good good brother, let me know when are u planning to ride next if everything goes well it would be a pleasure to ride along with you all

My suggestion.... why not tdo a trip again just to enjoy the experience of new chain. lol

That narration was nice. I strongly want to go for a long ride now. Would need help of people like you.... new angles for pics or better follow you.
Amazed at the spirit of riding you hold !!

Hi Aryan!
Good to see you finally doing this much awaited trip!

Photographs are wonderful & coupled with mesmeric text... the whole travelogue makes me feel nostalgic!

Keep it up. Good luck.

Sachin sir! WOW! You reply. THANKS A TON for gracing this thread. Your reply is like rain in the Spiti Valley - really scarce!

On a serious note, thanks a lot sir, am glad you liked the pictures and the text.

@ Aryan & DCS: Fantastic guyz, you people were really on a ride... i've no words for the photographs and log... gr8

it's now high on my list..

@ Aryan: i want to see all these photographs at a stream...

Well, owing to the fact that Aryan is one such person who is equally good at keyboard as he is with the lens, so I would like to keep my Travelogue short, simple, crisp. So all of you, who were expecting to go through an epic of Heroic Deeds by Two on Two Two Wheelers, am extremely sorry for letting you down.!!!
But for all those, who like a punch, with a difference, at a different angle, on a different face…well, guess, you will kill yourself after going through my Darn Write up. My heartfelt sympathies to all of you for you all are about to experience a torture of the lifetime.

If the purported write-up is in 'invisible' ink as the situation appears, then the torture needs Human Rights intervention.

In other words, where is the torturous log young man!!

My Dear Old Fox, please be patient, please pull out your shining Armour, you might feel the need very soon!!


Day 1:




Pushed off from B2L’s Place, tanked up at Pragati Maidan Fuel Station, met Desideep at Dhaula Kuan, looked at the Watch, it’s One in the Morning……F#%k You Desi, we are late!
Reached the G.T Karnal Road, rode for some more time and here comes the Border. Buss!! Ab k baad say saree incoming calls pay paisa lageyga…Sh!t, this is going to be a massive meltdown in my financial circuit! (whatever that meant!!!)
Some more ride towards Karnal and stopped at Gulshan Ka Dhaba, Murthal for some Sutta and Snakes…I mean Snacks!
One Aalo paratha for the time being, any more than that, I would have dozed off to deep slumber, Aryan gulped down one Black colored water in a glass bottle, some call it Pepsi, some call it Toilet Cleaner!! I pulled out one Gold Flake (dumbo! that’s a Cigarette, nothing Golden about it thought!!), smoked out the white smoke, looked at the Dark sky above….. mein zindagi ka saath nibhata chala gaya….. harr FIGURE ko dhooain mein udata chala gaya…..
Gold Flake and a Cup of Tiger Chaap Tea brings out the Beast ,I mean BEST in me…! Looked at the watch again…2.20am … %$#@!!, its pretty late…. Lets hit the road!
Next decided stop was, Karnal, Zhilmil Dhaba. Vroom Vroom and off we go, will not stop before Karnal.
Crossed Panipat Toll bridge, Madhuban too, but the darn F%*#ing drive chain was bringing shame to an Old Railway Engine. Need to get something done for it else I might be challaned by the Highway Patrol for Creating Nuisance on the National Highway. Looked at the clock in the Zma’s meter, its 3.45 am, hmm we are not too much behind the Schedule. Stopped at a petrol Pump near Mayur Dhaba, purchased one pouch of 2T oil. I know I know, you all are going to laugh on me for putting a 2T oil on the drive chain but Pappu, please tell me, is 2T better than nothing at all…!!!!
Rode till Zhilmil Dhaba, Ordered two Cups of Kadak Chai, ripped open the pouch and applied liberally it all over the chain( of my Bike you peverts!!)
Ab free ka maal mil raha ho to Aryan kahaan peechay rehney wala hai…He too applied it on his BIKE’s Chain, while sipping on the Bagh-bakri Chai. Looked at the watch again, its 4.00 am, next stop has to be Panchkula, for filling up the tank, Petrol in Haryana is some 3-4 rs. Cheaper than that in H.P
Massaged…I mean Messaged Black Fire and Kurt Rule in Panchkula that we will be there by 5.45 am.
A fast dash on the Highway till Ambala made sure that we crossed the Kingfisher resort by 5.00am. Stopped to call up Back Fire and Kurt Rule, should tell them that Panchkula is just 40 minutes ride from here. But these drunken Monks would just not pick up…. Kiss my @$$!
Between Ambala and Zirakpur, near Dera Bassi, saw three Motorcyclists on two Motorcycles with some MH registration. The way they were carrying the load on their Vehicles brought shame to TATA 407 owners. Guys, when on the Highway, don’t put almost anything and everything on your vehicle, understand that your vehicle is primarily designed to carry humans and Not some dead weight in some Bloody Panniers that were more shabby than a Rusted Haryana Roadways Bus lying in Rubbles.
Anyways, while I smoked my GF( I mean Gold Flake!!), Aryan crossed the road with a camera in his hand and before I could understand, he started watering the Fence. Aryan….you would just never improve!
Some more ride and we are in Panchkula, standing at the Petrol Station. Ordered to fill up the tanks again. In the meanwhile called up my lovely OLD (Drunked)MONKS, but both of them were perhaps too TALLI to answer the phone.
Time and Tide and DCS wait for no one…ok now that’s a tall claim but am like this only! So we moved on towards Kalka.




Abhi k liyey itna hee, baki ka kariykaram hamari Vigyapan seva k baad!!

So finally Kye and Kibber are up too. When I went to Kibber, I was not too impressed. I was hungry as well. Was desperately looking for something to eat. I ended up eating just biscuits that a'noon! But my experience at Kye has been as memorable as it can get. I was not allowed inside the prayer hall as the monks were praying at that time. There was one who was hitting on the gong. I had posted a photograph somewhere of a monk looking down on the Spiti Valley from the Kye Monastery. Those were touching poignant moments that have remained etched in my memory. Your photographs and text reminded me of my ride.

So... you are not mentioning your diet anymore. Were you still principally on samosas or were you having mostly maggi noodles with cut cabbage as garnishing?

Well, at least on this trip, I had more samosas than I had them collectively in the last decade...ok ok..that was a bit of too much of exaggeration but I hope I have conveyed my point.
Nonetheless, samosas, Chocolate and Chowmein was what we survived on, Tea and Gold Flake for me and Pepsi for Aryan were like ORS on the trip.

But why did Aryan take the camera to water the fence? That is pretty weird and strange. Did he photograph "it"? I guess too much Pepsi.

@Aryan: And be careful... too much Pepsi and you will not have much of teeth left by the time you get to my age! And this is NOT an exaggeration!

Dear Ken, You can't be that Blunt and obscene atleast on this forum. Aryan took the camera across the road not to Photograph "it", but because for the fact that we dint want to waste much time, so we were mostly into multitasking. so while, Aryan was relieving himself, he was shooting the morning sun and some Birds, as while I was Smoking the Gold Flake, I was watching some cool Chicks on the bus stop..heheheheheheheh

@aryan did [low] temperatures created any problem to the camera and lenses aryan? i've heard some guys faced slight problems with the hardware especially the auto focus motor of AF lenes ...

@DCS - Now if you say that your writing skills are not good.... I guess you should read what I write?? I couldn't help but laugh out loud in office & everybody curiously giving tht what the f&*^ are you doing in presence of VP??

Watering the fence with camera was a good episode & smoking GF.
Just Imagine!!

No! You do not "Water the fence with the camera". You multitask. You shoot with the camera and you water the fence with something "else"! Simultaneously.