117) Manchinbele Dam & Nelligudde kere: (1/11/2015)

Place: Manchinbele Dam & Nelligudde Kere.          

Distance: 40 x 2 = 80kms.

Directions: Bengaluru – RRDC – Manchinbele – NG Lake - Bidadi

Particiapants: Arun (Aaku Bhai) > Karthik (Sp).

Bikes:  Unicorn > Pulsar                                             

Previous visit: BananthimariBetta Trek

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This was a short, but much needed elixir. The M/C  was almost on the verge of extinction when it came to tripping, then came Arun to pull me out. Even though it was small ride it broke the shackles and let us free like we were meant to be. And this trip also justifies the fact of going to repeated places ain’t always a bad idea.

INTRO & PLAN:

I had not been on the road for 3months. I was beginning to get rusty and my mind was getting blocked. With all the procrastinations and delays I was getting frustrated. Finally Arun and myself agreed to go out and just ride, even if it meant a small 30kms stretch. First Sunday of November was picked with the two of locked in.

TIME: 22:00 (30/10/2015)

      

ASSEMBLE & LEAVE:

Yeah I was up at 05:00, did a push ups & sit-ups, had a cup of coffee and sat back. Parents were confused never had I taken this long break from the road they felt happy & sad I guess. Arun arrived at my place at about 08:45 and we left Bangalore.

TIME: 09:00

RIDE 1: (Bangalore- RRDC – Big Banyan – Manchinbele – NG Lake - Bidadi)

This was about a 70kms total ride. We first got out of the city and cruised towards RRMC via Kengeri. After making to RRDC we took a right turn and headed towards Big Banyan. The roads had turned silent and greenery was up on both sides of the road.

We pulled over as I wanted to take in the fresh air I had missed all these months. It actually felt refreshing and good. Even though Arum & me kept meeting for walking every weekend, we always speak on quite a different wave length on the road.

After a few minutes into the ride, we could spot the beautiful Savandurga. Continuing further we reached the beautiful Manchinbele.

TIME: 08:00

MANCHINBELE:

The first glimpse like always took my breath away. We parked our bikes on the road itself as we had no intention of going till the waters. Started at the glittering waters for some time remembering our second chapter. I asked Arun whether he had visited NG lake. When the reply was negative one. We took off from Manchinbele, rode a few kilometres back and headed towards NG lake.

Riding in between grass fields and a lot of villages we made to the second water body, which also was sparkling. We took out bikes on the bund, got off it and admired the morning fresh air.

TIME: 08:30

NG LAKE:

We spent a 15-20mins at this place, walking on the bund. It wasn’t surprising to find nobody on a Sunday as many know about the place. After which we headed towards Bidadi and pulled over at our regular hotel for some Idly & Vada.

The breakfast tasted damn good, as it had been our choice of food since many years. After having breakfast we turned back on the SH-17 to ride smooth to reach back our respective homes. The shackles, my friends, had been broken! Time to let loose :P

TIME: 09:30

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101) Lokaruchi - Ramnagara: (2/11/2014)

Place: Lokaruchi – Breakfast ride.

Distance:  40 x 2 = 80kms.

Directions: Bengaluru – Bidadi - Ramnagara.

Particiapants: Aditya(Adi) > Datta(Magu) > Deepak(Deefu) >Karthik (Sp).

Bikes: Zeus > Pulsar.

Previous visit: Kuntibetta trek - Into the Oblivion.

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Yes, before you say a word, the crazy rides & hikes shall prevail. Haha, yes… it was a hard though of decision, but it was made nonetheless. Took over a month to decide whether we end the run or run until the end.  What better way to start off than a breakfast to catch up and explain the upcoming years :P

INTRO & PLAN:

Lokaruchi was chosen to start of this new era. Reason being, I mean we had been on Mysore road (homeground) for 5+ years and still not visited this place. When people asked us, whether we’ve eaten at this place, we would always say no (even though we had eaten in other good places) anyway this was one good breakfast place we had to get under our list. We had not visited this place mainly due to intense crowd that comes along with the place. I mean it is famous for a reason right? Haha… Adi, Dattu & Deefu were on the confirmed list.

By the way it was Deefu’s birthday too!

TIME: 22:00 (1/11/2014)

  

ASSEMBLE & LEAVE:

Yeah I was up at 05:00, did a few push ups & sit-ups, had a cup of coffee and settled back listening to music. Yes, we were going to have breakfast, and the scheduled time was 08:00. (now don’t ask me why I would get up so early) After others arrived at my place, we decided to leave Bangalore.

TIME: 08:00

RIDE 1: (Bangalore – Bidadi – Lokaruchi)

Okay, this was about 40kms stretch. But we rode at gentle pace. We took off from Bangalore on a couple of bikes.  Ride blissfully enjoying the winds which gave the indication of the on setting winter. It was not long before, I spotted the “HOTEL VISION” now turned into some dhaba of sorts, the first hotel we had tea about 6years back on our first ride to Maddur. Yes, we were starting afresh all over again! About 30-40mins latter we ended up at the Lokaruchi to spot quite some vehicles.

TIME: 09:15

LOKARUCHI:

Well the breakfast is a buffet, priced at Rs110/- But trust me the varieties offered and the taste of food makes it worth every rupee.(you should trust the statement even more if a guy like me says it:P) Any way we found a nice table a little towards the outdoors, with all the geese, ducks & rabbits running around we had a wonderful breakfast. Over the coffee/tea I explained the path that I had decided for the club. It would be go-go-go. But with everybody in jobs and 25-30 (being the most squeezing part of life) we knew challenges would prevail. But nonetheless the decision was to go ahead, and I asked what others thought about it. (no point in going ahead if others weren’t okay)  With others giving a “AYE” it was done and dusted. Time to head back home and start hard.

TIME:10:30

RIDE BACK:

It was a smooth ride back home. 40kms of non-stop riding. But yes, atleast the path was clear, that mattered the most.  We reached back Bangalore in about 45mins. Having bid farewell to others, sat down with some sheets in my hand. November, the beast shall be set free! – The reckless November begins!!! \m/

TIME: 11:45

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36) Shanmukha Temple & Manchinbele:(18/6/2011)

Place: Shanmukha Temple & Manchinbele.

Distance: 90kms in total.

Bikes: Unicorn > GS > CB Unicorn > Pulsar.

Participants: Arun > Manu > Madhu(Gundi) > Sp.

Directions: Bengaluru > RR Nagar Arch > Shanmukha Temple > Mysore Road > RRDC > Manchinbele.

Previous visit: Maasti.

If you have less than 5 mins, Click here: Manchinbele- Basic information

IN LESS THAN 50 WORDS:

Shanmukha temple is one of the best temples in Bengaluru, still under construction, but brilliant ambience & tranquility all around the temple. Well about Manchinbele, the perfect place to spent the morning if your bored at home. (Oh yea caught hold of a fish too :D)

INTRO:

It was exactly a week since the Coorg, Dubare Trip on my birthday (Thanks to mommy), But as it wasn’t a bike trip, we wanted to ride out of town , if not big a short trip atleast.

PLAN:

Arun, Madhu(Gundi), Manu & myself were the 4 in the confirmed list. So we decided to go somewhere near. When Gundi suggested the Shanmukha temple, everybody were quite happy and agreed on the place. And we all crashed.

TIME:23:00hrs (17/6/11)

RIDE I : (Bengaluru – Shanmukha temple)

Got up at 04:00hrs, warmed up a little ha-ha, had a small cup of coffee, and went down to take my bike out. After a few minutes Arun arrived at my place and we left towards Rajarajeshwari Arch where the other two would be joining.

TIME: 05:15hrs

We reached RR Arch in 5-10 mins , and waited for Manu & Madhu. After 15-20mins they showed up and we left towards the temple.

TIME:05:45hrs

It was hardly 5kms from the Arch, so we rode at 30’s patrolling RR nagar early in the morning. We reached the temple in 15minutes.

TIME:06:00hrs

SHANMUKHA TEMPLE:

Well to start off, the atmosphere at this place is just brilliant. We 4 parked our bikes & started climbing up the steps to the temple. We sat on the lawn and spoke about our holidays and how we were wasting time ha-ha!!

We enjoyed the beautiful scenery all around us. Oh yea we could see the NICE road the temple, it had always been the other way around until then.

The temple was still under construction and trust me it will one day become one of the best temples in Bengaluru.

Finally after an hour or so sitting there we left the temple.

TIME:07:15hrs

PETROL PROBLEM:

As we left the temple, Gundi’s unicorn ran out of fuel. So Gundi & me went to get some petrol form the near by bunk, leaving Manu & Arun behind with the other 3 bikes. On reaching the petrol bunk, we tried searching for a bottle but couldn’t find one. So I sneaked into apartment and stole a 2 litre Coca Cola bottle ha-ha!! And I heard a shout form behind saying not to steal it. It was form the person for whom I was stealing the bottle for filling petrol :D , we ran and got back to our bikes and rushed to the petrol bunk , got some fuel and went back to meet others who were already roaming around on Gundi’s bike .

RIDE II: (Shanmukha – Manchinbele)

So finally once we had he fuel put into the bike, we hit the road. Since was a bit early , there was minimum traffic and that allowed us to cruise along at a decent pace to reach Rajarajeshwari Dental College, a right turn from here would directly lead us to Manchinbele , and so it did.

TIME:07:45hrs

MANCHINBELE:

Well this is one of the best places to spend the morning if you are bored at home. The first view of this place is simple breadth taking. But getting down in water is highly not recommended as it is very dangerous.

So we went down near the water and started playing one of the oldest games known – “The Skipping Stones” , We played for about 30-40minutes, then sat down and started cracking jokes… Oh yeah we managed to get hold of a fish too :D

Once our tummies started Growling we knew it was time to head back home.

TIME:09:00hrs

RIDE III:(Manchinbele-Bengaluru)

It was a 35kms of easy Riding. We thought of stopping at Big Banyan , but as we had seen it several times we didn’t. This last stretch was just formality Madhu & Manu went via Kengeri Satellite town, whereas Arun & I continued further to reach our homes safely.

TIME:10:00hrs

Overall this trip was very good again; The calm ambience of the temple & the wonderful reservoir made this trip a memorable one.

Until Next time, Cia \m/

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24) Manchinbele + Big Banyan – Epic Ride back ( 4/11/10)

Place: Manchinbele + Big banyan.

Distance: 35 x 2 = 70kms.

Participants : Dhiren (dJ) > Siddarth ( STIG) > Ashok > Arvi > Manu > Sp.

Bikes: RTR > GS 150 > Pulsar 150.

Directions: Bengaluroo > Mysore Road ( SH-17) > RRDC > Right Turn > Bigbanyan > Manchinbele.

Previous Trip : TK Falls.

If you have less than 5 mins, Click here: Manchinbele- Basic information

PLAN:

Another unplanned trip , so obliviously some part of it had to be Epic. Ok 4/11/10 was a Thursday , so all theory classes , so mass bunk :P

10 am everybody escape… so we ended up near the bakery asusual sipping tea etc etc… we had the whole day ahead of us … so we had two plans in our mind

1) Go to a hotel and eat a heavy lunch.

2) Go to a place Nearby.

And we chose the latter … this decision took us 2 hrs to execute :D , 12 pm we left college towards destination unknown ( on SH 17) , I told others about a reservoir near Bidadi ( not manchinbele , now its like our native) so we decided to go there .

RIDE:

 

Well nothing much to say about the ride , it was our 5^th OR 6^th visit to the place… so it was just formalities… cruised along Mysore road to reach RRDC , took a right turn there and headed towards Big banyan tree ( Dodalladmara)

Wanted to stop at Bigbanyan , but realized that we could visit it on our way back. So headed further towards Manchinbele.

TRACTOR WHEELIE :

Vokay this was truly unbelievable , as we got the first glimpse of the place it was breath-taking… little did we know we would sight something else which wouldn’t take our breadth but Choke us :P :P

Entering manchinbele , we a saw a tractor lift the front two wheels up almost 60degree :O , we stood there with our jaws dropped in shock.



As the second one came by , wit was a little kid driving it … we requested him to do the wheelie , and this little kid did it even better about 80 degree… whew it was like we were imaging things… then the 3^rd tractor came by .. we went a little overboard and asked whether we could sit on the tractor and then asked him to perform the wheelie :P

Well he couldn’t get it done , so we headed towards the water ..

TIME: 13:15

MANCHINBELE:

Well , the water level had decreased a lot , we had a long discussion whether to get down in the water or Trek up the hill…

The water at this place was never clean , so decided to trek. We had to park our bikes behind some bushes well hidden , and started off towards the mountains . it was quite an easy trek but then the rain god came into the picture.

It was about 2pm , and started raining heavily , dJ had “ ___meter” in his bag ( sorry forgot name) so gave my towel ( a must find in my bag :P) to wrap it up.

Then we stood under a tree for about 20mins , Chinta his STIG , fat guy`s, Megan Fox stories kept us well entertained. **BOWS DOWN**

The sight of savandurga was amazing , it was covered in mist , looked awesome :) . Then we trekked further up to reach a flat land. Hmmm it was a little different since our last visit to this place “ Manchinbele –The reunion” , But yea we walked further and reached the end… sat there for sometime and decided to head back.

The cool weather made the trek super non tiring . Heading back we checked our bikes and left towards namma bengaluroo :) :)

BIG BANYAN:

We reached here at about 3:15 pm , well nothing much is there at this place … so a small round at this place to wrap it up :D. We left BIG BANYAN at about 3:30 pm.

EPIC RIDE BACK:

Vokay here is the most thrilling part of this entire trip. As soon as we entered Mysore road , it started raining heavily. This was real heavy rains. Each droplet was like a thick bullet hitting our faces and chest… believe me that hurt !!

We thought of stopping at kengeri , but decided continue , SH-17 was literally in floods

Obstacle I :

It was becoming difficult to control the bike , finally , we reached Gopalan arch and headed further into Nayanhalli, then ashok and me decided to take a shortcut near a BP petrol bunk ,… So took a U-turn.. the next sight was something il never forget… there was huge amount of water flowing out of the petrol bunk…GULP!! This made all the potholes , humps , Stones , etc invisible…

It was a one shot go… taking a deep breadth , went off…. Finally after a few seconds in the mercy of the forceful water we made it out of it \m/

Obstacle II:

From then on we thought it was a walk in the park. Further we saw a car & scooter stopped near a small bridge… made my way through to sight the mother of all challenges for tat day…

Knee deep , flowing water over the bridge…ashok advised me to head back… But I thought I would give it a shot anyway. Started of at 20kmphr, taking care not to decelerate as water would enter into the Exhaust.

Everybody else were curiously looking at me whether I would screw up … that gave one more reason to cross it. After a min of hard time to keep the bike on course , made it out of it … took a look back at the people who had stopped smiled at all of them and headed further.

Whew what a felling it was… the other two bikes had taken the normal route… we all ended up at the bakery again shivering in cold , drenched totally , soaking wet .

Ordered some tea and snacks etc etc…

After having them headed back home , satisfied … it was a insane trip !! but the ride back is one hell ride I will surely remember…

Until Next time \m/

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