The concept

Well ya, one fine day we were sitting the office (LBDN or LBFG, as usual)... and this wonderful idea stuck us!! Why not put our weekend to better use - by biking down to some place... Now this isn't a lovely cloudy October in Palampur, or a March in Ooty... this is May and this is Delhi...

So the Apache brains started their work and came up with a strategy (after consulting a few comrades on the phone..)... came up with the PoA..

IHQ of MoD (Army) - 17 May 2007, 1315h

JB: We'll leave in the evening.. say around 1700 or so - make it 1800 by the time we manage to get out of here and change etc etc...

AM: You crazy? 1800 on the Ghaziabad highway - we'll never make it past Meerut... We'd better leave a bit later...

JB: Ok dekha jaaega .. as it is David's coming, so we'll drop him off and then leave... here have the AWWA lunch for now - we'll plan later k?

AM: Ya that's better.. Pass the dahi please...

JB: Oye yaar bike mein we need some new oil ok - this one's gone.. plus we better get the brakes checked.. thats about 700 INR.. better start saving...

AM: Ya ok. got it.. saving.. no 7up/sprite today eh?

JB: Ya.. pretty much...

Same day, 1900h - Karol Bagh - with GC (Captain Gajaine... CSM/A/102)...

GC: Abbe yaar mera dekhna padega I might not get that one-day's leave on saturday, buddies..

AM (to JB): Lo bhaiyaaa kar lo baat, ek aadmiee pehle hi kum ho gaya hai... Hapkaani baatein kar raha hai bhaii...

JB: Chal koi nahin, let's get this oil thing done...

Mister mechanic took his 600 INR and changed the oil.. after which the 02xAryans and 01xArdent had dinner at Tibet Kitchen... 01xAryan had to leave a little early coz he'd promised 01xKiller's daughter that he'll be 'online' at 2200h.. phew!! made it, somehow..

remainder 01xAryan(CSM) and 01xArdent(de-tabbed DCC) came back at 2300h.

So gentlemen, this was the entire planning stage of the endeavour... more later - on how it was 'pulled off' and what followed in the 'aftermath'.