Bangalore-Pune
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It was thursday evening and i was all packed, ready and excited to head to pune after a long time. Got the bike serviced and changed the engine oil, but to my bad luck i still had to go to office. With a heavy heart i started for office with only 1 thing in mind, had to leave by 12:00 so that i can start for the ride by 1 am atleast.
00:00- sitting in the meeting and cursing everyone for not wrapping it early. Finally the meeting got over by 12:10 and i was running to get my bag, went to cafetaria loaded some supplies as there was no hope for any shops to be open on the highway. Started from my place at exactly 1:15, i know the route so headed straight towards it. Found the new bangalore-Nelamangla stretch completed and in good shape. By the time i was about to reach tumkur found a 5 km long traffic jam. some how got passed it, but still don't know what caused such a big mess.
2:30 am: still just by passed tumkur, has a long way to go. Crossed chitradurg and reached ranebennur where i knew that the road was bad. By the time i reached davangere it was 5:30 and i have just covered 300 kms. But the road from now on is pretty good, the aim was to cover the distance in under 12 hrs, so more riding and less breaks.
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| Some place after Hubli |
12:20 pm: Pune was in sight but before heading home wanted to get the bike ready for return trip, fueled the tank up and greased the chain. Finally reached home, feeling excited with the plans for the next 2-3 days. Had good lunch and it was time to take some rest.
Roaming in & around Pune
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Met with old buddies, Nalin and Chinmay over Friday night dinner, decided to do a short ride on Sunday. So nailed the destination down to Lavasa with meeting point being the usual CC(chandni chowk). Sunday morning and it was Dussehra, decided to ride only after performing puja for the bike. Got up at 5:30 and got ready by6, did th puja and was on the road so that i can reach the meeting point well in time. I was shocked to see Nalin already at the meeting place, usually he is the person who always 2nd last... :P. Even Chinmay came in the next couple of minutes and we were off towards Lavasa.
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| pooja time |
As soon as we took the deviaton towards pirangut ghat my sister who was my pillion was amazed to see the beauty, she's never been on a bike trip. Our first break was Temghar Dam, there was a lot of water, thanks to good rains in and around pune in this season. Clicked couple of snaps and we started again towards the destination. Infront of the gate for Lavasa, saw the tapri where we had some garma garam poha and vada pav. It was real nice as its almost 9 and we didnt had any thing to eat. Also learnt that they are now allowing bikes inside the facility. After roaming around for some time decided to head back as i had to go and meet my childhood buddies at JM road. Spending some time with them thought of getting back home, to my badluck it started raining heavily. But finally came back home at around 6, had dinner and was off to bed by 8 pm (thanks to the tiring day).
Pune-Bangalore
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9:00 pm: Return trip was really simple, as it was raining in pune for the whole day on Monday, decided to take it slow with ample time in hand. started back with heavy heart, took the ring road and suddenly a scorpio guy came storming from behind. Decided not to let him overtake. Eventually this turned out into a race, started ripping the bike at 120 kmph.
12:00 Crossed belgaum and finally saw that the scorpio took a by pass towards the city. It was real fun as i covered 340 kms in mere 3 hrs. Decided to keep the pace as i was looking at a time record for this stretch.
2:15 am : Crossed hubli and davangere covering 550 kms from pune, now i knew that the road will get worse. So took around 2:20 to cover 150 kms of bad roads.
4:35 am : It was almost 7:35 mins total in the ride after covering 700 kms the destination was in sight and the record, started ripping off back again at 120 kmph. Reached malleshwaram by 6:00.
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| some place before bangalore |
It was the time to decide, if i take city route through ulsoor lake then i am spending more time due to traffic. So instead took the outer ring road towards hosur flyover and international airport. the road was almost clear except for couple of vehicles.
6:18 am : Reached home and parked the bike as i wanted a garage to garage record, it was 9:18 and i damn happy with the bike performance. But then i got down the bike and din't feel my bums. Double checked to make sure they are still with me :P.
Satisfied soul, perfoming white knight which deserves all the kudos, all-in-all an amazing trip.......
Gear used:
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Jacket : Speed and strength(devil in the details)
Knee gaurds : Alpinestars Bionic knee gaurds
Gloves : DSG and Fieldsheer
Tank bag: CramsterHaversack : Mountain one (main reason, need some protection for the back for such long ride)
Helmet : AGV & balaklavaTotal kms : 1957
Avg: 36.57
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