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Well the whole week prior to the ride was very exciting for most of the ppl and that could been noticed from the constant pouring of posts on that particular thread on xBhp.com, and as the number of ppl participating started to grow, our G2G organizers were taking to busy with lot of background work for this ride.
On Thursday i decided to give my bike for servicing as it has been very long time since my bike got serviced [almost 5000 km], and during this servicing i changed the air filter ,oil filter along with spark plug, and thankfully a new set of tyres which i have changed just a month back, and there is one more celebration ..... my bike completed 2 years :D
Saturday - Day 1
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The last night i kept my alarm to 4:00 am as the ride will start at around 5:30 am, and when i woke up i saw the time , it was already 5:30am .. i said myself .. Oh Sh** again i am late ... the thing is when ever there was morning ride , in most of the time i tend to wake up late and do speed runs to catch up with the group. i hurried and got ready in a quick session and my plan was to meet up the group at just before krishnagiri in A2B restaurant, the msged the guys that i am late and going to meet up them in A2B , and left the home and the time already it was 6 am in the morning, and soon after 15 min , i got cal from one of our members that they still not started and i should not hurry up, this gave me relaxing feel and happy that i need not to make high speed runs to catch up with them. our meeting place was scheduled at silk board junction and by the time i reached there .. it was all happening .. guys are busy in clicking photos and i was the last one to reach there , and there are already 45 ppl are present. soon things got fasted up and after checking documents we formed in to 2 groups , one with the fast group with bigger bikes which can do 75-100kmph speed and the other one is slower group with lesser capacity bikes which can do 50-70kmph speed.
the faster group was headed by Santa [comet] and Jhon[P220] as sweeper , where as the slower group is headed by Eric [P220] . and i was in the fast group and my R15 bike can make other bike eat dust when it comes to speed, so we started and untill we reach the Krishnagiri A2B it was unusually filled with heavy traffic and till that times it was very difficult to ride in group.
Finally we reached A2B and had very good Breakfast, and after spending an hour there .. we started up again and this time .. it was perfect group riding with formation. and our planned stop was near dharmapuri .. where we suppose to wait for the Chennai guys [with there group of 24 bikers] .. the whole ride was much fun and it was like a chain of ants moving in tandem with constant speed in formation, soon we reached the spot where we needed to wait for Chennai group, then every body started relaxing and having pics and fun within 45 min the Chennai guys showed up with there 24 bikers .. it was nice to meetup with these guys and as they did almost 260km before reaching us .. once can notice that still they had plenty of energy to ride till our destination.
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| From Xbhp - Tri state Meet |
From here onwards it was a very big ride , with fast and slow groups in proper distance and with proper formation riding we reached A2B restaurant near to Salem to have Lunch, we took a good break of about 2 hours waiting for the Kerala team although they didn;t reached us till latenight that day .. in those 2 hours we can feel the real heat of Salem heat as Sun scorching above with hot weather it was impossible to stand outside .. meanwhile we have a very good lunch and after that rested a bit, before starting off from there.
As soon as we entered the Salem , it was evident that its gonna be difficult ride in those narrow roads of the city with almost 90+ bikes passing in tandom, and as we ride on through the city the ppl of Salem were staring at us wondering how come suddenly these many bikes appeared, at last we reached the starting point of the Ghats which we need to take to reach the yerkad and the entire Ghats section will be around 45km and with almost 40 hair pin bends and numerous bends and curves.
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Before starting to climb the Ghats we gathered near the starting point and needed to make some instructions for safe ride , so msg coveyed to all ..that make a single line and no overtaking allowed. and started the journey with small cluster of bikes with proper distance.
the entire 45km distance went like dream ..with all bikes following others and in sync and it seemed from the top like line of ants moving in sync. finally we reached the top and gathered at a point to decide who all needs to go which resort.. as we booked 2 resorts, while we were busy in dividing ppl for resort .. the localities and the ppl of Yerkad were shocked to see these many bikers and moreover there is one more big group of bulletiers around 120 ppl were also there ..
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Finally 30 ppl took to the resort 1 and rest of us went for another resort, as soon as i reached the resort .. i picked up a good balcony room and along with me 2 more guys joined and we dropped our bags and riding gear .. and took some nice time to get relax, by the time we got back our energy it was already 6 pm , and one of my room partner said we visit some places around .. as the hill view points were near to our resort.. so we took the bikes along with 2 more guys and headed to the view point just some 2 km away from our resort, we spent about an hour before other guys started arriving and as it started getting darker.. we all decided to visit one more view point from where we can take good pics of the city down .. and soon everyone joined for the site seeing activities, and later when we visited that place it was really nice location .. from where entire city can be visible and we can see the vehicles moving in the Ghats, after spending few more hours there .. we all headed back to our resorts and by the time we returned to resort .. the ppl there already started the camp fire and were enjoying the light moments of that time. soon i joined with others and the rest of the night went with camp fire and some nice dinner, as the clock ticket towards 12 midnight finally our kerala guys showed up with there long ride of 700km.. and the ppl who still woke till that time ..welcomed them grandly.
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Sunday - Day 2
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After having a very good sleep i woke up little late , and by the time i got ready it was 8 am and most of the guys are ready to rock the day, so me and neil [room partner] decided to take a spin around the city and visit the near by lake, so headed towards city , and others were busy in getting ready , as soon we reached the lake we saw a board on which written the way for a falls near by place.. so we decided to check it out and headed towards the water falls , although i have expected that the falls might have dried up in the summer and this time of the season,.. soon reaching near to it .. we realized that we need to take a trek of 1km down to reach the falls .. soon we headed down ..it was very steep and took some time to reach the bottom .. and there was this small falls .. although as i expected the water was very less and place is beautiful .. but still it didn;t impress me much as i saw soo many water falls in the westren ghats over a period of time. after some time we decided to head back to resort to have breakfast and climbing the steep hill took almost 20 min and Neil was totally tiered as he's not used to these kind of physical activities :).
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Soon from there we returned to our resort and had a very good breakfast ,.. finishing that everyone got ready for the photoshoot and 2 hours we spent in some really memorable photo shooting, later one group of guys started early to the bangalore .. and later after an hour one group of 7 which included me ..started from there towards our destination.
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| From Xbhp - Tri state Meet |
The whole stretch of 250+ km we rode together till we reach Electronic city from there we departed to our own directions ..with lot of good memories and good feeling.
Thanks to each and everyone .. who participated in the ride :D
Pics: http://picasaweb.google.com/nagoo12345/XbhpTriStateMeet#
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