Tuesday it was when I gave Nahas a call to ask his ride plans for the weekend. Nahas suggested Kodai, which was indeed overwhelming for me, it came as a pleasant surprise to me. Letting others know about the ride plan and inviting them was going to be challenging. Among other bullet enthusiasts Babu, read Bullet Babu was the only person who could make the ride. So here we were three of us Prathap on Mach 350 , Babu on Thunderbird TS , and Nahas on Electra 4S.
The plan was to ride to kodai on 30th of April ,and get to visit some places. Madras Bullet Club had their 7th Anniversary ride to Kodai on 1st till 3rd. So meeting the brotherhood was on our top priority list. The ride plan was to start by 4 30 am and ride to kodai via CHnagar-Sathy-Avinashi-Palladam- udumalai-Palani-Kodai.Babu was the late comer, we started at 5 20AM having some hot Tea.The temperature was not friendly even in the early morning, so wearing jackets was out of question. The quality of roads in karnataka is worth mentioning, we need to do a lot to catch up with TN roads. We were cruising a 70kmph till nanjangud, Babu had a fall on the way, as he could not see the roads humps, but he and his steed were just fine.We were riding in formation with sign languages to communicate.our next stop was at KAR-TN boarder, we were musing the difference between the road quality.The ride was very smooth from there on. We had breakfast in a road side hotel in Sathy, those booming pooris, spicy omlette. gave us the extra need calories for the ride. Sathy to Udumalai are straight roads, not much to savour, especially in the soaring heat.We had few pit stops for Babuji's smoke and our coconut milk chase.The ride got better after we crossed Udumalai, road to palani is very good, we were cruising at 80/90/100. Kodai is 70km from palani and there starts the ghat section, with mangroves and banana plantations all over.we reached kodai by 2 PM and checked into Hotel Tamilnadu, had lunch at a local biryani shop and rested till the sunset. Traversing within Kodai is not worth mentioning, so will leave it there. Our next agenda was to visit few good places at kodai and meet the guys from madbulls and RTMC,they were all pleased to know about mysore bullet club , which is still sprouting.Although we were not able to be there for the party, we still could make a lot of acquantaince with the friendly guys from madbulls and RTMC.
Ride back was even more thrilling, for the fact that we will be doing our first night ride. My Back Brakes was not working as expected so had to get them replaced at udumalai on the way, which consumed around 2hrs of our driving time.the bullet mechanic suggested a slightly different route to sathy, and we did follow his direction, which turned out to be too good, the roads seemed so deserted, we were the only people the road was seeing at that point of time, we were riding side by side at 80kmph, which was thrilling.as we entered sathy, the dimbham ghat was blocked by a truck and a bus, luckily we were able get our bulls through the narrow gap only just enough to smear past. We reached back mysore by 3AM.
The experience was euphoric, breathtaking, we congratulated each other for making it safely and moved on to our houses. Total distance of 800kms in two days.There were lot of instances where other people were admiring the Bull , like th Police, RTO,ongoers,etc but those instances comes along with Bullet, so haven't described them.
The experience was euphoric, breathtaking, we congratulated each other for making it safely and moved on to our houses. Total distance of 800kms in two days.There were lot of instances where other people were admiring the Bull , like th Police, RTO,ongoers,etc but those instances comes along with Bullet, so haven't described them.
