After i got my bike in June couldn't ride out for many reasons, I always wanted to ride down to KanyaKumari. Mailed all the guys in October whether they were interested in 5 day ride.. obviously no one was interested. I had spoken to Akhil regarding the ride and he was interested, we(Akhil did all the planning though) zeroed in on the routes, places to stay and every possible thing in 2 days. He wanted to do the trip on his R1 but for obvious reasons it was eating dust in Bangalore Wheels for months.. He got the bike in mid November. We decided to leave in first week of December.
The plan was to take this route: B'lore-Vadakkencherry-Munnar-Alappuzha-Trivandrum-Madurai-B'lore.
For unavoidable reasons Akhil had to leave for US on 5th of December and he would come back only by 14th.. so we cut short the plan and we decided to ditch Munnar. So final route came down to this: B'lore-Vadakkencherry-Alappuzha-Trivandrum-Madurai-B'lore.
December 15th: Came back from my native. Sis and Chetu did the packing while they were doing the packing i was patient enough to listen again to all their "be careful, your are mad to do this on a bike and all", they got bored and stopped :D.. Called Akhil and fixed the meeting time 5:30 AM. Was a bit tired so slept a bit early around 11.
The above pic was taken while i was coming back from my native. Day 1 [December 16th] : Got up at 4:30, was fully pumped up but many things kept on running in my mind like daemon processes, after listening so many things from every one.. Why am I doing this? was one of the daemon process.. Got a call from Akhil at 5:30, he told he will be there in 10 mins, so hooked my bag to the bike and my sis sent me off with a hug, i could see she was worried.
Reached arch in 5 mins and waited for 5 mins and i saw a twin projector light which came and stopped in front of me. It was the R1 which i would follow through out the trip, it was nice to see Akhil in his Alphinestar suit. We took few fotos and left for Mysore.
For the next 1:45 mins i was drolling around the R1 following it till Mysore. By the time i reached Mysore i had killed all the daemon processes running in my mind :D Reached Mysore around 7:45 Am, refilled the One and headed to Maylari hotel, a very good hotel which serves only two items Idly and Masala Dosa, had a plate each, both tasted very good and we hit Nanjagud road, we missed a turn and headed towards Sulthan Bathyre, then asked the locals and headed back to the Sathyamangala road, the roads were worst as we closed in on the Karnataka-TN border.
After the bumpy ride, the board read Welcome to Tamil Nadu and we could see the roads were super, started increasing the pace, Akhil at one moment ran over a Snake mistaking it for a cloth :P, as i was following him the snake started heading back, luckily missed it but my balls almost came to my mouth seeing a snake(its because of the fear i have towards the reptiles. ;) ) And then the Sathyamangala ghats started and we started using our bikes what they can do best , It was a sight seeing the R1 talking the corners :). How many get lucky to follow a R1 in twistes :P
One small foto session
Satyamangala Ghats
Reached Coimbatore refilled the One again and headed towards Vadakkencherry, we decided to have lunch in Akhil's place as the heat was taking a toll on us and even we couldn't stop the R1-R15 exhibition where every we stopped :D. We reached the narrow two lane NH and increased our pace after coming out of the Coimbatore traffic. We were 50 kms from the destination and the cops stopped us for the second time for the day, the first thing they asked was to switch of the R1 headlights which comes off as soon as the bike is started, we were held for over speeding but we were not fined, instead they killed our 20 mins time asking about the bikes. we had done close to 400 kms and the heat was talking a toll on me. Finally the cops told us to leave asking us to ride slow, we were doing 80's, they said these bikes are not for this roads, so ride slow :eek:. One of the cop asked to start the One, its started off with VROOOMM, the cop couldn't resist and twisted the throttle a bit and almost shit in his pants :D..Finally at 3:30 we reached Akhils farm house, i was very much tired wanted to crash as soon as i reached his place but i was taken back by the place, it was very scenic and calm, got rid of my gears and had lunch. Later Akhil took me to see the estate, everything around the house made the place look beautiful the rubber plantation and the green paddy fields, the cool breeze. A liked the place very much.
Later Akhils uncle advised a different route to Allepye, this was the best route of the trip.. Later found a puncture in my rear tire fixed it, had a heavy dinner and i was fast to crash into the bed..
Now Fhoto's :D
Packing in progress
Morning 5:45 all set to go
Mysore
Sooper hotel Sooper breakfast
Bad roads, fixing my bag 
Satyamangala Ghats
Paddy fields in front of the farm house
Rubber plantation
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