Category: Travelogue
DayLog: 15th Jan 2017: Kotilingeshwara Temple Ride
Short ride to Kotilingeshwara Temple with fellow jiniRiderz. Did you know there are 10000000+ shivlingas installed there? Map: http://bit.ly/kotilingeshwara
How to get permits to visit North / East Sikkim with your motorcycles
Few places of interest in Sikkim fall under border area hence require Inner Line Permits to visit. You can get these permits via your tour operator. This post if for anyone who fits following: You want to visit Gurudongmar Lake [map], Zero Point [Map] in North Sikkim You want to visit Tsomgo Lake [Map], Nathu La, Zuluk in…
MegaRoadTrip: Day -2, ~6500Km / 18 days
Varsha and myself, have been preparing for our mega road trip for more than 3 months now. Plan is still changing. Luggage not fitting, bike still giving issues, changing route at last minute based on feedback, only 50% of destinations of hotel reservation…STILL EXCITED. Can’t wait to get on the road 🙂 We will be covering…
DayLog: 5th Nov 2016: Veerappan Trails
Weekend Ride. As usual, select village, hill roads. Preferably as less highways as possible so I came up with this route: http://bit.ly/2etRRnO Veerappan was born in Gopinatham, buried at Moolakadu, killed at Papparapatti and coincidentally we planned to cross all the places hence named our trip as Veerappan Trails 🙂 This was also my first ride…
DayLog: 16th Oct 2016 : Off-road training and first Multistrada fall
As I mentioned earlier, I have started some self training to get comfortable with the weight and height of the bike. Did some village roads last week but it wasn’t challenging enough. Plan for the day: Choose some incline ‘no-roads’ and remove the fear of doing it with heavy bike. Experience some ‘no-roads’, gravel, loose stone…
DayLog: 8th Oct 2016 : Seeing off Dhruv
Installed Givi XS307 Tankbag Dhruv (cousin) was riding from Bangalore to Pune so went to ‘see him off’ 🙂 Beautiful 300km ride Started from Electronic city, took NICE road and exit at Tumkur road. Crazy traffic at the exit of NICE road, lots of trucks trying to get on AH47. Traffic was lot worse on…