Cool pics , this K-Top is fun to ride in rainy season . Hope you guys are going to put up the travelogue as well

Fantastic pics....waiting for the log......how many kms covered in total???

lost DSG ?! feel sorry for you man...
eagerly waiting for complete triplog... would be good if you have complete stats and kms and most importantly, why/how did you trek to top in the night? sounds damn interesting mate...

Ravi Anna, thanks for starting the log..there is no way this trip was going to go un noticed.
We were actually really tourers - our plan kept changing every 2 hrs !
We looked at the maps, enquired with locals, taxi drivers... then decide where to head to .... awesome experience.
Stayed in lodges, temples, dozed off 100 kms away from Bangalore in a coffee day
Followed cars in night so close that i watched the movie being played inside the cars i was following

Some pics from my side

Huh!!! How did that happen?

@Caravikiran: Those roads look really tempting. Are there dangers lurking behind those bushes in the form of Bluebulls or other animals that can stray on to your path?

@ravikiran-Man that looks tempting.You are forcing me to reconsider my plan.

Beautiful pics of beautiful roads!


Way to go! Thats true touring. Awaiting the full travelogue

I am shocked....you did a wonderful trip and that too so close to Bangalore....and dint give a call.....

But gotta admit the roads/scenery just look too good, will have to check it out for myself!

Ho baby looks like road to heaven ...

Wow, few more conquerers of Kodachadri! Kudos!!

nics pics a detaled trip log expected.

cant wait to ride on those roads...4 days to go...

The details of the ride as follows.

Riders:
ravi@17bhp (Ravi) on Red Zma.
caravikiran (Ravi kiran) on Blue P220.
HydBiker (Krishna Prasad aka KP) on Blue R-15

Number of Days: 5 days.
Total Number of Kilometers: 1980 km (out of which around 800 km in ghats)

Route:
Day 1:
Hyderabad - Karnool - Gooty - Gunthakal - Ballari - Chitradurga.
Day 2:
Chitradurga - Shimoga - Sagar - Hosnagara - Nagara - Kodachadri (Initial plan was to Jog falls hence we headed towards Sagar, but at Sagar the plan was changed and headed towards Kodachadri).

Day 3:
Kodachadri - Nagara - Thirthahalli - Agumbe - Sringeri

Day 4:
Sringeri - Kudremukha - Kalasa - Hornadu - Beluru - Hasan - Yadiyur

Day 5:
Yadiyur - Kunigal - Tumkur - Dodballapur - Chikballapur - Ananthapuram - Karnool - Hyderabad.

We reached our first destination after two days, thanks to the worst roads between Guntakal to Ballari and Chitradurga to Shimoga.

We were riding in ghats for three days and the fourth day, I was wishing when would the ghats be over. We have seen extremes of roads, excellent like race circuit roads to very worst roads where we were able to do 10 min a km.

The bikes have got lot of torture and were able to sustain the abuse. We were able to do Kodachadri from the bottom of the hill to top in just 45 min (excluding 15 min break) at night.

You better do that. But remember that some stretches are not that great.

While return we came 50 km close to banglore. I have been perking ravikiran to call you, he never did. Now, you need an answer from ravikiran.

Thank you!

Are you planning to visit Kodachadri? Trip log will come soon.

Would have joined you guys atleast briefly if you were in a 250kms radius of Bangalore!

But I myself was out on a trip to hill last weekend, so I guess that evens out everything!

yes and it might be the biggest ride of my life...wait for more details