Ride to Kailashagiri and Unisey Thopu

Wanted to do a short ride on a lazy Sunday. Had left the planning to professor, but with a condition that this time the route and place should be new. Trust the professor for routes and as usual the ride plan was in place with Professor in lead. As usual there were last minute drop outs and four of us ended up doing this short ride. Professor had east ward plans towards chintamani (AP) route, I hadn’t ventured towards that route so I readily agreed.

Riders and Bikes:

1. Professor – Unicorn
2. Vasanth – Karizma
3. Balaji – Thunderbird
4. Santoosh – Pulsar 180/200 :P

Route:
Bangalore>Hoskote>Chitamani Road>Kaivara>kailashagiri>Devanahalli>Bangalore

Pics:
My Pics: Click here

Ride Log:

Met up with Santoosh first near ulsoor and waited for my colleague :P Balaji. Then we three proceeded towards the hanging bridge where professor was waiting for us. The road towards hoskote from there was full of traffic and with odd potholes and humps. It was frustrating initially to ride, later got in to the groove. Just after hoskote, the tarmac improved and traffic dwindled. Santoosh and Balaji were ahead of me and professor was tailing me, so I proceeded further, happy that I could raise the throttle after a long time. Then I could see Balaji behind me honking! I had over shot the deviation and went straight seeing the good roads! So took a U turn and joined the junction were the other 2 were waiting. This was chintamani road and it was fabulous to ride on. No potholes, no traffic and no road humps! Good smooth tarmac and some good short curves. We stopped at a curve to take a butt break.



I started taking pics. I wanted to try out the bull, so off I went for a short spin on it. On my return, all were suggesting that I dump my zma and get a bull as it was suiting my profile! Balaji was using all his convincing skills to make me a bulleteer :P But, iam not a bull type person, it’s fun for me to take a bull for a spin once in a while, but a bull cannot replace my zma’s practicality and ease of use. Santoosh felt the bull pangs :P Off he went with the bull, while we tried to take few “bull riding” shots of his :P



He had another point of view, that of vibes! Well bull and vibes are part of it’s character, but he seemed to have hard time accepting it :P Next it was professor’s turn to take the bull for a spin! Bull’s seating was higher than professor’s unicorn, so it was difficult for professor to keep his foot on ground. After the initial discomfort, professor took off with the bull roaring while we took a few pics of professor with bull :P



Professor was excited about bull’s different feel, but the practical problem of seating height made his reconsider bull as his next choice. Even we felt that it would be difficult for professor to manage a bike with high seating height. We all suggest professor to try out Avenger 200. It was time to move. Balaji wanted few orkut profile snaps, so we obliged :P It was already 8.30 Am and we were feeling hunger pangs, so we moved from there towards Kaivara. We reached Kaivara by 9 Am and found a local hotel there. Had tasty Dosa, lemon rice, bondas and all munchable stuff. We decided to hit a park cum zoo in the outskirts there. The Zoo is maintained by forest department and has monuments galore. Ranging from 9 planets to astrological signs to gods to even streets named after seasons! Few Monuments had old poetry written on them.



After walking for a while, we found few interesting monkeys under a tree and Balaji was trying to get a close up pic of the primate :P



Then we found a Crocodile resting in it’s enclosure followed by a peacock enclosure.



Later we found couple of wolves in their enclosure, it was difficult to get a good pic of these fellows as they were restless and running all around.



Next up was porcupine! I had never seen one, it was difficult initially to see it as I mistook it for shade and broom :P and also make out whether I was clicking it’s ass or face :P both looked the same :P thankfully the fellow was eating and I could click!



Next up was a huge open enclosure for deers. I had only seen two variety of deers during my outing to kerala and bandipur. Those were spotted deer and sambar deer. Here, there were close to 5 different species.



One young deer was very friendly and Balaji was feeding grass to it through the fence.



After that we saw few Cobras coiled up in their enclosure. The python was not to be seen at it’s enclose so dropped by a lazy bear in it’s enclosure.



We had completed one huge round of the zoo and it was time to move on to kailashagiri. After a cool drinks break at a shop near by, we moved on. The approach road towards kailashagiri was mini ghat road, it was fun taking corners. Soon we approached the entrance. We had to park the bikes and walk for a km or so. We dumped our stuff at a near by temple office and we climbed the steps towards the cave temple. Kailashagiri is a series of temples inside a monolith cave. The huge rock has been carved out using some high tech equipments. I forgot how many years they took to drill such a huge hole inside the monolith rock! But the entrance was deceptive, once inside the carved out space was as big as a huge hall!



Work is still in progress in cave and they are still digging and drilling. The completed portions are open for public. We came out after the visit and rested for a while, the scenery outside was good too.



We moved on and on our way down from there, found a small dam. We parked for a while there, but had to move on as there was no shade. We hit chintamani main road after sometime and hit a dhaba for lunch. After heavy lunch and chat sessions, we moved on towards Unisey thopu or tamarind groove. Professor was telling that the trees were very old, prolly some centuries together. Before moving out after lunch, I swapped my zma with Balaji for his bull. It was fun riding a bull for close to 30 kms. The riding posture, feel etc were exact opposite of my zma.

We stopped midway to enquire routes, this time santoosh wanted to try the bull, so I hopped on to his torquey pulsar. I was surprised seeing the direction boards pointing to devanahalli as it led towards the new international airport. It turned out that this tamarind groove is situated near the new airport! We found the first of trees by the road side and went in for snaps.



The trees were huge and old, but had strange formations. Each had number stapled on them. We moved on and we towards the number 1 tree, it is the oldest of the lot there. We parked the bikes underneath the tree.



Few trees were dying out due to old age, but their offsprings were hale and healthy. I was glad that atleast this part of greenery escaped from the airport work. The scenery was good, calm and cool with birds chirping, interrupted frequently by planes taking off or landing.



After whiling time there, it was time to move on. While Santoosh and me felt that going via new airport highway would be nearer, Balaji and professor had to go via KR Puram hanging bridge. After a final tea break, we parted ways. Santoosh wanted to check out the new Airport, so he ventured towards airport while I headed home and reached by 6 pm. Over all it was a short sweet weekend ride. Thanks to professor for this discovery!

Lazy Weekend ride with Professor

This was supposed to be a CCD meet and ended up being a srirangapatna meet :P Weekend was approaching, called professor to see if we could meet up to discuss future ride prospects, while I proposed a meet in our usual ccd on Sunday, professor had a ride plan in mind, Srirangapatna is famous for it’s heritage and equally famous for it’s non-veg Military hotels! Professor suggested that we start the lazy ride on Sunday morning by 7.30 Am, move towards Mandya, from there take deviation towards temple town Melukote and from there hit Srirangapatna. Have lunch there at a famous military hotel and return back to Bangalore with a pit stop in Maddur CCD.

Plan sounded too tempting and I gave in, so the last minute ride was decided on Saturday! Last minute sms sent to riders predictably evinced zero interest as most of the guys had already planned up events for their Sundays. But Praveen T responded that he would join us half way through have breakfast in maddur and head back to Bangalore as he had some work. So it just 3 of us who were going to be in this ride and 2 riders were going to complete the ride, looked like the trend of riders breaking off midway in the ride was gonna continue from my earlier ride :P

Riders and Bikes:

1. Professor - Unicorn
2. Vasanth – Karizma
3. Praveen T – Unicorn

Route:
Bangalore>Maddur>Mandya>Melukote>Srirangapatna>Maddur>Bangalore

Pics:
My Pics: Click here

Ride Log:

I reached the meeting point bang on time, Praveen T informed me that he was at NICE road junction, so I headed there after smsing professor about the change of meeting point. Praveen is moving out of Bangalore the coming week :( as he got placed in IIM Ahmedabad :) Bangalore BN is loosing out on of it’s best tourers :( So we got talking and looked at the watch, it was 8 and no sign of professor! Turned out that professor was not carrying his cell and he was waiting at the old meet up point for us! Finally professor called me from a local landline and got the message. Soon he met up with us and wasting no more time, we moved on towards maddur.

Mysore road is always challenging, it’s a tricky road, it’s tempts you to throw all caution to the wind and twist your right wrist, but this curvy 4 laned road is where most of the people loose their sense of limit and push themselves and their vehicles to limits and shit happens sometimes. The initial josh of getting out of city’s chockablock traffic settles down with in 10 kms of hitting this road for me and I get back to my cautious riding self, at the same time it’s a pleasure to cruise in constant 90-100 kmph on butter smooth curvy road on a zma.

We hit maddur Tiffany’s by 9 Am and settled down for our much deserved breakfast. Savoured tasty dosas, maddur vadas and idlies. We were discussing praveen’s shift of base from Bangalore to Ahmedabad, also we were reliving some memorable rides that he was part of us with us here. Ah, Nostaligia :(

It was time for Praveen to split up, he bid byes to us and headed towards Bangalore while professor and me headed towards mandya. From mandya, professor lead and took me through the deviation road towards Melukote. The road was is in ok condition, sparse traffic and compensated with beautiful views of sugarcane fields (Mandya is Sugarcane town) We cruised merrily and stopped over near a field for a butt break, I got clicking while professor was trying to adjust the air fuel mixture screw of his unicorn.




After a long sutta/butt break, we decided to move and headed towards melukote. On the way after some time, we found a good scenic stretch of road, so I stopped to click pics. Professor was not happy with unicorn’s Air fuel mixture screw and again went about trying to get back a proper feel.



After 5 mins, Professor gave up and decided that he would get the setting done on the way by some mech, I couldn’t lend a hand coz I myself am novice when it comes to carbs. Something’s are best left untouched I guess! We hit temple town Melukote by 12Pm, on the way towards temple, there’s a short twisty ghat section, which is fun, especially some 3 curves are pure bliss to corner on. We moved on and parked our bikes near the temple. We felt that carry our riding gear+lids+tankbags in to the temple for a Darshan wasn’t the best idea after all! So we quickly clicked some pics. I had been to melukote earlier by cage, so I was satisfied with few pics of temple from outside.



Did some experiments with the reflection on visor of my lid :P

We moved after few snaps, on the way down, there was a huge lake by roadside, but the entrance towards the lake was some what camouflaged, we made our way through and got an ideal spot for relaxing on a hot sunny day. While I went about relaxing and clicking few pics of zma and surroundings, professor went towards a mech shop that he had spotted on the way to get his unicorn’s carb tuned properly.



After sometime professor returned and seemed to be happy with the mech’s work on carb. I again experimented with the lake’s reflection on visor of my lid :P



After that it was just chit chat on all sundry things, couple of fags followed. It was getting hot and hunger pans started, so we decided to move towards srirangapatna for lunch and packed out from there by 1 pm. The road from melukote to srirangapatna is one of the best State highways, with clean wide tarmac with road markings etc. We hit srirangapatna in no time and Professor towards the famed military hotel. It was a really old place, definitely not for the typicial urban IT Crowd, but for localites who savour the taste. I was delighted at being at such a nostalgic place. After indulging in the speciality meals and loads of gup shup, we saw the time was already 4 pm! We scooted towards Bangalore, thinking of a pit stop in between in maddur CCD. We hit Maddur CCD by 4.45 Pm and cooled down with a mocha drink.



It was a perfect lazy Sunday ride for me! After some time pass there, few fags later we moved on towards Bangalore. I hit home by 7pm, thanks to crawling city traffic in mysore road. Not a ride to boast about kms done in a day or to boast about being through scenic places or capturing scenic pics, it was a lazy ride which recharged my batteries, especially now that I was a bit low coz Iam jobless for next few days till I join my new company!

There is nothing that a Motorcycle ride can’t cure! :P

Lazy Weekend Ride with BikeNomads

Had planned this ride with Bengalooru BN chapter as per our earlier BN ride. The ride was done on Saturday, May 31st 2008 with lots of surprises thrown in!

Firstly, most of the regular riders were tied up with professional/personal work and dropped out, the confirmed list shrinked to 7 riders with 2 tentatives thrown in :P The place to ride to itself was debated and finalised on the last day as per confirmed riders choosing. But alas, there were drop outs as the D day neared.
4 BNers ended up starting the ride and 2 BNers finished the ride :P But towards the end of the ride, it was one of most enjoyable 1 day rides i had done till date! explored unknown places and found some new routes and places, with the ride culminating in heavy rains!

Riders and Bikes:

1. Sachin Koppikar - Pulsar 150
2. Prasanna - Pulsar 180
3. Professor Nanjundappa - Unicorn
4. Vasanth - Karizma

Route:
Bangalore>Kanakapura>Bheemeshwari>Muthati>Kanakapura>Thalli(TN)>Hosur>Bangalore

Distance:
275 Kms for me

Pics:
My Pics: Click here

The Ride Log:

Lots of regulars backed out at the last moment and communicated through mail/group/sms about their inability to make it to the ride. The only last moment joinee was Sachin, he informed me the previous day that he would join in provided his bike was in shape, he suspected some engine related problems, he said that he would hitch pillion with me if his bike gave haath. With Balaji being around (he was confirmed) to show the exact location to spend time in Bheemeshwari and with Professor being around to take us through unexplored interior routes, i braced myself for an exciting ride ahead and tried to catch few winks of sleep.

Woke up at 5 Am. The meeting time was 6.15 AM opp to METRO in Kanakapura road, i had to go to Sachin's place as he had doubted about his bike's condition. After sometime sachin gave a green signal about his bike and we both were just about to start towards meeting point, balaji called and expressed his inability to join in for the ride :( looked like the previous night's food had upset his internals :P Poor guy had packed up his cramsters and riding gears and was all set for the ride earlier night, but his internals gave haath on the ride day. I told him that shouldn't be a problem and he should take rest, off we went to meet Professor and Prasanna (or so we thought!) at the meeting point.

We reached there at 6.20Am only to find Professor waiting for us. Checked my cell to find prasanna's message that he would catch up with us later on. I apologised to professor for making him wait, we started off at 6.45 Am after some chitchat and fag break. The weather was cloudy and cool, the irritants were truck/bus traffic as we proceeded. With me leading and Sachin tailing, we munched kms. I was busy enjoying the curvy kanakapura road and started to see that the duo behind me were slowing down considerably, so decided to cruise at 40 kmph for sometime :P After sometime, i saw Sachin in the RVM and tried to speedup, but i saw him honking and flashing his headlamps, signing me to pull over.

Professor caught up too. Looked like Sachin's pulsar had decided to become Autogeared bike! His bike was automatically downshifting from 4th gear to 3rd gear unexpectedly while riding. Now he had second thoughts, I assured him that he could manage as we were hardly 15 kms from Kanakapura, our breakfast point. But he was still skeptical about the bike, I adviced him to park the bike off at some secure place on the highway (near a hotel or school) and then he could hop pillion on my Bike or i could be pillion on my bike and he could ride. He agreed initially and later we proceeded slowly, i found an old school with secure compound, found it an ideal place to park his bike, so we could proceed ahead and then pick up the bike on the way back. Sachin changed his mind suddenly and said that we could proceed with the ride and he would manage with his bike's tantrums :P

We rolled in to Kanakapura, our breakfast destination was the famous "Vasu Hotel" to savour their masala dosas. I had got introduced to this hotel around 3 years back through Bangalore Xbhp guys, who used to plan Masala Dosa rides to this hotel :P After some enquiring with locals (my memory is becoming weak :( ) We found the hotel's spacious back entrance, parked our bikes and went in. The Hotel was not crowded to my surprise! Then i realised that we had gone there on a Saturday, while all my earlier visits earlier were on sundays, it used to be so crowded, that we had to wait for close to 20 mins sometimes to get a seat, or have the dosas standing ala darshini hotels style :P

We found a table and settled in. Prasanna called up and he was enquiring for directions, we gave him specific directions, but still he ended up at another hotel :P Again the telephonic guiding helped him to locate us safely :P We savoured tasty masala dosas/pooris and what nots! The taste was heavenly, so was the price! :P looked like inflation had caught up with this joint too :( But it was still comparitively cheaper compared to any hotel in bangalore. Having filled our tanks :P we were about to proceed, when sachin had a change of heart again! He was determined to ride back to bangalore, cutting short the ride, so that he could handover his bike to AutoService for fixing the issue. All our convincing efforts were waste, the "Humble Giant" :P had made up his mind. So we bid byes to him and the remaining three of us proceeded towards bheemeshwari.

The weather was cloudy and cool breeze welcomed us. It was ideal day to ride on. Soon we found a place for a pic break and settled down for few pics and fag. Prasanna was not carrying his cam, so he was taking pics in my cam, giving me ample free time to soak in to the surroundings :P



After the pitstop, we proceeded again. Sun started to show up, the clouds were gone. Smooth roads all the way with lots of greenery around due to rains the earlier day, we were busy enjoying the scenic views and munching kms. Soon we hit Bheemeshwari fishing camp area, found the usual spots too crowded, lots of tourist junta had ambuished good spots near river :( We enquired with locals and they told we could head to Muthati for better isolated spots. So off we went in search of such isolated river bed spots. We noted down few such spots on the way, but still the hope of finding better spots made us go further ahead, not that i was complaining :P the roads were too good and sparce traffic made it a biker's delight.

We saw a Car trying go through one of the paths in to the jungle, so we decided to follow. The "road" was nothing but full of sand/gravel and rocks, predictably the car guy gave up after some distance and they parked to alight and walk all the way through that path. While we decided to explore further, it was a steep climb, had some scary moments. Prasanna and Me were riding on while professor wisely stopped at the foothill seeing the terrain. The path seemed to go on and on, so we stopped, i got a scare while alighting from the bike, my foot just slipped! there was no grip to give traction in that gravel and mud. Somehow managed to balance myself and safely put the bike on sidestand. Prasanna went to look ahead while i clicked a few snaps of the unforgiving offroad.



Prasanna came back and said that the path further ahead was motorable to someextent and later we had to trek, we ditched the idea and decided to climb down the offroad towards the mainroad. The fun began! I was the first to go, turning my bike was huge task given the limited width and uneven path, once turned, it was downward spiral in gravel/sand and rock, i was shit scared, i didn't want to drop my bike. I took my bike towards the downward journey, i saw professor positioning his cam and recording video of my antics! :P My bike's rear was dancing all over with out any traction due to stock zapper tyres, I switched off ignition and tried to control the bike downward using gears, after lots of scary moments, i managed to get down from the nightmarish path. Prasanna followed, he somewhat easily glided down, i guess he has offroading experience. Phew! we were glad that we made it down in one piece, we decided to have a fag break, when we noticed a monkey family looking at us amused!



:P After taking few "daring" pics with the monkey khaandaan, we proceeded towards muthati spot, which we had noted down earlier. There was a temple nearby, the priest offered to guard our lids, so we dropped off our lids in temple and carried on towards the river bed. We were the only ones there and it was calm and scenic with the river flowing and birds chirping. Prasanna went click happy capturing the scenery and few butterflies which were hovering around.



The calmness was shattered with the arrival of "honeymoon travels" kinda bus! Filled with all newly married junta and entire khaandaan, which was much worse than the khaandaan we had encountered earlier :P Needless to say, the photo-ops and silence was ruined with few monkeys from that family. We got the clue that it was time to move on, so we decided to head back to Kanakpura for lunch and from there to take the new route back to bangalore. Went back to the temple, picked up our stuff and rode on, we were passing through some amazing twisty roads, I could see prasanna honking. I let him overtake and he pointed towards the road ahead, Viola! It was a very smooth tempting curve with a slight elevation! Perfect place to take some cornering pics!



So out came our Cameras, It was prasanna’s turn first, so off he went while professor picked a nice spot to shoot his share of pics, I ventured towards a elevated point after doing some “offroading” walking :P I was still in my full gear as I had to go next, so dangling the camera over my neck and walking with the helmet and gloves on took some effort and needless to say, I was sweating like a pig inside after few seconds. But it was worth it, the angle i got was good, I could capture the entire curve in one frame so I waited for prasanna to approach. Clicked some good shots, but prasanna was not satisfied with his approach, so off he went for his second try and this time he took the curve nicely and the pics too came out good.



It was my turn next, Handed over my camera to prasanna and I insisted that he climb up to the elevation point that I was at to get the same angle :P Poor chap did climb and perched on top while I got on to my zma and zoomed off towards starting point. I wasn’t too happy with my first try at the curve, so off I went again and the second time I managed to tilt the bike to my satisfaction with a wide grin plastered under my helmet after the effort :P It was time to look at the pics and they had come out very well, one of the best pics of my taking curves indeed!



We moved on as it was getting hot, We rode on and reached Kanakpura town by 2 pm. Professor and me decided to have lunch in one of hotels there. But prasanna had to get back to Bangalore as he had some work, so off he went after bidding us goodbyes. This was a strange ride indeed with riders dropping off right from morning, first it was sachin as his pulsar decided to become “auto gear” bike :P now it was prasanna, Me and professor carried on, we spotted a nice hotel near by and decided to fill up to brim :P After loads of Chicken and mutton with a few chappatis and rice thrown in, we were full :P We spent more time discussing about all sundry things.
We moved on from there by 3.30 pm and professor’s route was to be taken, professor had found a relatively unexplored route from kanakpura towards Anekal, so we took the deviation from kanakpura and proceeded towards Anekal The roads were butter smooth, I was delighted to see such good roads after the kanakpura roads, that too with almost little or no traffic! After some time we found a nice village and took a butt break there much to the curiosity of the villagers there :P Found a cute calf and future mode of transport there :P



Village folks were overjoyed when they heard us speak in kannada and more when they found out that we were localities, they were having lengthy talks with professor who had hard time explaining to them about why “simply” we were riding from Bangalore from morning only to end up in Bangalore again! :P While I got busy clicking after a fag, trying to capture the smooth roads and the surroundings




We got going from there after a couple of minutes after bidding bye to the localities there, the rain gods were taunting us with slight drizzle, so we put on rain coats for our tank bags. But the drizzle stopped and it was just cloudy later on. I had to tank up on the way and we found a rickety old bunk, had no choice, so I filled up for 200 bucks and we moved on. The roads and scenery were just amazing, professor and me were signing to each other many times showing our appreciation towards the whole scenery and the route. Soon we approached the deviation towards Anekal, only to be told by localities that a Bandh was announced in that town and there was some tension. Professor immediately had another route in mind, that would go via a place called “thalli” in TN and from there to Hosur! Professor is a walking talking Atlas I tell you! :P

So off we went towards “thalli” The scenery was again mesmerizing, no traffic yet again except for an odd truck or bus. The cloud cover was still there and at one point, the clouds too good with the sun trying to play hide and seek, it was time for out butt break too, so by 5 pm, we stopped at that spot and started clicking some amazing pics!




We got going after the clicks and by 5.30 we found another amazing stretch of road with good scenery too! Since it was already evening, we decided to take last of pics at this spot and proceeded with the clicking session.



A shepherd boy there got curious and got talking to us, we realized after talking to him that we had stopped exactly at the Karnataka – TamilNadu border! The border was marked by a 3 foot stick planted on road side which was painted in white and green :P We were technically clicking pics from Karnataka though! :P Some shots came out real good, thanks to the straight long road ahead.




We got going by 5.45 pm. We decided to stop at Hosur directly which was still some 45 kms ahead. It was already getting dark, so resigned to our fate that we will be hitting Bangalore only by night. One the way to hosur, rain gods lost their patience and the down pour started! We rode in rain and it was already 7 pm. I struggled a bit due to my spectacles getting fogged, managed to drag myself till hosur. Ride till hosur was okish as the two lane road had sparse traffic and street lights to some extent, but the moment we hit the NH in Hosur, things got screwed, visibility was zero due to rain and to top it up, we had to be on left lane, the slow moving trucks ahead were spraying rain water from their tyres towards us. I was finding it extremely difficult to even see the rear view mirrors the traffic was heavy too. So I signed to professor to pull up ahead.

We thankfully found a hotel which was situated inside a large complex with a spacious compound with trees and all. It was still pouring cats and dogs, so we parked our bikes and ran for cover. Found seats and savioured hot bonda and bajjis :P They never tasted so good. We thought we will make a move when the rains slow down. So we waited there and gulped down god knows how many plates of hot spicy munchy eatables and loads of tea, we even found maddur vada there! I hadn’t imagined that I will be eating maddur vada in hosur one day! The rains showed no signs of abating so me and professor had a nice chit chat about every topic under the sun :P before we could realize, it was already 9 pm! Still it was pouring, we decided to move on slowly and reach Bangalore.

The next few kms were the most horrible ride for me, I absolutely hated it being there at that time! With loads of trucks/buses/cars and Suvs racing past me with their blinding headlamps and shitting shrill horns, my spectacles getting fogged, my puny 55/60w headlamp not illuminating enough for me to gauge the road ahead of me. It got worse once we crossed over to Karnataka, the elevated flyover construction going on had made the roads water logged and there were no clear markings on the road shoulders! Veering to extreme left made me go through nasty potholes while trying to stay in middle lane meant the cages zooming past me by inches, I rode on by guess work and found professor once or twice on the way, he was somehow better off than me riding in that situation. So I signed to professor near bommanahalli that I would move on and we parted ways. From there on, it was “Auto pilot” mode for me as it is my usual route to and fro office :P
Reached home around 11 Pm. Totally drenched and with all the dirt on hosur road sprayed on my lid, riding gear and bike, but still I had a big wide grin under the helmet :P