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Category Archives: Longer Rides
Rides that are more than just a weekend getaway!
Yamaha RD 350 touring – mixing business with pleasure
Who ever said you can’t mix business with pleasure? And, not take a Yamaha RD 350 touring?
Kuppam is a village in Andhra Pradesh about 120kms from Bangalore and has been given the title of a ‘model village’ giving it IT infrastructure amongst other things. All this in the context of Emerging Economies and also because its the constituency of the then A.P Chief Minister, Chandra Babu Naidu. Other than that it’s just about any other village and if you were just driving through, would probably not even notice it.
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Rider Mania 2005
Rider Mania (RM) has always been an event that has held a kind of weird fascination for me. This is because I had, a couple of years ago, gone to send off a few friends when they were on their way to the first RM. Whether I would be able to attend RM 05 at all was in limbo till the last minute due to issues at the office. Another factor that didn’t make me all that enthusiastic was the fact that RM would be held this year at a place called Panvel about 60kms from Mumbai. Argh! Why not Goa! Continue reading Rider Mania 2005
Deepavali getaway and more running in
The week before Deepawali saw me out of Bangalore on a weeklong solo trip into various places in north Karnataka. The Thunderbird had run about 600kms and had the first service the day I headed out of Bangalore. It was still running in, so it was obvious that this was going to be a relaxed ride.
The ride was mainly concentrated in and around the Uttara Kannada district as it has my dad’s hometown, Chipageri and I have a lot of relatives whom I’d not met in a long time. The total distance covered was about 1300kms. Continue reading Deepavali getaway and more running in
In the mountains
This story is especially for those of you who had written in after reading the Himalayan Ride story of the RD boys from Bangalore and loved it. Some of you had expressed the desire to read more such stories direct from the riders mout..I mean pen… I mean keyboard. Go on and read about the ride in the Himalayas by a few of the Bangalore riders. They all are a part of the Rolling Thunder Motorcycle Club (RTMC) and the write up is by Prashanth, a prolific tourer on his 1969 Royal Enfield Bullet 350. (Aarrgh! Where is that bullet I’ve been promising myself for so long!! Sigh!) Continue reading In the mountains