Re: West Coast Ride.... GOA 2013

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Thanks Bro.... for the log approval...

Re: West Coast Ride.... GOA 2013

West Coast Ride.. GOA 2013

Day Before the D-Day - is the most important day as i learnt from this ride as we were all set to ride to goa, been a month since were planning, first big mistake I did gave my karizma for servicing just a day before my ride. as i mentioned since i work for a channel it hardly leaves me time with even seeing my family in for days I spend maximum time shooting, and now when I read through the logs I learnt I need to service my bike atleast a week in advance and have a dry run just to be sure how its going to function during the ride period. And you will be shocked what work I ended up fixing a day before the ride.. I was having my karizma's Camshaft changed.. and expecting to perform on the next day.. Unfortunately been awake the whole day and running behind parts for the karizma wherein I should be resting home and preparing myself mentally for the ride, And I don't know if you guys ever faced issue getting spares for karizma I had to run a marathon to get the camshaft finally found a shop around 5PM asked the mechanic to have it fixed and while fixing it another issue popped up the chain guide was broken ,had to again run to get that arrange got the chain guide arranged and by now it was 8pm and the next day I'm leaving for the ride and I was desperately waiting for my bike to be fixed and around 9pm the mechanic say he cant fix the chain guide and i need to get a new one and by now all the spares shop were closed and i could actually see all the effort I put was goin in drain.... Since we had planned the ride on a tight schedule since i had limited days of leave... couldnt think of wasting even a day all tensed and waiting for some miracle to happen.. And there it was a friend walks up at the garage and seen me tensed and learning about my ride and issue that my bike had which couldn't make it to the ride and could see the desperacy that i had for this ride. he just walked to me and said... Chill bro you can take my bike" he owned a Apache RTR 180..and that was like a surprise for me as i never expected someone would just lend his bike to me for such a long ride, i my self would have never given my bike to anyone for such a long ride.. he was very cool about it and i could see the confidence he had in me. And all i could see in him was a guardian angel who was send by god to fullfill my dreams of riding to GOA.

Finally all set i had his bike checked with the mechanic had an engine oiled change done and it was now almost 11.30pm and we had planned to start at 2.00 am so that we could cover the max distance before sunrise as it was the month of may and you can understand riding in that heat , i could see my self like chicken roasting in the tandoor. but now it was no looking back. all set reached parry's house at 1.45am and that's where our ride begin.. actually after all the chaos i been through hardly anytime to click pics when we started our ride. As per our plan ride our first halt was Mangaon but we were lucky not much of the traffic in the night as one thing i learnt about the NH17 2-3 am is the best time if you want to drive or ride to goa on the NH17 because that's the time when all the volvo's goin towards goa have crossed that patched till khed and by the time you reach khed sun would be up then. However once we took the right from vadhkal naka till little before kolad the roads are under construction so a lot of diversion and with the high beam light of this jeeps and cars that ply between this route it was getting little difficult with judging the diversion however we still managed and guess what in this pitch dark night we didnt realized we had crossed Mangaon and only realized that we had reached poladpur it was around 6.00am.. that's when parry signed me to take a halt . In the process of avoiding the sunburn we were running like a race horse. and with me i was been doing that since last morning as i was running behind getting the parts for my zima.. and when we halted at poladpur only when i realized that my loving mom had packed a mini flask with coffee in the side net. that was must that caffeine that kept me up and alive and we had the coffee and we all back on our mission cover maximum distance before the fire god rise up from his sleep. And there we in the one of the best ghats with lots of the curves and leans my favourite the Kashedi Ghat which is total 18kms ghats divided equally 9kms drive up and 9kms decend its like a every biker who loves leaning their bikes on every corner . However there was no stopping to parry as this was something he always talked about on the NH17 and he was riding a Yamaha R15 v2 now the name yamaha itself defines what it best in... CONTROL... and with the best tyres for the R15 parry was all zip zap zoom and that couldnt stop me though. there i was on the first lean and my understanding about the RTR having a pretty decent tyre turned out to be a misconception first lean and there i was dragged off road... and that was like a seeing the best tarmac laid ahead with the best curves i could get to lean. and it there i lost confidence and however it was decided that parry would wait at the mid of the ghat at the peak this pic from there.. and the first pic we clicked so far....

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read the first para.. nice write-up.. but a request, if you could change the text format to simple ones like roman, it would get easier to read.. and the attachment is not visible..

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Yeah certainly Bro i will change it...

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So far throughout this ride so far i hadn't used my DSLR, Probably since this was a first long ride we were mainly concentrating on the roads and so we don't miss on the directions. However parry was doing the needful by clicking pics as and when possible with his cellphone. Well after this halt the downride was awesome however I was still behind parry being a little more alert on the corners after the RTR went off road in the initials. Well the last discussion we had was to wait was after the ghats as we just wanted to get our back rested. well parry seen this small hotel kind off and stopped by which wasn't open but we all he figured out was a bench so we rest for sometime.



we just rested here for 15 minutes as we were racing against the fire god to cover maximum distance before it gets too hot and humid so there we were back on beautiful landscaped road with well finished tarmac. i must say no matter how bad roads we have in the city but government has maintained the NH17 very well and as discussed in our last halt we were going to have our breakfast in sangameshwar, well but as i was riding without any proper sleep fatigue was just increasing my body was just giving and to avoid fall asleep i was riding fast and without noticing that i had crossed sangameshwar only to realized when parry zip past ahead of me and signalled me to stop and that's when i realised that we had reached almost chiplun and now the plan was to halt in chiplun and have our breakfast. Reached chiplun around 9.00 am and had our breakfast and ordered my self a nice hot coffee probably that would keep me awake for sometime. well i never wanted my first ride to be like this but unfortunately it was.. People say when you plan things its doesn't go as it was to.. but never go so unplanned that it get worst than that.. and that's what i learnt but still i was ready to go through it.. well tiredness and fatigue was taking a toll on my body and initially he was in sight but later my speed reduced down to the like 60KMPH and that's where we were separated and now he was way ahead of me. all i was focusing was the black tarmac and reach a place where i could just splash some water over face and have more coffee as the last cup of coffee in the flask was over at khed.

Anyways after a long lost riding i reached lanza i was in the worst state by now, as i parked my bike and tried to get off because of the dizziness i just drifted away from the bike and that's when a guy from the hotel seen me and asked me i need some help that was really nice of him, looking at my backpack and biking gears he asked me was i coming from mumbi and all i asked him back was if i can get a cup of coffee he got me water and unfortunately there was no coffee available all they had was tea. Had a cup of tea still no difference called parry to check and found that he had already reached rajapur and now i had to get going, i asked him to continue and meet me directly at kankavli which was a good 165kms. As i was sitting on my bike something got my attention i seen a jar of chocolate and to my surprise i seen coffee bite in it. well now that what i experiments and guys from my experience always on long ride have some coffee chocolates along and there it worked for me had some 5 coffee bite chocolates at a time and started my ride. Guy you wont believe it worked. i was all alert and this was the time i had to compensate for the time and i had lost before and there was cruising at 110kmph nonstop luckily less traffic. reached rajapur check with parry he didnt answer continued from rajapur and just before kankavli stopped to check and i had parry message about the hotel he was waiting at, its called neelam very famous hotel, we ordered for lunch and our plan was to just have some starters and continue.. we had our lunch and started again i popped some 3-4 coffee bites and all charged it was like spinach which popeye has it actually worked like that.. this time we were riding together and our trail was on till we reached this huge 8 lane highway now since this was the first time and never been on this route before it was like a open highway and trusted we only realized this when we reached panjim that we had already skipped the sawantwadi ghats now I'm still not sure what highway that was... one click from there if anyone can figure out what highway it is...



There we were cruising at 110-120kmph it was like a gateway to heaven (GOA) as we reached a small check post which said welcome to goa and we were ll excited all the fatigue tiredness sleep everything just went off... This was the feeling i was waiting for it just overcomes every other hardship you must have gone through... and there our first click on the land of Sun Sand and Beaches .....

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Nice pictures and writ up...

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Thanks Bro....Well all i have now is pictures... We just relaxed on the beaches.. throughout the next 3 days...

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However it was an awesome seeing the first glimpse of goa riding our bikes... first thing posted the above pics on fb.. just so that all our friends were informed about we reaching safe ... as none from our group ever rode so far.. we do ride but max 150-200kms called our parents and informed them that we have reached goa.... from now on i dont remember much as to what was our day to day plan but i will upload pics which description as far as i can recollect.




That's just after we sorted our stay at baga beach... and awesome deal we got here.. just behind tito's all parry was thinking since we reached was chilled beer and sunset.. well the latter was on my mind as I don't drink... some more beach shots.. being a photographer/cinematographer by profession i had just one model so u might end up seeing parry's clicks. lol






Now that's me... which you might find me in some pics


Some Gai (guy's ) chilling on the beach...


This was the next day click on anjuna beach during breakfast..


And some magic...... personally my favourite click...



Hill top Vagator Beach.....



That's my guardian angel... who made this ride possible..



that's parry's Racing Instinct..



Parry the model with his helmet's on....



And some profiles.... lol



And some of me.....



Now the dhoom shot...ha ha ha...



This was on our way to Morjim beach...



some flora on the beach...




This was on our way to Herman beach...



This was clicked on Bethalbatham Beach.. next to colva beach.

The last day we had a friend called darren come from mumbai since goa being his native we rode to meet him over there and that was the last day stay in goa so we meet him and his family...





I just love Silhoutte's






That's our friend Darren (a.k.a Chota Sharukh Khan)





And that's all about my Travelogue this was first time and been long did that ride so unable to recollect day to day things we did .. well but im happy that i got awesome platform to share this ride with you so wonderful people... and probably my next ride which should be in the december 2013 to rajasthan i will be prepared with more pics.. till then guys that's all about my WEST COAST RIDE.. learnt a lot and going to implement it from the next ride... till then ride safe for your and others;s safety....

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Nice clicks,,, all biceps and triceps, your friend sure knows how to flaunt...
Good one there, keep sharing your upcoming plans too.

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Good Clicks !! waiting for more T-logs from you ahead!!

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Hahaha yeah i know bro.. who doesn't like getting clicked on DSLR and when it goa... surely im planing on riding to Rajasthan in december
Mumbai - Mount Abu - Udaipur - Ajmer(tentative) - Mumbai...

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Hey Frank,

Fantastic pic's mate. I have been away from xbhp for a while and this is the opening TL that I am reading. Its really great of your friend to give you his bike. No one these does that. Luckily I also have couple of friends who do the same.

Silhouettes were near perfect. Loved them.

Isn't Parry's from tbhp ? I remember seeing his R15 which did 27k kms recently and LS2 there. Convey my regards to him.

Hope you have Jaisalmer in the list or else add it up. You can go and test your bikes top speed. The climate would also be perfect.

Cheers

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nice clicks, gud graphics & gr8 travelogue!!!

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Nice Pics Bro. Feel bad that you didnt go through with you ZMA but nevertheless you complete your trip with much ease. One thing i learn from your trip is that always have coffee bites with you while going for a long Ride. Nice travelog.

Can you just tell me you started at 2:00 AM from where and reach Goa at what time.