[Photo Feature]: Where Eagles Dare!! My Story Of Getting Leh'd - xBhp.com : The Global Indian Biking Community

JOSH5898 · 07-19-2011, 11:01 AM

“If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.”

Staring into emptiness with my mind and heart filled with anger, failure, frustrations, blames, stress and god only knows what not. Yes! This was how my Sunday was. Sitting all by myself in a Coffee shop on a bright Sunday morning wondering what to do with my everyday monotonous life!!!

It was six months now after my last ride in December after which riding became more of a distant dream. Biking word did not bring across a big grin on my face anymore. I had started living a dog’s life and my everyday routine was work-home-work-home and so on and on it went. Riding, touring, speeding all sounded like words from some alien dialect and from an avid Biker I had somehow become just another regular city commuter.

The 2nd ISG2G at Wayanad brought back many memories and a lot of vigour to my biking experience. For which I sincerely thank the organisers. The ride to Wayanad brought back the confidence and the spirit I desperately needed to achieve my dream.

Getting LEH’D has always been on my mind since years but every time other priorities and responsibilities of life have come up and compromised the trip. Sitting alone, I got a lot of time to recollect and organise my priorities and at that very instant a thought came to my mind and my heart completely agreed to it. I had made up my mind that no matter what, this year I WILL GO TO LEH. I am always known to be impulsive and yet again I was being impulsive but this time I was going to follow it and had a big smile on my face realizing that I HAD TO WAKE UP TO MAKE MY DREAMS COME TRUE. AND I DID JUST THAT.

SKSy_Biker · 07-19-2011, 11:25 AM

Travelogue approved

JOSH5898 · 07-19-2011, 11:36 AM

thnx for the approval mod.

JOSH5898 · 07-19-2011, 11:39 AM

“There is a fine line between dreams and reality, it's up to you to draw it.”

Drawing a line was not at all going to be easy but I had to and so after a lot of convincing, pleading and coaxing, my family agreed for this trip. Being my first time to Leh, I also wanted my friends to join me for this once in a life time ride. Frantic calls, meeting, G2Gs were organised and after all the necessary planning, discussions, arguments, cancellations etc, finally a day came when the list of confirmed riders was ready.

1) Ritesh vasani – josh5898 – YAMAHA R15
2) Karthik – karthiktup – YAMAHA R15
3) Moorthy– ROYAL ENFIELD CLASSIC 500
4) Kartik – not on xbhp – YAMAHA FZ-16
5) Piyush – from Mumbai – APACHE RTR

Immediately tickets were booked, bikes were serviced and shopping for necessary things started. With only a few days remaining and a lot of work to be done, we divided all responsibilities and started executing them to finish. We decided to send our bikes by truck and flew down to Delhi from Coimbatore on the 1st Of July 2011.

satyenpoojary · 07-19-2011, 11:46 AM

Nice! Cant see a RTR in there! Can see three r15s though!

JOSH5898 · 07-19-2011, 11:56 AM

The RTR was from Mumbai which was brought by Piyush thru train and he joined us in Delhi.

dual disc 200 · 07-19-2011, 12:00 PM

Here it is finally....! Bring it on Josh...! Let me at-least travel to Leh in ur travelogue.

JOSH5898 · 07-19-2011, 12:05 PM

Taking the Indigo Flight from Coimbatore and reached Delhi in the noon, we dumped our luggage in the hotel and rushed to collect our rides from the transport with fingers crossed and praying that no damage has happened in transit.

We had to pick up the bikes from Vilaspur which was some 35 kms from the airport and there were no cabs available so we decided to experience the share autos of Delhi and totally enjoyed the ride.

Collecting our rides and filling up fuel and air, we headed back to our hotel to organize our luggage and were early to bed cos tomorrow was going to be a long ride to Manali and the second step to realizing the dream ride.

JOSH5898 · 07-19-2011, 12:07 PM

@ ram... it coming thru with all details and pics in bits and pieces but will be complete soon.

dpak89 · 07-19-2011, 04:41 PM

nice one josh!! waiting for more !!

07-19-2011, 11:01 AM	#1 (permalink)
JOSH5898 Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: COIMBATORE Posts: 813	Where Eagles Dare!! My Story Of Getting Leh'd “If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.” Staring into emptiness with my mind and heart filled with anger, failure, frustrations, blames, stress and god only knows what not. Yes! This was how my Sunday was. Sitting all by myself in a Coffee shop on a bright Sunday morning wondering what to do with my everyday monotonous life!!! It was six months now after my last ride in December after which riding became more of a distant dream. Biking word did not bring across a big grin on my face anymore. I had started living a dog’s life and my everyday routine was work-home-work-home and so on and on it went. Riding, touring, speeding all sounded like words from some alien dialect and from an avid Biker I had somehow become just another regular city commuter. The 2nd ISG2G at Wayanad brought back many memories and a lot of vigour to my biking experience. For which I sincerely thank the organisers. The ride to Wayanad brought back the confidence and the spirit I desperately needed to achieve my dream. Getting LEH’D has always been on my mind since years but every time other priorities and responsibilities of life have come up and compromised the trip. Sitting alone, I got a lot of time to recollect and organise my priorities and at that very instant a thought came to my mind and my heart completely agreed to it. I had made up my mind that no matter what, this year I WILL GO TO LEH. I am always known to be impulsive and yet again I was being impulsive but this time I was going to follow it and had a big smile on my face realizing that I HAD TO WAKE UP TO MAKE MY DREAMS COME TRUE. AND I DID JUST THAT. __________________ Cheers JOSH Last edited by JOSH5898; 07-19-2011 at 11:40 AM.

07-19-2011, 11:36 AM	#3 (permalink)
JOSH5898 Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: COIMBATORE Posts: 813	thnx for the approval mod. __________________ Cheers JOSH

07-19-2011, 11:39 AM	#4 (permalink)
JOSH5898 Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: COIMBATORE Posts: 813	“There is a fine line between dreams and reality, it's up to you to draw it.” Drawing a line was not at all going to be easy but I had to and so after a lot of convincing, pleading and coaxing, my family agreed for this trip. Being my first time to Leh, I also wanted my friends to join me for this once in a life time ride. Frantic calls, meeting, G2Gs were organised and after all the necessary planning, discussions, arguments, cancellations etc, finally a day came when the list of confirmed riders was ready. 1) Ritesh vasani – josh5898 – YAMAHA R15 2) Karthik – karthiktup – YAMAHA R15 3) Moorthy– ROYAL ENFIELD CLASSIC 500 4) Kartik – not on xbhp – YAMAHA FZ-16 5) Piyush – from Mumbai – APACHE RTR Immediately tickets were booked, bikes were serviced and shopping for necessary things started. With only a few days remaining and a lot of work to be done, we divided all responsibilities and started executing them to finish. We decided to send our bikes by truck and flew down to Delhi from Coimbatore on the 1st Of July 2011. Attached Thumbnails __________________ Cheers JOSH

07-19-2011, 11:46 AM	#5 (permalink)
satyenpoojary Sports CommuTOURer Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: On road Posts: 6,469	Nice! Cant see a RTR in there! Can see three r15s though! __________________ Super CommuTOURer™ - Talk less, Ride more *.: Facebook :.\|.: iTweet :.\|Do Not Click!\|I* follow PowerToTheRider:. #Give thy opinion, write em, dont throw em #Everyone errs, accept it, defending/cribbing about it only makes it worse #Dont defend a manufacturer as if you work for them #Write. Think. If relevant hit submit. If not hit yourself #Be kind in your choice of words, you never know who would make you gulp em ™ Satyen Poojary

07-19-2011, 11:56 AM	#6 (permalink)
JOSH5898 Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: COIMBATORE Posts: 813	The RTR was from Mumbai which was brought by Piyush thru train and he joined us in Delhi. __________________ Cheers JOSH

07-19-2011, 11:25 AM	#2 (permalink)
SKSy_Biker Moderator Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Singapore Posts: 804	Travelogue approved

07-19-2011, 12:00 PM	#7 (permalink)
dual disc 200 58™ Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: கோயம்புத்தூர் Posts: 2,082	Here it is finally....! Bring it on Josh...! Let me at-least travel to Leh in ur travelogue. __________________ Whenever there is a Rainbow in the sky, I know it's u mastering the art of Cornering. U will always be remembered brother, R.I.P Arun. http://ramphotography.wordpress.com/ http://www.xbhp.com/talkies/thumpers...kers-envy.html

07-19-2011, 12:05 PM	#8 (permalink)
JOSH5898 Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: COIMBATORE Posts: 813	Taking the Indigo Flight from Coimbatore and reached Delhi in the noon, we dumped our luggage in the hotel and rushed to collect our rides from the transport with fingers crossed and praying that no damage has happened in transit. We had to pick up the bikes from Vilaspur which was some 35 kms from the airport and there were no cabs available so we decided to experience the share autos of Delhi and totally enjoyed the ride. Collecting our rides and filling up fuel and air, we headed back to our hotel to organize our luggage and were early to bed cos tomorrow was going to be a long ride to Manali and the second step to realizing the dream ride. Attached Thumbnails __________________ Cheers JOSH

07-19-2011, 12:07 PM	#9 (permalink)
JOSH5898 Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: COIMBATORE Posts: 813	@ ram... it coming thru with all details and pics in bits and pieces but will be complete soon. __________________ Cheers JOSH

07-19-2011, 04:41 PM	#10 (permalink)
dpak89 mechanical engineer Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: chennai/coimbatore Posts: 720	nice one josh!! waiting for more !! __________________ Rx is a Phoenix!!! It always rise from ashes!!

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