Laddakh Carriers on ur CLASSIC 500

Went to check if a ladakh carrier will fit on a classic 500. I carry tent, clothes, tools, spares, sleeping bags, and even photography equipment

The regular metal carrier frame, looks FUNNY on a classic.

I am crafting one NOW.

The Bullet 500 Classic - pics

First views of the Royal Enfield Classic 500

Since i got my bike on the 12th of november,

Lets go about what i love.

#1 love the Fuel Injection, i can move to 2nd gear and leave the accelerator alone and the bike goes chugging on its own. Some thing like my cars.

#2 The shock handling s awesome. After riding the bike for a few days i feel the thunderbird i used to own feels like a horse.

#3 Removed the rear seat, cant transport any one, but can ride slow (see #1) love that! I get people walking to me, love the new bike.

#4 Self starter - awesome

#5 head lights like some car - awesome

#6 Maybe its my clutch - shifting to 1st gear is  sounds like a thud.

#7 took a friend for a 60 km spin and she feels this is too comfy - does not feel like a ride :(

Lets go over what i don't like:

#1, kickbacks don't happen any more due to sensors. The ignition cuts off. Atleast i don't feel it. Using the kicker is a pain, miss that 1 kick start of my thunderbird.

#2 when you pull accelerator slow , the throttle response has some kind of  block at the lower accelerator level. The bike jerks. Happens all the time.

#3 Rear seat looks yuck. But what are mods for ?

#4 The screw on the tiger eye (head lamp) is showing signs of rust.

#5 the tires are funny , if i brake, it skids. If i turn at an elevated wet surface.

AWESOME BIKE IN ALL ! MUST HAVE. This sunday i will be riding to some place close to krishnagiri.

RE Launches the classic 500 in bangalore

While RE is launching the classic at magrath  road here in bangalore, my bike has gone to the RTO for registering

My first impression.. its a TOY ! its short ! i need bigger wheels

heres a pic of the FIRST royal enfield classic 500 in registered in bangalore roads

Booked the Bullet Classic 500!

Got a call from RE today - "Ady, you are the prestigious, lucky pre-release customer, invited to pre-book the Bullet classic 500"


The next moment i am on my trusty-rusty thunderbird off to book at teknik motors. Green is the color.

FlexPMD exception

Adobe Technical Services just launched a code coverage tool called FlexPMD to find the worst coding practices in your Flex code spread. FlexPMD runs through code patterns in all referenced mxml and ActionScript files of your project and compares it with the "FlexPMD ruleset" to flag it as either an info, warning or error.


FlexPMD runs in various configuration - command line, ant, maven,I chose the ant version of FlexPMD


I set up my ant build.xml just similar to the one in http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexpmd/How+to+invoke+FlexPMD


Modify ant.bat
set ANT_OPTS=-Xms128m -Xmx512m

Create the rules: go to FlexPMD ruleset creator on http://opensource.adobe.com/svn/opensource/flexpmd/bin/flex-pmd-ruleset-creator.html and press export (Looks like the boys at adobe set the browser in full screen - You may not be able export, so pres F11 fullscreen - if you still don't see it use a larger resolution or use tab key/space to navigate/select).


This is a workaround for a FlexPMD Known issue (Quoting from the flexPMD wiki http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexpmd/FlexPMD)


* Stack traces can be thrown during parsing. They are caught though during analyzing the code base, and hence fails over


[flexPmd] INFO: rule adobe.ac.pmd.rules.maintanability.forbiddentypes.UseGenericType computed in 188ms

BUILD FAILED
java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsException: Index: 0, Size: 0
at java.util.ArrayList.RangeCheck(ArrayList.java:547)
at java.util.ArrayList.get(ArrayList.java:322)
at com.adobe.ac.pmd.files.impl.AbstractFlexFile.getLineAt(AbstractFlexFi
le.java:178)
at com.adobe.ac.pmd.rules.style.CopyrightMissingRule.findViolationsInCur
rentFile(CopyrightMissingRule.java:65)



The error occurred at file com.adobe.ac.pmd.rules.style.CopyrightMissingRule, i'll be debugging to find out why we got a IndexOutOfBoundsException later on.. Sure its an exception to be handled
but now i dont care of copyrights missing. I remove that rule by deleting to for class="com.adobe.ac.pmd.rules.style.CopyrightMissingRule"


Eventually this worked


use PMD violations (http://opensource.adobe.com/svn/opensource/flexpmd/bin/flex-pmd-violations-viewer.html) viewer to check your results

The ride to the sinking church at shettihally

It was a ride never to be forgotten.....never


The plan at our motorbiking club was to jam up in a resort called the rappa situated on the banks of the river hemavathi.The group started at 6 am, but me i got up at 9 AM, and started off from my studio in sarjapur road. Well last night I was doing some late night light brushing shots with my dear photographer friends DJ Darshan Chandra and Rishi Syngai using some wireless trigger and mixed lights.
Bangalore traffic can be hell, and every one wanna squeeze in, cars wanna squeeze in a lane for autos and we motorbikers practice our offroading skills on the pavement. Pedestrians well they have no rights...aren't supposed to walk in bangalore.. Just kidding :P

As i reach kunigal,i see Mr Vijay Mallya's stud farm on the left, the walls all painted with McDowells Number 1, the hooch brand he owns :P (heights of surrogate advertising). This is the same farm where Honorable Minister Mr. lallu prasad yadav is planning to put a railway track thru. Its supposed to be once owned by Tippu Sultan, and i approach the gates just to see if i can get in and see some horses. I was denied entry - its a classified place of some big guy who put a wall around.it.

And i just head away to hassan, the land of the hoysala dynasty, i miss the exit to the resort in shettihalli. This must be the 100th time i miss the exit in so many years of motor biking in so many states of india. TheRappa is like 16 kilometers from the town of hassan. Enroute there is a church called Holy Rosary Church. It is situated right in the bank of river hemavathi. At this point of time, it resembles a building in the video game castlevania or the chapter "the cathedral" in ultimate doom.
This church is of gothic architecture and was built by the french missionaries in 1860. Looks awespiring and spooky from the bridge - this was the hint for me.... i need to make this look like a ruin some thing like what i saw in mortal kombat when the emperor shouts "Bow to me" at ankor wat or wat-ever.

TheRappa is like 6 kilometers from the bridge. As i reach the place, biju, horny uncle and the owner of the place - rappa vijay were there. Not to mention those cook dogs - shadow, brownie and shunti (in kannada it means ginger) I quickly have some vegetarian food and go swimming with other bikers.I wade thru the water - chest deep with my Canon 5D mark II and take a snap of the DAM gates.















The sun was setting, i jump into my boots, on the bike and rush to to do the shots of the church that i envisioned. Unknowingly, to me, some events were unfolding among the bikers. Some tragedy would unfold while i was shooting the church alone. I never knew of this even one bit until i came back to the resort with these prized pictures of double rainbows in the dark against a condemned church.












































All these pics are shot with a ND4 P - cokin filter. These are HDR's exposed for each and every detail of highlights, shadows, mid tones and exteme highlights and shadows. All of these are tripod shot, shutter triggered by a cable release.
The double rainbow wasnt clearly visible by the human eye, but its clearly indicated in my pics as its a HDR composite and so the camera sees everything.


Shettihalli is slowly showing on the tourist map, thanks to travel/photography blogs like mine, the media and resorts like the rappa. The church has crushed bottles, broken glasse, and food wrappers all around. Sad but true.


I meet prashi - a fellow biker frantically asking me if i saw Lil Jhonny. I did not see him. In the resort, all bikers are in deep discussion somethings happened. Apparently, Lil Jhonny went swimming for 50 meters and was dragged by the current into the dam gates. After swimming for 2.5 hours, he clung to the dam gates and climbed over... poooffff man now thats something hard digest... 8 kilometers of swimming. Rappa Vijay was furious, he is like - "if you wanted to know the distance, i would have told you its 8 kilometers - why check it"

I was so relieved, in fact i must tell i was not tormented as say vijay or prashi or sandeep or the organizers biju and horny uncle.. i was not knowing of this events at all. But i could see the happiness in others.

The night ended with a campfire till the wee hours of the morning. An eventful day and hats off to lil jhonny... I knew buddy you did not know this would happen but anyways all that goes well ends well - in the well.



Next day i wake up and i find brownie cuddling on Lil Jhonny :P BAD IRISH SETTER :P Now that would have been a picture


.... It was a ride never to be forgotton.....never


Note On The Pictures: All the pictures are (c) Ady/Framed! Visuals if you wish to use this on your work, please mail me on ady at framed dott in

slightly larger pics on http://www.flickr.com/photos/100kph/sets/72157619775792844/

And here comes RM09

Just cant wait for rider mania 09. A whole 3 days of partying and merry. RM09 is hosted by my club in bangalore - RTMC and so far we have a lot lot of folks who registered

Rock Band, royal enfield bikes, bikers, fun games and tonnes of beer.. that's what rider mania is about

Say hello to my new bike

By popular demand i am forced to post pics of my new bike the trek 6000