Fun

The Beast

I finally got off my lazy ^%$$ and cleaned up my baby. Here is the

beast

and it’s

heart

Some quick facts about this beast

Engine:

* Type: 1795cc liquid-cooled 52-degree V-twin
* Displacement: 1795cc
* Bore and Stroke: 101.0mm x 112.0mm
* Fuel System: Programmed Fuel Injection (PGM-FI) with automatic choke
* Compression Ratio: 9.0:1
* MPG: NA

Drivetrain:

* Transmission: Five-speed
* Final Drive: Shaft

Brakes:

* Front: Dual 296mm discs with LBS three-piston calipers
* Rear: Single 316mm disc with LBS twin-piston caliper

Suspension:

* Front: 45mm inverted fork; 5.1-inch axle travel
* Rear: Dual shocks with five-position spring-preload adjustability; 3.9-inch travel

Wheels and Tires:

* Front: 130/70R-18 radial tire
* Rear: 180/70R-16 radial tire

Dimensions:

* Length: NA
* Seat Height: 27.3 in.
* Rake and Trail: 32.48 degrees / 5.7 inches
* Wheelbase: 67.6 in.
* Weight: 714 lbs. dry
* Fuel Capacity: 4.8 gals.

Just for comparision, this guy’s engine is more powerful than a Toyota Carolla (by 1 cc 🙂 ). Thats a lot of power sitting between your legs :). All I can say is that this guy is not for the faint hearted.

Party time..

I think it is high time I started using Flickr to post my pictures. I take a ton of pictures (yes, I am one of those crazy guys, that carry a camera on them ALL the time) and haven’t found a way to share them with friends and family without maxing out the traffic on my hosted site. I have been looking at all the photo sharing, social tagging sites such as flickr, fotki, hello for quite some time, but never got around to creating an account and using them. I don’t like sites that require you to register just to look at pictures (kodak!!). We have too many accounts as it is, without having to register on a site just to look at some photos.

Long post short :).. Here is the first attempt to start logging my pictures online. The link to my pictures on flickr is
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kudithipudi/sets/72057594092170857/

P.S: If anyone wants me to delete their photos, pls shoot me an E-mail at vinay at kudithipudi dot org. Thx.

Lotta Kannula Dana..

I rarely forward chain e-mails, because I think it is such a waste of time and energy. Not to mention that it fills up peoples inboxes :). This is an exception though.. This mp3 was sent to me by my sister and I cannot resist but put it up on the site. For those of you familiar with the Telugu language, this is a classic song in the Telangana slang :). Here is a hosted link of the song

https://kudithipudi.org/patalu/O_Poriki_Pilladana.mp3

Cheesy Tollywood Dialogs

For those of you who know what TollyWood is, you are also aware of the cheesy dialogs that are used in the Tollywood movies. For the uninitiated, Tollywood is the equivalent of Hollywood in the Telugu speaking South Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. Tollywood productions are greater (in quantity) than Hollywood. Although, I should say that the quality is a totally different matter :). My personal belief is that the Indian population is still not ready to view Cinema as an expressionist art. It is still purely an entertainment avenue. Hence you see the heros in the movies fighting 100 villians single handedly :). Something comparable in the western culture would be the “John Wayne” movies. Tollywood actors are worshipped in a Godly manner. One of the biggest kick I used to get as a kid when watching Tollywood movies was the cheesy dialogs that were used in the movies. I don’t think there is a collection of these dialogs anywhere on the net. Hence this effort to document them. I created a page to document them. Please feel free to send me an e-mail at [email protected] with new entries and I will keep updating the page. Would appreciate if you can include the following in the e-mail
Movie Name | Actor Name | Dialog

Happy New Year – 2006

2005 has been nothing short of interesting..
I have completed my second marathon..
Got a promotion at work..
Met new and interesting people..
Travelled to my fourth foreign country..
Finally got my H1 visa approved..
And last but not least, got ENGAGED!! (yep.. no more of that bachelor freedom for me 🙂 )

Let us raise our glasses in wishing for a even more interesting year..

WISHING YOU ALL A HAPPY NEW YEAR
HOPE THE YEAR OF DOG WILL BRING YOU LUCK, HEALTH, LOVE AND PROSPERITY.

Banff!!!

Picture of Banff city center. Highly recommend visitng this Ski resort. Beautiful place. More of it in a later post..