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The MaxBhp Festival 2016, Umiam: the 110cc ride across 10 states and one international border
nd and 23rd of April and here I was on the 11th
Day 1: Central India. #Hindustan ka Dil Dekho ads had enticed me enough to visit the heart of India numerous times and I decided this was as good a time as any. My initial itinerary was to pass through Anantpur, Hyderabad, Nagpur, Jabalpur, Varanasi, Darbangah, Siliguri, Guwahati and finally Shillong. Friends harped upon the heat wave passing through the country. Bah! These fellows. I will be fine, 200 km into the ride I was pouring entire bottles of mineral water down my jacket. Hot is an understatement. I had started the ride with enough jackets and gloves to complete a mission to Antarctica. I reached Hyderabad at 530 pm on Day 1, 564 km from Bangalore in a pair of shorts and a T-shirt. (I did contemplate if I should ride topless, but better sense prevailed. The stern looking cops in Andhra Pradesh had a lot to do with this decision!)
One really cannot say one has to been to MP and not visited the brilliant Marble Rocks at Bhedaghat. And what a place it was!
Day 8: The Last day: The 3 riders on their Apache 200s and I got together in Guwahati. Gourab, Deepak and Avinash and a bunch of other people I had only met on Facebook before ensured that the final strength of the number of riders on the road from Guwahati to Shillong was a comfortable 30 plus. Kaleem Ma, Khiyar Pasha, Akash Dutta, Himajit, Sunil and I travelled the last 80 odd km to Shillong together. Great roads, and the locale! The next 48 hours were spent in taking photographs. Head banging in the Rock Concert, taking photographs, meeting new friends from Bangalore (I am talking about you Karthik), taking photographs by the side of Umiam lake with Khiyar, Akash, Himajit and Sunil and of course taking more photographs.
nd and 23rd of April and here I was on the 11th
Day 1: Central India. #Hindustan ka Dil Dekho ads had enticed me enough to visit the heart of India numerous times and I decided this was as good a time as any. My initial itinerary was to pass through Anantpur, Hyderabad, Nagpur, Jabalpur, Varanasi, Darbangah, Siliguri, Guwahati and finally Shillong. Friends harped upon the heat wave passing through the country. Bah! These fellows. I will be fine, 200 km into the ride I was pouring entire bottles of mineral water down my jacket. Hot is an understatement. I had started the ride with enough jackets and gloves to complete a mission to Antarctica. I reached Hyderabad at 530 pm on Day 1, 564 km from Bangalore in a pair of shorts and a T-shirt. (I did contemplate if I should ride topless, but better sense prevailed. The stern looking cops in Andhra Pradesh had a lot to do with this decision!)
One really cannot say one has to been to MP and not visited the brilliant Marble Rocks at Bhedaghat. And what a place it was!
Day 8: The Last day: The 3 riders on their Apache 200s and I got together in Guwahati. Gourab, Deepak and Avinash and a bunch of other people I had only met on Facebook before ensured that the final strength of the number of riders on the road from Guwahati to Shillong was a comfortable 30 plus. Kaleem Ma, Khiyar Pasha, Akash Dutta, Himajit, Sunil and I travelled the last 80 odd km to Shillong together. Great roads, and the locale! The next 48 hours were spent in taking photographs. Head banging in the Rock Concert, taking photographs, meeting new friends from Bangalore (I am talking about you Karthik), taking photographs by the side of Umiam lake with Khiyar, Akash, Himajit and Sunil and of course taking more photographs.
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