An Amateur attends RE GT Cup Zonal Selections at Pune.

This year, RE had changed the enactment process and they person 4 zonal enactment rounds to shortlist 12 amateur racers successful each round. Fortunately, the West portion enactment was held astatine Pune this time. This was portion of their thoroughfare to way initiative.

I grabbed this accidental and registered myself online, followed by a carnal verification of Driving License and bike's RC astatine the nearest RE showroom. Two days earlier the event, I was added to a Whatsapp radical of astir 70 folks and told that connected Saturday 50 volition beryllium fixed an accidental for RE way Experience connected archetypal travel archetypal service basis!

This was a escaped lawsuit for the participants, RE gave leather suits, GT cupful bikes with fuel, food, beverages, trainers, invited kit (t-shirt, buff, stickers)! Only compulsory happening the riders had to bring is their helmets with treble D rings preferred. The 1 with ratchets were asked to set the strap truthful that lone 2 fingers could walk betwixt the strap and the chin. RE had Forma Freccia riding boots and DSG afloat gauntlet gloves successful constricted quantity and sizes to beryllium lent to riders who didn't person their gangly boots and afloat gauntlet gloves.

I packed my Shima Jet Air Jacket, RE Kelshi riding pants, Scala Trekker afloat gauntlet gloves, Gaerne GR-W boots and MT Revenge 2 helmet.

On Saturday, the telephone started buzzing astatine 5 americium with messages of "Reached".. I woke up astatine that time! The venue was adjacent to maine but the lawsuit was expected to commencement astatine 7am. I made speedy question and made it wrong the 50 chopped off!

Registration process was smooth, riding cogwheel inspection took clip and it should. I was portion of the 1st batch of 25 riders. My cogwheel was checked good and I had a grin connected my face! Still I requested, if I tin get a leather riding suit and they obliged.

Plan was schoolroom session, riding league 1 - travel the coach. Discuss with coach, riding league 2. Classroom session, enactment appraisal for apical 25, the riding manager volition travel you.

All geared up, it was a blistery day! We're sweating similar anything. RE had kept crystal boxes with h2o bottles but they were getting bare successful minutes and was getting refilled arsenic the depletion was higher than expected. Friday was overcast and I had switched my tinted visor to a wide one! I should person carried the tinted 1 too.

The trainers and coaches were from PRN Motorsports and were GT Cup champs! Very humble and talented racers, it was large to interact with them. Each riding manager were allotted 5 riders only. And you got 1 thigh to travel the coach, different laps you're down different riders successful a circular robbin way.
Very systematic, and pit introduction and exit was good explained successful the schoolroom session.

This was my archetypal way riding experience, was a spot overwhelmed! In my helmet was feeling wow, but successful the choky crook sections could consciousness a queue of riders down me. May beryllium I was holding them up! It was a Go Kart way and didn't necessitate cogwheel shifts, the manager was not adjacent utilizing the brakes! "Slow is smooth, creaseless is fast", was the motto of the day! The racing enactment was emphasized a batch arsenic the way was choky and for the selected riders the qualifying laps would beryllium faster lone connected the showed enactment erstwhile pursuing the coach.

For the enactment appraisal ride, each rider got 2 laps to show what they learned successful some the way sessions. Aspi Bathena was 1 of the assessors.

The bikes were GT Cup bikes sans the rear sets and beforehand cowl. It had JK Tyre Blaze tyres specially developed for the GT Cup, Gabriel contention suspension. Both of them are not disposable for existing 650 duplicate owners! In summation to the afloat strategy exhausts and K&N filter.

I thrust an Interceptor truthful value of the motorcycle was acquainted but the throttle was crisp! Even with earplugs the rumble of 10 bikes connected a tiny way was thing to experience. I was loosing focus! I enjoyed each spot of the acquisition but couldn't deliver. This is simply a antithetic crippled but the addiction is pure!

Post this session, our batch was concluded with Participation certificate distribution. This followed by luncheon interruption and the aforesaid sessions would travel for the adjacent batch of 25 riders.

Later successful the day, a combined database of apical 25 riders selected for Day 2 qualifiers were published. As expected I was not portion of them but I joined them connected time 2 arsenic a spectator.

I returned a happier motorcyclist with the agelong word way riding itch scratched. Thanks to Royal Enfield Motorsports for the experience!

Happy motorcycling,
surjaonwheelz