Ride to Maddur Lake with BikeNomads

Did a small weekend ride on Sunday, 20th April 2008 with Bengalooru BN . Sachin and me planned this meetup-ride with oldtimers of BN. It was ages since Bangalore chapter of Bikenomads had gone on a breakfast ride, the last i remember was in 2006! that was to Hosur A1 Plaza. Since then lot of new members had joined Bangalore BN chapter, so we wanted this ride to be a platform to meet new members and oldtimers.

Old timers of BN like Dr Prithvi, Rocky aka Rakesh Barua, VenkatShyam and JSR aka dada joined in. The final turn out was 18 plus bikes and 20 plus people! this was one of the biggest groups i have ridden with so far! Over all it was an enjoyable small ride. I was back home by 3.30 pm!

Riders and bikes:

1. Dr Prithvi Raval - Avenger200
2. RakeshBarua - R/E Thunder Bird
3. Sachin Koppikar - Pulsar 150
4. Santoosh - Pulsar180&200 :P
5. Kartik Ayyar + Pillion - R/E ThunderBird
6. LoveJoshi+Pillion - R/E Thunderbird Aka Redeye :P
7. Lohith - Bullet 500
8. Praveen T - Honda Unicorn
9. Vasanth + Pillion - Karizma with crashguard :P
10. Muneesh - Pulsar 180 (kartik's Friend)
11. KrishnaDevanur - Karizma R
12. Murugesh aka rossi :P - Apache 150 (santoosh's friend and BNer)
13. Gururaj - Avenger

(following people met us on the way in maddur tiffany's for breakfast
and joined in)

14. Vijay - Pulsar 220 (new BN member)
15. Jayan SR aka JSR - Bullet 500
16. GK - Bullet (From Silverbullets)
17. Ajey aka Shidke - Bullet (From Silverbullets)

(met these people on the way back and in Maddur CCD)

18. Venkatshyam - Pulsar 220
19. Prasanna aka flyin - Pulsar 180

Pics:

My pics: Click Here
Doc's pics: Click here
Rocky's Pics: Click here
Kartik's Pics: Click here
Love Joshi's Pics: Click here

The Ride log:

I had a pillion this time, My friend Girish. This was truly gonna be his last ride as bachelor as he's getting hitched this month end. I started touring in 2006, when we both went for my first loong ride on my zma. Met up Santoosh and his friend Rossi aka murugesh :P and started off towards meeting point Rajarajeshwarinagar Arch. We reached there exactly at 7 AM, it was our starting time. Took a group pic, 9 bikes had already reached there. With santoosh as lead and Rocky as tail, we started off by 7.10 AM.



I was tailing murugesh, who in turn was tailing Santoosh. Santoosh lead well at constant speed and we reached maddur tiffany's by 8.20 Am. Here, JSR and two of his friends on bulls joined us, they had started late from bangalore and caught up with us. Found the hotel crowded, so went to tiffany's hotel on the other side of the road. I was sweating like a pig :P, i was wearing my full gear, minus the CAT shoes, which were damaged in my earlier ride. I was also wearing my cramster backprotector, which helped me very much, i didn't have slightest sign of back ache. I was also wearing my riding jacket with inner liner, as i wanted the armour to be secure and in place. Found out that the hotel didn't have enough space to fit in entire crowd, so we decided to have breakfast outside hotel, standing!



Savouring tasty idly vada and famed Maddur vadas, sachin set the ball rolling and asked everyone to give a mini intro about themselves. Soon, everyone was through with their intros and knew each other by their names. After much required tasty breakfast, we decided to hit our destination, maddur lake, which was just 5kms from there. Just as we were wearing our gears, we witnessed a nasty pile up accident right in front of us! There was a U turn in front of the hotel, one tata indica guy took the right turn after over taking an Eicher canter from left. The canter guy tried to avoid the car, but failed and slammed the rear of indica and tried to come to extreme right to avoid a pile up, but it was a waste effort, right behind him, a KSRTC bus rammed in to the canter's rear and the whole bus went back by 1 feet after impact! In the process, a Toyota Qualis which was right behind the bus, got it's entire front bonnet stuck under the bus's rear! Behind him was a Radio City Tavera, he avoided rear ending the qualis, but scrapped his entire right side with qualis and managed to pull over.

The indica had a fucked rear, the canter was undamaged! only a broken indicator. The ksrtc bus's windscreen had cracked. Qualis had it's entire front screwed! The Tavera had fugly scrape marks and dents on the right side. Thankfully no one was injuried, few people in bus had busted lips though. Soon it got crowded and the indica chaps bore the brunt of the crowd. Cops arrived to control the situation. We witnessed the whole thing and started to move out. Soon, 18 bikes snaked through maddur interiors, much to the surprise of localites. The road was winding at someplaces, my pillion Girish took lots of videos on my N73 phone of the whole bike train :P Soon, we reached the lake. Initially we parked beneath the elevated portion of the lake, later we found a trail that would take us on to the road running parallel to the lake.

So, we all took our bikes through the narrow trail and took our bikes on the road parallel to the lake, to our left was the huge lake and to our right was the road through which we had ridden, it was a good view. We parked our bikes underneath a huge tree with lots of shade and unwinded. Rocky gave good tips to people about safe riding and techniques on highway, rocky also corrected few people's mistakes, which they had committed while riding as a group. After that, it was gala time :P we just hung around savouring the lake's view and the peaceful surroundings. Later, JSR and two of his friends bid byes to us and left for bangalore as they had some work. After some time, we parked our bikes in order with lake as backdrop to the lineup pic. The line up pic turned out to be amazing.



Sachin was made the object of photography by everyone! He was still wearing his gear, with cramster riding boots, kneeguards and cramster jacket, he was looking like a character from the videogame, Mortal Kombat! :P Everyone gave ideas for funny poses and he willingly obliged :P Everyone went click happy. Rocky and LJ gave some "Special effects" too by literally lending their hands to sachin:P



After the photosession, it was time to move, we decided against kanva dam, which was planned earlier as the weather was too sunny and too hot. We decided to hit Maddur Cafe Coffee Day from there, as it was on the way back to bangalore. Meanwhile, Venkat sir called up sachin and informed him that he was near by mandya, sachin asked him to wait near maddur and we would catch up. Even Prasanna called up and informed us that he was waiting near kanva dam (he had started late from bangalore) we informed him to come to maddur CCD as we had junked plans of going to kanva.

There was a small bridge near the lake, which was in really bad condition, we riders lined up on the bridge for group pic, as 10 plus guys climbed on, the bridge was vibrating even if someone laughed or hit the bridge with their legs :P Sachin was apprehensive of getting on the bridge for obvious reasons :P He got on to the bridge after much cajoling but was holding on to one of the cement blocks and wanted to get off the bridge asap! he was shouting at guys taking pics to windup soon, so he could get off the rickety bridge :P



Later, We all packed up and rode back in formation till maddur junction. Met venkat sir there, he had gone on a relaxing ride till chitradurga and was back to meet us! Started moving towards Maddur CCD, it was getting too hot and i was sweating like a pig! Thanks to the inner liner of the riding jacket. We reached CCD in no time and everyone unwinded. Prasanna called up sachin and he was telling that he couldn't see our bikes in CCD. It turned out that he had reached the wrong CCD, which was some 20kms from the ccd we were in! he was pissed off predictably as he had ride back again to meet us. Finally he joined in, after sometime he cooled down :P The smokers were outside while the nonsmokers were sitting inside :P The nonsmokers started to make a move, me and others in group wanted to relax for some more time. So, we bid goodbyes. Finally Me, sachin, santoosh, praveent, prasanna, murugesh and krishna left CCD at 2.00 pm. We were the last ones to leave from there.



This time i led and was doing constant 100 or 90 kmph. I was being tailed by praveen and krishna, while the remaining guys were cruising slowly. We 3 stopped just short of NICE road junction and had refreshments and fag break. The remaining guys rolled in later, we all bid byes there and headed back home. I reached home at 3.30 Pm after dodging the horrible traffic in mysore road.

This was one of the shortest rides i have ever been to! It was more of a ride to meet and catch up with people. I thoroughly enjoyed the ride as well as interacting with oldtimers, regulars and newbees. Am looking forward to more such Bangalore BN ride-meets in future.