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