Hello FellowBikers,

This blog is about the trip which taught me a lot about biking. This was stretch of 2156 km up and down starting from Hosur to Matheran and vice versa.
It all started in Oct 8th by 3:00 AM with two bikes Yamaha R15 V2.0(mine) and Yamaha FZ(friend). We stopped in the AH48 Hosur to fill our tanks and to check the pressure in the tire. We filled our tanks and started our ride towards Bangalore by taking the NICE road where we had two of our friends to join us. ThunderBird and Gixxer.

We started around 430AM from Nelamangala but we had some problems waiting for us. One of our friend bike Gixxer was not used for a month and was serviced recently had some issues with breathing. So it was not able to do more than 40 Kph so we had trouble to moving ahead somehow we managed to reach near Tumkur where we found the Mechanic(Savior) who fixed the bike for us.

Then things went pretty smooth except we were behind the schedule so we had to do Bikethon where we had to travel 200 KM for one stretch. So our Bikethon started around 8:15 AM

Hosur-Nelmangala-Tumkur-Sira-Hubali-Darwad-Belgaum-Kohlapur-Satara we reached Satara by 9 o clock in the night. We checked in the hotel in Satara to continue our travel toward Mahabaleshwar.

Next day 9th October we reached Mahabaleshwar by 10 o clock in the morning. Oh it was drizzling and we had our friend in ThunderBird with GoPro capturing the wonderful things. But the roads were not so good and it took sometime for us to make it up.

So in Mahabaleswar we visited the Lingmala falls and then the Lake and we had a lunch somewhere sorry not able to recall the food joint. OMG..!! I paid 120/- for a curd rice and which was also not so good.

Then the actual treat waiting for us since it was raining and it was around 4 o clock we had a wonderful view of the Venna Lake from the roads and the Rainbow on the sky from the view point which I didnt even notice what it was since the view so good.

So we enjoyed the view till the sunset and start riding our bikes again. Next point was to reach lonavala by night. But then we decided to pull our bikes like 30KM from lonavala and checked in Highway hotel.

Then by morning 7 o clock we started back with our Journey to Lonavala where we had another couple of friends joining us from Mumbai. So it was a Classic 350 and Avenger 220 Cruiser.

We tasted the Vadapav and POHA in Lonavala started the site seeing so we stopped our bikes here and there and enjoyed some view and then started to ride to Matheran- One of the India's dangerous road by noon. We expected the travel time would be 1 hours or 2 hours but what waited for us was different.

The ROADS- Oh man those road to reach Matheran literately broke our backs. I felt that road was the most dangerous road Thanks to google maps . But some how we managed to reach the Matheran Hills starting point.

Then the adventure begins. Wow I haven't seen any roads so steep climbing even two wheeler had to shift to gear one to climb the hills. The road were worn out due to the rain and it was completely offroading and when we made to the Top we felt that we had accomplished something which I am not able to express here in words.

Then by evening we started our descend down the hill and we had our late lunch in a highway motel typical south Indian food and then we had to say good bye to our Mumbai friends who joined and started to cover some kms on the same day so that we will have some breaks on the next day ride back home.

So we headed back to riding past Pune. But we missed to take a left and we ended up in the Pune city and we were lost and with the help of Google Maps and a friend who was good in Hindi helped our group to head back to the National Highway and we rode till 10 o clock and checked in Highway Motel again.

And Next day we started our journey back home. Pune- Satara-Kohlapur-Belgaum-Huballi-Darwad-Davangere-Sira-Chitradurga. So at Chitradurga we were welcomed by rain. But since we were late again we rode in Rain So the rain continued from Chitradurga till Bangalore where we said good bye to our Bangalore friends and we started our Journey back to Hosur.

And the rain didnt stop till we had reached our place. By night 30 minutes passed 12 we made it to our homes and hit our beds

Here is the Trip summary

Hosur-Nelmangala-Tumkur-Sira-Hubali-Darwad-Belgaum-Kohlapur-Satara-Mahabaleshwar-Lonavala-Matheran-Lonavala-Pune-Satara-Kohlapur-Belgaum-Huballi-Darwad-Davangere-Sira-Chitradurga-Tumkur-Bangalore-Hosur

Bike: R15
Total distance:2156 km
Top speed:143kmph
Fuel :44 ltrs
Mileage : 47kmpl
Terrain: highway, off road, ghat section.

Sorry I dont have the data from the FZ/ThunderBird and Gixxer.