Year Ending Solo Ride 08

As usual Dec is the time to ride home, as I had to miss the RJ ride this year. Starting early foggy morning and I am riding down south destination (TVM) and have 2 days to ride. Decided to ride via Munnar so that I can ride those ghats again, I remember being in Munnar that was almost 10yrs ago on a ride with Venu and Pradeep.

Reached at Chinnar (which is the foothills of Munnar from the North) at around 1:30 pm, took a long break there since it was too early to reach Munnar and I had no plans to reach TVM the same day.

Was trying to get some place to spend the night and finally got a decent one at the top station, I carshed out early watching TV and woke up quiet early the next day. Did a small trek on the munnar - kodai jungle trail. Started out around 8am from Munnar towards Adimali/Erumeli, roads are really awesome and nice weather complimented the riding experience.

Had a silly fall on the way down from Munnar, nothing much happened except for my crash bar which broke off. Then after that It was a straight ride to TVM. reached TVM at 6pm and Home.

On second Jan 09 started back to Bangalore, (I remember doing this same ride now for the 3rd year) kind of boring roads from tvm-cochin-kovai-blore. reached blore by 4:30pm.

and that starts the 09 riding season :)

some snaps from the ride

Munnar

cheers
jsr

Valpari 2008. Ride

Weekend ride to Valpari, nice get together after a long time. Overall the ride was excellent except for few hiccups nothing serious. Weather was just perfect for the ride overall one surprize we had was a small stretch in the map which looked like 10kmts of ghats turned out to be 70kmts :) so total distance stretched to 475kmts.

some snaps from the ride

Valpari 2008

Kemmangundi Ride

So after four weeks of compiler and linker issues when things are sorted out, makes me fell happy. and that is calling for a ride. This was a nice small ride.

Good things: Nice scenic route to ride, Roads were good to no roads, Weather was really cool, Campfire at night was great (after the disappointment at Kgundi of no beer and no campfire) so we did not stay at Kgundi instead we rode back 30kmts downhill and stayed a small guest house.

No so Good things: Traffic from Kunigal to Bangalore was horrible, lots of *&$#@ heads driving like crazy.

some of my clicks

Kemmangundi Ride

relocation R_X86_64_PC32 Error

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Editing post with more information, since I quiet some page visits around 350 for this issue.
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I was stuck with this error for amlost weeks, till we figured out the solution. Here are some Links that would help to analyse the issue.

Error: relocation R_X86_64_PC32 against 'symbol' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC /usr/local/bin/ld: final link failed: Bad value

This could be a nature of ELF visiblity where global symbols don't resolve locally unless it is made hidden.

OR It could be the infamous bug-7221, which is still open.

http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=37473 (see this link on how to fix the issue of no linkage for typedefed un-named class/struct )

//issue

typedef struct
{
 int check ();
} A;

//fix

struct A
{
int check();
};

http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7221

OR look at some useful links below.

http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/amd64/howtos/index.xml?part=1&chap=3

http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/Visibility

http://bugs.gentoo.org/108872

http://www.nedprod.com/programs/gccvisibility.html

cheers!

Tvm-Blr Combined Ride

Trivandrum and Bangalore folks planned for a combined ride this time. Overall nice ride! except for some motorcycle issues with meppa's and Parvez's bike ridden by Boodie, things kept falling off that LB500 first the chain, then the battery cover and then finally the battery.
End result of the ride was most of them got funny nick names and we ended up planning for the next ride! Another nice ride.

Our man Jo has a narration of the ride
http://ridelogs.blogspot.com/2008/07/kalhatty-revisit.html

And lots of pictures this time by most of the riders.
my clicks, not many this time!

kalahati again

clicks from the rest...
http://picasaweb.google.com/antulika/Kalhatty
http://picasaweb.google.com/jovision/KalhattyRevisit
http://picasaweb.google.com/kartik.ayyar/KalahattySBRide
http://picasaweb.google.com/muralidharan.ramamurthy/Kalhatty2008

Kalahati Revisit

A weekend trip again to Kalahati! Looks like Kalahati has become the SB adda for weekend rides.
Not elaborating the ride much since Jo has already written a nice trip log

My snaps from the trip

Kalahati Again

Where is Kalahati

Bangalore - Kalahati (Ooty) weekend getaway

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RM 08

Rider Mania 08.
Bangalore - Hyd dry ride wasn't fun, just a boring routine ride. Silver-Bullets participation was not so big in number but still we think we did mark our presence this year. Return ride was on on 3 stops, that was fun. Some pics from RM 08.

RM 08