This is my First Ever Thread on XBHP...
Never thought i would be starting one .

So 1st Ever thread happens to be SaddleSore Ride I completed With My Friend (Ravi) on 4th Feb 2012.
Few Info About the Ride

Riders : Rahul Solanki (ME) & Ravindra Joglekar(My Friend)

Bikes : Pulsar 220 (Mine) & Unicorn Dazzler(Ravi's)

Route : Virar - Vadodara - Ahmedabad - Himmat Nagar - Udaipur - Nathdwara & Return

When : 4th Feb 2010, 3.20 AM to 5th Feb 2010, 3.00AM


It all Statred after reading about few sabblesore rides on XBHP.. i told about this to my freind he was like chal let us also do it. then the real enthu got inn me.. so we statred deciding on routes dates and all..
After few days of infomation gathering we narrowed upon the route(mentioned above) and choose satudary so we can have rest on Sunday.
we decided to leave early(2AM) ignore the traffic. finally the day came we were prepared, bikes tunned and ready, took biscuits, energy drinks and water for us and toolkits, puncture kit, foot pump etc.

We Started at 2.30AM on Sturday, went to Pertol Pump on Highway where we could get printed reciept for Starting Point. Topped the Tanks, got the reciepts and started with the Tour.

We had planned Directly to halt at Surat(Around 220Kms). we started well and we crusing on 90kmph+ constantly. After 40Kms we got a huge trafiic Jam, possibly we thought bcoz of accident or Police Checking. it was almost 2kms long. we did some offroading and driving between trucks to move ahead, finally we came out of it (2 tuck were actually got stuck to block the whole road ) we had lost time in all this traffic, but later to our surprise we got the next 35-40 Kms Strech completely open without a single vehicle on Road. what you can say blessing in disguisse.. it was both of us and 3 Lanes, we pushed our machine hard to cover as much as we could. we had thought the it wont be tht cool to tk winter jackets or inners, but after few Kms we were like WTF, it ws too cool out there we had no option but to continue riding. later on 100Km we took a bio break and hd some water as well. Again we started riding and Continued to do so untill Surat. Road After Vapi was like ultra Soomth just hold on the Accelerator and keep moving.


After 2 hrs we reached Surat for having some TEA to keep ourself warm. we had tea, clicked few pics, Topped fuel tanks and again continued ridding. next Stop was Vadodara (approx 150Kms). but there was a big hurddle in between, there is a Bridge just before Bharuch Toll which is one lane bridge each for up down Traffic, which causes heavy vehicles trafic to be there most of the times. i was aware of this as i had travelled 2-3 time before on tht route, so there is an old bridge beside this new one which permits light vehicles only. so as soon as we saw traffic we went in to the other / wrong lane and started ridding on wrong lane for alomost 3km, crossed the bridge and again we were crusing towards vadodara.
as we were reaching vadodara sun had started to rise and cold was getting less, it was the most beautiful and cheerisable time of the Ride. by crusing 90-95kmph we reached Vadodara as planned

we had nice break there. Had tea, some Biscuits and rest for 15mins for settling down and start again. Next stop planned was Himmat nagar. as we started we were happy with our progress. we kept on moving ahead and to our surprise road inbetween was a single Lane without divider and we had no idea how long it was. it drastically dropped our speeds and avg running speed. overtaking was diffcult because of vehicles constantly coming from opposite direction, long trucks and local traffic. some how we managed to reach Himmat Nagar. but we were behind our schedule.

We filled our tanks there, had energy Drink and continued to udaipur, we started moving, roads here were better and in good condition, less of traffic. we continued to maintain 90kmph. it was already 11.30Am and sun was make feel its presence. our machines were also stressed due to continous running and afternoon Heat. we had to take it bit easy and contnued further. later we reached Gujarat - Rajasthan Border and then ridding in 3rd state of the day. after few Kms we hilly section started with some taffic of trucks carring Heavy Stones climbing parellel on Slopes blocking our path. the Tramac in between was also different. it was looking like TAR but hd color of cement roads. it was less grippy, i was forced out of the road twice on sharp turns. first i thought that it was me whom didnt get ith rite, but again the very nxt turn same thing happened. i stopped by side of the road, my freind was rite behind me he saw me deviate from the path and asked me what happend how come you went out.. i said donno but tyres didnt response as it should. we continued further forgetting tht incident and abt 5 kms later got TAR road and i wanted to check it again i tried a very sharp turn with good speed and it went perfect. so i got sure that problem was with the tramac and not wid my ridding or tyres. eventually we reached Udaipur much later then we planned around 2PM(11hrs frm Start)

We took a halt there to fill petrol for my friends bike, he was on Reserve last 50kms. i also topped my tank (we kenpt the tanks half to avoid extra load of fuel and for better handling) we moved ahed for Nathdwara.. but but but all of suuded it turned Bad to worse for us. roads suddenly single lane no divider and lost of pot holes and Speed Breakers. but some how we managed to reach Nathdwara by 3.30PM. Kms showed us 820KMS(20KMS for safer side) in ODDO meter. we were like half the journey has been completed in 12Hrs 30Mins. i asked my friend would we be able to make it?? he also had the same Question.. but we thought the lets give it a try we cant give up at this stage(half the way) and we started our return journey. we had decided to drive long streches with less stops.

our Next Destination was Himmat Nagar, we wanted to reach Ahmedamad before light fades. we started and riddng hard as much we could we reached Himmat Nagar by 6.10PM. it was twilight time and we were hungry didnt eat anything since morning, so we deciced to eat some thing found a restaurant nearby. washed our hands and face full of dust. we had DAL BATI(no other option to eat ) but was yummy and our tummy needed it badly. we had little less of it to avoid more BIO breaks by the time we were done eating it was complete dark, best time to ride. cleaned our visors and stared to ride to our Next Stop Vadodara.


As we started we reached ahmedabad wihtin no time thanks to better Roads. but the main Bottleneck was still to be cleared Ahmedabad to Vadodara on a one lane(no divider) road that to at night with light in full action. i adviced my friend to stay behind me and follow me as his Dazzlers headlight was nt good enough to restrict the Coming Flood of lights from Trailers, trucks and tourist buses. here the first time i used my P220 High Beam the Most to push bach the heavy traffic coming on our lane. battlling with all these things we managed to reach Vadodara Highway but our avg move spped was hit badly. last streched we did max speed of 78kmph. no other option but.

After Reaching Vadodara we had a nice Much needed break and had 2 Cups of TEA with PARLE G . now was the time we needed to push harder as much we could. temp was cool full headlight in effect and 3 laned Highway to move on. we decided to halt at Surat Directly and moved towards it wih 105kmph Speeds and thank god we didnt get traffics or any blocks here. we reached surat in no time. had small break there hd water and continued to our last stop Virar.

We started ridding, reached till Vapi with no issues and proper speeds and we were now beleving that we can make it. just as it was 100 kms left to destination body statred to show it was tyring i was feeling sleepy. but mind didnt listen. i had to do it. i was singing song to keep myslef awake.
few kms later i was seeing person crossing the road see mountains suddenly from no where.. a flyover heading in to mountain.. i was like WTF how can it be. i stopped the bike near a hotel and waved my friend as well and to my surprises he also was in same state hallucinations we stopped had cup of tea, washed face with cld water and flet better and continued ridding.

Finally we Reached petrol pump Virar(Destionation) at 3.05AM, filled Petrol, collected Reciepts and headed towards home. we reach home hardly had enegry to do anything. washed face, changed clothes (my friend was sitting with shin pads still on his leg, i asked him what is this? he lauged and said i didnt feel that its put on, felt like part of my body and we lauged out loud) and then we slept and slpet rest of the day

Had an awesome time ridding Fun, Speed, Tesion, Hallucination but in the end we made it. now need to submit Docs to IBA and wait for the Certificates