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Where Eagles Dare!! My Story Of Getting Leh'd

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  • [Photo Feature]: Where Eagles Dare!! My Story Of Getting Leh'd

    “If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.”


    Staring into emptiness with my mind and heart filled with anger, failure, frustrations, blames, stress and god only knows what not. Yes! This was how my Sunday was. Sitting all by myself in a Coffee shop on a bright Sunday morning wondering what to do with my everyday monotonous life!!!

    It was six months now after my last ride in December after which riding became more of a distant dream. Biking word did not bring across a big grin on my face anymore. I had started living a dog’s life and my everyday routine was work-home-work-home and so on and on it went. Riding, touring, speeding all sounded like words from some alien dialect and from an avid Biker I had somehow become just another regular city commuter.

    The 2nd ISG2G at Wayanad brought back many memories and a lot of vigour to my biking experience. For which I sincerely thank the organisers. The ride to Wayanad brought back the confidence and the spirit I desperately needed to achieve my dream.

    Getting LEH’D has always been on my mind since years but every time other priorities and responsibilities of life have come up and compromised the trip. Sitting alone, I got a lot of time to recollect and organise my priorities and at that very instant a thought came to my mind and my heart completely agreed to it. I had made up my mind that no matter what, this year I WILL GO TO LEH. I am always known to be impulsive and yet again I was being impulsive but this time I was going to follow it and had a big smile on my face realizing that I HAD TO WAKE UP TO MAKE MY DREAMS COME TRUE. AND I DID JUST THAT.
    Last edited by JOSH5898; 07-19-2011, 12:40 PM.

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    Travelogue approved

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      thnx for the approval mod.

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          Nice! Cant see a RTR in there! Can see three r15s though!
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          • #6
            The RTR was from Mumbai which was brought by Piyush thru train and he joined us in Delhi.

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            • #7
              Here it is finally....! Bring it on Josh...! Let me at-least travel to Leh in ur travelogue.
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              • #8
                Taking the Indigo Flight from Coimbatore and reached Delhi in the noon, we dumped our luggage in the hotel and rushed to collect our rides from the transport with fingers crossed and praying that no damage has happened in transit.

                We had to pick up the bikes from Vilaspur which was some 35 kms from the airport and there were no cabs available so we decided to experience the share autos of Delhi and totally enjoyed the ride.

                Collecting our rides and filling up fuel and air, we headed back to our hotel to organize our luggage and were early to bed cos tomorrow was going to be a long ride to Manali and the second step to realizing the dream ride.

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                • #9
                  @ ram... it coming thru with all details and pics in bits and pieces but will be complete soon.

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                  • #10
                    nice one josh!! waiting for more !!
                    Rx is a Phoenix!!! It always rise from ashes!!

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                      The first day of the journey was supposed to be a tough one as we had to cover approx 550 kms in a day to Manali. Leaving early by 5am was the best option to avoid the Delhi traffic. Reaching the highway to Chandigarh, the spirit of riding, the early morning breeze and the rising sun lifted up our spirits to new heights and started munching miles. doing decent speeds of 90 kmph on the well laid roads and the highway soon it was time to reach Chandigarh where the next stop for breakfast was planned.


                      After a short gap and heading to Manali the roads started getting worse due to a lot of flyovers being constructed and also heavy traffic but snaking thru that all and riding at decent speeds we covered a lot of miles and headed towards Manali.Our next meeting point was decided as to be Mandi and after a split of 2 groups with Piyush, Kartiktup and moorthi in one and myself and Kartik in one we started riding up hill cos Kartik was not used to riding on the hills and was riding very slow so i decided to be with him and the rest sped ahead enjoying the beauty and the twisties of Manali Route.

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                      • #12
                        yay... the much awaited log... bro, I'm looking up to you for crucial information like fuel availability on the road and info like difficulty on various routes... hope your log will have those..
                        And yeah, pictures please...

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                          @ lijok.. thnx mate... there sure will be all the details you have asked for along with lots of pictures as well... just not finding the time or you can say the right frame of mind to write a good log but it will be up very very soon. Will also be a lot of tips on group riding for a well organised trip.

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                            Josh, have been following your updates of FB but definitely waitng for the entire trip log.
                            So the whole experience of getting the bikes transported was smooth I infer?
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                              Originally posted by JOSH5898 View Post
                              @ lijok.. thnx mate... there sure will be all the details you have asked for along with lots of pictures as well... just not finding the time or you can say the right frame of mind to write a good log but it will be up very very soon. Will also be a lot of tips on group riding for a well organised trip.
                              glued to this thread...

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