RiderMania, the annual gathering of Royal Enfields. This Rider Mania also included a special third day, a track day!
Event Venue and Date:
MMSC track, Sriperumbudur, Chennai
Jan 23, 2006
RiderMania 06 was hosted this year by the Madras Bulls at Casurina Bay a resort on the East coast road between Chennai and Pondycherry. {mosgoogle right} The event for the first time took place over 3 days. Day 1 and 2 were reserved for all important partying and day 3 was a Royal Enfield sponsored track day.
A big thanks goes out to Sachin from Royal Enfield who helped organise this event. Its a pure riders event and we look forward for more! Cheers dude! Events like this make people appreciate the true value of bikes and reinforce importance of riding skill. It also underlines the sturdiness of these machines as some of the participants had travelled over a thousand kilometres to be at Rider Mania, attended the track day and travelled back the same distance to go back. The bikes took it all.
Subhash Chandra Bose, a veteran track racer, and a person I have great respect for, was at the track to show people around the track. He helped people who had problems with their riding and was on hand to clear doubts of many others.
Royal Enfield Track day, Final results
| Position | Name | Bike | Lap Times | Avg (kmph) | Club |
| 1) | Imran | Thunderbird AVL 500cc | 2:36:011 | 94.6 | NMC |
| 2) | Abhijith Rao | Thunderbird AVL 350cc | 2:37:961 | 93.4 | RTMC |
| 3) | Adrian (Leppard) | Machismo AVL 350 | 2:38:774 | 92.9 | RTMC |
| 4) | Surya | Thunderbird AVL 350cc | 2:39:303 | 92.6 | V40 |
| 5) | Sachin | Electra with an AVL 350cc | 2:42:383 | 90.8 | RS |
| 6) | Karthik | Thunderbird AVL 500cc | 2:42:573 | 90.7 | RB |
| 7) | Prashanth (Nomad) | 500cc cafe spl | 2:45:290 | 89.2 | RTMC |
| 8) | Bunny | Thunderbird AVL 350cc | 2:47:023 | 88.3 | xBhp |
To see the rest of the times from the day, click on the image of the laptimes below.
Legend:
- RTMC: Rolling Thunder Motorcycle Club, Bangalore
- NMC: Nomads Motorcycle Club, Delhi
- V40: V40 (Royal Enfield Riders Club, Chennai)
- RS: Roadshakers, Pune
- RB: Royal Beasts, Delhi
All the timed sessions happened on the full track, which is 4.1kms in length. Though initially the short loop (2.1kms) was used no timed sessions happened on it. I put in about 30+ laps in all by the end of the session.
The top five places were given prizes from RE. The first 2 places got Royal Enfield branded leather saddlebags from Hidesign, complete with a separate mudguard stays with mounting brackets. The third place got a comprehensive toolkit. The final two places took a RE branded helmet each.
In the snaps below (where mentioned on the watermark) is copyright Freya, a rider with RTMC. She did a wonderful job with capturing all these snaps and was kind enough to let me use them here. If you would like full resolution snaps contact Freya. If you do not have the details, send in your contact details to me and I will forward them to Freya.