The Official Chennai Offline Meet(G2G) Thread

[rameshmadhavan]

Meeting point:Chennai Trade centre
Riders:Me(Ninja),Sunny(Ninja),Ravi(Ninja) and Anath(Comet)
Destination:Yelagiri Hills
Additional Riders from Bangalore(Ninja's):Aditya,Aweas,Alok,Regi
Total Distance:250Kms

Nice Lineup

[Aparajith]

Photo Walk GTG!

Allright folks! Time for a Photo Walk GTG!

Date : 19-December-2010

Meeting Point : Cozee Point, Besant Nagar.

Meeting Time : 07 00 AM.

Places to be covered :

• Snake Park
• Childrens Park
• Vandalur Zoo - With Safari
• Freedom Park / The park near Cathedral Road for portraits.

Suggestions welcome.

Ananth, am in... But lets keep the places to minimum as I said before. Lets spend more time on pics than travelling. Too much travel and we will be tired to concentrate to take snaps! I actually thought of a different set of places - Crocodile park and Mahabalipuram, but we can stick to urs. Lets have Vandalur zoo and snake park alone da... Lets concentrate more on photography than travel/places.

Hey ananth: that was a good initiative.....
Y was that you didnt think of this when i was there???

all the best n keep posting more pics....

Cos this is for beginners machi, not professionals

[n_aditya]

Had a great ride and a fantastic time with the guys from Bangalore, who were a fun loving bunch. Met up with Aditya again - who incidentally has a great sense of humor -he and his friends kept us in splits all night!

What a blast the weekend was. It was awesome fun chillin out with you guys as well. The ride back was fast albeit a bit short on the miles.

Additional Riders from Bangalore (Ninja's) : Aditya,Aweas,Alok,Regi

Nice pics. Alok looks like he is ready to beat someone to pulp.

[n_aditya]

the pics from my camera...

[n_aditya]

some more pics...

[n_aditya]

last set of pics...

[Merlion]

Here is my contribution to the pics

[Sunnyside_up!]

Aditya, Merlion - lovely pics!

Merlion manged to get an awesome shot of my bike - thanks buddy!!

[JonnyRider]

This coming week-end I'm doing a trip to Elagiri on my P220...will post my pics soon after that... guys, any idea for a good place to lodge for one night?

[rameshmadhavan]

the pics from my camera...

No words for this green beauty....my favourite colour.....

[aargee]

Haroon will be here in Chennai from this evening & tomorrow; is anyone interested meeting him? If not, use this opportunity to see his BMW R1200GS

http://www.xbhp.com/talkies/help-me/14566-query-my-forthcoming-peninsula-ride-my-bmw.html

He's riding from Pondicherry to Chennai via ECR this afternoon & I'll be meeting him in & around ECR.

[rameshmadhavan]

Ride Plan

Guys

Am planning for a ride to Kanyakumari from Chennai on 28th on my Lightning 535, the route would be as given below, this would be a 827kms stretch and complete coastal ride except for few kms...havent done this route till date. I had plans of doing solo, but it would be great if some people can join for this ride. plan to come back on 30th (3 days)

Day 1
Pondicherry
Chidambaram
Karaikal
Nagapattinam
Vedaranyam
Adiramapattinam
Kottaipattinam
Thondi
Devipattinam (Possible stay at this place) 590 kms from Chennai

Day 2
Sayalkudi
Tiruchendur
Kulasekarapattinam
Vattakottai fort
Kanyakumari (280 kms from Devipattinam)

From here if we are looking in for a highway ride back, we can take the route via Tirunelveli, Madurai, Trichy, Chennai - 710 kms, else the same route can be taken

Day 2
Kanyakumari
Tirunelveli
Ettaiyapuram (Possible stay) 156 kms from Kanyakumari

Day 3
Madurai
Trichy
Chennai - 554kms

Any suggestions / Feedback would be appreciated

[steveburnside2001]

Guys

Am planning for a ride to Kanyakumari from Chennai on 28th on my Lightning 535, the route would be as given below, this would be a 827kms stretch and complete coastal ride except for few kms...havent done this route till date. I had plans of doing solo, but it would be great if some people can join for this ride. plan to come back on 30th (3 days)

Day 1
Pondicherry
Chidambaram
Karaikal
Nagapattinam
Vedaranyam
Adiramapattinam
Kottaipattinam
Thondi
Devipattinam (Possible stay at this place) 590 kms from Chennai

Day 2
Sayalkudi
Tiruchendur
Kulasekarapattinam
Vattakottai fort
Kanyakumari (280 kms from Devipattinam)

From here if we are looking in for a highway ride back, we can take the route via Tirunelveli, Madurai, Trichy, Chennai - 710 kms, else the same route can be taken

Day 2
Kanyakumari
Tirunelveli
Ettaiyapuram (Possible stay) 156 kms from Kanyakumari

Day 3
Madurai
Trichy
Chennai - 554kms

Any suggestions / Feedback would be appreciated

my suggestion will be to skip the coastal route as the roads will be bad/worse.

take the route from chennai - trichy - madurai = tirunalvelli - kanyakumari - it should be around 750 kms and very my doable in one day if you start early. try to start at 3 and you should be able to see the sunset on the same day.

day 2 - head to kovalam beach in the morning(about 60kms) and come back before sunset.

day 3 - follow day 1 route in reverse.

[rameshmadhavan]

Thanks Steve....I agree with you on the road conditions, dint want to do the same monotonous route and also wanted to ride through the sea breeze....return will be doing the route as mentioned which would be around 710kms...onward would be 800+kms and return would be around 700+

verymuch doable in 3 days

[aargee]

Ramesh - Latest updates

Pondy->Cuddalore - Roads are in bad state. Potholed but drivable. Takes appx 45mins-1 hr roughly in peakhours. off-peak could take 30 mins.

Cuddalore->Chidambaram - First 10 kms upto Cuddalore is very bad. Lots of stretches with no roads. After that its good.

Beautiful bye-pass roads are built to byepass Chidambaram and Sirkazhi town. Kadaloor to Sirkazhi will take 75 mins appx to cover in peak traffic. The bye-pass roads are not properly marked yet.