Goa I am coming

With the left(CPI-M) screwing the development of India and congress projecting rahul gandhi as their messiah I think I cant take it anymore of daily news. I think its time for me to leave office and leave bangalore and make news of my own. with all the political instability in karnataka I hope to make stable planned trip to goa for 5 days with my friend adarsh on our bikes.

so finally I am done with the shopping list for the trip but still I feel I am missing something. anyways bike is feeling good after it got its new lightening handle bar ... Adarsh adviced me to sleep early which is so unlike me. I always end up partying, drinking day before I ride and mostly ride in hangover.. But he is right since we will be riding whole day at pretty good speed so need all the concentration. so no wine and dine tonight, which catch up with sonal and virat(couple of the month) for cup of coffee at barista. there is this story which I remember now( I repeat the word remember ) its like sometime back virat, the man of the moment, blasted the hell out of waiter at this particular barista for pathetic service and waiter gave him very meEn;) look. Now he think its not a good idea to goto barista for sometime. so it will be interesting to see whether the waiter remembers virat tonight or not. Whatever happens, I am not ordering anything tonight at barista..lol just light dinner and will hit the bed early.

Also there is lot of changes since the trip idea was conceived. now we are going directly to goa and will try doing west coast while coming back. with south west monsoon hitting west coast I hope to beat the game which rain is playing with me these days.. simply get drenched..

its a 5 day trip and since the bike is brand new I am not carrying lot of spares but still as a biker I think following thing are must.
one accelerators cable
one clutch cable
one spark plug

My personal stuff going to be something like following
1 jacket
6 tees,
3 jeans,
2 shorts, 1 track,
1 running shoes(yes I plan to run everyday),
1 slipper,
4 pairs of shocks,
6 underwear
pack of toiletries, camera and FRISBEE

So see you all after 5 days.
Cheers
Rajesh

Ride to Tirumala

On 22nd night I learnt that I have to reach tirumala by 9 am next morning for an important work which would decide my future... DAMN. Worse this was going to be my first ever ride to tirupati. So idea of taking bus was floating in my mind, but I trusted my raging bull who is ever ready and 3000 kms old now, So I simply decided to ride and come back on the same day.I started from my place around 5 am. Plan was to drive on NH4 and take really less stops. So I planned my first stop at CCD@kolar for coffee. The problem I face with coffee breaks@CCD is that I always spend more than required time simple 'coz its so relaxing. Road was great and to my luck traffic was less. Raging Bull was doing 100+ all the time given it was due for second service. So in no time I reached chittoor and still it was 7.45 am. So I decided to take a extended butt break and started for tirumala. and weather only became better with every km. the ghat section was free from traffic and was cloudy.
I reached hilltop at 9.10. My personal record, I did 292 kms in 4 hrs 10 mins. Spend some time, got the job done and left that place for bangalore at 1.20 pm.
reached Bangalore while it was raining around 7.10. but thanks to my Cramster riding gear I wasn't wet and cold.
Over all did 602 in 14 hrs out of which i rode for 9 hrs. Proud of my bike which brought me home safely in tough conditions. Owe it to the quality of roads also and less traffic which allowed me to do high speeds for long stretches. the rest of the picture are here


Distance: From JP nagar to Tiruamal it was around 292 kms.

Road condition: In general the road condition is good is excellent but watch for few potholes 'coz they come all of the sudden on such a good road

Route - Bangalore - Kolar - Chittoor - Chandragiri- Tirumala

IT'S GOA BABYY!!!!

For long I have planning to ride along west coast from mangalore to goa. with ady showing interest plan is on. raj, jugs might join us. so here's the plan for goa and for photography..No brownies to guess but easiest part was to plan for 4th november which is driving back from goa - straight to bangalore :)

might start at 30th and halt at mangalore and then continue from below..but as if know this the plan..

31st Oct Start early morning by 5.30 sharp (we have to stick to it)Drive to Mangalore on NH 48 via Kunigal - Channarayapatna - Hassan - sakleshpur - mangalore (360 Kms) Take a Big BreakDrive to Maravanthe on NH 17 reach by late evening and halt for the night (105)

1st Nov Early morning enjoy the sight at maravantheand start after break fast and leave for murdeshvar island(60kms) and drive to Go-karna for lunch(80 kms) and chill out rest of the evening day and night

2nd Nov Early morning see OM Kudle beach, do photography and start after breakfast and reach karwar(60 kms) beach (photography) and finally reach palolem by evening and chill out in the evening and night..port wine and good food....

3rd Nov start for goa city and chill out for full day and night(maybe at anjuna or calangute)

4th Nov Start early and drive back to bangalore 578 kms and reach home by night time..... killer driving....

here are my thoughts why goto goa, jus chill out palolem for two days, its a better, cheaper place, less crowded and lot of foreigners.....also we will save 200 kms of driving....

and joey of FRIENDS would have said "IT'S GOA BABYY"

RTMC - CAMAN THE ENJAIMENT

CAMAN THE ENJAIMENT , no this is not a typo but the way southies speak common the enjoyment.. I like it 'coz it has got a accent now...this three words are the punch line for all the events held by my club RTMC. So when september comes which is when RTMC was formed, RTMC organizes anniversary ride and party for club members. Sometime late mods emailed "6A pardy, CAMAN THE ENJAIMENT"
and the list of bikers started swelling everyday. and within few days we had close to 150 bikers ready to pardy(another RTMC lingo, maybe due to huge mallu crowd in the club) at captiol village, Madikere on 29th and 30th sept.

I too invited my friend raj to witness the event and make an lasting impression on him about RTMC. We were all set to ride and I stopped drinking 2 weeks back to save my for the day and drink as much as possible. and the one night prior my good old friend ady boy called me to his club to plan the ride. And I knew I am in trouble, 'coz his HSR club is meant only for drinking and eating. And if you resist you are a bad bad business man for letting go the opportunity of drinking cheap black dog. So promising myself to restrict to one large I met Ady. But its a different thing that I came home at 2 am after gossiping with him having 4 large. thanks to the thirst I was having ever since i decided to save my self for the pardy. and worst I had to get up by 5 am and ride 270 kms.
Eventually Raj gave me call and woke me up and we met at bangalore university gate where few bikers where waiting I remember sam, hosay, goop to name a few. Ours was the batch of volunteers as we had to reach before the actual group and take care of things. And so we started riding around 6 am after deciding to ditch anil for good cause. and ride was smooth, weather was good, I missed the turn near srirangapatna but was soon able to catch up with them. I was also donning the riding gear bought just 2 days back and was really happy for some reason. Then we met rain and sunshine and dust too...
finally at siddapura we took the ghat road and man ghats get me horny in totally different way. while it was drizzling I was driving my bike at risky speed. I was scared hence careful but just couldnt slow down. Finally reach capitol hill and met rest of the pack. Finally after 1 hrs the main group arrived and whole valley was echoing with soothing thumping sound of 100 bullets.
Rest of day went escorting people to there room, yeah I volunteered for that.

And finally in the evening pardy started with DJ sam trying to play numbers to satisfy everybody. In betweem there was cake cutting and some presentation, and did we care..yep we cared 'coz we were waiting for dance numbers to start. In the meanwhile I met lots of friend from club and decided to settle down with sushil, biscuit, bra and others.
slowly the party unwinded and people started swaying there bodies. I too joined. and we all had a blast till late night.
I planned to hit the bed early 'coz raj and I were planning to goto mudigere and take NH 48 while way back to bangalore. so we started but lost our way due to huge road works going on and decided to take lots of break and reach bangalore lazily but before football starts. on the way back we joined rocky, pallavi, pratik, nai roast and my good old friend ady boy. we grabbed some lunch on the way and I managed to reach home by 6 pm. what a feeling it was, it was good ride, good prady and I still had enough time to change and goto to ground to play football and brag about this trip to junta..the rest of pics can be seen here

Distance: From JP nagar to madikere it was around 260 kms.

Road condition: In general the road condition is good till hunsur and the broken stretches are mostly repaired now.After you hit piriyapatna roads are bad till siddipura given you take ghat road, if you commercial route bad road continues till madikere.

Route - Bangalore - Srirnagaptana - Eilivala - Hunsur- piriyapatna - siddipura - madikere