They say sound travels slower than light. But, as there are exceptions to everything in this world, yesterday (9 May, 2010) was also such an exception.
You know you are IN for something GRAND (both to the eyes as well as to the ears) when the usually peaceful, quiet mornings of Delhi are rattled by the thunder of a bunch of REs and BAs. Yes, you guessed it right – the DELHI BULL RIDERS (now INDIA BULL RIDERS) have hit the road and you better step aside coz they are on their way to burn the roads of Delhi.
On the 9th of May, 2010, 31 Deburids gathered at India Gate to start the first official breakfast ride in DBR history. The occasion is to celebrate 300+ members in our DBR family and the destination was Badkhal Lake Resort. Everybody finally assembled at around 5:40am and we pushed off from India Gate at 5:55am.
From there, we straightaway head to the Mehrauli-Badarpur road via South-Ex and GK and then took the Surajkund-Badkhal road. It was simply fabulous to watch all the bulls riding in formation. We, then, crossed Badkhal and went ahead to enjoy a hilly-ride in the Faridabad-Gurgaon road (Shooting Range).
While riding on that road, our very own Chhota Khilery (mind you he's NOT chhota at all) got a little angry (maybe he was getting hungry) for we had crossed Badkhal Lake Resort and went some 25kms ahead. While coming back, our new member Gibson got his C500 punctured. So, Sajeesh, Usha, Robbie, Gaurav, and yours truly, stopped over with him to get his puncture repaired. Robbie worked more than the puncture guy himself to get Gibson’s bike ready again. We had 7UPs over there while waiting for Gibson’s bike to get repaired. Then we rode back to Badkhal Lake Resort. On the way back, I survived a major (read fatal) accident (which nobody knows about yet) and had just a small brush-off with a truck. Thank GOD for that.
Once on the resort, we all parked our bikes in line and straightaway head to the swimming pool. By the time we had reached the pool, Vivek sir had already made himself comfortable in the swimming pool. Then one-by-one almost everyone joined him in the pool (some by themselves and some were forced into the pool by whom else but our Chhota Khilery). A few others like me, Raman, CP etc were spared the assault though Chhota Khilery tried his best to get us into the pool, too.
A special mention of Rohit is required here who wore and then took-off his swimming glares some 5-7 times and still didn’t jump in the swimming pool before he was forced into the pool by none other than Chhota Khilery. Mr Khilery, when found nobody else to force into the pool, jumped-in himself with all his clothes on!!! The management, obviously, had some issues with us jumping in the pool with our clothes on and when they complained about it, Chhota Khilery called his ‘bhai’, again, to rescue him out of this situation. As usual, his ‘bhai’ helped him and he was granted permission to jump into the pool with all his clothes on. Finally, he was very happy coz he had ‘won’ a great war against the management of Badkhal Lake Resort and also coz usne management ki le li thi.
In the meanwhile, our female Deburids – Usha, Amesha and Pinky, had a special bonding with each other with their feet dipped in the swimming pool. The Deburids also played an unknown game (kind of water-volleyball) which I’m sure that Rohit’s team had won or else nobody would have been allowed to come out of the pool till he had won!!!
Post our swimming session, we all went to the buffet room where a delicious breakfast was awaiting us. Initially, we all behaved very politely and having our breakfast quietly sitting in the chairs lined-up for us. Then, I started the not-so-polite behaviour when I took 2 omelets and 2 cutlets together. Following on my footsteps, everyone started grabbing and gobbling food rather than taking and eating them. Finally, the situation was such that everyone was standing at the entrance of the buffet room and food was not ‘allowed’ inside the room. By the way, when all this hullabaloo was on, Vivek sir was busy sipping his beer, quietly, in one corner thinking that nobody would notice him but let me tell you one thing Vivek sir – we Deburids don’t just DRINK beer, we can even SMELL it.
But, on the whole, it was lot of fun and the management was also very friendly and cooperative as they tolerated all our shouting and naughtiness yet served us politely till we could not eat anymore. After we had had probably the best breakfast in a long, long time, we rested for some half an hour sorts and started off our journey back to Delhi. While coming back to Delhi, we all were supposed to come back to India Gate from where we had started-off but lost people on the way coz the traffic was too much and we could not ride together. Finally, only a few of us managed to reach India Gate (rest went home) and gathered at the chai-wala to have some tea and cold-drinks. After spending some 45 minutes there, we all rode back to our homes after the biggest and a very successful ride of the ever-increasing and ever-thumping DELHI BULL RIDERS!!!
