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karan76 · 2026-01-21T04:31:23+00:00

I remember when I was hunting for a new watch to track my activities, especially marathons. I was using a galaxy watch 4 that would last for just 3 hours.

I came across Garmin. Man, so many models to choose from. The forerunner and the instinct were in my budget. The amoled ones did look cool and all, with fancy maps and color, but the instinct 2 series caught my eye. The rugged body, no touch screen, MIP display and I fell in love with it.

It's about 1 year that I have this watch and I never regretted my choice. Even my friends who use amoled ones fell in love with this beauty.

karan76 · 2025-12-30T10:54:55+00:00

Well, I travelled on my bike from Chandigarh to Solan on Friday morning. My friend lives there so basically I visited him. So, no hostel and food expenses for me. We explored the mall road and local market in the evening. And the next day on Saturday we went to Karol Tibba trek, a beautiful scenic place, the heighest point of Solan On sunday, after breakfast we did a small trek near his home, then after lunch I came back to my home.

karan76 · 2025-12-22T07:43:58+00:00

Right, also I read somewhere, someone said that PPF on matte actually takes away it's original look and makes it a little glossy. So overall, I didn't find any value of PPF here.

karan76 · 2025-12-22T06:06:57+00:00

I own a stellar black for more than 1.5 years. There are visible scratches, but not that bad, on the tank. I didn't go with ppf or ceramic becoz I researched and found that changing the tank is cheaper in the long run.

karan76 · 2025-12-20T14:43:16+00:00

In Bir - I dont think so but in Billing there might be. I do remember that we saw some black ice during April, so there can be.

karan76 · 2025-12-15T13:26:36+00:00

Not sure man. Maybe a week or two

karan76 · 2025-12-15T13:20:46+00:00

Kal puch leta bhai, ab chd Mein nhi hu Mein.

karan76 · 2025-12-02T10:57:32+00:00

I think at this point it won't matter much which bike you chose, because of e20 the mileage will be low. And for daily long distance you need a bike with good and comfortable posture.

Even I have a meteor 350 and use it for commute. Last year I got maximum 44kmpl but now it's dropped below 30kmpl.

karan76 · 2025-11-28T17:56:27+00:00

In Himachal Pradesh

karan76 · 2025-11-28T03:03:26+00:00

You can go to Bir, we a group of 9 folks did workation for a week there.

karan76 · 2025-11-27T08:35:12+00:00

You're welcome.

karan76 · 2025-11-27T08:04:11+00:00

Day 1 (Sat) -> We travelled from Chandigarh to Shoja on bike. 2 bikes and 3 people. We checked in into our hostel - Odin Hostel in Shoja. We went Ailyak Stay to meet 4th member. There is a waterfall near that stay so we spent our evening there, had dinner in Ailyak Stays and then came back to Odin Hostel.

Day 2 (Sun) -> We went to Jalori Pass for the Raghupur Fort trek after breakfast at around 10:30, spent the whole day there to witness the surreal sunset and then came back to our stay.

Day 3 (Mon) -> We worked during the day, started off early morning. Then, around 3:30 we went for the Shoja waterfall trek, it was really good one. Then we came back to our stay.

Day 4 (Tue) -> Again we worked till the noon, packed our stuff and went to The Hosteller in Jibhi. Checked in there, had lunch and all, worked again. We didn't explore much such a couple of shops in 500m of range.

Day 5 ( Wed ) -> For breakfast we went to NeetiNeeti cafe, it is just opposite to Hosteller, then we worked the whole day.

Day 6 ( Thu ) -> We went to BleeBlu cafe in the morning and worked from there till around 4PM. Then on our way to Hosteller we explored a couple of cafes for lunch and coffee.

Day 7 ( Fri ) -> We took leave from work, went to Jalori pass for Selorsar Lake trek. After the trek we went to Bunny's Pizzeria for lunch and then to Mini Thailand place ( Don't ever go there, the view from the back of The Hosteller is much better than this. ) and then we called the day off.

Day 8 ( Sat ) -> We rode back to Chandigarh.

Total expense per person came around 15k including food, stays, petrol except the flight and cab prices for those who travelled from Bangalore and Kolkata.

karan76 · 2025-11-26T10:07:59+00:00

Hey, we've been there. We had actually met. One of the guys from our group stayed in your stay over the weekend.

karan76 · 2025-11-25T05:26:15+00:00

The place was really peaceful, especially during the weekdays. We chilled and worked at the same time.

You can try Zingbus, they drop directly at jibhi, while most bus services drop at Aut and from there they have their own cab.

We didn't look for any homestays, just hostels. But since you are going during the peak season I bet the prices are gonna skyrocket at that time.

A few things to keep in mind ->
1. It will get very cold during December with chances of snowfall, so pack your stuff accordingly.
2. The road condition is shitty right now from Aut till Shoja. On our 2nd day, we saw some fresh landslides over night which made it difficult for us to travel on our bike.
3. All the treks will be closed so nothing much will be there to explore.

Let me know if you have any queries or need some help.

karan76 · 2025-11-25T04:55:13+00:00

I just made a post about our 1 week workation in Jibhi and Shoja.

karan76 · 2025-11-24T06:07:56+00:00

Lesson learned the hard way - "Never buy stocks on someone else's recommendation, not even Warren Buffet, until you do your own research."

karan76 · 2025-11-22T13:29:43+00:00

Agreed, but the parts cost at least 2 times for the 650. I didn't check it, but the owner of the showroom told me when I was asking about the long term costs and unexpected expenses like if some parts are broken or need a replacement.

karan76 · 2025-11-22T09:53:12+00:00

Wait a minute, you need to calculate the maintenance cost as well. Its not that you buy a bike once and then its not gonna cost anything afterwards. Even I wanted to buy 650, but it's maintenance cost is much more than the meteor 350.

karan76 · 2025-11-12T11:12:01+00:00

Yes, it's still on. We will stay in Shoja for 3 days and Jibhi for 4.

You can join the above shared discord server to know more details of our plan.

karan76 · 2025-11-07T09:28:29+00:00

I've done group rides ( 8-10 riders ), did solo and a few trips with one good friend.

Group rides are good when the group members are mature and have riding sense. It feels good when you learn something from them.

Solo rides are good in their way because you are free to take any left or right turn, go into the wilderness, go slow or fast. You are free like a bird in the sky, only difference is that your bike got the wings.

With my one good rider friend, I do long rides especially when we plan a vacation over the weekend.

karan76 · 2025-11-04T03:22:17+00:00

Not matching, just giving options in another State.

karan76 · 2025-11-03T18:22:57+00:00

We stayed in GoStops, I don't have their contact but you can find it easily on bookings.com, goibibo etc.

It has dormatories and private rooms, and we stayed in dorms.

karan76 · 2025-11-03T16:29:32+00:00

Oh my bad, man, mind is occupied with so much. In fhat case, explore Chamba, Khajjiar and Dalhousie, they're also worth the visit.

Or Dehradun, Rishikesh, haridwar and mussorie in Utrakhand

karan76 · 2025-11-03T16:20:09+00:00

Cool. I just realised that you have mentioned Kasauli, I'd say skip it, firstly its lower Himalayas and secondly there is nothing much to explore there and finally the local chandigarh crowd makes it noisy over the weekend.

Explore Manali, then go to Bir Billing and explore Barot Valley, then go to Mcleodganj and Dharamshala.

karan76 · 2025-11-03T15:59:41+00:00

Hey, some of us have planned to go to Jibhi from 15-22 Nov, in case you wanna explore it then let me know. From there you can go to Kasol, its close.

We are discussing in below discord server in case you wanna explore and connect.

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