Summer Special - Club ride to Khekra Nala

After Gaddha mania at Lonar crater lake, we could not make it for any club ride. One more major reason was Nagpur Summer. Average temperature was 44-46 degree.

But still all club members decided for atleast one ride in hot weather just like “Rann of Kutch”. J

We gathers at Poonam chambers at around 10am. But we started at around 11.30 as Naga wanted to join us. He came from Hyderabad to customized his bike. Wow, he modified his machine nicely. Off course, Girish from our club helped him for this.

As shown in the map, we 7 bikers rode to Khekranala, a famous dam and huge water reservoir.

Since it was so hot, whenever we took a pause, we drank lot of water. I think per head we consumed 5-6 liters of water within this ride. :p

We reached at khekranala resort which is just located next to dam. Since we had very light breakfast in morning, we had heavy snacks at this resort. 

Everyone took out their cameras and started taking snaps. Birds, landscapes, trees, dam, so many subjects for the photography. :p After having snacks, we proceeded towards dam where we relaxed ourselves.

I folded my pants and got into the water, (not in depth which is not at all recommended).

Footprints of Wanderlust - Khekranala

Piyush wagh, one of the new club member, joined us. Wohoo, when he took out his camera, we were stunned. It was Nikon D4, very powerful and expensive.

We were very tiered, due to excessive water consumption, we were not hungry. He had some soft drinks and then we started out return journey.

ThunderGods @ Khekranala

We return way, we were pleased with the scenery. Dry leaves, rocky roads, trees with some green leaves, much more..

I was not lucky though, and we had seen our first breakdown. My bike’s rear tire was punctured. Ohh No !!

I need to go till khapa with Indrajeet to bring new tyre tube. Due to which we are delayed little bit. We rode back to Nagpur in late evening. 

Trip to Lodikheda with RSS Family

Random weekend ride with Wanderlust

As mentioned in title of this post it was a random club ride .. nothing was planned.. though it was awesome experience .. fantastic road.. perfect atmosphere.. enthusiastic group .. made this ride something special ..

Followed the path as shown in the map.. rest following captures will showcase moments of ride..

 ~ Club members and my friends .. chilling new river bank..

 ~ River way from Fun n food to Hingna..

~ Timepass .. :p ..

~ Machines ..

 ~ It was a dusty moment.. Anu, Anup & Nikhil tried this way ..

 ~ And suddenly .. this happened .. :p

 ~ Wanderlust everywhere .. \m/

 ~ A very short road .. perfect for riding .. surrounded by trees .. Wow..

~ ~ Adventure follows like a shadow that never leaves ...

                           

Club Ride to Degma

After spending almost day in Ramdeo Baba College for campus interviews, I got a call from Inder, club member, that they are heading towards Degma. Degma, an area with mountains, trees, Small River with a small waterfall at the end.

It was Ganesh Chatudashi, I had to came back home for Ganesh Visarjan. So I decided to quickly come from this beautiful place called Degam. This place is just 2 kms from Zilpi lake. The weather was cloudy.

I meat Anmol Singh for the first time, an old member of Wanderlust. He is a tough and muscular guy.

Inder, Anu, Ashish, Harsh were waiting for me on this place as they started early evening. I took some Samosa & Jilebi for them.

Harsh was very happy as he got his new LB 500,a powerful beast.

After general chit chatting and some off roading on hilly area. We proceeded back to Nagpur. Unfortunately Uzair’s bike got punctured on same place. So harsh rode his bike till hingna and get it repaired. Again in this ride I rode back without headlights, somehow it was not working. Overall it was a wonderful, short and sweet ride.

First monsoon ride of season 2011

Well on Saturday, I started planning for Sunday ride. As I wanted to take out my bullet for ride after 2 months. My machine got new look and style. I was excited to take her for long ride. So I explored Google map and I found huge reservoir near Wadgao dam i.e. Makardhokda.

I always eager to visit new places. I sms club members about this place and other details of ride. Anu, Mukund, Neeraj sent confirmation for this ride.

On Sunday, around 3pm, the atmosphere was cool as showers shown presence for some time. Though it was not raining heavily. I called up Anu, unfortunately he was facing some issues with his bike so he could not joined us in ride. I took out my bullet and directly visited Neeraj's house.

Me and Neeraj started our ride at around 4pm. After Khapri naka, it was raining heavily. We enjoyed first monsoon shower during this ride. From Butibori, we forgot to take first left turn and choose different turn where road was pathetic. We reached to railway crossing (as shown in the map). We asked local people for confirmation of route.

~~ Suggested route to avoid bad road .. (State highway 262 as shown in map is very poor)


The road condition was average. I noticed that headlight of bullet was touching number plate when bike bumps from speed breaker or small gandha.

Pata hi nahi chal raha tha ki road main ghadhe hai ki ghadho main road :|

But at one point, it bumps so high, nameplate banged on headlight and damaged it. It was predicted but still I didn’t do anything. :(

Same time, Neeraj was few meters away from me, he was also waiting for me as his bike was not starting. The fuse was short. Oops, now what ? he took out wire from broken headlight of my bike and bypass the fuse. :p

We were just 4 kms away from destination. So we decided to continue our ride. We reached our destination i.e. Makardhokda Dam. Wow.. what a view, super duper. It was indeed a huge reservoir. We parked our bike near dam and relaxed for couple of minutes. Neeraj did some mud biking. :p

We have to rush to home as my bike’s headlight was broken so before dark we have to reach city. Without wasting time, we returned back. We had snacks and Tea at Kamat restaurant, Butibori.

By 7.30pm, we were at home. It was wonderful first monsoon ride of this year and we thoroughly enjoyed it. Cheers