You sound more like my project manager assigning the daily task for me
Thanks a lot for the comments guys....

As Shashi doesn't also want to write the log and Ram has assigned me the task, I take this painful part of writing

DAY 1: MORE IS NEVER ENOUGH!
It was indeed a tough decision for me whether to make it to the trip or not as we were blessed with a baby girl just 3 weeks back... But then finally made up my mind on the night before the trip after a childrens doctor's visit a day before confirming that everything is Okay and my in-laws have all the attention on my wifey and the new born.
Btw, I was not clicking pics in my usual interest in this trip due to this reason but this was the only chance for a long trip in this year and wanted to make use of it

Well here goes the log for Day 1....

After coming early from work, till late night I was there at my in-laws place playing with my daughter and spending time with my best half...
Shashi and Ram had an advantage here having a leave even a day before the trip .
Returned home at around 11 tanked up the bike, downloaded some GPS apps suggested by Ram, packed the clothes and the camera etc. etc. and finally hit the bed at 2am.
Me and Shashi started off from my home around 5:30 after oiling my bike's chain using the 90grade oil cap
We met Ram at Hitech city at 6am and after tying up the bags to the saddle with the bungee cords, the wheels rolled towards the Nehru Outer Ring road.

The scenery was amazing with black clouds ready to burst and the sun rising from behind them.... Visual treat

The plan was to make Shashi the lead so that he would not be left behind on his R15...
But Ram hate to ride behind anyone else and leaded most of the time indeed making sure that three of us are not out of the formation any point of time. We did do some short speed bursts now and then though as my bike was reminding me more of my previous partner: karizma at 8krpm~100kmph

The route was just plain straight, excellent roads and minimal traffic.
In a biker's term the road was pretty boring

But the scenery around with hills and mist on them (Yes we saw this at outskirts of Hyderabad ) made us forget the boring route!

First major stop was at Kurnool after some short breaks. We did not expect in even our dreams that we will be finding Hot Masala and Egg Dosa in the middle of a highway

After having a sumptuous break-fast our bikes rolled back on the boring road... As I gave my reason on why I did not take out my camera... I clicked some pics on my iPhone just to remember those places and click while returning :P

The climate was just right with not much of heat and not too cold/rainy and we enjoyed every bit of it.... The ride was not at all tire-some but my ASS demanded a break after every one hour or so because of the silky soft seat of the Ninja 250R

One of the break was near Anantapur for petrol where our tanks were almost nearing to reserve mark. The sad part was I could not get premium fuel which is a requirement for my Ninja
However had to go ahead with the available unleaded option which made the bike feel rougher than usual.

After some more breaks and chat we finally reached the outskirts of Bangalore...

The first thing that struck our eyes was a big yellow colored SHELL petrol bunk and the availablility of Shell super made us more than happy
After filling up my bike's tank with the SUPER, the first thing I said to Ram was, "Bro the Kawasaki started feeling like the Honda "

The plan was to stay for the night with Ram's cousin's family which was at Belandur. We had to trust on the GPS for this which showed that its just a 5mins diversion from the Bangalore Outer Ring Road but to our surprise the Outer Ring road of Bangalore was more like a road near our Koti chowraasta full of traffic
After struggling with the GPS which makes us loop around a road again & again we finally managed to reach the destination after taking Ram's cousins help.
The traffic Jam at one of the junction was the toughest part of day1's ride

After reaching the destination and having some tasty home made Chicken biriyani we chatted for sometime on what should be the ride plan which was not yet decided even after riding 560kms together

This is where our xBHP brotherhood came to help!

I posted in Bangalore meet thread regarding our ride and asked for some suggestions. we got some great inputs from n_aditya, sri setty, Praful and some others.

When I checked my PM, I found a PM from Phanikar with a detailed plan options for 5 days along with his number. This was more than what we could ask for

Called up Phanikar and discussed on the ride options which were Coorgh and Ooty and we sort of finalized on ooty as the roads to coorgh were in very bad shape and a bent rim on our bikes was the last we could expect on a long trip like this.

After chatting with Phani I came to find that Praful (Our very own runner up for True Wanderers ride) stays very nearby to our place and took his number if we could meet up.

While Ram could not control his sleep which welcomed him after 24hours, me and Shashi went for a small walk around the place and met a cousin of mine who stays at Bangalore and also Praful came by at the same time.

Got loads of inputs from Praful as he did the Bangalore ooty stretch just a couple of days before and we finalized the day2 destination as Ooty. Went back home to find Ram awake after a couple of hours sleep. Had our dinner and hit the bed to follow the suggestion of Praful to start off at around 4 - 4:30 and avoid crazy traffic on Bangalore ~ Mysore road

So, what happened on Day 2 ?

Did we managed to wake up, get ready and start off by 4:30am
Did we had an opportunity to miss the Bangy~Mysore traffic

To know the answers keep watching this thread for Day 2 updates

I'm not that good with writing and have Short Term Memory Loss Ram and Shashi... please add your inputs wherever necessary!

Below are some pics clicked with my i-Phone on Day 1

The butter smooth roads from hyd-Ooty


Jai Hanuman!


A 4 Horse Powered Iskcon temple


Too much of editing makes a pic like this


One of the numerous breaks we took

Day 2

@kiran : I'm bad at writing too bro. I'll try my best though.

Day 2 was an interesting one. Better than day 1 I should say.

Shashi was the spoc for waking us and making sure we start on time but he was the only one who gets ready on time. Me and kiran use to sleep for a longer time. Day 2 started at 6-6.30 after reviewing the road map to ooty. We started from my cousin's place to ooty and continued on the so called outer ring road and disaster!!! We realized that we were not on the right road. after asking people for directions in all kinds of sign languages and every other way possible, we were able to get to a turn which had a sign board saying " Mysore ". We were a lil happy to see that board and proceeded ahead.

A couple of minutes later, A wide road opened up with a toll booth which leads to mysore. We paid the toll and it was a 4 lane super smooth ring road. (Now that's what I call a ring road). We stopped on the service lane, clicked some pictures (For the first time in the trip, Kiran's DSLR came out from the bag ) and proceeded. a couple of kms ahead stopped again to clicjk some more pictures. Couldn't resist clicking a picture after looking a straight open butter smooth stretch of tarmac. The patrolling guys interrupted our photo shoot and we had to leave that place. Had a great time red lining my baby blade on the NICE ring road. I managed to hit 165KMPH and that was something interesting for me. Very soon we neared the end of the NICE RR and then traffic started to irritate us.

People take blind turns, they don't honk, neither do they pay attention to people honking at them. That was very annoying. Soon , I saw a sign board " Barista Lavazza 8 kms away " which brought a smile on my face and signed at kiran that we'll stop at barista and kiran nodded a yes. Soon we reached Barista and ordered the famous " Dark Temptation with an extra scoop of ice cream ". feasted on it and got back to the riding part. We enjoyed the scenic spots through out the journey. Roads were just ok. Soon we entered Mysore and another disaster happened. We followed the board signs and that lead us to a hill which leads us to no where. We took some help from some localites and every body had a different view of the road to ooty. Took some good number of minutes to get out of mysore and back on our actual destination. We stopped for a quick meet to decide whether to visit mysore palace or not and kiran took a call to visit it on our way back so proceeded to ooty.

Soon we reached the bandipur forest entry gate and the excitement just went up. the climate was just perfect. Cloudy, greenery all around, smell of wet soil, Cool breeze. Just perfect.

We were hungry at this point of time but we couldn't resist ourselves from riding in that climate. We just kept riding all the way. Soon after some 30 kms, we reached the ghats of madhumalai forest which were amazing, 36 hair pin bends were waiting for us. (I'm a big fan or hair pin bends) I kept riding on it, leaning as much as possible on those wet corners and red lining on straight stretches. Kiran on the ninja and shashi on the R15 had a tough time on the turns though. A few hours later, We reached ooty and we checked in at a guest house, freshed up and the hunt for good food started. Kiran made a call to praful (Or some one else i guess?) and he suggested us to go to a place called Kabab Corner which turned out to be a good place for food. Food was pretty good. ordered different varieties and we were eating as if we dint have food from a week

Got back to our room and had a chat about what to be done on day 3. When to start? Where to head? etc etc and went to sleep. And as always, Shashi was the spoc to make sure things go on time.

But, Did things happen the way we planned? Was shashi able to wake up in the first place? Keep watching this place to find out.


Through out the trip, There were many heads turning towards our bikes. and the world famous indian question comes into picture. " How much is it and how much does it give per liter ? "

And as I said, Kiran will do the rest.. I mean the pictures for day 2 and the missing bits from day 2 (if any )

A pic from day 2 clicked from my I device..

Thanks for the log Ram
I'm editing your post and adding up some text and the pics

Day 2 - Excitement goes to the new level with riding in the Wild, and the Clouds!
It was an interesting one. Better than day 1 I should say.

Shashi was the spoc for waking us and making sure we start on time but he was the only one who gets ready on time. Me and kiran use to sleep for a longer time. Day 2 started at 6-6.30 after reviewing the road map to ooty. We started from my cousin's place to ooty and continued on the so called outer ring road and disaster!!! We realized that we were not on the right road. after asking people for directions in all kinds of sign languages and every other way possible, we were able to get to a turn which had a sign board saying " Mysore ". We were a lil happy to see that board and proceeded ahead.

A couple of minutes later, A wide road opened up with a toll booth which leads to mysore. We paid the toll and it was a 4 lane super smooth ring road. (Now that's what I call a ring road). We stopped on the service lane, clicked some pictures (For the first time in the trip, Kiran's DSLR came out from the bag ) and proceeded. a couple of kms ahead stopped again to clicjk some more pictures. Couldn't resist clicking a picture after looking a straight open butter smooth stretch of tarmac. The patrolling guys interrupted our photo shoot and we had to leave that place.
We saw a Blue Busa and some Harley cruising in the opposite direction!

NICE Road... Indeed the NICEST road we encountered.













Had a great time red lining my baby blade on the NICE ring road. I managed to hit 165KMPH and that was something interesting for me. Very soon we neared the end of the NICE RR and then traffic started to irritate us.

One of the failed attempt to capture Ram's panning pic...
I was missing a zoom lens here for better results




People take blind turns, they don't honk, neither do they pay attention to people honking at them. That was very annoying.


Btw it was Ganesh Chaturdi that day and we made sure we paid our homages to the lord



Soon , I saw a sign board " Barista Lavazza 8 kms away " which brought a smile on my face and signed at kiran that we'll stop at barista and kiran nodded a yes. Soon we reached Barista and ordered the famous " Dark Temptation with an extra scoop of ice cream ". feasted on it and got back to the riding part.



The 3 Musketeers!


Was time for f1.8 to put to a good use


We enjoyed the scenic spots through out the journey. Roads were just ok. Soon we entered Mysore and another disaster happened. We followed the board signs and that lead us to a hill which leads us to no where. We took some help from some localites and every body had a different view of the road to ooty. Took some good number of minutes to get out of mysore and back on our actual destination. We stopped for a quick meet to decide whether to visit mysore palace or not and kiran took a call to visit it on our way back so proceeded to ooty.

A Sun flower field en-route and the first look at the clouds!












Soon we reached the bandipur forest entry gate and the excitement just went up. the climate was just perfect. Cloudy, greenery all around, smell of wet soil, Cool breeze. Just perfect.







First encounter of the freely roaming wild life






We were hungry at this point of time but we couldn't resist ourselves from riding in that climate. We just kept riding all the way. Soon after some 30 kms, we reached the ghats of madhumalai forest which were amazing... The Madhumalai forest was much more denser than Bandipur but we couldn't click any pics here as it was heavily raining.
On the way, we saw a herd of elephants enjoying in the flowing water.. Again could not click the pics due to heavy rain

That was the mountain we were very soon going to ride on











36 hair pin bends were waiting for us. (I'm a big fan or hair pin bends) I kept riding on it, leaning as much as possible on those wet corners and red lining on straight stretches. Kiran on the ninja and shashi on the R15 had a tough time on the turns though. A few hours later, We reached ooty and we checked in at a guest house, freshed up and the hunt for good food started. Kiran made a call to praful (Or some one else i guess?) and he suggested us to go to a place called Kabab Corner which turned out to be a good place for food. Food was pretty good. ordered different varieties and we were eating as if we dint have food from a week

The highest point in Ooty





A distant waterfall in the mountains..
We could hear the music of the water stream clearly!


Got back to our room and had a chat about what to be done on day 3. When to start? Where to head? etc etc and went to sleep. And as always, Shashi was the spoc to make sure things go on time.

Finally the 3 Brand ambassadors!


But, Did things happen the way we planned? Was shashi able to wake up in the first place? Keep watching this place to find out.


Through out the trip, There were many heads turning towards our bikes. and the world famous indian question comes into picture. " How much is it and how much does it give per liter ? "

And as I said, Kiran will do the rest.. I mean the pictures for day 2 and the missing bits from day 2 (if any )

A pic from day 2 clicked from my I device..

Damn it!! I almost forgot the DIY go pro camera. LOL!
You wanna talk about it kiran?

I am so happy to see this thread and the pictures (Though I am quite angry about the ride without me and im sitting here and dint even touch a motorcycle since last 4 months)

As usually those are some excellent pictures (raw) from Kiran, and as usual your pathetic triplogs.

Now treat us with some exclusive pictures.

Fantastic pics guys .. Even I was at Ooty from 31st Aug to 4th Sept , Ooty- Coonoor -Kotagiri and back ... But I can definitely not match the quality of pics in here ... Kudos to you guys again

awesome pics.

whats with the title? I thought all you people had 4 cylinder bikes, each 650cc with 75 horses, until i saw the pics. :/

Are you the one who waved at us on our way back from ooty? We saw few bikers fully geared. They stopped by the road on P220 and some other bikes. One of the rider was wearing a black alpinestar's jacket.

Re: 4 Cylinders, 650cc, 75 Bhp bike(s) from Hyderabad to Ooty to Ride in the clouds!

Wonderful pics and Trip log!
It was nice meeting you, Ram & Shashi. Guess Kiran was taking rest that day when I came to meet you.

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Nice ride there guys Super nice clicks there The tusker , if it was wild one be careful the next time. Even 75 horses cant catch up with a tusker in musk

Marketing strategy
The trick did lure you to open the thread and have a look
Jokes apart.. we were having this title in mind since the start of trip and hence we used the same

I was more than taking rest...
I slept for a total of 11+ hours that day

Indeed true!
Initially i was the only one who spotted the elephant and stopped by...
I waited watching the elephant for around 10 mins and when I looked at the tilak on its forehead and chains around its legs... I realized that it was a tamed elephant.
And as it was not ready to come out of the bushes.. I took out my camera for a moment and clicked a super fast pic

After that some more cars and vehicles joined us and we fled away from the rush!

Very nice pics&simple yet effective log!
Bring on the rest!

Actually, it did

one word! AWESOME!

photos were brilliant, nothing new could be said as the compliments have already been rightfully showered.. cheers guys for the trip and the logs with superb photos.. keeps us entertained!

the sun flower pics are too good. what was the best speed you'll did on this trip ?