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Trip Logs for the Chennai G2G + ride to Horsely Hills. 14th - 15th August.

Prologue:

Saturday - 14th August, Around 0230 - 0240: Woke up to a distinct vibrating hum of the SMS tone of my mobile. It was Uncle Amit and he was demanding we start immediately. Right then I knew this was going to be one hell of a weekend.

Detailed ride report to follow.

Part 1: xBHP Chennai rides to Horsey hills
Part 2: xBHP Chennai rides to Horsey hills
Part 3: xBHP Chennai rides to Horsey hills

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sunilg

Travelogue approved.

Nice start there. Waiting for lots of beautiful pictures.

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Aparajith

Good trip there! The thread title needs to be changed...

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aargee

Waiting for more pics from Sri, Tarc & others...
@Tarc - I heard about your Endurance!!! Good going man!! You're doing justification to C5.

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Zaphod

0520: By 0520 the following riders had assembled in front of the CTC with Raghav on his GS150r to send us off.

• Sriram on his Unicorn leading the gang
• Srini on his blue GS150r
• Rajesh on his orange GS150r sweeping us
• Deepak on his CBZ Extreme
• Amit on his black ZMA
• Tarun who would later join us for dinner after riding solo on his charismatic Bullet c500
• ... and me, on my red FZ

With last minute checks and pre-ride body tank emptying procedures we were off! It turned out that we were not the only ones riding that day. We had a bunch of older folks heading to Yercaud on their Yezdis. The sound of an Yezdi engine in the wee hours of early morning left us with high spirits.

Note that most of the pics were taken by srini from his cam.

The Route:
The following route was taken to reach our destination.
Chennai - Vellore - Palamaner - Madanapalle - Horseley




Sometime around 0800: We stopped for breakfast at a restaurant called Avanaa Inn which Srini recommended. Breakfast Buffet was cheap at 75/- a piece and everyone had a heavy morning meal. After navigating through the morning traffic near Vellore and Katpadi, we were in Andhra Pradesh, the land where everything has a hint of chillies in them!


Around 0900: Right after hit AP, Sriram's bike stopped moving. Suspecting air lock and a few minutes of failed attempts at starting his bike, we learnt from a local that the mechanic was hardly 100 metres away. Although we didn't see any mechanic we still ended up fixing the bike at a 'Welcanis shop'



It is said that an average human body is 61.8% water by weight. Sriram proved that this fact is valid by volunteering to try out Raghav's new JK24 jacket.

The guy at the back: "Dude, you spelt F*ck wrong on your tee shirt"



1100: The terrain started to get rocky and we had kickass stretches of tarmac like these in front of us.

Taken a few kilometres outside Palamaner. I for one, was grinning like a little kid


The gang munching miles like a locomotive


1120: We reached Palamaner and had greenery around us, which was a bit surprising given the rocky terrain we had all along.



From left: rajesh, cbz_extreme on his er... cbz extreme, Only Amit,Sriram,Zaphod


1240 We reached Madanapalle at noon. The town was quite big with chaotic traffic filled with bikers suffering from tilted-head-syndrome slowing our progress.

We lost Rajesh, our tail, in the town. Taken while waiting for him


I think this will do for today. The rest to follow

Meanwhile, here are some teasers for the rest of the log.
@Other photographers. Guys, please try to post pics taken only upto this point for now. Lets keep the folks who missed the trip a bit tip-toed for more.

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steveburnside2001

nice log anf pics.looks like you guys had a blast. keep it coming

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aargee

@Zaphod - any reason why the comments are kept in smaller font size? Make it normal mate, give me the pleasure to read without strains

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rajesh1136

awesome pics and good log.

Madanapalle town was filled with hell lot of traffic . gang went in front losing me in traffic. i didn't notice they stopped before a turn i went on and couldnt find anyone. Even thought i should proceed alone. Tried calling sriram and we couldn't even converse over the phone thanks to buzzing traffic and noise.

After wasting some time finally smelled (i dint hear) a word from sriram like CSI church. inquired some local people and went there.

@Zaphod... i will also give some text for the log here and there.

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Nice pics and comments Sudarshan, waiting to see the rest!

Sriram looks like he was testing a sauna jacket! ROTFL!!

BTW, where's the Bulleteer?

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aargee

Tarc will be visible only after evening/night.

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