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**jeevan.life** · 01-29-2014, 11:08 AM

Re: Ride of our lives -- until now

Originally posted by nooblet View Post

Day 4

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Now this was the biggest relief for me, you know, after 3 days of stinking rooms finally some hopes of good days ahead. All thanks to that magic stick

Originally posted by Vykier View Post

Awesome read yaar... and @jeevan.life likes cornering... hmmm... why am I not surprised... CBR man... cornering is G...O...D! what say G1?

Lived through the travels.. nice write up too.

I am still learning, and on a CBR, its really fun. I know you understand that better than me

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**prakashray412** · 01-29-2014, 11:34 AM

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Amazing pic Lohith..

**nooblet** · 02-02-2014, 12:10 PM

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Day 5

We both were ready by 5:15 am, and after paying up the room rent, we left the room at 5:30 am and were on our way to Kanyakumari. We took the absolutely fantastic Salem-Kanyakumari highway. We were supposed to meet up Saquib at Valparai as per our initial plan, but just the previous day Saquib had called and informed us that due to office work, he would not be able to join us, this was a bummer for us, as we were really looking forward to meet him at Valparai . This really let us down, because we had never met any of the YRC riders before and now Saquib also was not there. Anyways we were to meet the Ronnie from YRC at Valparai, so we headed out for Valparai.

As we continued to ride we could see windmills on either side of the roads, and which just added to the already lovely morning ride. Jeevan decided to pull over for a tea and I too was more than willing to oblige.

When we started towards Rameshwaram, the roads started getting narrower again as we exited from the highway, I was worried, oh no not again, I dont want the potholed roads ruin the ride again. But this was there for only for a short while, while were trying to find the highway which would take us to Rameshwaram. The road we were looking for is none other than the East Coast Road. One of most beautiful road's you will ever ride on.

We continued our ride towards Thoothukudi, the road again was fantastic. I decided to listen to Lucky Ali songs and just enjoy the early morning Sun Rise and this beautiful stretch of road. Thanks to Lucky Ali, these roads with those beautiful green fields with Sun rising will be etched in my mind forever.

At one point, we decided to pull over at a place and have breakfast. My stomach was still not right, I was not feeling better at all. Thanks for the ride, i was able to stop thinking about it. The roads just got better and ride even better, and I had totally forgotten about my stomach upset. There were small villages and towns staggered on the highway, but unlike Kerala the ECR traffic is very less and the views are just spectacular, words would have a tough time describing the feeling that you get while riding this place.

We continued to ride on, and the heat started picking up, I am not complaining, just an observation. For the first time in the ride, I was feeling sleepy, I just couldnt keep my eyes open, asked Jeevan to pull over at the next stop for a tea, and this is what happened. More people ogling at our bikes, and we enjoying the attention.

We reached Pamban bridge. The bridge was blocked was traffic from our direction, as some construction work was in progress. So I an Jeevan pulled over and were over seeing the bridge and the railway track next to it. Just then a gentleman pulled over and asked us we are riding from Bangalore. We told yes.

People all throughout our ride were calling us crazy, mad guys, what not. These guys should have met these guys to understand how much fun riding is

We continued on and just before entering Rameshwaram we decided to stop over and take a break. We met 2 very excited fishermen kids who were all curious about our bikes and were more than willing to share details of their life style. It was quite an insight.

Decided to leave the place, and took the road back to Rameshwaram. Once we reached Rameshwaram, we had a very tough time finding a room to stay. Every hotel was booked, it took us almost 2 hours to find a room. It was almost 2:30 when we checked into a room. Once checked in, we decided to have lunch and then leave to Dhanushkodi. Couple of photo's from my previous trip.

Jeevan : We are being over optimistic with our bikes.
Me : Yeah...we really dont know what is there ahead, and I am not willing to take the chance of riding ahead.

Once out, we decided to take a tea and ride out of Dhanushkodi.

Once we reached Rameshwaram, met up with some other riders, went back to room freshened up, decided to go out and have dinner. My stomach was still not better, and the food we were eating was not helping either.

We finally found a decent place for dinner, had some tea again, and decided to head back to room, and called it a day.

**Ron Syl** · 02-03-2014, 12:36 PM

Re: Ride of our lives -- until now

amazing pics dude!!!! by this time we guys were heading to valparai

but u guys misd the crazy night of 26th!

awesome pics again!

**nooblet** · 02-06-2014, 10:23 AM

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Day 6

We were up and ready by 5:00 am in the morning, left the room by 5:30. Stopped over for a tea and smoke and left Rameshwaram and we were out of Ramanathapuram by 6:30 in the morning.

The ride was again splendid with awesome early morning breeze and scenery giving us company.

Finally we reached the Aliyar dam which is the starting area of the Ghat section of Valparai

We continued taking on the curves, curves after curves, it was exhausting mind you but was a lot of fun, until I hit curve No. 27. All the while taking the curves especially at the really narrow curves, i was downshifting at the curve and not doing it the right way. Then it happened, I had a fall. It was a very very minor one. It was again a very narrow curve, I was at the left hand side almost to the corner as another bike had just overtaken me, so I couldnt move to the other end of the road. I down shifted right at the curve and accelerated and to my surprise the rear wheel did not get any power and the bike was not moving, this is when I tried to put my left leg down for balance, but at the end of the road on the left hand side, my left leg did not find the ground and I lost my balance and fell over. Fortunately I landed on the left wall of the road and the bike was on me and I couldn't get up. Fortunately Jeevan just caught up with me, pulled over and lifted the bike and got me up.

We stopped over and were laughing at the amount of fun we were having and Jeevan told me that downshifting right at the curve was wrong. Agreed. Lesson learnt. We gave each other a high-five, and I could make out that Jeevan was ecstatic and he was raring to go.

Finally we reached Valparai

**jeevan.life** · 02-06-2014, 02:43 PM

Re: Ride of our lives -- until now

Originally posted by nooblet View Post

Day 6

We were up and ready by 5:00 am in the morning, left the room by 5:30. Stopped over for a tea and smoke and left Rameshwaram and we were out of Ramanathapuram by 6:30 in the morning.

The ride was again splendid with awesome early morning breeze and scenery giving us company.

We planned to reach Madurai by 8:30. We were riding fast here, i could make out that Jeevan was having a blast riding in the early hours….for some reason I was not really enjoying, my stomach was not really helping, and a painful Toyota Etios guy was trying to overtake us and I could clearly see that in his mental condition of trying to be in the lead was trying to overtake vehicles recklessly and he had a couple of close calls. This kind of further dampened my mood, I was not really in the right state of mind to ride, i was having a bad feeling that something could go wrong today.

Whats better than waking up to know that you will be riding all day today? We were literally living to ride for the entire week and nothing can be more pleasing than cool morning breeze, amazing sun and amazing roads to start off your day Was in high spirits man :P

Continued our ride to Madurai and then there was this painful Scorpio who was riding very rashly and wanted to stay ahead of us at any cost, he had really pissed us both. I knew that I really wanted to overtake and make that guy eat my dust, but I refrained, but I could see that Jeevan was also pissed off. At one point Jeevan turned to me and gave me a signal that he wants to overtake that guy. Several times on the ride I had told Jeevan not to get into any kind of drag races with anybody at any cost, and thankfully he is a very sane rider and he also had abstained from drag racing from the numerous guys who wanted to show us that their better than us, but the Scorpio guy was at a different level. I thought for a sec and signalled Jeevan, go ahead…. Jeevan within sec’s was out of my sight and went chasing after the Scorpio, the traffic was getting thicker as we approached Madurai and I immediately realised the mistake I had done, I was looking for Jeevan and wanted to stop him, i was worried about the worst case scenario and was cursing myself for encouraging him. Now even I had to ride really fast to find jeevan and stop him, I was weaving through the thick traffic to try and find Jeevan and stop him and couldn’t see him, after about 2 or 3 min’s I saw Jeevan was riding comfortably on the road, I caught up with him and noticed that he had given up on the Scorpio guy. Later Jeevan told me that the Scorpio guy was very very rash, and he didn’t want to take any chances with that guy. Thankfully Jeevan took the right call.

I dont get agitated, nor do I engage in roadrage, trust me, this guy, he was reckless. He almost ran over a few guys in haste when he saw me tailing him . Was so crazy that he would block me when I tried to overtake him. So thought in interest of his and my life it is better to let him go

Jeevan asked me to lead here, I told him that I am a slow rider and I wont go over 70 or 80. Jeevan told it’s OK you lead, I also don’t want to ride fast. So i decided to lead, but was no where near 70 or 80….

We started riding and I found the roads to be really good, so I increased my speed and I was really enjoying it, in fact I was having a lot of fun, this was when a Chevrolet crurze driver wanted to race me. He would stop at risky areas and was really hitting the gas only when the road was open, so even I decided to overtake him. This was probably one of the most fun rides for me, bcos we were not really risking too much and we were trying to race each other only if the road was safe and open. I was really enjoying this…..while Jeevan was left out. At one point Jeevan asked me to slow down and I decided to...what a bummer :x

You said 70-80 and you were ripping at 110 , that too in those curvy single lane roads. Felt you were a bit rash, so I cut you off , you know looking after co rider :P

We were excited to hit the curves, but we still hadm’t had any lunch, grabbed and ate whatever junk we could , had some cool juice and we left. We knew we will be hitting curves very soon, and from our experience from what we had in Yana, we knew that this is going to be a blast, at least Jeevan was sure, I wasn’t as my stomach was not really cooperating.

So we entered Valparai’s ghat section, wow what a feeling to enter the Ghat section and the incoming curve really sets the mood, and it actually really invigorates your senses, and it puts your mind to really attack the curve, my mind was really not in the right sense to even ride but one look of the curve can get your adrenaline rushing. I looked back to see Jeevan, that waste fellow was breathing down my neck, he was already hunkered down and barrelling down to hit that curve, this was more than enough for me to let my guard down at hit that curve….and the first curve is done. I immediately knew this is going to be a lot of fun. (One photo from a previous trip)

Who wants food when you have those amazing hairpins in front of you You know how mad I went when I saw my tyre after ghat section right

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We stopped over and were laughing at the amount of fun we were having and Jeevan told me that downshifting right at the curve was wrong. Agreed. Lesson learnt. We gave each other a high-five, and I could make out that Jeevan was ecstatic and he was raring to go.

Yup, you did the same mistake again, didn't you

Once at the stopover, we freshened up, Ronnie’s group had arranged for a camp-fire plus drinks plus dinner, an awesome combination for ending the day on the high note. So we rode to the hotel, had dinner, spent time there around the camp fire, had our share of jokes and drinks and we called it a day. Due to shortage of parking space, some bikes were parked at the Hotel and some near the rooms. So after a decent meal, we headed back to the room, where YRC guys got into their character and were pulling each other’s legs and were having a blast. I was not exactly in the right shape as my stomach was not cooperating with me, hence I left the group and decided to call it a day. I could hear the Jeevan and the whole YRC group were having a blast…..

Was fun to have company of young YRC guys , had a blast thanks to the YRC team

Throughout the ride, we saw multiple car guys, especially the SUV and sedan folks trying desperately to overtake us to satisfy their ego. Few were dangerously rash and a few rude and a few funny. I was LMAOing when a co passenger of Ertiga started putting his head out of the window to see what on earth is that bike which overtook them at 110+ish. Except for one or 2 guys, we never bothered and gave way to them, but I feel that the most dangerous objects for us bikers out there on the highways are these crazy car guys.

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**Jitu Badlani** · 02-07-2014, 06:28 PM

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Uh laaa laaa
Whaat a log!! Whaat a write up!!!
Sir jee helmets off to you both!!!
& Your pictures are just mind blowing:thumbup:

One thing that you bikers from MH, Southern India & especially Banglorians have in extra are the scenic beauties & so many curvy roads

.
ONE Day will surely make a trip from Indore to Kerala, & taste those curves (dirty minded people don't take it otherwise

)

*Drop a Gear & Disappear*

**nooblet** · 02-23-2014, 01:05 PM

Re: Ride of our lives -- until now

Originally posted by Jitu Badlani View Post

Uh laaa laaa
Whaat a log!! Whaat a write up!!!
Sir jee helmets off to you both!!!
& Your pictures are just mind blowing:thumbup:

One thing that you bikers from MH, Southern India & especially Banglorians have in extra are the scenic beauties & so many curvy roads

.
ONE Day will surely make a trip from Indore to Kerala, & taste those curves (dirty minded people don't take it otherwise

)

*Drop a Gear & Disappear*

Thanks Jitu bhai.
But if you plan to ride in Kerala, please plan your riding time. Or better even please ask for riders tips, as riding through Kerala can be challengin as the roads are not really wide and there's a lot of traffic to cope with.

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Day 7

Josh from YRC is good at one thing, that is waking up people. As decided the previous day he was knocking on everyone's door at 4 am.
I woke up with a bad stomach and immediately had to rush the restroom, treating everyone sleeping to some 2 stroke engine exhaust note

. Sorry guys!!

nd gear. I was like no man not here, where I cant even find a mechanic. The guys told it was a minor issue not to worry, anyways I decided cant do anything now, so decided to ride in 2nd gear upto the Hotel and park it and worry about it later.

We started riding hoping that no further mishap happens. The same bad feeling of the day was share by another YRC rider, and he too was feeling uncomfortable for that day.

Before I move further I was have to give a special thanks to Jeevan, as he was truly helpful and I believe without his help it would have been very difficult for me to get out of this mess. He rode with me all the way to Valparai helped me in finding a mechanic and in fact on my request he even went with the mechanic to oversee if the work is done properly. Thanks a lot [MENTION=62178]jeevan.life[/MENTION] .

Once we reached our rooms, we heard that Ronnie who was riding another YRC riders bike had taken a fall . I was like WTF man

another fall. Good part was there was nothing serious except for a bent clutch lever. Funny thing was Ron had done the same mistake I had done, twice , changing the gears at the curves

.......Amateurs!!! *sheesh*

We had a good laugh at what had happened again, an sort of relieved that nothing serious happened and the day was ending and there was no riding for that day. Just glad that we could make it through without any serious mishaps.

Some more photos from the day.

**prakashray412** · 02-23-2014, 01:59 PM

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[MENTION=65606]nooblet[/MENTION] bhai, super write up and amazing pictures!!!

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**Ron Syl** · 02-24-2014, 12:30 PM

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ya, what a day that was!!! shooot. but the experience at the falls was awesome! and i didnt fall

i was about to fall standing still because of the neutral :/ but controlled, kept the bike down because it was freaking heavy (cbr250r

), thanks to the frame sliders and my bag that i tied to the ear seat. no scratches except bend clutch handle lever

super pics as usual

**SuvraGanguly** · 02-25-2014, 02:14 PM

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Well..now that you are nearing the end of your travelogue, i would like to make a comment here. I have seen you riding before this ride of yours and have seen you riding after the ride as well. I can see a clear cut difference in your riding style, that difference in the confidence in you! I really love this fact that this ride is a big leap in your riding career

and I am sure you are growing day by day, with each mile on that tarmac. I believe every rider out here should go through your t-log to get an inspiration of how to ride across obstacles and make it a grand success. Helmets off to you bro and I am proud to ride alongside you for quite some time now. Your pictures do the talking itself, and you are one pro among us noobs when it comes to photography, no second thoughts there

. Wish you more and more rides in the near future and may you attain great miles under your belt

.

**nooblet** · 02-25-2014, 08:40 PM

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Originally posted by SuvraGanguly View Post

Well..now that you are nearing the end of your travelogue, i would like to make a comment here. I have seen you riding before this ride of yours and have seen you riding after the ride as well. I can see a clear cut difference in your riding style, that difference in the confidence in you! I really love this fact that this ride is a big leap in your riding career

and I am sure you are growing day by day, with each mile on that tarmac. I believe every rider out here should go through your t-log to get an inspiration of how to ride across obstacles and make it a grand success. Helmets off to you bro and I am proud to ride alongside you for quite some time now. Your pictures do the talking itself, and you are one pro among us noobs when it comes to photography, no second thoughts there

. Wish you more and more rides in the near future and may you attain great miles under your belt

.

Thanks [MENTION=61921]SuvraGanguly[/MENTION]
I am truly humbled by your words....
A big thanks to you and all the PSF guys and xBhp community who helped me during this riding career

My heartfelt thanks to you and one and all

**jeevan.life** · 02-25-2014, 09:13 PM

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Originally posted by nooblet View Post

Thanks @SuvraGanguly
I am truly humbled by your words....
A big thanks to you and all the PSF guys and xBhp community who helped me during this riding career

My heartfelt thanks to you and one and all

Ok I see this thread turning into an emotional one, with all the heartfelt feelings and thank yous and what nots flying around

Awesome writeup as always Lohith bhai and super pics

Its fun riding with you and you know good too as I can expect some amazing pics :P

**sruce2002** · 02-26-2014, 12:31 PM

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Nice clicks (y)

**nooblet** · 03-13-2014, 01:38 PM

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Day 8
We decided to ride to Bangalore, as we I had to get back to office work. Sorry Jeevan

. Also I had mentioned to Jeevan the previous night that I dont like the Krishnagiri-Bangalore stretch. In the evening the truck traffic combined with traffic coming in from Vellore, the traffic just becomes insane and people drive just carelessly. Also I’ve had a very scary experience driving that stretch in my car with my wife with me. The people who drive there are just too careless, and I mentioned it to Jeevan that lets reach Bangalore before 7 atleast.
Woke up early and we were ready to hit the road, YRC guys were planning to ride to another location and some were planning to ride back. I and Jeevan had to leave early because @seahorses called us the previous night and told us he would meet us at Pollachi at 8:45 am. We were already late to leave the rooms so I and Jeevan hit the road and were more than happy to take the curves head on.
We reached Valparai and saw that some YRC guys were waiting there, we couldn’t spend time with them as we had to move on, so we bid goodbye to them and we moved as we had to meet Ashish. We were having a blast at the curves, it didn’t bother that I did not have the best gear lever to work with, I was having too much fun to be bothered by it. As we rode I turned around and I could see Abhi, another YRC ride, who had just joined us. I think this was the best ride we had together. Getting down the ghat section we three were having too much fun, we loved every corner and some corners and the views were epic J . I hope Jeevan and Abhi also felt the same way.

Some views from our ride down.

On the way down as we were exiting a corner, and we were pulling some nice corners, and as I got out of the corner, I could see a police check post with around 8 cops looking straight at me. I was leading all the way and I did not know how to react, and I just pulled the corner like there wasn’t anything wrong, and approached the cops who had already signaled us to pull off the road. The cops apparently received a complaint that some bikes were very noisy and warned us that these noisy bikes will not be allowed. We told them that our bikes were all stock and convinced that were innocent and gladly the cops agreed and let us go through. We slowed down after this point as the traffic had increased. At one point Abhi decided to split with us as he would be waiting for the YRC guys to meet him.
I and Jeevan continued and we reached Aliar dam at 8:30 and we called Ashish that we would meet him in another 30 mins. But to ur dismay Ashish had already left Pollachi. Anyways I and Jeevan were a little bummed out that we missed out on Ashish. We continued the ride, the roads were excellent and we were making good ground. As usual some annoying Innova driver wanted to overtake us, and we were more than happy to let the idiot overtake us and go away.

We continued to ride and at one point we had probably the best breakfast of our whole Journey, we had some nice road side dosa’s and we both agreed that this was the best breakfast we’ve had in the past few days. We continued on and then trouble hit, I started getting stomach pain, and the past 2 days of trouble was about to explode

. We were running short of fuel and we stopped over for fuelling up, I went to the restroom, cleared up my stomach finally. I remember Jeevan was saying you were in for a very long time, but who cares, what needs to go out has to go.

Some views from that place.

It was around 12:30 now, and we continued on until we finally reached NH 7. Roads were good until we reached NH7, we had a smooth ride. Once on the NH7 we continued on our way to Bangalore, about 40 KM’s from Salem we decided to take a break and stopped over at a tea stall. It was very hot, and the time now around 2:30 and I told Jeevan it’s very hot lets take a break and we also ordered some cool drinks. We waited and we were chatting about how the whole ride had been and we were almost about to complete it. I was telling Jeevan about the Krishnagiri-Bangalore stretch and how I dreaded riding that place. Also we were happy that we were making good time, and once we reach Salem it’s about 200 KM’s to Bangalore, which would take us about 3 hrs with the current road conditions. As we were talking some familiar bikes and faces started arriving. It was the YRC guys who had caught up with us. It seemed like most of the YRC riders also decided to ride back to Bangalore except for a couple of them who decided to ride on. We waited another 10 mins for all the YRC riders to join us, had some cool drinks and tea.

After a nice long break, i told everybody let’s move as I dont want to be riding on the Krishnagiri-Bangalore stretch in the dark. At this point one of the YRC riders Sauban ( @saquib3005 younger brother) had developed a problem with his bikes headlight and he too wanted to reach Bangalore before dusk. So 2 YRC riders decided to stay close to him and wanted to take him to Bangalore before it got dark.

We decided to leave at around 3:15, fuelled up and we took off. Sauban and 2 other YRC riders took off, and I and Jeevan were trailing them. After some time I decided to slow down as I didnt want to ride very fast, there was no sign of the Sauban and group after that

. Well that was until we reached Salem. As we reached Salem, I was making my way through the traffic at a traffic signal and the board above the signal also read Bangalore -- 200 KM i.e when Jeevan honked me and showed that YRC bikes were standing in the road. We immediately decided to pull off and check, when one of the YRC guys, came and told us that Sauban’s bike had completely stalled and was not starting. We really didn’t know what happened, and I and Jeevan went to the spot and first thing we felt was a burning smell, it could also have been from another vehicle, because we were in a petrol bunk. Our first thought Engine was seized, then Jeevan took over as he has good knowledge of bike mechanics. Everyone’s intial guess was the fuse would have blown, as the lights were not turning on and this must also be causing some electrical failur which was preventing the engine from start. Just then one of the YRC guys told it cant be that, there should be something else. Hence we started throwing all theories in the air. One guy went to find a Yamaha mechanic from Yamaha showroom, a good 30 min’s later, all showroom’s closed as it was a sunday. Bummer!! . Then we decided to park the bike in a friends house in Salem, so I started calling my realtives and after about 30 min’s finally found a place to park the vehicle and Sauban was to come back to Salem, fix the bike and ride it back to Bangalore. Other option was to hire a towing vehicle which would carry the bikes to Bangalore. This was agreed upon, and after 15 min’s found someone who would do it. Just then one of the guys around came forward to help us, and asked us what happened. We explained him the situation, and he called his friends who came over opened up the bike and found out that it was indeed a fuse problem and fixed it. My bikes Allen’s key came to the rescue here

. After a good 2 hours the bike was fixed, we all were very happy that the bikes was finally fixed and we can move on. Just then we realized, we had not yet had our lunch and it was already 6 pm. We also started getting calls that the guys who didn’t stop at Salem had reached Bangalore.

Sauban's bike had attracted a crowd.

We decided to move on and stop somewhere at a good place for Lunch/Dinner. It was around 7, somewhere near Dharmapuri we decided to stop for lunch. We decided to take it easy and have a good dinner. After a hearty meal, I told the guys that the traffic here is going to be insane at this time, let’s all stick together, and everyone lets have our left indicators On, so that we can keep track of each other. I would like to confess that at this point I was scared, and my wife even asked me to stay over at Dharmapuri and ride the next day. I knew that was not going to be an option and I asked everyone to stay close to each other, and lets try to move together. It was around 8:00 pm when we left that place and we still had a good 150 KM’s yet to cover.

Before starting I asked everyone again, keep your left indicators On.

The Perfect Storm
As per plan we all left together staying close to each other and keeping our left indicators On. Sauban’s headlight was not working so the other 2 YRC guys had to stay close to him to light up the street ahead for him. I and Jeevan decided to tail them. But the plan never worked, we were never able to stay together after some time. The YRC guys moved ahead and I and Jeevan trying to weave through the traffic just kept losing the YRC guys.
In the chaos of trying to stay together I and Jeevan ended up even having close calls. I had asked Jeevan to keep his left indicator On, so that i could know from the rear view mirror, where he would be, but he was not keeping the left indicator On and I couldn’t know where he was. Without knowing where he was I would try to overtake a vehicle in front of me. This would make trouble for Jeevan bcos even he had to take many risky overtakes just to stay with me. I realized later that Jeevan had his left-indicator On, but bcos of his headlight i couldnt make out the left indicator of his vehicle.
I and Jeevan never were angry with each other in the whole ride, but this stretch had really pissed us off on each other. This was the first time we lost it on each other. I was pissed off that I couldnt track where Jeevan was and Jeevan was wondering why am I making these turns without me realizing where he is.

So at one point we both stopped, and Jeevan told me in a harsh tone,
Jeevan : your getting in my way, when your overtaking
Me : I dont even know where you are, your not even having your indicator On.
Jeevan : I have my indicator On, all the time.
Me : I just dont see it.
Jeevan : OK, I will honk at you only then you try an overtake.
Me : OK

This plan also did not work, eventually there were so many guys honking at each other I wasn’t able to figure out whether it’s Jeevan or someone else. This was getting just too risky and there were reckless drivers all over. At one point, I even made up my mind that I am not able to keep track of Jeevan let me just move ahead. Trying to stay together was just very difficult. At one point I even remember I was on the left lane and I was trying to find from my rear view mirror, where Jeevan is, suddenly from a blind spot in pitch dark , a truck from off the road, with no lights tries to enter the lane I am riding in. It was at the nick of time, I noticed the truck and went to the right lane, which fortunately had no speeding idiot, and overtook the truck and got back into the left lane. This staying together was not working at all. I remember I could see the YRC guys ahead and i was trying to catch up with them and the wind was howling inside my helmet, and the rear view mirror there was this tide of vehicles which were attacking from behind, i Just had ride and stay ahead or the wave would just consume me. But Jeevan was also behind me, all throughout the ride we worked on a plan and always stayed together, but here all our plans were falling apart, and I wanted to complete this ride along with him, and we only about 80 KM’s away from Bangalore.

At one point we stopped for tea, and Jeevan had totally lost it, he was not able to stay with me , and I was unable to find where he is. The traffic was just insane. He came to me and he told you go ahead, I can’t stay with you. I knew that he had lost it, and I agreed that here no plans were working for us. So I told , OK i will be ahead, dont try to stay with me, just ride the way it is comfortable to you. At this point I was really pissed with Sauban, becase Sauban had mentioned that he had seen the bike was having problem’s even before he started the ride, then why did he get it. This was not the way our ride was supposed to come to an end, not because Sauban was careless in getting a vehicle with a problem. Anyways I and Jeevan continued to ride and finally we met up with Sauban and the other 2 riders near Attibele. I didn’t want to discuss about how much discomfort it had caused to other riders because of someone else’s carelessness. So I asked Sauban casually that please dont bring a vehicle along for a ride if it already has a problem. No matter which way I put it it was going to sound bad, but I knew I had to say this.
So I told Sauban that from next time do not take chances on such long rides. By this time I realized that Sauban was already feeling very guilty for his actions, and I felt like an a** for trying to explain things to him. My intention was to try and explain a point in a non-offending way, but Sauban seemed to have had a bad day already and I just made it worse for him.

Sorry Sauban. This was when the other 2 guys and Jeevan took advantage of this situation and started teasing me about how I would have killed Sauban if they were not there, and would have probably beaten up everyone at the toll booth, lol . And Sauban also mentioned that it was Saquib’s fault that the bike broke down, lol. It was also the end of The Perfect Storm.

I just want to apologise again, in case I hurt anyone's feelings by the way I reacted

Anyways we were all glad that we all reached safely, and Saquib was to meet us near Electronics city toll gate, and pick up Sauban. So we all met up near Electronic city , handed Sauban over to his brother

. Split our ways and we decided to head back home. We were in Bangalore

We reached Bangalore. We decided to meet up near madiwala, which did not happen, as I couldn't find anyone. So I went on and I started to ride to home.

It was around 11:30 pm when I reached home, I stopped my vehicle in front of my garage, and took a good 2 min’s to sink what I had just done. I looked at my bike and just smiled. I saw the odometer reading and it was showing 8104 KM’s. It was 5100 KM’s when I started. I opened the garage, parked my bike, unloaded my luggage, went inside and messaged Jeevan and others that I just reached home. All my friends congratulated us both. I told everybody that I am tired and I am going to sleep. Freshened up, turned off my cell phone and i went to sleep.

To put it in simple words. It was an Amazing experience

and thanks to Jeevan for riding with me and all my friends and family members who helped us during the ride.

Here's the one and only photo of Jeevan and me together, on our way back on the last day at a petrol bunk in Salem.

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