The original plan was me on my P180 and another friend of mine on his karizma + some more friends in 2 Indicas. Unfortunately my friend on the Karizma couldnt go with us. We started at 5:15 am in the morning of sat 28th may from Noida. It was tough to slow down to the pace of the Indicas .. and then on the way to Meerut I found another guy on pulsar and a blank stretch of road and both of us stretched our bikes ... then I had to slow down for some miles for the Indicas to catch up with me. We stopped at Cheetal for breakfast at 7:15 am. We started from there at 8:35 am. I found some amusing jeeps with loads of people on them in the way and finally after crossing Muzaffarnagar, Roorkee, and Haridwar I decided to give my bike a breather. I parked it in shade and just lied down on it and fell asleep on top of the bike ..
a sign board at cheetala sign board at cheetal
talk about seating capacity
the road ahead
After around half an hour when my friends reached me they woke me up and we started our ascent on the mountains at 11:15 am. We had to face a lot of traffic till Rishikesh.
Only after Rishikesh did the road opened up and it was amazing to drive on the mountain curves bending the bike on open corners.
Finally we reached our camp at 12:20 pm. A total distance of 291 kms from my house in Vasant Kunj. We straight away went for rafting after which we had a camp fire in the night.
liquid cooled
The next morning we started back at 11:00 am. I took 2 - mins stops before stopping at Cheetal for lunch at 2:00 pm. We had lunch at Cheetal and then went non stop till Delhi starting at 3:00 pm and reaching by 5:00pm. It was too hot to drive during the day and I had a tough time sitting on the bike .... but as a whole it was a nice trip and I had a warm up before venturing deeper into the Himalayas.
1 comment:
great job asif !
sanjay
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