The Official Chennai Offline Meet(G2G) Thread

[bikerfas]

@ yuvi - Thanks for making it a bit easy.

Here goes the Ride Plan...

Date - October 14th - Sunday
Starting Time - 5.30am - So please be in the meeting point atleast 5 minutes before

Onward Meeting Point - Chennai Trade Center - Nandambakkam (CTC)
Onward Route - CTC - Kanchipuram - Vellore - Yelagiri

Return Meeting Point - After Sriperumbudur Toll.
Return Route - Yelagiri - Vellore - Sriperumbudur - Chennai

Riding Style - Group Riding - Total Distance will be covered - Approx 500 kms.

Note:
Proper Riding Gear is a mandatory for this Ride.
Use this ride to check/assess your bike whether all are ok or need any minor tweaks/fix.

Rough - Time lines

05.30 - Start From CTC
06.30 - Dr.Sundarshan will be Joining at Kanchipuram
08.15 - Reach Yelagiri
08.30 - Breakfast
09.00 - Discussion on G2G Ride (approx min 1 hour)
11.00 - Start from Yelagiri
12.00 - Reach Ambur - Pick-Up Briyani to stop enroute and Eat or Eat Briyani at Ambur
13.00 - Start Back Ride home
15.00 - Sriperumbudur re-group and Bye's
16.00 - All should be able to reach home.

[Divya Sharan]

Date - October 14th - Sunday
Starting Time - 5.30am - So please be in the meeting point atleast 5 minutes before

Onward Meeting Point - CTC
Use this ride to check/assess your bike whether all are ok or need any minor tweaks/fix.

Sorry for the dumb question saar, but what is CTC?
Chennai Trade Center near Nandambakkam???

Anyone coming from Adyar or Thiruvanmiyur?

[LazyRyder]

Avavan Kavala Avavanuku(Everyone has their own game to play)

See what I propose suits all(atleast most):
Yelagiri is 220 KMs
Start by 5.30 AM - Breakfast at yelagiri by 8.30-9 AM - Chat/discuss till 12 PM - Down to Ambur for briyani by 1 PM - Start Return ride by 2 PM - reach home by 4.30-5.30

I have not been to Javadhu, so I open for that too. Briyani kedaikuma..?

I vote for this only and just for the sake of Biriyaani..otherwise Yelagiri again

[bikerfas]

Sorry for the dumb question saar, but what is CTC?
Chennai Trade Center near Nandambakkam???

Anyone coming from Adyar or Thiruvanmiyur?

Yes it is Chennai Trade Center - Updated my Post.

[bikerfas]

Guyz... heard from my colleague who native is Vellore - that there 6 lane work is happening and most of the part is diversions that we will be riding... anyone recently rode/drove on that route -- let know

[yellowspunk]

Guyz... heard from my colleague who native is Vellore - that there 6 lane work is happening and most of the part is diversions that we will be riding... anyone recently rode/drove on that route -- let know

Yes there are diversions, not that many but its not bad. The diversion roads are paved. Why not Javadhi hills?

[yuv_biKING]

Guyz... heard from my colleague who native is Vellore - that there 6 lane work is happening and most of the part is diversions that we will be riding... anyone recently rode/drove on that route -- let know

Unless we are riding in darks or above 150 KMPH the diversions are okay. Also, do we have a proper place to have Breakfast in yelagiri else we can gobble up in Vellore Saravana Bhavan around 7.30 AM.

[yellowspunk]

Unless we are riding in darks or above 150 KMPH the diversions are okay. Also, do we have a proper place to have Breakfast in yelagiri else we can gobble up in Vellore Saravana Bhavan around 7.30 AM.

Yes, there are couple of hotels in Yelagiri but vellore hsb would be the best option.

[whizzkid_ram]

Unless we are riding in darks or above 150 KMPH the diversions are okay.

Yuvi, Yet again the above task was done by me during my last road trip. Pazhagi pochu! :P

@Dinesh

Take Chennai - Vellore - yelagiri route itself as we gonna ride on the same road for ISG2G also. It would be good run for the newbies!

[rajivenky]

Unless we are riding in darks or above 150 KMPH the diversions are okay. Also, do we have a proper place to have Breakfast in yelagiri else we can gobble up in Vellore Saravana Bhavan around 7.30 AM.

Just came back from a bangalore trip,even at 150kms the diversions are okay.Also u guys woudnt encounter much diversions until yelagiri.

[bikerfas]

Unless we are riding in darks or above 150 KMPH the diversions are okay. Also, do we have a proper place to have Breakfast in yelagiri else we can gobble up in Vellore Saravana Bhavan around 7.30 AM.

Just came back from a bangalore trip,even at 150kms the diversions are okay.Also u guys woudnt encounter much diversions until yelagiri.

Thanks for clearing :-)

Ok guyz... this is it - All Take nice rest and See you all tomorrow at the Meeting point...

[aargee]

Excellent trip; enjoyed the way back from Vellore to Chennai. Thanks Sunny for the company. Pls...let the pics flow guys. Tks.

[bikerfas]

Was a Good Ride today...

Apologizes for Aargee, Sunny and Dr.Sudharashan who were waiting for us. We started 15 minutes late jus for last minute late-comers, which in-turn delayed with slow riding - which made others to wait for half-an-hour...

Now to the point - On the Pre-Ride..

People Attended...
1. Viresh Patel
2. Divya Sharan
3. Jafar
4. Yuvi
5. Rishi
6. Aargee
7. Sriram (YellowSpunk)
8. Sunny
9. Dr.Sudharshan
10. Me (Dinesh)

Non-Attendees...
1. Ananth
2. Ram
3. Raj Mano
4. Sajish
5. Sriram
6. Nishant
7. Rajiv
8. Aravinth
9. Thulasidharan

Here goes the ride...

Started the ride 15 minutes and Aargee joined us near the Motel Highway and we continued our ride to catch up with Sunny waiting for us after Sriperumbudur. From there on the average speed was around 70 which was way too slow to cruise - evading through traffic we reached Kanchipuram where Dr. Sudarshan was awaiting for us - quick catch-up and we started our ride again towards Vellore breakfast - with a short break 30kms before vellore - we reached HSB by 8.40am. Thanks Dr for the the Breakfast treat on the occasion of him owning the New Ninja 650. By the time we completed the breakfast it was 9.30. Decided against riding to Yelagiri and Rode to Amirthi Forest. Had a Discussion on the upcoming others pitched in few. By 11.45 we started from there and after hitting the Chennai Byepass, sunny and Aargee went ahead and rest of us did some group riding - Doc left us at kanchipuram and Me n Jafar bid others near sriperumbudur and took the right to Tambaram - Took left for my home as Jafar went straight ahead.

Few things Discussed today...
1. Riding Group Formation
2. Things to Carry
3. Pointers on Road awareness
4. Tried to get a Conclusion on the (More elaborate Details – will be shared soon)
a. Starting Time
b. Different Groups riding from Chennai
c. Food Stops
d. Fuel Stops
5. How to pack Luggage / Carry less n Necessary stuff

Observed few things which required more concentration
1. Newbie’s riding style
2. Comfort level of newbie’s riding the distance – which needs to be considered which by the way would help in reaching the destination with ease.
3. Riding positions and group split – if all would have turned out we could have discussed – but shouldn't be a problem – we will be catching up a week before the ride to discuss few more pointers and a clear picture on the ride plan.

[Divya Sharan]

Enjoyed the pre ride guys.

Thanks a lot.



Only the heavy downpour at hosur marred the fun resulting in me reaching blr by 5.

[bikerfas]

Enjoyed the pre ride guys.
Thanks a lot.
Only the heavy downpour at hosur marred the fun resulting in me reaching blr by 5.

Good to have your company !!! catch up in future meets...