Endurance ride anybody?
Whazzzat???
Read on…
Have you ever felt your soul jump for joy?
Ever felt your body absolutely done for but with energy
still left to climb a mountain?
A smile a kilometer wide plastered across your face from ear
to ear!
That is exactly what I felt for 3 days this weekend.
Why?
But first let’s get the stats out of the way.
1. Places covered:
|
Day 1: 450 km. Travel time (As per Google) 9.30 hours |
Day 2: 470 km. Travel time (As per Google) 12.00 hours |
Day 3: 240 km. Travel time (As per Google) 5.00 hours |
|
·
Nelamangala ·
Hassan ·
Aldur ·
Balehonnur ·
Nagalapura Bridge (Tunga river) ·
Agumbe ·
Kundapura ·
Marvante · Bhatkal |
·
Jog falls ·
Sagara ·
Thirthalli ·
Agumbe ·
Belthangady ·
Uppinangady ·
Puttur ·
Sullia ·
Madikeri · Virajpet |
·
Gonikoppa ·
Hunsur ·
Srirangapatna ·
Mandya ·
Ramnagara · Bangalore |
This is what IBR (India Bull Riders) calls an “Endurance
ride”. Why “endurance” well the stats speak for themselves.
Is it a test of man
or machine?
Both.
This time around the plan was to pay our respects to the grand
Sahyadri Mountain range.
Roads that incessantly snaked its way across little hamlets
and villages strewn across with gay abandon. With barely a few hours of riding
across straight roads, this is a biker’s paradise, as you lean your bike from
the left to the right and then repeat, on and on, hour after hour.
Through thick jungles, dense fog, sweltering heat, bone
numbing cold and lashing rain we rode as one. We saw all seasons and all
terrains in those three days. From beaches to rivers to gushing streams to
towering mountains to plains thicketed with carpets of green.
I had got a dear friend to pick up some riding gear from the
US of A and with the help of several kind souls I got those just a day before
the ride (the journey those things took was epic in itself!). And I managed to
use them on this ride. Amongst the things I bought was a Sena 50C.
The video that is part of this blog has been made using this
(some pics are courtesy fellow riders). The videos have only been strung
together and have not been edited in anyway. Easy to use, an all-in-one communicator,
that I found to be a nifty piece of tech.
And so, the 13 of us endured, without a single breakdown of
either man or machine (by the grace of whichever God each of us believed in). Some
bio stops had leeches crawling up our rain gear, some had cats and dogs and
people befriending us as they saw these alien looking beings pass through their
front yards. For those 3 days it did not matter to any of us where we came from,
who we were, what we did, or anything else. All that mattered was that we ride
together, the epitome of ‘all-for-one-and-one-for-all’ for we are as strong as
the weakest link. If one of us had an issue the entire ride would have been
affected. Thankfully that wasn’t the case and what did happen was incredible riding,
amazing roads, phenomenal vistas, interesting foods, and tons of adventurous
memories.
And before I run out of adjectives, catch you around.
God
Speed, until our next adventure.
Thanks for reading/watching.
Good read... cheers!
ReplyDeleteThanks much :)
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