Re: Riding the GQ - Realizing my dream - more riding less pics

Great going. Hungry for more. :thumbup:

Regards
Alex

Re: Riding the GQ - Realizing my dream - more riding less pics

Great Going Enjoy [emoji2] [emoji106]

Re: Riding the GQ - Realizing my dream - more riding less pics

Oh! My God
My apologies to all of you that I couldn't complete this TLog as I had originally intended. But please be assured, I'll try & complete this log by this weekend.

Re: Riding the GQ - Realizing my dream - more riding less pics

Sirjee, we too are waiting!

Re: Riding the GQ - Realizing my dream - more riding less pics

Day's plan was to leave Chennai around 2:00 AM & as I've done to Mumbai in 18 hours, I was expecting to be in Mumbai by around 08:00 PM


Waiting to Bangalore NICE road for Binoy to join


Stopped at Nelamangala for B'Fast, refueled as there's no fuel station until Davangere. The scenic between Davangere - Hubli - Dharwad is mesmerizing & this time I didn't want to miss taking the pics...










Then we took off towards Kholapur; we'd least expected the traffic to be so high due to weekend traffic & added trouble on construction; we also contributed to the delay without failing to enjoy the sunset amidst of the huge traffic jam; it was worth it!!!




All the reasons above made us reach Pune only by 08:30 PM (original plan failed!!!)


We met up with a good friend, trustvishwas Ji & enjoyed his hospitality at CCD, Chandni Chowk; bikers meet never ends in few minutes & by the time we looked out watch it was 11:45 PM!!!

We started of lazily towards Mumbai; enroute I was leading all the time; pic of bird eye view of Mumbai city from Lonavala...


Enroute reaching to Mumbai was a real pain; I started hallucinating as if a rabbit was crossing the road & I braked hard (don't ask me why rabbit); the height of it was I was trailing a truck & it took a few second for me to realize that there was no truck & I was only dreaming!!!


Couldn't take anymore, so I set alarm for 10 minutes, asked my friend to stay awake & slept for 10 minutes. Needless to say, I was recharged & started towards Mumbai charging. Reached Mumbai at 3:30 AM, stayed at a mutual friend's home (he was generous to accommodate us)


Summary of day 1


Apologies krishna77

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DAY TWO

By the time we woke up it was 8:00 AM of 03-Jun; by the time we had B'Fast & left, it was around 10:45 AM; fortunately there was less traffic on Western Express Highway towards Gujarat. We reached Manor, refueled it was around 11:15 AM. Our original plan was to reach Udaipur & I felt sleepy when riding slow, we decided to meet up at Surat



Had rode very hard & fast to reach around Surat by 01:48 PM; we'd refueled & then left towards Vadodara - Halol - Godhra & Shamlaji. We caught up each other at Shamlaji & knew we wouldn't be able to make to Udaipur that day.


We decided to stay at a place Rishabdev, which was 30 Km before Udaipur & decided to call a day.


Some pics after Sunset around Shamlaji, which is GJ-RJ border







Since we lost considerable amount of time on day 1 & we were unable to reach the target on day 2, there were very little pics.


Summary of day 2

Re: Riding the GQ - Realizing my dream - more riding less pics

Nice. Bring on the rest!

Re: Riding the GQ - Realizing my dream - more riding less pics

Day Three

After falling behind the schedule, we decided to make to Delhi by end of the day, at any cost.

We started around 4:30 AM from Rishabdev




Plan was to take Rishabdev - Udaipur Chittorgarh - Bhilwara - Kishengarh - Jaipur - Behror - Delhi

Right after taking Udaipur bypass towards Chittorgarh, I noticed strange wobbling with front wheel; being apprehensive of flat tire, we checked & found no possible reason for the air pressure to be less; we even thought if we were hallucinating & then decided to fill to brim at a nearby fuel station.

So after all this circus, we left Udaipur by almost 6:30 AM (ideally we lost about 30 minutes); then we kept a smooth & fast ride & the roads were amazingly cooperative with a very sparse traffic on the highway. Soon we reached Bhilwara interchange & thought it was a good time to take a small break





After this, about half hour later we had B'Fast at BPCL Ghar Dhaba at Chittorgarh & started riding towards Kishengarh; Kishengarh - Jaipur is one of the BEST & superb highway with 6 lanes & almost no traffic challenging even Autobahn in Germany!!! We covered Kishengarh - Jaipur in about 35 minutes or so to catch up with few good biking brotherhood friends Mr Anukraman & Mr Ramesh.

Soon after the meet (read soon = 1.5 hours ) we rode towards Behror; needless to say the condition of the road from Jaipur to National Capital is THE WORST part of GQ & hence the delay. Anyway, Behror around 4:30 PM ish, Manesar around 5:30 PM & by the time we were crossing Gurgaon express highway it was 6:15 PM.

Plan was to halt at Delhi, but then, we decided to continue as we weren't sure how much time we would loose next day & thought we would stay at HTDC (Haryana Tourism Development Corporation) Hodal, which is about 2 hours ride from Delhi. A well deserved rest at the end of the day...



Summary of Day 3