Work ride ( Coimbatore,
Chennai and Madurai ) 1756km September 2015
It's been long wait this year for me to go on long ride
finally decide it to club with my work but the route was stupidity, for me the
route didn't matter as it was an long wait for the ride. Saddled up the bull on friday 5.30am 4th sept.
Coimbatore 340km 5hrs
30min
Excited first solo cum work ride ,took Sathymangala route morning
fresh air kept the bull roaring sunrise
from shivanasumudra bridge, was amazing picture explains all, couldn't waste much time
as I wanted to reach the destination before noon, breakfast stop was near
Chikkahole dam it looks huge from road side further few km from there is
Suvarnavathy dam where it can be accessed by off roading, could see couple of coracles busy fishing in
silent waters could spot bunch of peacocks. Just before entering near Sathy
ckeck post saw an smashed up Xuv 500, that indicated me to ride slowly in the
single lane stretch, At 8.30am Sathyamangala Ghat was covered by thick fog with
visibility of just 5ft ahead and lorries
having a tough time climbing uphill, for the first time seeing so many heavy vehicles
in ghat section, where in one of the bends bull got stuck and was helped by
lorry guy to get it straight as I was going downhill, nearing Bhavani sagar dam
could spot two deers grazing peacefully, had a tough time navigating in the
coimbature city as there was network issue and gps wasn't working it took one
hour of riding to reach my destination luckily
by an help of a local who showed me the way to Coimbature club also called as
English Club. Stay and food was great following Traditional English style with
collared Shirt, pant and leather shoe. Got a chance to drive to Ooty but we
reached there by 6pm where everything was closed except Juarassic park.
Chennai 496km 7hrs
Started by 5pm as soon as work got over, got out of the city
in 15min connecting highway roads were freshly laid 4 lane till Salem and got
single lane near towns as it was evening didn't find much trouble as light from opposite vehicle were blocked by
the plants maintained by NHAI. Got slow near Salem as it was raining heavily
for about 20km stretch got dried up by the time I reached Chennai, Roads were
well maintained and clean for my surprise, at the same time there was Global
Investors meet happening in Chennai. Stay was in Gandhinagar club just 2km from
Bessy beach this motivated my childhood buddy
Supreeth to run in mornings where in I too accompanied him. Stretch from
GNC to bessy beach were covered by trees on both sides of road reminding of our
childhood days in Bangalore but it was humid in Chennai. Got a chance to visit
Madras cricket club and have dinner there during my stay in Chennai. Got the
bike serviced from OMR road Enfield service station the service was good.
Madurai 470km 6hrs
Left Chennai by 5.45pm it took almost one hour to connect to
highway due to traffic, had an sweat shower in my gear till I reached highway, it's
a busy road connecting Mahabalipuram too many people were having their weekend
ride, bike was smooth as before after service, during an fueling stop the bike
had covered 263km average speed of 82km reached my destination at 12am. It was too hot for the entire week stay in
Madurai, got an special entry to Meenakshi Aman Temple with good darshan and
next morning Supreeth and me did a temple run from Union Club roughly 2.5km
stretch, good team of guys to work with and a Italian Supervisor, we guys made
sure he had a great stay in India.
Home 450km 7hrs
Started by 1pm as soon as the matches got over with a great
send of picture, phone got off due to heat and no gps to connect to highway but
the sign boards were in English and guided me to highway, enroute there was
road blockade due to uprooting of tree with traffic up to 1km standstill,
dindigul route was covered by mountains
on both the sides connecting Kodaikanal and Sirumalai forest, was feeling this
is my life just road and mountains on either side nearing Namakal Eastern Ghats were too amazing, making me
feel that am nothing in front of nature. Little further down saw an two wheeler
accident where two people were battling for life body shaking in weird ways
bleeding heavily (god save them) on road they were locals riding without
helmets ambulance took 15 min to reach there, vehicles had slowed down as it
was in middle of the road. later my chase for the sunset started as nearing
Hosur sky turned orange and sun playing hide and seek with clouds it took one
hour to clear the state border as there were many lorries stopped at RTO check
post on either side following bandh in day time. Next day morning am all ready
for Distinguished Gentlemen's Ride Bangalore edition 2015.Thus my trip comes to
an end for the month of September.
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