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  • [Photo Feature]: 900 Kms : First solo ride : Mumbai-Mahabaleshwar-Sangli

    MUMBAI TO SANGLI

    Route:- Mumbai to Poladpur(NH17) -- Poladpur to Mahabaleshwar (Road in pretty bad condition) -- Mahabaleshwar to Satara (State Highway )


    It was a marriage invitation from one of my friend, which strategically turned into a Tour. Actually I was having no idea how I will be reaching Sangli by other options. So I chose the most usual option

    Friday Night parties are hard to skip. That is the one of the reason i had missed most of the Rides happened on Saturday's .So it was a regular Friday. With small booze party concluded by couple of Cards session.
    Woke at 4 am Sharp in Saturday morning and slept again, the next time I woke up it was 6:30 . Too late to start for a long ride.

    Got dressed up after finishing the usual activities and started rolling at 7:15 .

    Some Good Morning pictures


    GM Mumbai


    Formation



    Track...to GOA



    Good Omens



    While riding on NH17 spotted some caves on the left..also saw that there are plenty of stairs to climb to reach the caves.So my lazy A** didn't gave it a go,went ahead.But after going for 1Km and Half..I said let's do it.Came back and started climbing.

    PaanchPandav caves





    Sankeerna Marg..



    Main Hall



    Finally Me



    Didn't came that well..I am still learning



    I waited 20 mins for this beautiful fly to give me a glance..






    After clicking some pictures came back on NH17.Reached Poladpur and took a left turn form there for Mahabaleshwar.The road from Poladpur till Mahabaleshwar was in very very very BAD condition.
    The next stop was Mahabaleshwar.Didn't covered much point in Mahabaleshwar as i was short of time. Met UMESH(fellow Mumbai XBHPIAN) with one of his friend. He advised me not to visit the points as they are very crowdy.

    Visited Wilson point and One more point on the way to Mumbai Satara.Also took a dip in Kanher dam reservoir.

    More pics will be uploaded soon

    Last set here


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    Biru
    Last edited by beruoist; 12-01-2009, 07:05 PM.
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    • #3
      congratulations on your first solo trip buddy
      and whoof 900 kms its amazing
      nice gm pics
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      • #4
        Beedoo... your pics rocked man.. seriously.. some mind blowing pics..Especially your bike on the track..the sunrise..and the flies.. .. great shots.. Congrats for your first solo ride.

        The road from Poladpur to Mahab was never actually in good condition. I used it around 2 years back by car and it was in pathetic condition.. The other side of the ghat is in wonderful condition though.. BTW, was is worst than the road which DK made us to ride on during the Roha ride?

        Anyways, congrats for the wonderful ride and share some more pics yaar.

        JUST A NOTE: If am not wrong, you are talking bout Umesh - the one who comes with me, right? Well he's not an xBhpian technically. Be careful while addressing anybody as xBhpian as already one case is up where people pretended to be xBhpians while they were cought by cops Besides he's an outrageously risky rider. Ask lonelyrider It's just he accompanied me for a few rides and flicked a sticker from MG during Mega g2g.. That's it.

        Waiting for more pics n the log....
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        • #5
          Pretty good pictures Rohit.. Please spice it up with a detailed log too

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          • #6
            The road from Poladpur to M'war aint that bad .The first 10 -12 kms , 50-60kmph.
            after that I was doing 60-90z in some places , You have some odd potholes , thats all .I was riding during twilight and dark.

            1 thing i needed to tell From my experience with interaction with frenz from MH.. WHenever a Guy from MH says the road is V V V Bad , that means you can do 80's without trouble.

            The roads in Karnataka is so damn pathetic that , riding in MH was a bliss for me .
            The worst road in MH is way better than roads in Bangalore city man , dont crib :-) U guys are really lucky used to butter smooth roads , Dont crib ...:-D

            Here is a pic from the last week's ride to M'war.
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            • #7
              Nice pix ...

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              • #8
                superb pix there biru bhai..! And congrats for your long solo ride.. how about a party for that
                waiting for more..!!!


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                • #9
                  Bewde.. congrats for your first solo ride, it was your dream too. I am surprised how did you managed to start so early after that friday night and moreover this time there was no wake up call for you. Even you invited me to join but I couldn't due to some office work thingy at saturday.
                  Looking at the snaps it looks like "mere sangat ka asar hai" nice clicks BASANTI, I taught you well
                  This time I was expecting a torture log as well and I was ready for it.
                  BTW where are the photos of Kass lake, I can remember you were planning to visit that place too.
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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by rio.acharya View Post
                    congratulations on your first solo trip buddy
                    and whoof 900 kms its amazing
                    nice gm pics
                    Thanks RIO

                    Beedoo... your pics rocked man.. seriously.. some mind blowing pics..Especially your bike on the track..the sunrise..and the flies.. .. great shots.. Congrats for your first solo ride.

                    The road from Poladpur to Mahab was never actually in good condition. I used it around 2 years back by car and it was in pathetic condition.. The other side of the ghat is in wonderful condition though.. BTW, was is worst than the road which DK made us to ride on during the Roha ride?

                    Anyways, congrats for the wonderful ride and share some more pics yaar.

                    JUST A NOTE: If am not wrong, you are talking bout Umesh - the one who comes with me, right? Well he's not an xBhpian technically. Be careful while addressing anybody as xBhpian as already one case is up where people pretended to be xBhpians while they were cought by cops Besides he's an outrageously risky rider. Ask lonelyrider It's just he accompanied me for a few rides and flicked a sticker from MG during Mega g2g.. That's it.

                    Waiting for more pics n the log....
                    Thanks Buddy..yes it was worst than the ROHA one...as some of the strech of that Rohan ride was pretty good and some was bad,but here complete road from poladpur to Mahabaleshwar was MESS

                    Oh Umesh XBHP'ian nai he kya....chalta he yaar

                    Pretty good pictures Rohit.. Please spice it up with a detailed log too
                    Thanks NIO

                    The road from Poladpur to M'war aint that bad .The first 10 -12 kms , 50-60kmph.
                    after that I was doing 60-90z in some places , You have some odd potholes , thats all .I was riding during twilight and dark.

                    1 thing i needed to tell From my experience with interaction with frenz from MH.. WHenever a Guy from MH says the road is V V V Bad , that means you can do 80's without trouble.

                    The roads in Karnataka is so damn pathetic that , riding in MH was a bliss for me .
                    The worst road in MH is way better than roads in Bangalore city man , dont crib :-) U guys are really lucky used to butter smooth roads , Dont crib ...:-D

                    Here is a pic from the last week's ride to M'war.
                    Thanks Santoosh..Anyway i agree with fact that Maharashtra has some pretty good roads.But one which i took was in pretty bad condition..and i will stick to that

                    Nice pix ...
                    Thanks AARUN

                    superb pix there biru bhai..! And congrats for your long solo ride.. how about a party for that
                    waiting for more..!!!
                    Thanks Phachit bhai..yeah sure lets have a wada paav and Flavoured soda party at my place

                    More pics of Mahabaleshwar ghat and Kanher Dam coming up..

                    Bewde.. congrats for your first solo ride, it was your dream too. I am surprised how did you managed to start so early after that friday night and moreover this time there was no wake up call for you. Even you invited me to join but I couldn't due to some office work thingy at saturday.
                    Looking at the snaps it looks like "mere sangat ka asar hai" nice clicks BASANTI, I taught you well
                    This time I was expecting a torture log as well and I was ready for it.
                    BTW where are the photos of Kass lake, I can remember you were planning to visit that place too.
                    Dhanyaawad..haan sab aapki sikhai vidya hi kaam aa rahi he...kass nai jaa paya mien kyunki woh thoda ander jaake tha main road se...and i was running out of fuel..torture log ab nai.. bechaari public ko zabardasti likhna padta he nice and interesting log

                    Mahabaleshwar ghat and kass lake ki pics abhi remaining he.

                    Cheers
                    Biru
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                    • #11
                      oye beedoo....roha ko "rohan"...bechare rachit ko "phachit"...seems you are compensating for the adhuri party of friday

                      nice pics...saw on orkut though...

                      aur yeh log...kharab raaston pe jaane ke liye humesha mujhe hi dosh dete hai
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                      • #12
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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by beruoist View Post
                          Thanks Buddy..yes it was worst than the ROHA one...as some of the strech of that Rohan ride was pretty good and some was bad,but here complete road from poladpur to Mahabaleshwar was MESS
                          hmmmmmmm...

                          Oh Umesh XBHP'ian nai he kya....chalta he yaar
                          hehe..nope.. he's not an xBhpian..
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                          • #14
                            And last set of pics...

                            Reached Mahabaleshwar at 1:00 pm.

                            Took Several stops between Poladpur to Mahabaleshwar to click the Hill views.







                            Spot the Bullet guy



                            2-3 Kms before Mahabaleshwar



                            Finally reached Mahabaleshwar,Did lunch and started rest of the journey.While i was in the way to Satara i spotted WILSON POINT board..So i took the turn and visited the point.Nothing much to see.Hills again

                            WILSON POINT



                            Wilson point part 2



                            Part 3



                            There was another point on the way named "BAGHDAD POINT"..Clicked some shots

                            Baghdad Point



                            Part 2



                            The Mahabaleshwar to Satara road was pretty good..It did not took much time to reach Kanher Dam..Actually i had planned to visit kass as well,but i was running out of Petrol.And it was bit inside from the state highway.
                            Reached Kanher dam,Entry to the Dam was restricted so took the offroad way.

                            Kanher Lake

                            See the electric pole in the middle



                            Part 2



                            Some juntaa



                            Dam close up



                            First Angle



                            Second Angle




                            After leaving Kanher,i stopped in satara for refuelling.Satara is hardly 5-6 Km from Kanher dam.After doing full tank rode 60-70 Km non-stop until i reached Sangli.After reaching checked-in in a hotel.I was dead tired,so some booze was required to sleep in peace.But to my surprise it was dry day there..beacuse of bakreed.But someone said "Determined peoples always find thier way"...and so did I..after 30 mins of roaming i finally got 2 bottles of KF strong for 220 rs only.Took it to the hotel..enjoyed and finally slept.

                            The Next day attended my friends wedding..which started from 11 am and ended at 3:30 pm (for me)..After see off i went to hotel and quickly packed up my stuff and started rolling back.

                            Sangli to NH4 strech was pretty good.Fields adjacent to the road were covered by Sugarcane.Stopped in between and checked out..the soil was black one.The most productive type of soil

                            Some pics of fields around Sangli













                            That's all

                            Took 2 break's between Sangli and Pune.Reached Pune at 8:00 Pm

                            Rested for 1 hour at friend's place,then started for Mumbai at 9:30..Reached Home at 12:30

                            After having Dinner immediately went to sleep.


                            Cheers
                            Biru
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                            • #15
                              @ Biru : Your photograph's quality has increase many folds as it was earlier..good going..

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