This Side of Paradise

Life has been very monotonous for the past eight weeks. timelines have been pretty devastating and I have lost track of how many saturdays I’ve spent in the office. Overall, I sure could use some change. Of late, I’ve been really contemplating on buying a SBK. the question is which one? ladies and gentlemen - presenting the contenders Honda CBR600 Yamaha YZF R6 Yamaha YZF 600 All of them are 600 cc 4 cylinder in-lines with Fuel injection. You can get an approximate milage of around 35 km/lit from these bikes, which makes them very good street bikes :). I have grown really tired of waiting for these over promised ( and possibly under delivered) 250 cc segment that is still yet to launch here.

This was so awesome that I had to break the chronology of my posts. A couple of posts down, you will find the Y2K. Check out these links below; they show the Y2k starting up. Make sure you have your speakers turned up. back to my regular posts in a short while…!!

This evening, I had the pleasure of riding along side a cherry red porsche boxster S…all along necklace road…!! boy, that car is super amazing…!! That’s the second confirmed porsche sighting in the twin cities; saw the first one, a porsche cayenne, with D2 at Little Italy one night. Vista Beta is here… and it’s amazing, although I’ve been using it for about an hour’s time now…thing’s are a little confusing..for ex, it took me a good 10 min to figure out how to place the standard icons on the desktop ;-). For an OS that is running in the debug mode, it runs quite snappily on my laptop (it’s a second generation sonoma based chipset, not the latest core duo based). The UI is mind blowing; wish I had a nvidia 7900 Go under the hood of my laptop ;-(!!

The automobile industry, especially the two wheeler segment will never change. Typical indian mentality - the first thing they ask on seeing a bike is “what’s the mileage?” it’s the standard question for every bike from the bajaj CT 100 (wow… that gives 110 km per litre) to the honda 954 CBR (wow…we don’t even have the proper roads for this baby to ride on). Mileage scores in our land and thus the big companies (with their wonderful bikes) - honda (Shine - Shines in what? mileage) , yamaha (gladiator - haha…who ever came up with that name for a 125 cc?), Kawasaki /bajaj ( LOL don’t even ask!!) are shying away from bringing the best of the lot. a 250 cc bike would be a perfect fit for the commute here… Anyways, times are slowly changing and the 250 cc bikes are here…The honda 250 CBX seems to be pretty promising…!!<