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Day 1: Mangalore to Bangalore

As mentioned earlier, I had two co-riders to accompany me: Kaleem Sir from Hyderabad and Aravind from Bangalore. I am narrating the story with respect to the journey through my eyes.

Day 1:

After reaching office at 5 am and working till lunch hours, I came back home. Slept for two hours and then packed my bag. It was not just a ride, it was a visit to my hometown and lot of personal commitments were also there. So, packed the bags, fitted them well into he ladakh carrier on my bike, made a quick check on my bike myself and set for the ride. I usually carry two cans of engine oil for such long trips.

Mangalore to Bangalore has two possible ways: one via Shiradi ghat and the other via scenic Charmadi ghat. I have chosen Shiradi ghat. The first strech of 22 km was awesome B.C.Road and I crossed the same stretch in 20 min. Took a brief break of 2 min and moved on towards Bangalore via NH 48.







The road was ok to good type till I entered the bad stretch of Sakleshpur ghat. It was horrible beyond my expectation. Every year, after the rainy season, it breaks down, but this time, it was worst. Added to that, lot of dust and traffic. I wish I were riding a BMW GS1200 adventure series. But, my bike did a pretty good job in spite of carrying huge weight on it (Including the weight of yours truly).

The road till Hassan was smooth with lot of traffic. But it was enjoyable one. Loved this ride.

Once I reached Hassan and went towards Bangalore, the road became smother and less scenic. I did not stop much in between. Reached Bangalore in the night.



My co-rider was waiting for me.

Needless to say, I jumped into the bed like a kid. We have a long way to go tomorrow.

Distance Clocked: 401 km

keep it coming boss...

Day 2: Bangalore to Hyderabad

We started off from Bangalore at early morning (at around 5:30 am). The chilling weather at the early mornings of Bangalore is significant to me, as most of my long rides happen via Bangalore.

In the midst of darkness, we were being guided by the Nokia maps. Last time we went to Hyderabad via a separate route, but this time my co-rider happened to trust on Nokia map and followed a different route. Well, we lost pretty two hours of time in that. We stopped for breakfast at around 8:30 am at Devanahalli. Quick breakfast followed by tea and smoke (well, we don't promote smoking and its still injurious to health. Please don't smoke), we headed towards Hyderabad.

Smooth highway:


The road from Bangalore to Hyderabad is boring because of the super-fast-ness of the highway. I tend to follow the maximum speed speed of 80 kmph on my Royal Enfield, be it the best highway of India.

On the way:


Aravind, my co-rider. Bored with the smooth highway:


We were in Ananthpur in next few hours. Quickly got into the Royal Enfield showroom on the highway. Well, the machanic sacrificed his lunch hours and inspected my bike with great care. There seemed to be some issues with my bike's crank shaft pin. But, he assured, there won't be any issue in travelling till Kolkata, but try not to exceed 75 kmph. I believe, carrying a pillion who in fact carried loaded luggages paid me off. But, I must appreciate Royal Enfield dealer M/s Renati Automotives who did not even accept a single penny for the service. "Sakshar bhai, we promote long distance rides, and you are our guest. Please, a big No". Thank you so much.

With the Store Owner: (Thanks Aravind for this click)

We informed XBHP Hyderabad gang in advance about our late arrival. In toto, it was not a pretty good day. A desparate goat has hit the bike in between, though nothing big happened. We reached Hyderabad by evening, and have been warmly greeted by XBHP Hyderabad. Guys, you are awesome. Its a pleasure to meet you all in my journeys. Kaleem Sir, Dheeraj Prakash, Ravi Anna (well, we met for the first time), Sanjay, and the list goes on... and my brother Nabho who recently joined the gang, came along to meet, greet and attend us. Thanks a ton guys once again. Love you all.
Dhiraj was planning for another SS, this time on my TBTS
"Sakshar, yeah Bullet nahin hain."
"
So, we had quick dinner. I tried Dhiraj's R-15 on which he made Bunburner, and he in turn tried my fully loaded Thunderbird.. well, we are into different segments bonded by the universal brotherhood of biking.

Kaleem Sir trying my Thunderbird

Dhiraj was supposed to join us for Kolkata ride, though he could not manage to get time for the same. I managed to lose my gloves in the dark night. We slept early as we prepared for the next day. Kaleem Sir surprised us with his intention to come down to Kolkata on his Platina. Hats off to you sir.

Mighty Ravi Anna:


Dinner time:



Saanjay and Dhiraj:

Next day, we planned to be closer to Vizag. Well, I was thinking of my loved ones waiting for me in Kolkata and the Durga Puja.. did not realise when I slept off...

please continue ..
waiting for full story..

Re: Mangalore-Kolkata-Mangalore: A journey with best of riders for 6000 km

6000kms like a boss

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Day 3: Hyderabad to Rajmundry

We started of early in the morning. The target was to reach out close to Vizag. The road from Hyderabad to Vijayawada is simply superb. It is possible to cruise at consistent 80 plus speed on a Thunderbird even for hours. I personally prefer to cover a 150-200 km without break rather than taking frequent breaks. As decided by amongst us, we planned to meet each of us after a specific timegap.
We started from Hyderabad at 5:30 am and stopped for breakfast at 7:30 am.Distance covered was 156 km.
Tea and the Sambar was awesome. We spent around 1.5 hours for breakfast. I could smell West bengal as I saw couple of WB registered trucks on the way.
We stopped at a point which was 72kms away from Vijaywada. Well, first time, the countdown to Kolkata started as the board showed :
Kolkata: 1304 km. Clicked it, and uploaded in FB. Before I reached Viajaywada, if I recollect correctly, there were close to half a century likes on the same picture.

We got out of Vijaywada and stopped for lunch. Day end, we were at Rajmundry. Well, Kolkata seemed to be pretty close. But,......

Sakshar, you story looks promising... with some beautiful captures!
Keep riding & touring... Cheers

Re: Mangalore-Kolkata-Mangalore: A journey with best of riders for 6000 km

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Day 4: Rajahmundry to somewhere close to Behrapur

The zeal and thrill to enter the city of joy during the festivity time can be felt once you are close to it. We were pretty close. Started up early in the morning and stopped for a quick tea. Well, the chai-wala was posing for different pose for preparation of tea and took sweet 15 minutes of time to deliver three cups of tea. We stopped at Annavaram for having breakfast. We stayed around 20 km from Rajahmundry toward Chennai side.This stretch of road is very beautiful
without an issues, specially in the early phase of the day. A perfect road for crusing.




We stopped for breakfast after cruising for 120 km.Quick Dosa, Idli and tea. Loaded ourselves with food and loaded our rides with Petrol. It time to ride.

On the way, we found a few places to stop and shot:


Starting up from the mini-break


What we left behind..


I planned for the same pic since long back. Thank Aravind for executing this plan.

Some roads are so smooth that you feel kissing the road



The Platina had a trouble in speedometer cable and it seemed that there were some other issues. It took three hours to repair the same in Vizag. As it was not possible to stretch much in the dark, we halted somewhere near Berhapur in a Dhaba. It was awesome to stay in a Dhaba with truck drivers around. I always give it a try and this time it was enjoyable too.

Total Distance covered on day 4: 475 km


Dinner time (photo credit: Aravind)
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Well, we were still 650 km away from Kolkata... friends calling, parents calling, loved ones calling, BIKERs calling: "When will you be here?Come safely."

It was 3:30 am in the morning me and Aravind woke up the next day... (to be continued)







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keep it coming..
hats off to your group as it had 3 different segment bikes,
Karizma , Thunderbird & platina 100...

To the best of my knowledge, it is Platine 125. Did you get update wherein the platina went through an downgrade of 25 cc?

Bajaj offers platina 100cc from long time ago & still now its available, 125 cc platina was launched with self start and 5 gear combination for a small time span and discontinued later ..
So most of the platina we can see is 100cc only..

As per Sunny bhai and GIR video Kaleem Sir's platina is 100cc

Don't know what to say ......

many people here on xbhp still think fpr doing some serious kms of touring, but thinking of 100cc it gets off.ONe of them is me!! But Some people make touring as requirement and ride it on any vehicle they get....

Salute to Patina Rider here (KaleemJi) !! Even someone had done Ladakh over Platina!!