourages discussing about bikes given the kind of environment I grew up in - all my relations used to tell about me "he will become a good mechanic" ! I realized what I had been missing all along and was looking for an oppurtunity to move to Bangalore.
2003 - As luck would have it got a new job in Bangalore and I happily sold off my cbz before moving here. I had a sneak peek of the rxz 5spd back in Hyderabad and was so desperately looking for one here. Managed to lay my hands on one and went for my first RDD meet at Ron's place & Sarjapura Road - alongwith Ankz and Leppard. I was so overwhelmed to see the kind of crowd that had gathered there. Met almost all Bangalore RDD crowd there - Ankz, Chris, Danny, *beep*, Salad, Lepp and a few more. When watching Ghost Rider at Rons place I could heard the crowd around me and I felt I was in the right place
The 6 month wait for the warranty to get over was agonizingly long. End of 2003 was when the magic moment happened - the doctor agreed to work on my bike and gave me an intro into the wonderful world of 2 strokes. He taught me to do the basic stuff with the bike and I learned that working on the bike by yourself was the best thing you could do. My feedback can be found under Dr.Jekyll to Mr.Hyde conversion formula on the Customer Feedback section on this forum.
It is that same setup am running till date albeit with a few more grinding work done
It has seen me through a few long rides, daily commutes and 3 track day sessions and still running strong and never ceases to bring a smile on my face whenever I take her for a ride.Bike lover for life
If God brings me to it, he will get me through it