It was well planned that Puneeth Shushruth and I would be leaving from Bangalore and Avinash would leave pune at same time.
It was planned to meet at Darwad which is in centre of Bangalore and pune. So the D day arrived and we all set to roll with full riding gears and the heat(it was mere more than 38deg C ) in the noon was already making us sweat.



We took Nice road to avoid city traffic n soon were on to the other end of nice road i.e on NH4, the bikes were already heated up within 30kms ride and soon we started cruising on highway leaving back the cages and lorries,
We took our first break at tumkur and second and a bit long one at chitradurga, it was around 3 30 and we covered 200 kms.



L horrible dehydration) we decided our next stop would be in Hubli, and by the time we left it was already 6 45 and it started getting dark, we thought it could reduce our pace, but after few miles we gained confidence and again started cruising in three digit speeds(o_O even on RTR160 ).
Stopped at Hubli to enquire route and status of Avi, avi told he is 80 kms from Dharwad n will be reaching there in 45 min. we three started towards Dharwad after a tea break.


We reached Dharwad pretty soon and were waiting for avi at the junction, and got a call from him saying he is at the toll gate and there was some mis-communication which made him to ride till Hubli and again back to Dharwad which ate up time, it was already close to 10 30PM and we were getting call from the home stay people regarding our arrival.
After meeting Avinash, the Fantastic4 started towards Dandeli, which was a ghat roads amidst part of thick evergreen forests of karnataka with good curves and lots of potholes , we totally enjoyed taking those corners in dark roads. We were riding slowly while a bullet and a R15(V1) raced through the corners without minding about the condition of the road !!!


We reached our farm house quite late at around 12AM Jwhere we were served with some left out food, the people there were so reluctant to serve us that we felt a little negative about the stay for next 24 hours !! they arranged us the tents to take rest. END of DAY 1 ----- tiring day




Day2:
Got up early morning with a better hope as everyday. with only few hours sleep last night we were feeling some more hours were required to get us back to normal. Never mind, its over, we have come for a reason, reason to explore, reason to enjoy and not to rest thinking so, we took out our canons and sony(yes, I am specifying about the cameras) , parted away to capture nature as morning times give more opportunity to explore photography, Avi was trying his hands on new 400mm prime lens which we had rented from toehold, and even shishu on his new canon DSLR.










After rafting we headed back to our tents and it was pretty hot, lunch was ready we had nice lunch and took a quick nap in the tent(tents were like oven, phewww), Avi had a appointment with one of his friend in near by place so he went to meet her. By around 4 pm we all geared up to visit Ganeshagudi and supa dam, I decided to try my new Go Pro camera, i mounted it on my helmet and and when we started to ride on the curvy road I switched on but I dunno , I was in hurry and my bad that I dint read the manual properly, couple of videos what we took went in vain, it was not recorded. Luckily we got only one video of we riding.

On one of the curves we stopped to shoot a video of cornering.



It was 10 am and the sun already was in its full energy pouring heat all over the mother earth and making us sweat soon, we clicked a group snap at last and started our ride, Avi bid a bye at Ganeshagudi deviation puneeth shishu and myself started towards Darwad, after reaching Darwad we took a break to hydrate ourselves and for filling fuel. We did a small mistake by not taking bypass road from Darwad to Hubli for which we need to pay 1hr tax before reaching Hubli .
This was because of a marriage function for which I hope the whole city was on road and the traffic was crazy upon that for the scoop the hot weather.


After a lot of struggling in traffic we were very happy to see 4 line Highway, soon we started to rip and the return journey was as usual fast but we took many breaks due to heat and we are getting dehydrated soon and consumed lots of liquids. After the dusk our speeds also decreased and we were happily cruising and reached home by early night.
On the other way Avi was riding at good speeds with quite number of breaks of rehydration. He completed around 2 hours before we reached home.


We called this as a pre ride to our Leh trip. All were happy about each other, great co-ordination btw us.


Thanks all. Great rides to come in the future. Gear up, pile up things, Never stop. RIDE ON