STR (Saturday Trail Ride) plan Date : 11/04/09

Here comes the ride plan for coming Saturday and ride-report of last STR (Saturday Trail Ride).

Ride report, SRT (Dated: 4/4/09)

As people say picture says thousand words, so here are few of those words album. :-)
Here is the link to the ride-report by Paro, and Anand's album is here.

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Most of us know by now that the fun of riding places that you dont know is amazing, it takes you to a lot of surprizes, same was tru with this ride as well.
We started at 6:05AM headed towards, Bellandur-bibs runners spot (Near Gera Inl. School). We hit the trail with the beatiful sun on the horizon. We kept riding through all those trails, some of them were narrow enough for Anand to be Off his saddle (I will leave this to Anand to explain :-) ). Around 7:30AM we were at Gunjur village, where we had our BF IVC with missing Vada :-) ...
As soon as we started we saw another bunch of bikers coming from Whitefild side, we slowed down for them to catch-up and after talking we figuered-out that the group was headed to Jain-farms to have lunch. For once i got tempted to go woth them, but they planned to ride on road all the time which was not so inviting.
So the next trail we saw, we were on that. .... ... And after that dont ask any one of us where we were .. totally confused about wher we wre, but very happy with long and nice trail. Every time we hit tar, we looked for trals to go on... We saw orchids, cultivation of roses and other flowers. We saw the national flower after a long time. Now the heat was on and we decided to head back, so with whatever sense of direction we had with that we left towards Sarjapura Road, and we hit that after dommasandra. We decided to meet Sharath at Decathlon (Wise decision indeed). One of it's kind store. Also came to know that they will have a canteen and place for shower there and parking place is there anyways. So probably we can have our STRs started from there once they have all that. Then we said BYE to each other and back home !! :-)
Some stats :
Distance : 63Kms
High-lights : Lotus pond and Rose garden
Terrain : trails

Ride Plan, STR (11/4/09):
Yup, the plan remains same as the last saturday :
Star point :Sarjapra ORR Jn
Start time : 6AM
Date : 11/4/09
Distance : God knows
Speed : Slowest of the group
finish : B4 lunch

So who is joining this time???

Plan of the off road ride: 4/4/09

I plan to go for a ride on saturday starting (Obvious enough) Sarjapur-ORR Road Jn.
For those who plan to join:

The off road rides have surprises :-)

Start Time : 6AM
Finish : By Lunch
Distance : 60Kms
Terrain : Mostly Off road.

Do leave a comment to this thread if you plan to join!

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400Kms in a week, the milestone

I wanted to celebrate by Bday in style this time. So i set myself a target of 400Kms for the week including the distance that i cover commuting to office.Till friday i covered 210Kms as for 5 days commuting to office, 42 Kms to and fro. So half of the target was achieved. In remaining two days i had complete remaining 190 Kms at-least. So i decided to go Nani from my house and be back, whcih in all is 160 Kms.
Saturdays Ride:
Saturday morning @ 5 Me and Ashish (Pocha) started from my house to Hebbal where we were suppose to meet other road bikers Venki, samim, Rushi, Deepankar. We started from Hebbal by 6:30 and on the way i had an injury in my calf. However i wanted to complete the 160Kms. I toughest part was to clomb the Nandi 450 meters of altitude gain in 5 Kms with my injured calf. We headed back from there it was easy till highway, but after we took the highway major headwind stuck us and it was difficult to keep pace of 25KMPH also. But finally reached hebbal, the bad part of this stretch was the traffic. After the new BIA has opened up the traffic is really bad here. I did not have anything to eat since morning other than one small piece bread. So i was feeling hungry by now, but i wanted to eat only the special thing coocked by my wife that day @ home. So finally slowly but without any stop i pedalled to my house.
The problem was that i had just completed 155.6 now, so i went 2.5Kms ahead of house and came back which made the cyclemeter read 160 for that day .I reached home by 1:15 and at home i ate like i was eating anything first time in my life.

Sunday Ride / My Bday ride:
I was still short of 30Kms so had planned of going for a shorter off-road ride. Rekha turned-up bang @6 at the meeting point, and Mayank was 22 Mins late. We three decided that we will not do much off road as it will be too muddy/slushy. So made our ride through some small roads avoiding the traffic on Sarjapura Road. We took one of the small roads which initilly looked not so paved and but going down it was rally bad and untarred.
Somone had to take the B'day bums (which was earned by me, by completting another year), and the strong nature chose poor Rekha for it. She had a fall directly on her bums (That reminded me of the "humpty dumpty" ryhm, because my son keeps singing it) . She is a brave old lady (That is how me and Mayank teased her), said i am not heart and we carried on and completed out ride 36Kms on cyclo-computer. This was Mayank's first ride, he did quite well in the ride.

With this i complteted 210+160+36 = 406 Kms for the week.

And happy celebrated my Bday on sunday with my family at home

Thanks and Regards,
~ Ravi

Celebrating Bday in style

Yah, I want to celebrate my Bday in style. Before i can turn 33 (That means that the day before my Bday) i will pedal for 160K that is five time my age. And on the day of my Bday i will pedal anything more than my Age (In years, mind you!) on that day. So who plans to join?
On saturday (31/05/2008)
Ride to Nandi and Back = 160KMs
on my Merida-880

On sunday (1/06/2008)
Ride off road Near Sarjapuar. Ne thing more than 33Kms (Yah tha will be my age then) :-)

So join in ... and celebrate with me ...
~ Ravi

Ride-plan .. toughest in southern inida

Yah .. the toughest you can do in southern india
Plan:
When do we start Bangalore:
4th late-evening/night from Bangalore to Masinagudi
Mode of Transportation:
Personal/rented to be decided based on number of ppl joining.
Ride:
Starts @ 7AM or earlier on 5th. Madhu's car can also act as Aid station. through the Kalahatti ghat (Segur ghat) from Masinagudi. According to Srinath it is the toughest ride we can do :-) .. Challenging ..huh?
Reach Ooty:
By lunch time (or a lil later .. i hope 5 hrs should be fine for this ride), and meet Srinath and fellow bikers. Have lunch together @ Ooty golf club.
Ride to:
The Srinath's place (Kunnur),Which is 18km of downhills (according to Srinath) of easy ride. Ppl can also opt to come back from this point. As there is no hard and fast rule (They shall take care of transportation back)
Over-night stay:
@ Srinath's place Two options:
in Srinath's House (8 rooms) ... yes E ... I ... G ... H ... T :-)
Those who wanna tent-out can use the lawn are :-)
6th whole day and first half of 7th I would prefer Srinath and ppl who know the area well to decide about.
7th after lunch we head back to Bangalore.
Budget: Spend and divide

So waiting for somthing better ... keep waitin .. you will never get :-)
~ Ravi

nandi-betta .. The Ride :-)

How did it start :

Got a mail from Roahn on Bangalore Biking Club (BBC) about the ride to Savandurga on sunday (09/03/2008). I suggested if we can do it on sunday as we have runs organized by RFL/Hash on sundays. Rohan tried his best but looks like there were more takers for Sunday rides that saturdays ... However i was ditermined to not to miss either the ride or the run, so shot a mail on BBC about the ride on saturday. I got confirmations from Kuldeep and Donald (Of TDH fame). Friday evening i left early from office to pick-up my new-road-bike.

Difficult to get-up early:

We had decided to meet @ hebbal by 5AM. I thought it may not take more than 1 hr so planned to wake-up at 3 and start by 4. But by the time i started it was 4:15 and i had 45 mins to cover 32KMs (Which i discovered later). Well i had no option to paddle as fast as possible on my new beast. By the time i was @ KR-puram 4:45 i got a call rom Kuldepp that they have reached. Well, that was a chock to me that i will have complete the rest of the 14K in 15 mins mostly uphills. So i tried my best and was there by 5:17 .. and guess what i covered 32K in 1:02Hr.

Nice Slow and Easy Ride:

Noticed that Navdeep had also joied us, and we were 4 now. We started ... and i started slow on road-bike which was faster than otheres :-) ... On the way saw the sun-rise.

We were there @ the foot-hills by 7:20 ... Had break-fast and Navdeep was down .. he said he cant as his leg was aching. He offered me his MTB and chose to stay back. I was happy, because on the road-bike it would have been difficult to clib-up. Well, we starte and initially and F2R3 (Front Gear @ 2 and Rear Gear @ 3) ... That was fine.. later we were @ F2R1 and towards the end we were @ F1R1 yahh.. the garnny gear (As per Roahan) ..

We reached there in one hour ...

On the way back it was fun ... and @ the base we all said that for the kind of High that we get while coming back it was worth climbing-up.

Coming Back:

We decided to go to Dewanahalli and take a bus from there ..., we started and after around 10k Navneet had a flat. I told to my-self that now the ride is successful :-) .. We repaired it. Went ahead and just near Devanhalli he had a flat again, this tim he borrowed Donalds Tube and used that. Finally we reached the bus-stop and waited for the bust tom come. Bus came full of ppl, we pushed our bike on top and me and Navdeep climbed up to tie our bikes to the bus cariier .
We stayed there for 15mins ... that was funnnnnnm....

And the boring bus journey ended and KR Market @ 1:20 from where rode back home and rached @ home @ around 2PM

Stats:

Fun Meter : 100KMPH :-)

Averge speed : No Meter/GPS .. Sorry!

Max speed : 65KMPH .. we gueeswd .. while coming back from hill

Total ride distance : 120 K (For me)

This was fun .. Have a look @ the snaps @

http://picasaweb.google.com/raviranjan.kumar/NandiRide8thMarch2008