Its a really long one dude.. I thought its a four day trip or so. But then realised it was just 2 days. But then enjoyed. I felt like myself went for that long ride.

We have done loads of long rides but due to computer crash lost all the memories (photos). And due to financial crisys cannot go for rides now.

But I ll be back and soon my log will be there.

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!

Did the 220 have any problems with the really high speed torture it was put through?

No problem with the 220 even after being ripped like hell......my RTR started to loose power after some 400kms.....engine was way too hot

Engine oil matters a lot... you know this by now.

and it was during May - peak summer...

What oil was Ravi Kiran using then? Was it Motul 300V FL?

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