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    Hi.
    I am a motorcycle tourer , all ready posted some of my travelogues here ,
    My introduction
    one-crazzy-biker-thats-me.

    Please check the intro to get a continuation of my the story "life on road"


    But after that I started taking ride here & there, small and long depends on time , but it all started with very small rides and explorations .
    In those explorations some time I was alone or some time with some of my friend ..


    So this is going to be like a blog of small (10kms-400kms) explorations ..


    In this log you can find a boy turning into a tourer , and his story ..
    ...


    "Neither is it a deja-vu
    Nor an insomnia,
    But I do feel strange."
    ..........................Strange (if I dont ride)


    Vellore :


    Vellore is a municipal corporation in the Vellore district of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
    Vellore lies on the banks of the Palar River on the site of Vellore Fort. The city is located between Chennai (145 km), Bangalore (215 km) and the temple towns of Thiruvannamalai and Tirupati.


    As per wiki the tourists spots here are:


    Vellore Fort,
    Sripuram Golden TempleSripuram Golden Temple,
    Ratnagiri Temple.




    Only this much ,,no no m there are a lots of known and unknown places here ..


    I will follow the dates of my trip , will provide as much info i could get here, even after that if anybody has any query just send me pm,put comment here or send me pm in FB..
    .................................................. .................



    After getting my bike Bajaj platina 125 my 1st trip was 'Palamathi'.


    Palamathi is a small village on a small hill top near vellore city, distance from vellore is only 16kms , from my place (VIT university) is 24 kms ..
    First time I went to this place on September 11, 2011, my was brand new that time ..


    I was not having any GPS or google maps didn't help me much, only option was to asks local people but as a outsider and unknown local language made it tough for a 17years boy ..


    [sorry for picture quality, as that time I was using only my vga mobile camera ]



    I started my journey ..
    you can find the printed paper in the windshild was the printed wiki page about vellore..



    crossing the palar river towards Vellore



    the balamurgan temple on hill top..


    While going there I could not click much pic , but I clicked pics while coming back..



    from the top of the hill



    my cup of joy was overflowing after seeing a hill station in the so-called boring place vellore ..(its all that time's assumption)



    the temple stairs..



    the road I covered ..



    road side pic ..











    clicking & riding











    temple gate and my brand new bike



    no number plate





    its all shining that time



    the temple on hill top



    my cornering practice place ..






    the barren lands ..




    I can't even count how many times I went to palamathi after this, I went there in rain, sun, winter morning, at midnight but can't forget the experience of 1st time ..


    Please wait for my regular riding logs ,after all I will be writing my experience of last 1.5 years ..
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    • #3
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      'must say, you have managed quite a load with your VGA. So it's this trip that transformed you,, your enthusiasm inspires me, bro!! Keep posting your CRAZZY travelogues.
      Ride safe & have fun.
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        Re: Vellore motorcycle Diary aka V.M.D

        Originally posted by The Monk View Post
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        Originally posted by chaosaddict View Post
        'must say, you have managed quite a load with your VGA. So it's this trip that transformed you,, your enthusiasm inspires me, bro!! Keep posting your CRAZZY travelogues.
        Ride safe & have fun.

        Haha, Thank you sirjee..
        Lots of story left still now, its just starting ..
        Please follow it for more stories of my daily riding life






        yep, I grown with motorcycles , and turned into a tourer
        Long or not still now undecided :P


        BTW this was not my 1st trip , it was my 1st trip on Platina125 in Vellore, I grown up with Digha (from my home 210kms)as a ODT alone or with my uncle or dad or special friend and Darjeeling,duarse (700-900kms)was my weekend place ..


        Once while I was in 11th class I left to darjeeling without saying anything to my parents without my mobile phone , just took the ATM card, jacket, helmet and karizma and regular 1extra set cloths , and started journey bunking my classes after tiffin break from school on friday. When my dad found 'boro gari' (ZMA) and helmet is not there means I'm vanish for atleast 1-2 days, but even after saturday night I was not in home so they went to police station and a missing diary

        Next day (monday) morning in 2nd class my dad found I am present in school (my dad is head master :P) and slapped hard on my face and said "why didn't u take ur phone ? more over that ATM account was loaded with much balance "...


        And my expression was: :


        Thats how I became a really long tourer, I went to Darjeeling that time (1st time on my bike)


        Yep , this types of small small stories made my life and just think that time I was only 14years old...(yes , I started riding at 10years old,when I was not long enough to reach the ground from saddle :P)




        .............................


        Coming back to my daily logs ..


        Date :September 14, 2011




        In between classes I found nearly 2 hours of gap that day, so me and my friend Jatin started ride toward another Place called "Rathnagiri Temple"..
        Please don't think I am religious person, i am not but in tamilnadu I found temples only everywhere but the natural beauty of the places really attracts me some time ..


        The regular road was Via chennai-bengalore highway but I choose the road via villages and country roads ..
        Pic continues :



        the view from temple top



        the temple



        the hilly regions just after a little rain



        the stairs , though temple can be reached via winding road also



        learning about local culture



        me nearly 2 years before



        vast land



        the temple parking spot after winding climb



        me again on my shining bike



        some more



        click click





        jatin posing




        after that we came back to our university with a fresh mind after riding nearly 50kms total, and attended my boring anatomy class :P


        thats how was the story of V.M.D part 2:


        .................................................. ....................................


        Vellore motorcycle Diary Part 3:
        destination : kavalur observatory
        distance 60kms one way,




        What is so special??


        The Vainu Bappu Observatory, or VBO for short, is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by Indian Institute of Astrophysics. It is located in the Javadi Hills Kavalur, near vaniyambadi of vellore district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, 200 km south-west of Chennai & 175 km south-east of Bangalore. This place is also informally called "Telescope City". The nearest railway station is Vaniambadi and is about 29 km from here.


        The observatory is home to the Vainu Bappu Telescope, the largest telescope in Asia.


        Why it was special to me ??


        Thats a sad story


        The saturday, I planned to take this 100+kms ride for that day..


        Took my normal winter+rain jacket, filled petrol of 200 rs in my bike and started the ride at 8am at the morning , but the problem was road, every 15mins I need to asks people about the directions and it was tough as they don't know english or hindi ,.


        Some how I continued the journey , and vellore kept astonishing me in every turn I was taking, because in last 1 year in clg we have seen vellore as desert and barren land only..
        pic continues



        roadside



        odo reading that time



        green hills



        coconut treees



        my bike resting



        one more



        riding pic



        vast lands













        narrow roads






        reached destination



        the board



        my tourer resting (it was run-in period for her)


        though the odo reading was not correct , because before connecting the odo, I rode my bike more than 600kms ,here they dont connect before registration of my bike ..


        Then I wrote a letter to the director and they allowed me to visit the observatory in special permission ..
        After completing the visit I came outside parking , and took out the water bottle and drank water .


        SAD STORY:
        While drinking a saw a child (yep child only) riding a mighty Pulser220 huring towards me in about 80+kmph and out of control. He hit my bike from left side and I saw my new platina is about to fall and I tried to save it by holding the backside, but platina started moving and scratching the tar road for min of 20ft distance with me .


        For a sec everything was stoped and I climbed on on my feet and tried to pull my bike and found petrol tank is getting wet in red blood..


        I got a deep cut on my chin and blood was flowing like water, I left my bike , the people from observatory send me to their helth center and the doctor recommended to stitch ,but I was not ready, I said that I am also a med student , asked for a painkiller injection and put cotton with banded on my chin, but still now blood was dropping ..
        It was horrible may be I was strong enough or as a med student I could control myself, went toward my brokem bike , found the boy was in very very bad condition and send to local hospital ..
        Found front mudguard broken,scratches on windscreen and bumper(leg guard) and luggage box (dikky) ..
        Started riding towards my university , reached there in another 1&1/2 hours , direct to health center , and stitch done ..


        BTW that jacket saved me from any scratch on my body, so after that in each and every ride I use that jacket only , saved me for another 2-3 times ..


        This was too sad story , I could not say about this incident to my parents as bike is related in this :P, but the funny part was I got another 7 days of medical leave from college and started planning for another ride ..








        I don't read stories
        Yet when I hear ballads,
        I recall some feeling; strange.
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        • #5
          Re: Vellore motorcycle Diary aka V.M.D

          The way I inhale o2 ,in the same way I do ride , stopping one of them will cause stopping me from living in this mortal world ...


          day by day... every day I do ride, may be same place, may be unknown ..


          Coming back to my log..


          Date :28october,2011 ..
          Place : Vallimalai


          Valli (Tamil வள்ளி) is a Goddess and the divine consort of the prominent Hindu God Murugan, according to Hindu mythology. She represents the "Ichha Shakti" (power of aspirations), and Goddess Deivayanai depicts "Kriya Shakthi" (power of actions), and the Vel embodies "Gnana Shakthi" (power of knowledge).




          As I found about this place in the wikipedia , I was waiting for a 4-5hours day time free, to travel this place ..


          Me & my friend Santosh started towards this place only with the navigation from local people .
          I found this place very old & historical , 500+ stairs makes it tough in summer season but thank god that time , it was raining ..


          let the pics tells the story :



          the stairs



          the yeard of that hill top temple








          the holy pond



          just before rain



          the stair climbs



          the entrance











          from the temple top



          santosh in action



          for birds I think



          its actually a cave temple



          coming back


          Total kms traveled was 60+kms ....
          .................................................. .................................................. .....................................




          The same place I have traveled recently also :




          The temple run trip : will write about that trip shortly ..




          .................................................. .................................................. .................


          Date :5-6th november ,2011
          Place : Pondichery
          Distance : 180*2=360+kms total




          My first 100+kms long ride on this platina 125, ..


          Just after finishing my exam me & one of my senior planned to visit pondichery..


          5th november after noon at 2pm we started riding toward pondichery , still that time also my bike was in run-in period ,but I didn't care cruised 100+ kmph for long long time , thank god my bike is still ok even after completing 30k kms after that ..


          We reached pondi at 6pm in the evening , roamed around the city , took a budget room and stayed there at night ...




          Next day morning I enjoyed the cool sea side in the morning , went to paradise beach , had a nice bath, then taken our lunch and started our coming back journey at 3pm ..


          But some how in between no where petrol tank got empty , we had to push our bike long way (nearly 10kms) after that one gentle man had given us nearly 1 lit of petrol but refused to take any money ..


          Reached next petrol pump , filled the tank and came back to vellore ..



          look at the scratches on windshield and headlight firing (you all know the story, look at previous post)..


          You can find a big L on my bike , yep till that time I was not having permanent Driving licence
          ....



          entering into pondi



          beach



          shantanu da with his backpack



          me 2 years back



          waves



          paradise beach


          nothing much, still I didn't became a traveler , I just started getting addicted ...
          same place I have traveled later also, will post all in timeline ....




          .................................................. .................................................. .................................
          exploration little ...


          In this post you can't find a proper date of travel ,its a saga when me & sid my friend explored lots of unknown ,unregistered places ..


          november 13,2011:


          We started towards Chittur (a.p) just for a ride and encountered heavy rain ..



          riding in rain is always fun but not on 2lane highway..



          our fav place to have chicken ad paratha , we can't never forget ..





          me & sid towards palamathi (wrote about the place in previous posts) hills at rainy midnight,time was nearly 12..
          I was an awesome experience ..



          and that was me ..





          another day when we were riding to chittur we found this church which is more than 400+years old (as the given info from there)
          It was on NH4 toward chitoor..



          there only





          One more hill top church we found after crossing 'gudipala' ,the church was still in building phase ..
          The offroad hill climb attracted me to go there lots of time ..



          me there



          Sid



          sunset from peaceful place while having black-coffee , can't think better way to live my life



          the type of offroad





          and platina crossed it easily



          the parking



          the senic beauty



          one more



          live on edge



          one more



          my fav click till date



          the dirt track it crossed



          the dirt step climb can't be understand from this pic



          that was the end



          end



          and me got shot there


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          • #6
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            I am late and I know it :P :P....


            November 20,2011..


            The exploration continues in between classes, after the college over every time when we got atleast 1hour+ time in our hand ..



            this was the last point from where we left back that day ..



            the starting of offroading path ..



            crossed it also



            just on other side ..



            after a worse loose red soil climbing ..





            and thats me ..





            thats sid.
            as after the climb ended we started trekking to the nearest hill top point , that had no road ..



            crossed it ..






            thats me , in between the trek climb



            another & crossed it ..



            the view from there ..



            while ride down ..
            Actually this pic became one of my most favourite clicks ..
            .................................................. .................................................. ..............................
            After that lots of ride happened but can find all the photos ..


            After that semister finises we got winter holidays and I got an awesome oppertunity to complete a short project in an GOVT institute in bangalore ..


            Me & my friend ayan we both were involved in the same project ,
            Me: lets take my bike and ride to bangalore
            ayan:no yar, we will be having lots of luggage , take bus ..
            Ok , as I was not confident that time about a 250kms long long ride so took bus and reached bangalore , and our guest house was in KR puram ..


            After first 3days of working and traveling on public transport, i could easily understood thats not for me
            1st satday I took bus and came back to vellore to take bike , .
            After coming back to vellore filled petrol, air checked and slept as I planned to start early and another friend Santosh also wanted to join with me as he also wanted to go to bangalore ..
            Morning 5am we started our journey to bangalore ..


            The best ride according to my enjoyment , because after that I rode lots of kms but never enjoyed that much ..
            The best view was near ambur where train line is parallel , we saw one train in half darkness of winter morning munching mile and a foggy cloud wad adding beauty to that hilly region ..


            my phone camera was very bad that time so no early morning click ..



            towards krishnagiri



            & my platina 125 ..




            this ride was more of a low speed cruising rather than racing with others what we did in my last pondi ride , acctually I was afraid about its performance as it was longest of what I did on this bike and some other forum bikers injected lots of fear about engine failure but Atess bhaiya and some other xbhpian gave me back my courage with some tricks ..
            That worked fine ..


            So I was maintaining 50-60kmph and every 50kms I was taking 5-10mins break ..
            Dont laugh ok, that how I evolved and thats my story of getting courage to do 1000+kms on a punny bike and even 300kms constant without any break some time ..



            some how I liked the view too much ..
            I have traveled in that route a lot number of times but failed to find the same view
            Now a days even I rode to shoolagiri MC.d for dinner only ,but the feeling of 1st ride was different..



            towards hosur..


            actually I was even frightened that I could complete this 250 kms ride or not : :P



            thats santosh , clicking pics









            In this way I completed my journey to bangalore ..


            Want to see I came back ???



            my loaded bike ..












            And I reached my hostel ...


            wait for other rides ..
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              While staying in bangalore I got some reasons to go back to vellore for 1 day and I planned to ride , ayan's reply was also possitive .. So on road again , no pics for bangalore to vellore journey, the pics I am gonna post is again vellore to bangalore journey that also the longest way ..


              Till that moment my bike got used to with longer distance ..



              morning starts with "working in progress"



              same



              morning highway


              actually I planned to visit some places on the way to bangalore which converted the 250 kms journey to 468kms ..
              those places are yelagiri,chandrachudeswar temple, thalli etc ..


              So the riding continues ..



              the landscape shot ..



              one more



              thats the vellore palar river bridge



              yealagiri foot hills





              roads toward yelagiri



              nice hill roads , first time riding platina on a hilly twists ..



              same





              ayan trying srk pose



              yelagiri boating








              thats me ..



              ayan trying hard ..





              the dock



              other boats



              we crossed yelagiri and staring going in same direction towards unknown and found this ..





              same





              silkworm culture center



              same



              vaniambady from yelagiri



              my VGA phone camera could not help me much ..






              Then we carried on toward our next destination ..

              notice the odo reading 4k + kms , and now its 32k+ kms :P







              really old stories








              that time my cruising speed was 60kmph , look at the speedo ..





              highway continues






              nice shot by ayan











              so many bananas



              once this kms was dream and now its starting point ..












              towards chandra chudeswar temple






              the temple










              quite a climbing was there



              birds eye view


              We took some rest there and then started towards thalli .



              towards thalli






              awesome roads











              road goes on ..



              nearing thalli



              nice tarmac










              nothing much we could found there



              done some small offroading practice ..



              then again started towards bangalore ,



              entering bangalore , ..






              As it was evening and dark my camera became useless ..
              no more pics from that day, but I gained a confidence of doing 500+kms on this punny bike ..
              the travel date was 11th or 12 jan, of 2012 ....
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                2nd march ,2013 .....


                afternoon , have some time in hand so small ride ..


                Me , Hasibur & Saket left room for ride exploration ride .
                Plan was to find a route from palamathi to vilapakkam and we did that ..



                towards palamathi



                towards unknown through interior vellore,








                vellore unknown villages











                bananas



                saket clicked








                road was nice



                the new xpro





                the brick factory








                the platoues








                the unknown road



                even paddy plantation in desert area





                enjoying vellore












                banana plantations





                sun was about to set



                vilapakkam , done it





                vilapakkam



                the senic beauty



                walking toward the cave





                the cave












                me & hasibur traking





                soup center , while coming back



                inbetween some offroading



                from villapakkam





                safety first










                the ongoing traffic



                while offroading



                saket trying





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                • #9
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                  Cool pics bro bravo
                  "Life is all about burning petrol and the most efficient way to do so is by riding a bike"
                  "A man who dreams of being an astronaut or a pilot, is yet to drive a motorcycle."
                  "Often, I find myself in the middle of nowhere,Rarely, in the middle of nowhere, I FIND myself..."

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                  • #10
                    Re: Vellore motorcycle Diary aka V.M.D

                    Originally posted by sandy.avy220 View Post
                    Cool pics bro bravo

                    Thank you sirjee

                    ..................................................
                    19th march 2013


                    Me:aree Sujoy da, I found a place nearby
                    Sujoy: where?
                    me:toward ranipet but we have the gps na :P
                    its a hill top temple , we can add 2destinations together and leave tomorrow ..
                    sujoy:2??
                    me : yes , Sholinghur & vallimalai (though I have been to vallimalai once, log posted here before)


                    Without any 2nd thought Sujoy da nodded his head means he is ready as usual ..


                    20th ,march 2013 , ............


                    Me & sujoy da left vellore towards sholinghur at 5.30am, though that time there was lots of fogs on the way reducing the speed, whatever I was not in a mood of speeding that time ..


                    Ok before going into travelogue , some info about the place :


                    Sholinghur is a town under Walajapet taluk in Vellore district of Tamil Nadu, India. Sholinghur is very famous for the Lakshmi Narasimha Swamy. Sholinghur was ruled by the Chola Empire, Nawabs of Arcot and Tippu Sultan.


                    So it has a historical background



                    the map we followed that day ..


                    As we continued in a very relaxed cruising mood to enjoy cool morning weather of vellore, as we know just after couple of hours the atmospheric temp will climb like robo :P


                    Lots of photo breaks in between is the best way to enjoy small trips , and in this way we have captured some of the very nice view on road ..



                    1st photo break , Found my DRL working nice ..



                    fogs started disappearing when sun started showing its game



                    crossing Palar river



                    fogs and Sun rise



                    again



                    foggy hills




                    Before reaching Sholinghur we found one road is climbing up to a hill top, ans it was me and platina ,so left the road and started offroad climbing

                    thats how its started



                    from the hill top



                    another shot




                    Then again we continued after a small tea break , so you can see the number of breaks we have taken in only 50kms distance :P , thats the enjoyment of traveling with your own vehicle

                    1st sight of sholinghur



                    another


                    Then we parked our bike and started climbing up, and it was too long to climb 1305steps
                    In between lots of monkeys was showing their territory and it was really tough to take out our mobile and click the surroundings ..
                    though we could captured some pics



                    climbing started



                    in the temple



                    thats me , finally snapped



                    the view of other two temples
                    Surely we were not in a mood to climb another 1k steps :P I'm not enough God believer ..I'm a traveler ..



                    vast land from temple top



                    another



                    some more shots from the temple top













                    the holy water




                    Then we left the place and climbed down another 1305 steps and felt too hungry :P


                    Started towards vallimalai , in a roadside small hotel we took our breakfast ..


                    As this trips were not planned no prior preparation was done on bike and I could feel her loose chain (still that time I was using old chain sprocket), so went to a local mechanic shop to tighten the chain (as I can't do this job) .There a small boy of 12-13 years old boy did the job , but somehow I was feeling that the job is not proper as some wobbling issue was there but I continued ..

                    But somehow I missed a left turn and went towards unknown direction , while going we found a temple in making and a trail heading toward it , then what ??
                    I can't stop myself to be on trail road ..


                    But really the trail was tough for me & platina as she was carring a pillion also and the trail was simply rocks with sand and stiff climb ..


                    Some how she did it without much problem but I head some thik-thakkas metalic sound though I didn't cared much at that moment ..
                    After climbing up we a found another temple in making process , I was not interested to explore the temple and I went there for the trail ride only :P


                    Pics from this league of trip



                    reached the top, taking rest





                    another shot



                    the temple



                    the trail I have covered



                    view from the top



                    the workers working in scorching sun, where we can't even stand ..



                    here & there



                    in making








                    I think now its completed





                    the trail we have covered



                    me there



                    another shot , though I didn't know that sujoy started clicking my pics :



                    the temple in another angle


                    Then we started toward vallimalai , hot humid summer started taking tool on our body and then I found some scratching sound from my rear wheel , found

                    tyre started rubbing against the chain cover , the cause was improper chain setting and axel nut was loose , to dangerous to ride
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                    • #11
                      Re: Vellore motorcycle Diary aka V.M.D

                      Somehow I though at first that my chain cover setting is not proper , so I parked the bike beside the road .

                      here



                      in the scortching heat sujoy became irritated :P



                      Look at the rubbing mark on tyre


                      After that I removed the chain cover and fitted it again and started riding again towards vallimalai following the GPS ..


                      After crossing 5-6kms again it started making sound and I was very sure about the axel tightening , without any option I continued another 1-2kms and found a ASC which has Hero,Honda,Bajaj,Yamaha all types of bike inside :O
                      I went there and told about this wired problem , and they solved it in 5mins only and the problem was due to the wrong setting while chain tightning only ..


                      So we again started riding in our own speed, filled petrol again but too much scortching sun was making the problem worse , riding became too problematic for my pillion it was more tougher as he has not much of Hot riding experiences ..


                      But without any option we continued our ride till vilapakkam and parked our bike , consumed cold drinks and water and some biscuits and started climbing the stairs ..



                      abt the place



                      the temple pond



                      same



                      and sujoy



                      and we started climbing up again



                      the yeard of the cave temple



                      the yeard of temple



                      me inside



                      wish stones



                      the stairs we have climbed



                      the close up shot



                      me while climbing down



                      I dont know what does it called, may its for birds resting







                      After that we became real tired , actually sujoy wanted to take some rest there and start coming back journey afternoon, but I suggested to continue as this place is near to our to hostle , it would take max 45mins to reach .
                      So we started again in unbearable heat (weather forcast was showing 45deg ) and reached our hostel with the hope of starting of another ride .........
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                        Re: Vellore motorcycle Diary aka V.M.D

                        As I said before this log is all about the combination of my small & small logs of last 2years 2 months and 45k kms of ride on platina 125 ..
                        Yes I spend my days as I liked to do ..


                        15/6/2013 :
                        what was my FB status ??


                        Afternoon started with Test Ride of Honda CBR250r ABS , then ride to Yelagiri (120kms) reached there in only (1+1/2)hours , small travelography ,then Chicken tanduri on guardwall of a hair-pin bend while njoying beautiful glittering vaniambadi city from the top, ended up with CCD dinner and hostel .... Still now life is too good .


                        You, don’t have to own a bike to be a biker, but owning a bike doesn’t make you a biker either,.....
                        A Biker ..


                        Same theory applied to Sujoy , who was always super enthusiastic and ready to be on road any time ..


                        Sujoy was planning to get a bike and CBR250 was his 1st choice , so we decided to take a test-ride though I rode CBR250 for a quite long distance and loved it ..


                        After completing my morning classes I opened my bike for regular servicing , done that so a test-ride on highway was on my card only ..



                        clean & cute .. ready to be on road again ..


                        Riding to yelagiri was nothing new , its very common for me , I love to sip tea/coffie in yelagiri in the afternoon or evening ..


                        After taking the test ride we started toward yelagiri , very strong windblast was not letting me touching my bike's top speed , even after several tries (diff carb setting & playing with clutch play) it could manage only 87kmpl , though she could maintain 80-85kmph all the time , and non stop ride took us to yelagiri in 1&1/2 hours ....


                        As it was already afternoon and early evening people started going back , we entered there took some photograps ..


                        Let the pics tell the story ..



                        the boating place and the main park








                        one more



                        from different place



                        hilly region starts here






                        Sujoy trying something



                        I liked this shot ..



                        me got shot atlast



                        one more to make you all bore



                        on the tree ,view point



                        sujoy


                        Then we left the place and took tea there , and suddenly we saw an shop of chicken tanduri , and ordered 2 full tanduri and some more .. (They were dam costly )
                        Took the parcel and planned to have that on the guard wall of u turns ..



                        while engulping them


                        Then we left the place , the view from there of Vaniambadi city was just awesome , though my 2mp camera was not good enough to capture them..





                        Then came back on road again towards vellore , in soft cruising mode , as the wind blast was not there so platina was doing 80-90kmph with ease , no speeding as my bike's headlight was never good enough (now its modified a bit and better).. Near pallikonda toll both we stopped and tried to capture some night photography (very amature)..



                        output was this..



                        platina was taking rest, DRL was glittering


                        After that we found we were too late to have dinner in our hostel mess , and most of the fooding places were already closed ..
                        I could remember about a CCD on the way , rushed there had some food and cruised again towards hostel safely ..
                        My life on road still continues ......


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                          “We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.”


                          Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Life in the Woods


                          Simply the story of ours ..


                          June 11,2013
                          As regular we left our college to hostel and them for a small ride ..
                          As most of the road nearby ,we have already explored and some mugged up even (unlike exam syllabus) :P
                          and I always have soft corner about offroads ..
                          Have done countless non-road existed condition with my bike , some time riding , some time pulling or pushing also ..
                          So the aftereffect came was more confidence on offroads ..
                          We chose to continue toward known road only but suddenly after that a coconut plantation attracted us , so we left main road , into the plantation and found another parallel road continuing through the plantation ,



                          we continued and followed the route , was feeling like riding in Kerala, and we came to palar river bed ..



                          in between no where ..



                          one more



                          It was not possible to continue as deep water






                          So we turned back and tried to continue another route and reached directly on the Chennai-Bangalore Highway thorough the coconut plantation again.

                          sujoy posing



                          me ..


                          Then we went to Vassure temple once again , as I couldn't control myself from using my bike's peak torque ..



                          from there



                          once again



                          another










                          some more



                          the clear sky


                          Then we continued towards chennai , just like everyday afternoon ride ..



                          while on a tea break


                          Then we found a road going upwards on the hill at some distance and we continued that way ..






                          look at the road ..



                          another



                          the road from steped road


                          But to reach the proper road we had to concur lots of offroad , just some glimps of that ..







                          water was not much deep , just about to reach the intake box :P









                          parked my bike



                          sunset from there


                          We continued again ..
                          Road ended in a very very small village but still we continued to offroad and then parked bike and started walking toward the peak of that hill..



                          where we parked my bike






                          walking , as my bike is not dirtbike



                          continues



                          mission accomplished



                          ride started again



                          photo brake





                          turns



                          sujoy in action



                          me sitting










                          wonderful



                          the beautiful horizon while sun set..



                          rathnagiri temple in a very long distance view


                          Then a superfast ride to our vellore coffee house , coffee and snacks and back to hostel.



                          coffee



                          & my bike ..


                          Roads of life still continues ................
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                            Re: Vellore motorcycle Diary aka V.M.D

                            Long time this thread is not updated , so I came back with some stories of road again ..


                            Today I'll post about some different places I explored in last some days ..


                            In the mean time my friend Sujoy rented a honda unicorn which was not atall in good condition , we had to work a lot after 1 and 1/2 day working I found this was good to go for longer rides ..


                            The Route which connects chennai -bengalore highway to chittore , you can find the the RTO checkpost just before entering AP, at that moment only take left , there is a small hill with a small trail to climbup , which is not atall child's play if you want to do that on your own bike ..


                            Did that , found the place was too nice to see the sun set from there ..






                            other pic of that bike



                            riding towards horizon



                            Sun rise to sun set I do ride always



                            just on the edge
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                            Before also I posted about palamathi hill , but there was no road to the temple , we had to climb the stairs , but now a small trail ride can take us to the temple gate ..


                            some pics from there






                            curves



                            unicorn posed



                            sujoy posed



                            old and new medium of transport


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                            Just like everyafternoon we used to ride to unknown routes nearby , that day seriously we lost ... simply lost ..


                            Then we found a hiltop temple ,which is very common in tamilnadu ..
                            Some pics from there






                            poses


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                            While my way towards chittoore





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                            Zion hill church again



                            zion hill park
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                            and here ;D






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                            will comeback soon with new stories ...
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                              Re: Vellore motorcycle Diary aka V.M.D

                              So much snaps! Thumbs Up!
                              A bike on the road is worth two in the shed.

                              Weekend Rides Around Kolkata
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                              Hemnagar & Samsernagar
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