Beast and its rides Trip 6 Bangalore- Chennai-Pondicherry 1118km 4th july 2014
Actual destination was Pondicherry with slight deviation en route had to connect Chennai for one of my students wedding in Chennai.
We started of our journey as usual by 2.30am on Friday morning on two bikes, both riding without pillions, toying with the Lorries till krishnagari and the roads were empty smooth (we thought we were in some other different country) till the last 100km to reach the Chennai, it just reminded us guys get up we are in India the bumpy roads tar displaced to heaps cos of the heat and heavy vehicles, we reached Avadi by 7.30am got fresh and left to Eithiraj Kalyana Nilyam ttk road by 8.45am to attend Mhurtham at 9.30am but the city traffic made us reach there for lunch, bumper to bumper traffic in all the roads all directions everywhere.
The Extractor traffic cop my first interstate encounter
While connecting to ECR road near HP Lans service station Greenways Adyar we were stopped by Traffic cop, I asked there was no violation why are you stopping us, he said the inspector Mr Krishna Pillai said him to stop, he asked us for the documents we showed him the RC book, insurance, DL, now comes the surprise document NOC (no objection certificate), we said why do we need the NOC we are tourist we came here for the wedding and will be leaving the city tomorrow morning, showed him the wedding invitation and the Tambola bag, he wasn’t satisfied with it and asked us to shell out Rs2500 or show any proof that we are travelers and not staying in Chennai and he kept on asking the dumbest questions (ex -telling that you guys are staying in Chennai for a month or get NOC) to show NOC are pay fine we had to waste our half an hour of time trying to convince him in the afternoon sun that we reached Chennai today morning and now we are heading to Pondicherry. He was never satisfied with the answers we gave him and was expecting money, after sometime arguing with him for 30min in the sun the humid I was drenched in my riding gear, I realized that I can show him my roaming sms, luckily he accepted it and let us, while leaving we asked him what’s the procedure to obtain NOC for travelers, he tells it’s not required for one day stay then we continue our ride.
Paradise beach
Connected the ECR road by 1pm, it could be called as east coast resorts road as there are resorts on the entire stretch, the beast was cruising smoothly without any trouble with sea shore on one side and salt on the other, reached the beach by 4pm, we could take it till middle and had to stop as the roads were blocked, the boats ferry the people in back waters to reach the beach, the beach is so clean and is accessible only by boat, Paradise beach truly in Paradise. While returning had to stop the bike in Enfield service center in Pondicherry for chain tighten, and reached Chennai by 9.30 pm had our dinner and slept off.
Return
Started off by 6.30am from Avadi connected Poonamale flyover by 7am and this one I wanted to check whether beast or I last long did nonstop to Bangalore 330km reached Hosur by 10.30am and 11.40am was home, bike slowed down in Hosur due to diversions.
Bikes
Thunderbird 500
Thunderbird 350
Riders
Santhosh Venkataram
Gajapathy P
Place
Chennai TTK road
Paradise beach
Suggestions
Please carry petrol bill or toll bill if have to do inter state to avoid harassment from the cops regarding NOC
Actual destination was Pondicherry with slight deviation en route had to connect Chennai for one of my students wedding in Chennai.
We started of our journey as usual by 2.30am on Friday morning on two bikes, both riding without pillions, toying with the Lorries till krishnagari and the roads were empty smooth (we thought we were in some other different country) till the last 100km to reach the Chennai, it just reminded us guys get up we are in India the bumpy roads tar displaced to heaps cos of the heat and heavy vehicles, we reached Avadi by 7.30am got fresh and left to Eithiraj Kalyana Nilyam ttk road by 8.45am to attend Mhurtham at 9.30am but the city traffic made us reach there for lunch, bumper to bumper traffic in all the roads all directions everywhere.
The Extractor traffic cop my first interstate encounter
While connecting to ECR road near HP Lans service station Greenways Adyar we were stopped by Traffic cop, I asked there was no violation why are you stopping us, he said the inspector Mr Krishna Pillai said him to stop, he asked us for the documents we showed him the RC book, insurance, DL, now comes the surprise document NOC (no objection certificate), we said why do we need the NOC we are tourist we came here for the wedding and will be leaving the city tomorrow morning, showed him the wedding invitation and the Tambola bag, he wasn’t satisfied with it and asked us to shell out Rs2500 or show any proof that we are travelers and not staying in Chennai and he kept on asking the dumbest questions (ex -telling that you guys are staying in Chennai for a month or get NOC) to show NOC are pay fine we had to waste our half an hour of time trying to convince him in the afternoon sun that we reached Chennai today morning and now we are heading to Pondicherry. He was never satisfied with the answers we gave him and was expecting money, after sometime arguing with him for 30min in the sun the humid I was drenched in my riding gear, I realized that I can show him my roaming sms, luckily he accepted it and let us, while leaving we asked him what’s the procedure to obtain NOC for travelers, he tells it’s not required for one day stay then we continue our ride.
Paradise beach
Connected the ECR road by 1pm, it could be called as east coast resorts road as there are resorts on the entire stretch, the beast was cruising smoothly without any trouble with sea shore on one side and salt on the other, reached the beach by 4pm, we could take it till middle and had to stop as the roads were blocked, the boats ferry the people in back waters to reach the beach, the beach is so clean and is accessible only by boat, Paradise beach truly in Paradise. While returning had to stop the bike in Enfield service center in Pondicherry for chain tighten, and reached Chennai by 9.30 pm had our dinner and slept off.
Return
Started off by 6.30am from Avadi connected Poonamale flyover by 7am and this one I wanted to check whether beast or I last long did nonstop to Bangalore 330km reached Hosur by 10.30am and 11.40am was home, bike slowed down in Hosur due to diversions.
Bikes
Thunderbird 500
Thunderbird 350
Riders
Santhosh Venkataram
Gajapathy P
Place
Chennai TTK road
Paradise beach
Suggestions
Please carry petrol bill or toll bill if have to do inter state to avoid harassment from the cops regarding NOC
