After we hit the roads around 8:30 after having a heavy breakfast, traffic slowed down us a bit and 2 ZMA followed us for while, us means the One here, bugger they were coming b/w us and their way of overtaking vehicles in the traffic pissed me off a lot, after Chalakudy we had to take a diversion from the highway to Athirapally falls, we lost them there, the falls was 29 kms from the highway and i would say this was the best road we travelled in this trip, again following the R1 and keeping with it in the ghat section was fun :D There are two falls, one is Athirapally falls and other one is 10 kms ahead, Vazhachal falls, this place was less crowded as many head back after visiting Athirapally falls and it felt safe to leave our bikes here and we went to check out the falls, took few snaps and headed back by the time we came back the security personnel and cops were drooling around the bikes.. after some Q&A we headed back from there to Athirapally falls, seeing the crowd we decided not to go near the falls as we had to walk 1 kms leaving the bikes behind which was not a good idea, we stopped near some view point and took some pics, i was very tempted to go near the falls , never less this place is worth a visit second time ;). Initial the plan was to take a fery after reaching Athirapally to Angamaly but unfortunately the service had stopped couple of months ago, was a bit disappointed but the roads were superb, so that was good news :). So we headed back, i took the led from Athirapally falls, while i was ripping happily i noticed i couldn't see the One, waited for 2 mins and headed back, it was the Kriega once again which made Akhil stop, he was pissed off with that bag for sure :D. And there are 2 Water Theme Parks on the way to the falls if you are interested you can have fun there.
After heading back some 10 kms from Athirapally falls we need to take a diversion to reach the highway, man this road was tough for both of us, one thing was the heat which was annoying us along with the bumpy, narrow roads , after some drama with bags and hitting some huge craters we hit the Angamaly highway and soon reached Aluwa, Akhil had told me we would have lunch here so i was looking for a hotel, but Akhil took me to some home, i was like :eek: dude whats this, he said its man aunts place, i was again like :eek: this guy has relatives all over :D, then came to know it was Shyam house, i had met him when i went to chennai track with Akhil in his cage, we once again had heavy lunch, Akhil and his One were pretty overheated because of the temp, so we decided to leave around 4, and head towards Allepye which was 60 kms from Aluwa see the sunset and hit TVM if possible.
Now some thing happens which proved R15 is torquey, read on its fun, while i was gearing up Akhil called me and told his bike was dead, it was the battery again, the radiator fan and the new security system had eaten up the battery, so it was push start again for the R1, i think Akhil bike is getting used it now a days :D, so with my A'star knee guards on i started pushing the bike, how dumb was i right, i couldn't run while pushing because of the knee guards, so removed it and Akhil strapped to his elbows :D tried again but no signs and we tried again with me on the bike and Akhil pushing it but the R1 showed no signs of coming back to life, while we were doing all this in the closed road which was parallel to the NH, we had gathered a pretty good number of on lookers :D. Akhil proposed something which looked like a brilliant idea, he said, hey wait will bring your bike lets tow, i was like :eek:, towing a R1 with R15 cool let do it, he bought my bike along with a thread, we tied up one end of the thread to R1 forks and the other end to R15 grab rails and started towing, man it was a sight to see, I told to Akhil, who said R15 has less torque :D. Ok even this attempt failed, Akhil suspected it was some fuse problem and checked it but it was fine, there was some battery shop on the other side of the road where the bike had stalled, so Akhil went to get some help, the guys there helped a lot and checked the battery charge it was around 10.5V, so they got a spare battery and jump started the bike, the R1 roared back :)
It was already 5:00, so we thought it was waste going to allepye has we would go and halt there without seeing any places, so we decided to halt in Akhils aunts place. We went in search of a battery shop to get the battery charged, luckily we found some shop whose owner was very kind to give us the charger and asked us to return in the morning, we couldn't leave the battery there for charging has we decided to leave early the next day, we came back put the battery to the charge and that was the end of the day.
Mean while Akhil remembered the TVM Xbhpians and called up Wiz, he said he was in chennai but joe would meet us.
Now some Pics
Vazhachal falls
Fixing up Kriega
Athirpally FallsAthirpally Falls
Athirpally Falls 
R1 stalled
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