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Wow & Wow! Awesome! The rain, the slush, the fog, the green... amazing ride there guys! What a way to live the monsoon! Great going there!

Many Cheers & Ride Safe

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That's a slushy travelogue, must say.... extremely exciting teaser photos are enticing me for a mud fest on bike. Keep'em coming. I eagerly await the rest - 'would like to see the NS coming out of that mud...

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[MENTION=34812]dpak89[/MENTION] : whaDaFaq!!! two questions come to my mind...
1. what exactly did u guys do to get that machine THAT deep in the slush... thats a 2-wheeler for gawdsakes & not a land rover or a toyota hilux!!!
2. how exactly did u get it out of there - unless u practically lifted it up & out of the muck...
u guys ARE INSANE!!! LOL!!!

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hahaha.. then began the lifting competition
anyway.. it seems you had a lot of fun.. complete the rest soon

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Thank you sir. We did had a funfilled ride

I am also waiting for that pic wherein the NS is coming out of slush
Haha...to answer you
1. The rider of that bike was so happy seeing slush that he got stuck, into this first. Then as he tried to give more throttle, more it sunk.
2. We did lift it up.
Well, we were the 'sane people' until we saw this! later after crossing one such muck road everybody got high and went on to complete the whole route, not to forget the return leg .
Lifting competion lasted for a looong time in this stretch !
Will try to complete the log as soon as possible

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Pre-Ride:


It was just June and merely a week after the news of monsoon onset in KL, we were quite excited. Wanted to go on a monsoon trip before it reaches its peak or in worst case prove to be a dud like last year.
I was supposed to go abroad and wanted to do a trip as quick as possible. There was a bit of confusion about fixing the date as Arnab roy had trouble convincing his BOSS in home!
Later somehow managed to fix the first weekend as ride dates. Phanikar and Jayakrishna planned the Routes and booked the accommodation.
Now I had a problem of travelling to Bangalore, before the ride day to join rest of them. I had hard time in getting leaves, so i planned to ride the bike a weekend earlier and to drop it in Bangalore.
That way i can join the others on the ride day by travelling in public transport a night before.
Arnab roy was not able to bring his GT650N, so Phanikar had arranged a ZMA for him.


Day1:


Everything went well as planned, i reached bangalore at 5Am on 4th July and got refreshed quickly. Arnab roy had filled my R15's tank and lubed it. He had filled his ZMA's tank and lubed it as well (now this line is to be noted for future reference ).
Whole group was supposed to meet at the start of elevated highway near yeshwanthpura i guess, at 545am. The regular latecomer Arnab was surprisingly ready but it was Jai who was late this time. Sivaraj and Bharath G also joined us near BTM itself. We all met Phanikar and Bharath K at the rendezvous point at around 7am.
Had a small chat and were good to go. Arnab's bike was having cold start problems right from home. But somehow he managed it. Our next stop was scheduled as Mayura hotel near bellur cross. As we started to ride towards it, in few kms, Arnab's bike again stalled and was not able to cross 70 kmph. Now the ZMA he was riding is Phanikar's bike. So Phanikar came and tried to check the carb and tried to reset it. Voila! the bike started and after a boring 4 lane ride we reached Mayura for breakfast.


We had delicious dosas and vadas.Jai was supposed to pay the breakfast bill since he was the one responsible for the delayed start.But he somehow escaped and made some poor bakra to pay the bill.
As we had some leisure time here Phanikar tried to check the problem in his bike (which Arnab was riding) in depth. Tried all the settings right from Rich to lean but nothing seemed to solve the issue. It took a lot of time and was already around 11Am. Now with no other option we took the bike to a nearby mechanic.
He checked the bike and found that the 'culprit' was, the severely adulterated fuel. When we drained the fuel out of the bike it was clearly evident that it is not the normal petrol. It looked tad different, with the volatile nature of diesel. And ZMA had a whooping 10-12ltrs of it still. Mind you, the bike has already run 100 odd kms in this fuel!
Arnab Roy was already cursing the fuel station guys in ********** words'. Thankfully he had fueled my R15 in a different station. By the time the ZMA's tank and carb cleaning was done it was already 2PM. Unfortunately we had the lunch in same place where we had breakfast After fueling the ZMA now with 'normal petrol' we started towards Hassan-chickmagalur.


Maintained around 100 as the average speed in the 4 lanes, we tried to push quicker to the Hassan. Reached Hassan around 4-5pm if i remember correctly and found that Jai's ZMR is leaking oil. For the first day of a monsoon trip this is already too much of trouble to bear!
Jai checked the issue with the service center nearby and solved the issue quickly. Meanwhile Phanikar wanted the rest of us to push to the destination- Sampekatte which is another 200 odd kms from now. We all knew it is going to be a dark night- rain ride. So myself, Bharath, Arnab and Siva pushed towards Chickmagalur first. From then we had to ride slow, since it started raining.
Crossed Chickamagalur shortly and needless to say the route was already covered with greenery all around! Bharath G was leading us and we reached the balehonnur road, right where we found the small pond which is the usual adda spot for in whenever we cross this road. It gets filled up with water only during monsoon time and sports a full lush green look in this season. Had a small chat and photo clicking session over there.
Bharath had got a message from Phani saying that he had a fall near Belur and that he is fixing his bike. We were quite shocked by hearing this but were glad when we heard that he was not hurt badly.


Now it was already pitch dark and we were supposed to wait in the Badra coffee shop for Phani, Jai and Bharath K. We rode to that Coffee shop and reached there by 7-730Pm. The shop was closed by that time. After reaching there we got a message from Phanikar that they had fixed the bike but it will take time for them to reach the rendezvous point. So we were asked to push to the destination directly.
The roads from now on were full of rough patches and with a R15's candle light (head light is so weak) i was literally seeing nothing in non stop rains, was just following the Bharath's tail lamps. Arnab roy behind me was doing better since he had a better headlight. We reached Koppa around 9-930 and stopped for a break. Had a small chat there, Bharath had parked his bike in loose soil due to which the bike fell down breaking the left RVM. His bike had crash bobbins, so nothing else was damaged.
From Koppa we had to cross thirthahalli, nagara and sampekatte. When we crossed nagara it was raining cats and dogs. That was quite heavy that we could feel the force of each droplet, falling on our body! That lovely feeling !!!
Somehow we reached Sampekatte around 12-1230am. Our stay was at Parvatha homestay and the owner Sandeep Bhat opened the gates for us and helped us to check in. We had a nice home made dinner and left to our rooms for taking a nice nap. We knew that the other group would take a lot of time to reach the stay since they were easily 2hours behind us.
As predicted Phanikar, Jai and Bharath K reached around 2am riding in super-heavy rains. The owner had provided food for them.


First day was quite a troublesome day for us. We had to face lot of unexpected problems, but still the ride was quite thrilling since most of it was done as night ride, not to forget about the rains!
Afterall this is what we wanted . Not much of pics were taken on the Day1.

Day2 log coming soon...

Pics. Breakfast and lunch at Mayura hotel





Phani checking the bike

Jai's bike being repaired @ Hassan HH Service center

Phani's bike being repaired at some mechanic shop near Belur

Our usual Adda place near Balehonnur




Phani and Bharath K at the Homestay.

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Really Nice Deepak...

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Good pics

its not about riding bikes its about loving bikes...sandy loving avy220

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Brilliant ride guys, waiting for more. Such a long ride and you have posted very less pics .

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Nice ride there. Want to know how CBR performed in that deep slush

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Please keep it coming. I saw the pic of the NS stuck in the home page and i had to click on the link. Nice to see so many people doing a trip in the rains. Looks like good fun.

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This one picture says it all!!!!!!!way to face the monsoonaaaaaawesome......keep it coming buddy