It started with the plan to ride to Gokarna through Shivamogga. After our ride to Kanyakumari almost an year back we wanted to go for a long ride desperately. Heavy rains in Western Ghats of Karnataka forced us to change the destination. Anand suggested that we will ride to Valparai and it would be good. We agreed as soon as we knew it had 40 hair pin curves. This time we didn’t have time to do any planning.

On the day I got up quite early (3am. It doesn’t happen very often) and we left Bangalore by five. We started the ride after the group prayer. It was Anand (Eliminator) in the leading position, following him were Vinay (ZMA), Guru (Pulsar), Manju (Bajaj), Sandeep MK and GL (Unicorn) and me performing the role of sweep rider on my Yamaha.

L2R : Guru, Sandeep MK, Manju, Vinay, Sandeep GL and me

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I have been to Sravanabelagola multiple times. But this time it was with Yami. I left home around 6 and caught Anand at Madiwala. From there on we went to ISKON to join other riding friends. From ISKON to Nelamagala was uneventful. At Nelamangala we were supposed to take a left turn to Hassan. But Avinash and other were in so much josh that they continued on the same road towards Tumkur. After trying around ten times we got them on phone and brought them back on the correct road.
The ride on SH8 was fun. It was cool, green and peaceful.

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Three bikes and three men set to reah kanyakumari from Bangalore.

On the way to Madhurai. I saw this beautiful hill. Captured this with my K750i before my co-riders reached me. Read the rest of this entry »

I was fully connected through out my bike ride to Kanyakumari from Bangalore. I used GPRS to twitter my travel and communicate with my friends. These tweets give the details about where/what/when. A proper blog post with pics is coming. Until then enjoy the tweets.

• i hope it will stop raining tomorrow. is it raining in tamil nadu ? 06:21 PM August 10, 2007
• last twitter marked the begining of missionkk twittering. 06:27 PM August 10, 2007
• waiting for mk and Boda to arrive. it has stopped raining now. 06:45 PM August 10, 2007
• got a chain and lock to lock vehicles together. 07:04 PM August 10, 2007
• all packed. going to sleep now. need to get up at 3 am 11:55 PM August 10, 2007
• dosa at saravana bhavan tastes good 08:43 AM August 11, 2007
• we are behind the schedule by an hour 08:45 AM August 11, 2007

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I am not sure how tough this one is going to be; but I am sure its going to be long. Approximately 1700 KMs. I am so charged up that I am not getting sleep. Probably I wont until we complete this journey.My last long ride was to Pondicherry two years back. That was unplanned ride. But we had loads of fun.

I am sure this one will be much more fun than that. Probably last long ride for few as most of them will be married by this time next year. The ride to Kanyakumari is not going to be easy. But who wants to do easy things? It might probably rain; but thanks to Andy/MK/Boda we have now rain jackets. Good to see whole group in so much of enthu. We have jackets, gloves, Knee Caps due to heavy duty shopping yeaterday. And I have my new tripod for Andy handy cam. This one is going to be there on DVDs for long long time. Read the rest of this entry »