After fun filled Yelagiri ride, we were prepared for the longest day in the tour and descent kings were already ready! Guys you would have guessed by this time who they were. Rakesh who was steadily taking away his fear for descent and graduating to be a great descender (To be validated by Siva. Lols). Other is Lord Siva who by this time we knew, greatest descender among us. As usual myself, Venkat and Amol started cautiously and i started to fall behind immediately. And at some time amidst of the descent, Siva was waiting for the photoshoot and here it is.
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| Wohoooo |
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| Sapeksh and Bhaskar |
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| Siva and me |
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| Sapeksh... |
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| View from in between. |
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| Usual tea at the descent to calm the nerves... yes!!! |
After this particular tea break, when we trying to get away, every time Siva would be instructing us to ride with Ullas and Gayathri, awesome couple who came from Pune. Ullas his talks would keep us engaged and forget little niggles throughout the tour. And specific instruction was to allow Gayathri to pull us and man she is one strong rider. Kept on pedalling at a decent clip. Once when we were all talking and riding all through, we almost met a pile up since some of us were cleated. Siva and Rakesh almost avoided a near collision when a guy was crossing in a two wheeler waving at us without stopping! After taking a deep breath, we started to pedal further. Then came the famous Bondhai story where we tried to eat lunch which was around 100kms. This is the place where we found roads were pretty bad and pretty much rolling terrain! All village roads were fun filled. Full of vibrations due to patches all the way until we reached Sankarapuram.
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| Siva @ TS1 |
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| SCR2 |
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| Sanjay, Anjali, Magesh, Rajesh. |
We had decided to have food at Bondhai and again my dear friend Siva, started to curse myself and Venkat since we had almost assured him that food will be there! By the time we reached Bondhai, we were fried by sun and Bhaskar got a flat. We searched for food and nothing was there. By this time other riders like Magesh, Rajesh, Sanjeev and several other joined in. Amol and myself decided to ride further and everyone decided to continue further. In between someone i think Rajesh told, "By the name of it, i guess Perungolathur will definitely have proper food". Siva's reaction we missed to take a Pic. Then we decided (Amol, Venkat and myself) that food will not be there until next 20 odd kms and started to pedal saying we will get food in another 8kms!
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| @ TS2 |
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| Bala Sir and his trusted associate. |
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| Venkat, Amol, Rakesh n Magesh |
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| Time for a good nap! |
By this time, bhaskar also fixed the flat and big group started behind us thinking that lunch is there at 8th km. And we did not even stop at Perungolathur because the moment we entered that village, we realised that was even smaller village than Bondhai. We zipped through and finally Vaz came in Swift and said, "Folks what are you doing? This is why you should not ride fast. Other people were belting at some place before". Almost i decided i was going to kill Vaz there:) Later decided to ride further and at a place where we joined the main roads, we went and hogged a plate of Kushka (Biriyani without chicken pieces) and started to Kallakurichi which was around 30 + kms.
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| Green green everywhere |
This was the place where myself, Amol, Sapeksh and Venkat had a combination of Fruit mixture (A cool drink), coffee, Kushka and what not! Bhasker and Siva got a lorry and drafted far ahead! Then Sapesk and myself were riding together for that last 30kms. I guess Rakesh and all others were little ahead. Amol and Venkat were riding together. It was fun and stopped for one more photo break. Then caught up with Ullas and Gayathri again through the ride. Entered pretty much crowded Kallakurichi town to get into SR Park hotel which was very much neat in appearance and it is pretty much new. We went for recovery walk as usual and today was the day i guess Sapeksh tasted the Soy based recovery drink (Yuck!). Next day was an interesting day with lot of climbs and there were lot of discussions to actually not ride this fully since same route back was not worth it!
But history did not want us to miss this awesome ride. That story in next blog!
Day 6 Stats:Destination:
Kallakurichi
Distance covered:
162kms
Elevation Gain:
669m
Elevation Loss:
1469m
For Lunch:
Chicken Kushka and omlette.
Also Read:
Day 5:
14 poets
Day 4:
Fishy Day 4
Day 3:
Relaxed day from Yercaud to Hogenakkal
Day 2:
Killer Yercaud
Day 1 and Day 0 :
Into TOT and to Kolli
_MJV_
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