India Travel Thread

[Sharma Ji]

hellholes. If suffocation and stampede don't kill you, the thuggish pandas will. The place is infested with jobless chutyas wearing saffron robes and pretending to be holy men. They literally accost you, demand money and speak in an intimidating manner. Absolute rogues. I am witness to a woman being groped by one of these criminals.

provides for a nice segue into:

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[Sharma Ji]

The BEST, by far, onboard food in relative recent times for me on any domestic carrier has to be Air Asia. This was just pre pandemic, I was in coach (as usual ), did pre book a meal, and they had some insane Thai Green Chicken and rice, killer meal.

Flown them a bit since, but I guess the virus effed them up proper, over priced not that fresh sandwitches and insta upma powder, ramen noodles type milta hai ab bas.

Vistara is supposed to be half way decent, tried once, not great, lousy food.

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[vsdoc]

People abuse Air India like its their ancestral family profession.

But their food and pyjamas are the best.

Even the aunties are now younger.

Or maybe I'm older.

Cheers, Doc

 

[Sharma Ji]

I quite like the new livery, soothing, understated, minimalist.. classy

part of India will always miss the uncle chips wala butler uncle and the elaborate 'mahal' windows design.

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tata's screwing this up, wtf

 

[Sharma Ji]

old air India maharaja butler:

 

[vsdoc]

I quite like the new livery, soothing, understated, minimalist.. classy

part of India will always miss the uncle chips wala butler uncle and the elaborate 'mahal' windows design.

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tata's screwing this up, wtf

So Sharma ji.

Im a Tata boy. And I agree.

You see it in their cars too.

Even in their offices in Bombay.

Cheers, Doc

 

[Paitoo]

I quite like the new livery, soothing, understated, minimalist.. classy

part of India will always miss the uncle chips wala butler uncle and the elaborate 'mahal' windows design.

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tata's screwing this up, wtf

New livery is fine. The font could have been better. I am flying Air India later this month. Let's see how it goes.

They are even flying the A350 on some domestic routes now. Check out the schedule, in case you are planning to travel on one of those routes.

 

[Sharma Ji]

New livery is fine. The font could have been better. I am flying Air India later this month. Let's see how it goes.

They are even flying the A350 on some domestic routes now. Check out the schedule, in case you are planning to travel on one of those routes.

Nice, I'd love to do a short hop on one of those, though I suspect 350s ka major hubs/metros hi connecting route hoga, before they fly off to the other side of the world.

 

[Paitoo]

Nice, I'd love to do a short hop on one of those, though I suspect 350s ka major hubs/metros hi connecting route hoga, before they fly off to the other side of the world.

Yeah, all metros only

 

[Sharma Ji]

So Sharma ji.

Im a Tata boy. And I agree.

You see it in their cars too.

Even in their offices in Bombay.

their cars have always been shite

 

[Sharma Ji]

fascinating

 

[Sharma Ji]

No man.

Storme owner for the past 11 years.

Cheers, Doc

warna toh new crop, Harrier ecc are also good

its down to the small stuff, quality of plastics, the fit and finish etc where they are found lacking vis a vis the cumptetion

 

[Guynextdoor]

This was a common mod by us in the 2005-2010 era. To lighten our bikes (about 15 kilos lighter ... which is great in the mountains), by replacing a lot of the heavier tin work with plastics. Put on a nice free flow Goldie (BSA Goldstar exhaust copy, fabricated in Poona by Shakeel), and pair it with a free flowing K&N paper element cone pod filter or a oiled bi-foam dirt motocross style UNI pod filter (from dune buddy racing applications).

Fly mudguards. For mud clearance in slush (Rohtang onwards ... those days it was the Wild West. No roads. Just snow and slush and rocks and raging torrents of snow melt. And black ice!). My mechanic (Rafiq mama) and I retrofitted a Yamaha FZ ka back end mudguard/licence plate/tail light/indicators cluster to the Bullet and it came out beautiful! She was one of the best modded Bullets in the country then. Shes back to stock now.

@JaneBhiDoYaaron @Guynextdoor @indushek

Cheers, Doc

I don't think one should make any mods for Bullets to run in the mountains. There are real issues. Bullets were never deisgned for that and even common problems like punctures oxy availability get maginified 10 times because of the weight. Pushing them at that altitude is a massive challenge.

 

[vsdoc]

I don't think one should make any mods for Bullets to run in the mountains. There are real issues. Bullets were never deisgned for that and even common problems like punctures oxy availability get maginified 10 times because of the weight. Pushing them at that altitude is a massive challenge.

Au contraire, the Bullet was originally designed by the Brits as a trails bike.

Used by troops in WWII in atrocious deep mud.

And by the Indian Army across the highest mountain terrain in the world.

Cheers, Doc