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South India Ride 2015

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           A wonderful cherishing moments on a Solo Ride to South Of India. 2days before the ride even commenced, I was not even sure to do it solo as i was not really fit for the ride. Just my will to explore, I took off  on the 18th July 2015 ( Saturday ). Got my Bada Don (RE TB500) serviced and ready for this ride (Mechanic: Sundar), unfortunately was not able to get the flood lamps and mobile charger  fixed as it was not available. I had a tough time explaining mum what I am upto. Woke up with a thought that I am doing my first longest solo and how am i gonna manage. Managed my brain to stop thinking a lot and 9:40 I was on my saddle. Entire Route: Bangalore-Hosur-Salem-Dindugal-Madurai-Rameshwaram-Dhanushkodi-Rameshwaram-Kanyakumari(Via ECR road)-Nagercoil-Trivandrum-Kovalam-Varkala-Allapey-Kochi-Thrissur-Palakad-Coimbatore-Salem-Bangalore Day1:Bangalore-Hosur-Salem-Dindugal-Madurai-Rameshwaram - 690KMS 9:40 Am started f...

Road Thrill's: Southern Survival

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1st day of Endurance:Bangalore- Ooty- Pollachi- Valparai- 568kms at average speed of approx 80-90kms/Hour We started our ride at 4:45am from the Kanakpura Nice road Exit all 14 Rider's and 3 Pillion. Awesome weather stopped at Kanakpura for tea break, unfortunately there was no tea. So we started to head towards Gundulpet on the way there was split in groups due to the deviations from Malvalli. Set of 5 bikes including me detoured and were ahead approx 15kms in the wrong direction and stopped as there were 2 rider's missing behind, so we were waiting and got to know from the travellers on that Road that on of our friend's met with an accident, so me and other 2 rider's took a u turn and reached the accident spot which was about 2kms away from the spot we were waiting.We saw our friend on the floor  on the road and was not able to get up, we called for help. we sent the injured friend's to the local hospital and also our Point with them to secure th...