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Travelogue Approved

Congrats on the GQ and welcome to xBhp

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Welcome and post more pics of the ride, looks cool. . .

Cheers!!!

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Thanks Monk!

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Great stuff.
Thought of doing that...and will. This log will help i guess.
Kudos on the GQ conquer.
cheers.

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Thanks Ankit.. Will be coming up with more info,pics soon..

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Congrats on your first Log and a warm welcome to the forum

Cheers & Ride Safe

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Thanks Pal!

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Originally the schedule for a trip was to get Leh’d.

Couple of years back JP with a friend of his got Leh’d and I was not able to join them coz I didn’t have my ride that time. A year back I bought Apache RTR 180 and asked JP to join me again back to Leh. But fate, his parents said “You have been to Leh once, going somewhere else makes sense.”

So we decided to do the GQ run. I started from Vadodara and went to my hometown Rajkot (Guj) to meet my parents and accompany my friend from there for the ride.
In this tour, we decided not to drive in dark. There were only 2 days where we drove till 8.00 pm only.

Part 1: Surviving Heat

Day 1: Rajkot (Guj) to Ratanpur (Raj) – 360 Kms

First day, as always is very tiring as you get acclimatize to the heat, the roads are very well maintained till you reach Rajasthan. Driving in Rajasthan’s melted tarmac roads becomes pretty tricky as the tyre marks of the trucks makes the road almost un-drivable beyond 80’s as the route has so many leans/twist/turns. Took a hotel on the highway to slept, and got ready for the run for the next day.
Temp: 40 – 43 Degrees

Day 2: Ratanpur (Raj) to Jaipur (Raj) – 550 Kms
To survive the heat we made sure we have 2 bottles of Glucose every day to keep the energy levels up as the heat started taking a toll on our body. And that has really helped us thru out the trip.
At 6:00 am we started and targeted to reach Udaipur by 7.30 – 8.00 (110 kms) and have some breakfast. The roads remained the same - melted tarmac, becomes almost impossible to drive till the time you reach Udaipur. One of my colleague is from Udaipur and was on leave so he met us over the breakfast and the run resumed.
The problem we faced is to get on the route to Bhilwara as it has a single lane road and a heavy traffic jam to cross Udaipur to that route. But after we crossed that patch the concrete roads starts and we started to ramp up the kilometers pretty quickly. The last 100 kms consists of GVK expressway so that patch was also very good to drive.

Temp: 43 – 47 degrees.
Hotel: Hotel Kiran Palace (Nice accommodation – will be the first hotel to left as you just enter the city after the first cross roads. Rent: 1000/- for night)

Day 3: Jaipur (Raj) to Agra (UP) – 520 Kms
The day started with troubles, 2 times the traffic police held us as we looked diff in the bunch of vehicles! J. Asked for a hefty amount as we by mistake took a wrong turn and entered a one way once. Reached Yamuna expressway thereafter and poured our anger on the expressway.
Reached Agra at around 5 pm went straightly to Taj Mahal after dumping the bags to Hotel but unfortunately the police there didn’t allowed us to enter though there was 30 minutes left to officially closing time. So that got postponed to next day morning at 6.00.

Temp: 45 – 48 Degrees
Hotel: Hotel Raakesh, MG Road, 4 kms to Taj Mahal. (Not so great but is OK for a night stay. AC didn’t worked properly . Rent: 1200/-)

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Some Pics till Agra..

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the GQ wanderer... now that is item #2 on my to-do-before-i-die list!
let the pics & text come my friend...
and welcome to the bikers home...
congratulations too, on the ride completion... must've been a h00t of an experience... liked the interview part too...

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Ahh great I was waiting for this I am at work and there is no work but I have to sit and do something

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...and u r getting paid for it!

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This is definitely an incredible and interesting ride. Waiting for more pics
Welcome to xbhp !

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Nice one there... Congrats on accomplishing this feat and do keep your fellow Xbhp'ians happy by postin' religiously

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Part 2 coming up tmrw!

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Thank you there!

I'm back to work.. so not getting much of a time to be spent on the write up.. Part 2 will be posted tmrw

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That was my To Do List # 8 in 5 years of graduation.. Next will be a SaddleSore may be this year. Gload you like the interview part.. ha ha

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Part 2: The Rainy Stretch
Day 4:
Hotel: R Inn, Hewett Road Near Railway Station Rent: 1100/-
Temp:
PS:
Day 5:
Hotel:Temp: 33-35 Degrees

Day 6:
An eventful hour:

Hotel:Temp: 30-33 Degrees

Some Snaps..