Short ride to Kotilingeshwara Temple with fellow jiniRiderz. Did you know there are 10000000+ shivlingas installed there? Map: http://bit.ly/kotilingeshwara
Tag: travel
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…
Tips for riding safe on Indian roads (highways)
More than tips these are just my brain dump, how my mind works when I ride. You may find some of these as being over careful but thats how I ride :). These are very specific to riding on ‘highways’, I will write separate post around hill/village riding. Don’t focus on vehicle just in front of…
Roadtrip: Trekking : Dehradun – Dodital : April 2016
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Roadtrip : Assam, Meghalya, Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh : 29 Nov 2013 to 22 Dec 2013
PS: This was our original route but what we did was little different. I will update day wise notes later. Day 2: Day 3: Day 4: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/w4ixwbmgrn3vh9z/Day%204.1.jpg?dl=0 Day 5: Sela Pass Day 7: Hornbill festival: Doyang – camping: Mokokchung Mon
RoadTrip : Rajasthan : 2 Feb 2013 to 23 Feb 2013
PS: I will keep updating the blog with details. Map: http://bit.ly/rajasthan-2013 Day 1 (Click on the link for map) Non-stop 14 hrs ride to Satara. Saw couple of accidents on the way. Was lucky to get out of highway blockade, they stopped all 4-wheelers but let 2-wheelers pass. Found a cheap hotel to stay: https://goo.gl/maps/79w4FFan9Aw Day 2 Day…
Roadtrip : Nepal : 1 Oct 2012 to 10 Oct 2012
PS: I will update day wise details later. Map: http://bit.ly/nepal-2012