[Photo Feature]: To the end of land !!! - xBhp.com : The Global Indian Biking Community

happybiking · 12-29-2009, 01:43 AM

Updates:
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3

1. Long weekend(thanks to 25th dec)
2. Bike completes two years

3. A meeting with cousin after almost 4 years
4. Hunger for beaches

Enough reasons for me to venture out on a ride to some far off place...

Some pics for now...Log and rest of the pics to follow...

Trip stats :

No. of days : 03
Distance covered : ~900kays(420-80-400)
Route : Bangalore -> Mysore -> Madikeri(Coorg) -> Mangalore -> Surathkal -> Mangalore -> Hassan -> Bangalore

Sunny · 12-29-2009, 01:55 AM

Ride Approved

felix.ragav · 12-29-2009, 09:47 AM

waiting for more bro.. looks like you had a great ride !

Loved the 2 nd pic!

Cheers!

happybiking · 12-29-2009, 10:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by felix.ragav

waiting for more bro.. looks like you had a great ride !

Loved the 2 nd pic!

Cheers!

Thanks pal...

Although not in terms of distance but the hardships faced makes this one the toughest I ever had...

@Sunny bro : thanks for the approval...Best of luck for your New Zealand trip!!!

inder.cool · 12-29-2009, 11:09 AM

Wah wah..touring start ho gaya..!!

Put up rest of the pics too..

I feel 1 or 2 pictures are over-processed..

happybiking · 12-30-2009, 02:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by inder.cool

Wah wah..touring start ho gaya..!!

Start??? Prolly you forgot 2008 monsoons

Lately did Pune-Bang solo run(NV can tell u) and another 400kays trip to Tamil nadu. Just that am a bit lazy to do a write up

inder.cool · 12-30-2009, 02:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by happybiking

Start??? Prolly you forgot am soumen...remember 2008 monsoons

I meant after the hibernation.

Quote:

Originally Posted by happybiking

Lately did Pune-Bang solo run(NV can tell u) and another 400kays trip to Tamil nadu. Just that am a bit lazy to do a write up

Abt the Pune-bang i knew abt it..that was just to re-locate na..

Tamil nadu ka nahi pata tha..

happybiking · 12-30-2009, 02:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by inder.cool

I meant after the hibernation.

Oh...yeah...finally am back on road!!!

Quote:

Originally Posted by inder.cool

Abt the Pune-bang i knew abt it..that was just to re-locate na..

Tamil nadu ka nahi pata tha..

Went to a place named Hogenekkal falls. Some pics here

inder.cool · 12-30-2009, 03:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by happybiking

Went to a place named Hogenekkal falls. Some pics here

The waterfalls do look good and BIG.

happybiking · 12-31-2009, 02:10 AM

Day 1:

Plan was to start by around 5-5:30AM in order to have ample time to check out places in between. But thanks to the heavy booze the night before, I managed to start only at 7ish. Traffic was already creeping up on mysore road and maintaining speeds of even 70-80kph was tough.

Just after Mysore...

With small butt/sutt(read sutta) breaks in a gap of 80-100 kays reached Madikeri(Coorg). Till this place it was all easy going with decent roads. Had done around 250kays when I stopped for lunch-break and enquired about further roads. Got a warning from locals that hereon the roads get worse and its ghats almost all the way till mangalore.Little did I know what I was about to face from here. Meanwhile my bike's number(MH-12) raised a lot of eyebrows with people enquiring if I was coming from Mumbai(For people in the relatively smaller places here mumbai is the only place in Maharashtra

)

Lunch break...

Cautiously I started the last leg of the journey to mangalore. Right from the word go roads were under construction on one side and no roads on the other where the whole traffic was doing chicken-dance around the li'l patches of road available. I hardly remember doing anything above 45kph for next 130kms which took me a whopping 4.5 hours.Almost forgot that I had 5 gears on the bike.Still I felt lucky of being on a bike coz the cars had a real hard time negotiating the terrian. Having spent more than 2 years in Pune I have seen lots of ghats and this was the worst I had ever seen.

Knee scraping anyone???

Somewhere in between the ghats...

Best that was available in the ghats...

Wanted to finish this up ASAP and anyways there were hardly any gud scenery around.At around 5:00pm was presented with some decent roads till mangalore(last 35kms).Gud thing about the journey was that I faced no issues with language. Hindi was understood and okayishly spoken by almost everyone. Route was more or less straight so whenever I enquired in order to make sure am on the right way I used to get the same answer...Mangalore STRAIGHT-AAA!!!

Indeed strainght-AAA!!!

Finally I hit mangalore around 5:30PM where my cousin was waiting for me at the entrance of the city and we went to his flat. I could feel the bike pleading for rest after the rigorous journey(although only a 420kms). Left her in the parking lot for the evening and took a auto to the multiplex where Aamir Khan awaited us to show his latest offering (The 3 Idiots). The movie freshened up the mood and I finally hit the sack with a smile on my face imagining the beach fiesta that awaited me the next day.

Stats :
Riding hours- 10hrs 30mins (including butt/sutt breaks)
Distance - 420kms

Updates:
Day 2
Day 3

12-29-2009, 01:43 AM	#1 (permalink)
happybiking Just a rider..... Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: JH->OR->AP->MH->KA... Posts: 537	To the end of land !!! Updates: Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 1. Long weekend(thanks to 25th dec) 2. Bike completes two years 3. A meeting with cousin after almost 4 years 4. Hunger for beaches Enough reasons for me to venture out on a ride to some far off place... Some pics for now...Log and rest of the pics to follow... Trip stats : No. of days : 03 Distance covered : ~900kays(420-80-400) Route : Bangalore -> Mysore -> Madikeri(Coorg) -> Mangalore -> Surathkal -> Mangalore -> Hassan -> Bangalore __________________ *...Back to HIBERNATE mode...* 1200kms : Across Tamil nadu & pondicherryl To the end of land!!! Breakfast Ride!!! Mulshi Lake... Last edited by happybiking; 01-02-2010 at 04:31 AM.

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12-31-2009, 02:10 AM	#10 (permalink)
happybiking Just a rider..... Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: JH->OR->AP->MH->KA... Posts: 537	Day 1: Plan was to start by around 5-5:30AM in order to have ample time to check out places in between. But thanks to the heavy booze the night before, I managed to start only at 7ish. Traffic was already creeping up on mysore road and maintaining speeds of even 70-80kph was tough. Just after Mysore... With small butt/sutt(read sutta) breaks in a gap of 80-100 kays reached Madikeri(Coorg). Till this place it was all easy going with decent roads. Had done around 250kays when I stopped for lunch-break and enquired about further roads. Got a warning from locals that hereon the roads get worse and its ghats almost all the way till mangalore.Little did I know what I was about to face from here. Meanwhile my bike's number(MH-12) raised a lot of eyebrows with people enquiring if I was coming from Mumbai(For people in the relatively smaller places here mumbai is the only place in Maharashtra) Lunch break... Cautiously I started the last leg of the journey to mangalore. Right from the word go roads were under construction on one side and no roads on the other where the whole traffic was doing chicken-dance around the li'l patches of road available. I hardly remember doing anything above 45kph for next 130kms which took me a whopping 4.5 hours.Almost forgot that I had 5 gears on the bike.Still I felt lucky of being on a bike coz the cars had a real hard time negotiating the terrian. Having spent more than 2 years in Pune I have seen lots of ghats and this was the worst I had ever seen. Knee scraping anyone??? Somewhere in between the ghats... Best that was available in the ghats... Wanted to finish this up ASAP and anyways there were hardly any gud scenery around.At around 5:00pm was presented with some decent roads till mangalore(last 35kms).Gud thing about the journey was that I faced no issues with language. Hindi was understood and okayishly spoken by almost everyone. Route was more or less straight so whenever I enquired in order to make sure am on the right way I used to get the same answer...Mangalore STRAIGHT-AAA!!! Indeed strainght-AAA!!! Finally I hit mangalore around 5:30PM where my cousin was waiting for me at the entrance of the city and we went to his flat. I could feel the bike pleading for rest after the rigorous journey(although only a 420kms). Left her in the parking lot for the evening and took a auto to the multiplex where Aamir Khan awaited us to show his latest offering (The 3 Idiots). The movie freshened up the mood and I finally hit the sack with a smile on my face imagining the beach fiesta that awaited me the next day. Stats : Riding hours- 10hrs 30mins (including butt/sutt breaks) Distance - 420kms Updates: Day 2 Day 3 __________________ *...Back to HIBERNATE mode...* 1200kms : Across Tamil nadu & pondicherryl To the end of land!!! Breakfast Ride!!! Mulshi Lake... Last edited by happybiking; 01-02-2010 at 04:32 AM.

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