Showing posts with label Bike Ride. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bike Ride. Show all posts

Saturday, August 09, 2008

Lush green out fields, wet roads and bike ride it's a unique experience.


Lush green, Wet outfields and bike ride is a unique experience.
This was my 2nd ride on the bike. Location unknown but had read on the internet
that it was awesome.
After all the dropouts, 5 of us were ready to roll.
Unlike the first ride, this time rain was going to hit us hard.
The route was virar-ambada-wada-suryamal-khodala
The stretch upto Ambada was pain, the road to virar was broken with pot holes all
the way.
The stretch from wada to suryamal is something unseen (best possible wet roads with lot of fog on the way), unheard (you can only hear the flow of water).
The ride itself was eventful. We were 5 of us - Amit, Jigar, myself (netmagic),
Amog, Niket (bombaybikers).
On road from virar to vrajeshwari, Amog skid on his bike. It hurt him a bit, bike was fine.
On stretch from ambada to wada - Jigar fell down. His bike in one pot hole, himself
in another. But as he says, he is experienced by now to fall from the bike ;).
Guess who was next? None other then myself.
There was water flow on the road which had lot of "Leel". 3 of them went through with thier bikes shaking but not falling down. I did not see it. I went through and there I went skidding. Fortunately bike slipped away from me and nothing happened to me. Bike's leg guard was twisted. Footpeg bent. Amit was quick to pull the bike
up. So very eventful trip ;)
The waterfalls were just amazing and so many of them on the way. We bathed in 2 of them.
The photo sessions were unending as there was so much to capture. The roads were empty whereby we parked our bikes on the road to click photos (and from all angles too).
With some hot tea in the cold weather (yeah all of us were shaking), we were ready to return.
There was only 1 sad thing in the end. The road from virar to borivali was 40km of pot holes with some roads in between. It was literally "pain in the butt".
The photos captured have come awesome and will upload it to picasa soon and post the link here.

Monday, July 21, 2008

Bike Ride to Vikramgadh

First bike Ride to Vikramgadh
Datta, Rishi, Amit, Shailesh and Myself.
We decided to meet at 6:00am opposite national park. By the time datta and Rishi came it was already 6:20.
So started towards manor and informed amit to meet us at 6:45 at Nallasopara.
We almost missed him and then we slowed down. He had seen us, so start to follow and met us 500m ahead.
We kept riding till Vithal Kamat's at around 70kph. Finished breakfast and we reached Manor by 8:30, right on to

Manor Wada road towards vikramgadh. Although it did not rain heavily, there were drizzles on the way.
The ride was fantastic, we reached vikramgadh and asked for khand dam.
The road to the dam was full of stones but we made it with ease and then there was stone throwing competition.
The winner ofcourse was Datta.
Then, asked for "dhabadhaba" and were told there is a palucha dabhdabha almost 5-6km towards jawahar.
We missed it twice, went back and forth, but finally found it. There is a rough road going upwards towards left near

Jabm, 1 km after a board of wild life of koyna.
A trek of 1.5km took us to the waterfall and we soon realized that won't be able to go under the waterfall.
Still we trekked down and went into the water, it started to rain in sometime.
Perfect timing, all so satisfied that did not want to go anywhere else.
Pictures speak more then words, so here is the link to the photos.
http://picasaweb.google.com/himanshukhona/Vikramgadh