awesome log n pics...just luved it!!!!

21 years n u r working??![:O]

Thank you.

@ananth: Loved the day four log and the pics too !
Its gonna be tough to keep up with you and your blackbird literally, as well as in terms of touring rep

Btw, you ought to have given that victor jerk the universal sign of non-acceptance, demonstrated by elevating the middle finger of your dominant hand with the remaining fingers closed

Need i explain more?

just went through the entire post man..

Amazing snaps..!
and nice detailed log..
stuck up with college and exams.
planning a long one myself to Munnar lots of memories attached to that place, did my schooling there..

Hi Anant, Saw ur triplog and its absolutly brilliant....loved the writeup and the pics are also very nice........

Regards

Thank you so much. And Its not the matter of keeping up. Start your bike, rev up.. and you will be in your own world.. then i would have a hard time keeping up with you

Hey thank you mate, glad you liked it. Good luck for your rides!

Hey Anup. Thank you, My ride was just based out of your your "5 days and 1500 kms trip" log

Thanks Abhishek. The pic was my fav too

And good luck for your new lid. Do replace the visor at least once in two - three months for better visibility @ nights.

He Bro

Sorry for the late reply .Yes i missed this trip for sure .What a waste of me . Well as you say i am not that great with the FZ still lot to learn for me as well .Not getting time these days to take it out and work with it . Will join you for sure the next time .Do let us know .The picks that you have shown has a story to tell by themselves . Nice .

Thanks Bro. Would let you know for sure. Want to re do the Valparai - Pollachi stretch once again and missed out on the 'TOP Slip' last time.

So next time we will do a relaxed trip around Valparai

Day 5: A burnt up ride..

The day started with a painful morning, with every inch of my body paining at its own will. 6 30 AM, got up late.. called up Thy and asked if he is coming to meet me up, one last time.. He nodded and i went into have a hot bathe.. 7 AM and i was ready. Paked up things and i was just relaxing myself, a long day awaited me.. 7 30 AM, keerthy was at the door., we cheked out the hotel and went in for the nearby hotel for a coffee. Burnt up the engines and our first stop was a few kilometers away, my dads school. A few snaps on it and we were on. Checked up the tire pressures and we were on. Thy accompanied me till the highway that leads towards karur, as i was not quite sure of directions.






Bad luck, Thy sped past me i was again stranded in the middle of nowhere. My batters fuse went kaput, and so keenly changed to the spare one i had. Switched on to the other spare and the same again. So now, no more spares and a early sunday morning, no mechanics around. Tough day indeed.. i already started sweating, and time was running by. Thy came back after sometime not knowing what really had happened. He then called up his mechanic and he arrived in sometime. He fixed up with the fuse, and asked me to change it with some other mechanic enroute to chennai. Started up the bike, a few kilometers further, the same thing happened.

The mechanic came to help and this time he fixed up the lines directly, and so no more fuses. I really didnt knew the alter effects of giving the lines directly. I asked if it would hurt and he checked up the ride and again swapped back to the old fuse and connected the lines with a fuse wire. So then the ride came back to life once again. They parted up back to Pollachi where in i started towards tharapuram.






The roads were decent, with wind mills all around a pleasant sight and ofcourse seeing the wind mills for the first time. Stopped by for a few pics and didnt turn off the engine and i was scared to let anything wrong happen. Stopped by Tharapuram, asked for directions and checked with a mechanic if anything wrong with the lines / battery. He checked out and said its clean. A hundred kilometers passed by and i could sense the wires / battery been heated up., and with riding non stop with such a hot weather was a No-No. And soon the ride came to a grinding hault.









Twenty kilometers from Karur, on a perfect village with no mechanics or anything to help me out. Pushed the bike for a kilometer, but nothing to help. thankfully, a guy came to help without even asking for it. He promptly towed me up for the next 5 kilometers and dragged me off till 5 road, the next proper village. Saw a mechanics shop, but the mechanic wasnt there. And my bad, i forgot to recharge my mobile. A tough day indeed. Called up from a local phone booth and he arrived after some 10 minutes. He checked the ride and said he doesnt know anything with these modern bullets. I just asked him what the problem Could be.. he again changed to a new fuse, and the earth wire gone for a toss he changed it.. not sure if he replaed the same perfectly, but he changed it and the bike came back to action. 10 kilometers on, the bike stalled up again. With nothing else to do, i swapped to to the direct lines.

The ride was smooth, but for the political meetings.. the roads were too crowded and got stuck up in mad traffic in Karur owing to Amma's campaign. And so again, inch by inch movement under the hot sun, i was just more than scared to know what could happen. Thankfully, in the next thirty minute i crossed the strech and was on the other end of the road leading towards trichy. 20 more kilometers, i was just beginning to beleive that i would make it, the bike stopped with the wires smoking up. I saw the wires burnt up and huge smoke from the battery. Sigh.. nothing else to do, pushed up up the bike for another 2 kilometers, and put it up with a mechanic. he promptly asked me to parcel the bike and send it to the showroom as the whole wiring kit needs to be replaced.



Got a mini truck to tow up the bike again back to karur, and stopped by a parcel service office. KRLS it was, they packed the bike and loaded it into their truck. My bike couldnt come along as the trucks would leave only by night and reach the next day morning. I went in search of a bus, to chennai and there wasnt a bus until 9PM. So had to take a town bus to trichy, and i was sweating like anything. 2 30 PM, it was and the bus moved up briskly. From 2 wheels to 8 wheels, indeed disheartening Its part and parcel of such trips, Called up dad and said i will be late. Reached trichy by 4 45 PM and found a bus to chennai. A normal bus, and thats the only one available. The bus started by 5 PM and finally reached back Chennai by 11:55 PM.

So, 5 days in and around Kerala, The Gods own Counry & The Enchanting Tamail nadu. 1500 kilometers of fun filled riding and 300+ kilometers of suffering on a cramped up bus. A different experience, Riding solo has its own experiences and this ride was one such.

Thanks for reading.

The last part of the log where the TBTS issues cropped up shocked me
I was of the opinion that the bike ran flawlessly throughout the trip. The wiring issues came out of the blue
Must've been pretty irritating to send your bike home in a truck and return by bus...

How's she doing now?

Yes she is fine .. Did a small 150 kilometer trip after that.

Pics are here

Fantastic log man, really liked it. Really tough end to the trip though.

It's bad that even latest models from RE are unreliable for long trips. Now I know why you were talking about changing the bike that day.

Nice beautiful trip ananth... Keep it up...