Comments on: Transporting your motorcycle by train http://www.yogeshsarkar.com/blog/2009/07/05/transporting-your-motorcycle-by-train/ An online journal of my life Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:41:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: lakshman http://www.yogeshsarkar.com/blog/2009/07/05/transporting-your-motorcycle-by-train/comment-page-1/#comment-17116 lakshman Tue, 21 Jun 2011 08:13:21 +0000 http://www.yogeshsarkar.com/blog/?p=1057#comment-17116 hi,,,iam new to this kind of discussion,,but i would like to contribute my views which i had faced in the yesvantpur station in bangalore whr in these guys have a whole team to work on the parcel items irrelevant to the things been transported,,i had to load my diesel enfeild and these guys were sweet enough to help me,,,in doing all kind so of petty things right from th emptying the tank of the bike and they took the deisel as if it was fr them as a gift and then the provided me all th information i need to drop on the form and what i need to send by a speed post to my dad,,,to whom i was sending the bike for,finally after the whole story they got me the bill which stated the amount of 580rupees and then they said they would be doing the loading and it wud be fine, and i was surprised by the end i did give them the tip of 200rupees for both of them for the all the labour they had done. That had a face of a turtle,,,who had his food taken off from it, and they started the whole story that i covered up the identity , since my father had to be there personally with the bike papers and the licence to transport the bike,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,and the rest you know i had pay them 250 per head almost 500 extra to send my bike:( i did this becoz i had to have some contacts for further prospectus,,,,, hi,,,iam new to this kind of discussion,,but i would like to contribute my views which i had faced in the yesvantpur station in bangalore whr in these guys have a whole team to work on the parcel items irrelevant to the things been transported,,i had to load my diesel enfeild and these guys were sweet enough to help me,,,in doing all kind so of petty things right from th emptying the tank of the bike and they took the deisel as if it was fr them as a gift and then the provided me all th information i need to drop on the form and what i need to send by a speed post to my dad,,,to whom i was sending the bike for,finally after the whole story they got me the bill which stated the amount of 580rupees and then they said they would be doing the loading and it wud be fine, and i was surprised by the end i did give them the tip of 200rupees for both of them for the all the labour they had done. That had a face of a turtle,,,who had his food taken off from it, and they started the whole story that i covered up the identity , since my father had to be there personally with the bike papers and the licence to transport the bike,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,and the rest you know i had pay them 250 per head almost 500 extra to send my bike:( i did this becoz i had to have some contacts for further prospectus,,,,,

]]> By: Arun http://www.yogeshsarkar.com/blog/2009/07/05/transporting-your-motorcycle-by-train/comment-page-1/#comment-8642 Arun Wed, 08 Jul 2009 06:36:20 +0000 http://www.yogeshsarkar.com/blog/?p=1057#comment-8642 Customer never gets to be the king here, isn't it? Customer never gets to be the king here, isn’t it?

]]> By: Yogesh Sarkar http://www.yogeshsarkar.com/blog/2009/07/05/transporting-your-motorcycle-by-train/comment-page-1/#comment-8580 Yogesh Sarkar Sun, 05 Jul 2009 18:16:02 +0000 http://www.yogeshsarkar.com/blog/?p=1057#comment-8580 What about bike's paint? I have seen the way they load luggage on top of the bikes and it is scary at times! What about bike’s paint? I have seen the way they load luggage on top of the bikes and it is scary at times!

]]> By: Jagan http://www.yogeshsarkar.com/blog/2009/07/05/transporting-your-motorcycle-by-train/comment-page-1/#comment-8579 Jagan Sun, 05 Jul 2009 16:45:35 +0000 http://www.yogeshsarkar.com/blog/?p=1057#comment-8579 brings back mny memories! I used to carry my bike as 'luggage' in trains while travelling around in AP. (this was in 1996-97). The draining the fuel tank was one thing i remember very well. I used to 'pack' my own bike. I think the regular gunny bag pakcing is overrated. after the first couple of times, I stopped the packing and would load the bike as is brings back mny memories!

I used to carry my bike as ‘luggage’ in trains while travelling around in AP. (this was in 1996-97). The draining the fuel tank was one thing i remember very well. I used to ‘pack’ my own bike. I think the regular gunny bag pakcing is overrated. after the first couple of times, I stopped the packing and would load the bike as is

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