onlinesatish

Mind u we did'nt get tonsured

Well i have posted this before the sever crash. Thought i'd repost it again.

This was mine and ravikiran's firstever real long ride. But we both have done some small one of abt 300kms a day but this was totally diff to us.


29th mar D-day



"Satish, Satish elundhiri....paru neyram aieduchi"(satish,satish wake up,Its almost time)told my mom waking me up....i somehow struggled to wake up and look at the time and it was 2.30am on 29th mar! I was like F#$k! am late. Got ready as soon as possible and called Cravikiran at 2.50am and informed him i'll be late by a good 30mins and he was shocked, coz he woke me up at 1.30am(i slept again).I put on my Jacket, shoes and gloves and took my backpack and helmet and went down to my bike(mind u...i had bath and brushed my teeth too).There she was standing ready to take the thrashing for the next 2days.I had recently got her repaired as she had a big accident. A lorry hit my friend when he was returning from collage at 2.30am. It was sevre one. He was unconsious for 20min in middle of that road.Now he is perfectly alright.

I quickly started the bike warmed her up and reset the trip meter to zero and took pics of the odometer



Trip A (Reseted to zero at home)





Trip B(kms done since tankfull)





Odometer - 3639 Kms + another 3k kms My speedo was changed at 3k kms along with the engine block. SO in total it had done 6639kms (for once i was ahead of ravikiran)





Started off to ravi's place after bidding goodbye to my dad and mom! As i set off from home and on to the main road i started to think how did all this happen? How did i get into biking when i am in a middle class family and when my dad stays very far from here(he is in chennai) and works all day just to bring us up....all this thoughts made me emotional and i was just recollecting how did this happen...........here it goes!



It was always been my dream, passion to tour ever since i learn to ride a bike(when i was in my 7th grade),but i had to wait till i got my license and since i was a student i could'nt save up enough money for touring on top of it, i had only splendor. But even with that i have been to medak along with surya once and exploring all the nooks and cornors of hyderabad every sunday! But that did'nt satisfy my desire for touring......my 1st stint with touring was when myself, surya my bro and a friend rode to nagarjuna sagar on a P150ug2 and a ct100 back in 2004,that satisfied me till an extent. But i wanted to go more but could'nt.......simple reason no bike no money and no job as well.I was waiting to get a job and buy myself a bike. All my wishes were fullfilled as soon as i got a job. Bought my babe on 4 dec 07 but could'nt go for longrides very soon......i was plaughed with hell lots of problem with my bike......i even had to change almost the entire engine under warrenty plus i was'nt able to get leaves from my office as they were short of staffs......which means a major hurdle to my dream.



I was soo pissed......earlier no money and bike when i had all the time in this world and now when i have them there is no time.....i was really pissed off by the very thought of it.



Then i had some difference in my office,for which i resigned......i was in notice period for a month......so now i can do wat i wanted:d......hehehehe.....But i wanted to take a break of 1 month in apr.During which i planned to hit the roads! Started planing as to which would be my destination....surfed thru XBHP to find more details and i stopped the movement Kriss posted abt the Tirpathi trip, i was in! and prepared everything for it and later got pissed only to realise that the ride was supposed to be done in may. Was heart broken a bit.



I was walking to office on 27th night when i got a call from ravikiran asking me if i could join him for a ride to tirupathi on 29th and 30th....i was excited and told him i would have to get permission from my parents. Called up my mom and asked her for the permission and to my surprise she was ok with it as long as i going only in a bike and not a car but it would be the other way for my dad. So i asked my mom to let my dad know that i'll be going to warangal with my friend on a car and would return after 2 days i called up ravikiran and confirmed that i would be coming for the trip and in excitment i forgot that we would have to leave on saturday early morning and would have to bunk office that night too .....but who care am resigning any way.Went back home in the morning slept for 3 hours and woke up to get everything ready for the ride.I called up ravi and he was in service centre preparing his babe. Met him and discussed abt the ride and gave him surya's gloves as he wanted to try it out for the ride and he also picked up Sumit's alpinster gloves.



Ravi's babe after the wash in Probiking







we left probiking at 1pm...he went to office while i go to TVS SVC to prepare my bike. Wanted to change only the rear tube and fix the vibrating foot pegs and return home and catch some sleep but everything went haywire as the guy who replaces the tube went for namaaz and returned only at 6pm everyone one in the SVC were surprised on hearing the am riding to tirpathi that too on RTR. from there on i was refered to as the tirupathi guy went home at 7pm and on the way filled up the tank with speed petrol and added some additives(IFTEX) as recommended by the SVC ppl.But my bike started give me some trouble with the gears getting stuck very frequently! By the time i reached home my mom told abt my trip to my dad and he was ok with it. He was very much concerned first but later he understood abt my passion for touring. Went to office at 7.30pm but could'nt do any work(as if there was).Spoke to ravi on the phone and we decided to start at 3am. But friday was a full working day which means i can only leave office at 4am.



My RTR and surya's P150 ug3 at my office





But since my bro was my Team lead, i left early at 11pm after having dinner with my bro's at 10pm(which means i never was in office:P) I tried to sleep but could'nt finally managed to sleep at 12.30 but got a wake up call from ravi at 1.30am. i woke up spoke to him and confirmed that i'll be meeting him near his residence and slept again!only to be waken up by my mom.



There it was a short flash back Think of all this i forgot to change my helmets visor to a plain one and i was 12kms from my home now.I had my spects with me so i thought i could manage.Stopped at the ATM withdrew some money went to my office to handover the credit cards to my bro. Here my RTR started giving some wierd trouble....the bike did'nt get supply from the battery and the igintion was off even though i had swtiched it on.Thought this was the end of the ride for me

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Vicky2211

that was early 3am he he ...
Hope you enjoyed the ride... ?

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onlinesatish

ha ha...ya but the plane was to reach tirupathi by afternoon and have darshan too!

Guys this is my First write up...so pls have some patiance while reading it

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07 HH Zma
11 Honda Aviator DLX
08 Yamaha R15

onlinesatish

First the gears wear getting stuck and now this....i wondered if i had to cancel the ride.Struggled with the igniton to swtich it on for abt 10mins before it was working. But wat if this happens in the middle of nowhere??. Hmmmmm.....lets face it when it come so i took the chance and off i go to intercept ravikiran at his rescidence who probably is pissed off waiting for me. Curised slowly at 60kmph.....could'nt ride fast with the isor open


I reached madhapur and i was close to Hitec city. I could not find his home. Ravi called me up as he saw me zipping past him.I was a Km away from him.



Ravi waiting for me near his residence! Does'nt he look like a naxalite?






The first thing he asked abt was the visor. Promised him that i could manage with the spects as we would be riding at only 70kmph till the daylight sets in!(little did i know abt ravi's night riding habit).My spects were greasy and no matter how hard i tried to clean it, it was the same but ravi comes to my rescue. He cleaned it without a single mark guess experience matters in cleaning too. Without wasting much time we start off after clicking some pics!



Ravikirans P220 odo/trip reading near his residence..reads 0.2kms




My RTR's reading at Ravi's place....22.3kms





Started of at 3.50am rode towards NH-7(i guess) and i realised that ravi is'nt going to maintain anything less than 85kmph in this complete darkness. Was able to stay close to him within the city but as soon as we hit the highway towards the airport i could only see his taillamp dissappearing. Imagine a fourlane highway fullylite with no traffic for 7-10kms i touched 126kmph and i guess ravi must have touched 125kmph atleast! Road was supersmooth only till the airport after that it was a 2lane with lot of potholes for about 5kms and then it was 4lane again.smooth for couple of kms before one side of the road was closed for 4/6 laneing. 50% of the time we had to ride on the wrong side of the road!


Had a tough time tailing ravi as he was constantly riding at 90kmph and ocassional 100kmph.He was used to night riding with his visor open at highspeeds.But if i ride at anything more than 50kmph i get water from my eyes and my spects was as good as not being there in the 1st place. Thanks to some trucks he slowed down at many places and at times i was riding blindly. Then came our 1st pit stop after about 91kms from ravi's place. This stop was mainly to clean our visor's and glasses.



Our 1st Pit stop. Ravi cleaning his glasses




P220's trip reading...91.0 Kms




RTR's trip reading...115.7 Kms...Error - 3.6kms





Clean spects - check!

Clean visors - check!

Water - check!

and oh pee break - check too!

Started off and the same story again for a while....ravi ripping satish struggling to keep up. Fortuantly the traffic eased up and the day light started to creep up while we stopped thrice for cleaning our spects and visors. Once the day light was completely in it was time for me to match ravikiran. Kept up with him all the time while doing 110kmph+ on my speedo. then ravi asked me to lead. Usually when i ride alone i maintain my comfortable speed of 90-105kmph which might be 85-95kmph on his speedo. He lost his patiance after a while and started leading again. He kept losing me in his RVM so he asked me to swtich on the headlights after that we switched of our headlights only after reaching Tirupathi.Was funny to see ppl signaling us to swtich off our headlights.



Went through lot of different secnery's. One which i liked the most was going thru a 1 1/2 lane bridge on a river. Liked it..dont know why! Then came a section where there was lot of slush on one side of the road,ravi made thru but thanks to a lorry i had to do some offroading after which my bike was dancing on the tarmac for the next 2-3kms. Finally managed to reach kurnool by 7.30am



RTR trip readin at kurnool...251.1kms





We were confused abt the route from there.Spoke to some truck drivers they guided us but were shocked when we said we are going to tirupathi from hyderabad on bikes. meanwhile mine and Ravi's mobile had a few missed calls from praveen and a message from him.Called him up and updated our status,they were near to tirpathi on train. Had some water and started from kurnool. I swtiched my gloves(just a normal leather gloves) with sumit's alpinster gloves. They were comfortable initally but started to pain after some 20kms.swtiched to my gloves again.this was the same reason why ravi was using his custom made P220 hand grips



Ravi's custom made handgrip!



He was damn sure that no gloves would be comfortable for him



He was pretty mad at me for riding a bit slower and asked me to rip as we are supposed to reach tirupathi by 3pm. Fun started from here on. Just after 15kms from kurnool we were greeted by small section of ghats, road was'nt that gr8 but the secerny around made up for that. It was the best piece of road we rode on till then. We were doing 100-110kmph all the time. Finally we stopped for Breakfast at 9.15am. Had a packet of goodday biscuts and some appy juice and spent abt 30-40mins chitchatting.



P220's tripmeter at breakfast....315.3 kms





RTR's tripmeter...346.8 Kms. Error - 9.4Kms





Some pics



Ravi....look how good ur Zappers were



Ravi clicking some pics with his N73








After this if ravi was leading. Speeds were 110kmph and if i was leading then it was 95-105kmph.Nothing much happened except for us sitting on our bike and keeping the throttle open. At a particular strech the road just vanished and all we could see was white smoke/dust and could'nt see more than 20ft ahead for the next 3kms.They were relaying the roads.



Searched for a Speed petrol all the way as ravi was running very low on petrol but could'nt find it.We search desperatly for it even after reachin cuddapha and all we found was reliance.But did'nt want to fill reliance. When enquired abt BP bunks he said it would there in the next 10kms.We took the chance but to our bad luck they had only stocked diesel and not petrol. Without any choice he decided to fill up extra premium for 300rs(5.5ltrs approx) and i filled up only for 100rs as my bike was still in main!



RTR's trip reading at cuddapha...454.0 kms





Started from there in 15mins after a quick call to my parents.Roads were awesome from here on. 4 lane super smooth road with no traffic and with small winding turns.....i knew that ravi would like to enjoy this strech to the max...so asked him to go ahead and not to wait for me.....this was it he ripped insanly. After sometime i totally lost his site,i doubted if he was behind me and asked a few passers by if they have seen a Blue bike and all the said was yes it went very fast.....i knew i wont be catching up with him anytime soon. I tried ripping my bike to the max but it was topping out at 120kmph and did'nt even go 1kmph more and was'nt able to hold on to speeds after 110kmph.(i doubt the IFTEX for this problem). At one point i stopped and called up ravi asking where he was he said he was some 20kms ahead of me. So i took it easliy and was riding at 95-100kmph.....gave a school boy(may be 10th grade) a lift.He asked abt me where i was coming from and my proffession.He was looking for some guidance...had a nice conversation with him for abt 30kms.This chap had lot of ambitions in him



My bike fell reserve after 60kms from cudappha(got a mileage of approx 28kmpl) filled up a litre again and got 32kmpl...blame my ripping.I was stopped by Ravikiran some 20kms before tirupathi.he told me he was waiting for me since 20mins.He constanlty rode at 125kmph. By the time i came there his bike attracted lot of crowd.I was told by kriss that there was only 1 P220 in tirupathi.Called up praveen and took the direction to the hotel/our meeting point.



RTR tripreading....591.4kms





Met praveen who was waiting for us. and welcomed us.



Praveen welcoming us in tirupathi





He escorted us to the hotel and left us, while we freshend up!



P220's tripreading at hotel...572.5Kms





RTR's tripreading at hotel....608.5 Kms. Error -13.7Kms





Ravi's had an operation in his hand on the way



His skin got tanned from sun!

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Passion Guy : Moron am insane than u r.....look i ride with my head turned

00 Bajaj Chetak
02 HH CBR 100RR
07 RTR 160
09 Pulsar 220
10 Rx 135 4Spd
07 HH Zma
11 Honda Aviator DLX
08 Yamaha R15

ravi@17bhp

Mmm.. The tirupathi trip is again up. Nice pics Satish.

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kbkr2345

nice trip man

KwokFist

nice trip log and pics satish!.. enjoyed goin thru them..

kar1zma

man great trip there

i always wanted a long tour.
next time i come down to india i hope we guys can make a trip again

onlinesatish

Thanks all!

Sure bro....would be waiting

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Passion Guy : Moron am insane than u r.....look i ride with my head turned

00 Bajaj Chetak
02 HH CBR 100RR
07 RTR 160
09 Pulsar 220
10 Rx 135 4Spd
07 HH Zma
11 Honda Aviator DLX
08 Yamaha R15