Sunday Breakfast Ride

It was a beautiful Sunday morning and no reason why I woke up early morning. I think it was 5am, weather was pleasant enough to think about a quick ride. So I asked my better half to join me in this ride. And she agreed !!

So I choose Outer ring road, a road tangent to Wardha road as shown in the map. This is mew developed road and people hardly knows about this road.

  


It was very peaceful and pleasing in the morning on the open free road. We took lot of snaps as it was a new road and new “bus stops”. A feast for photography.

We saw IDEAS college on the way where my sister Vaidehi is currently working.

The ride concluded with heavy breakfast in Gokul Vrindavan, Dharampeth. 

My machine @ new Outer Ring Road

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. 

Club Ride to Ghodazari

To enjoy December bliss, we, the Wanderlust club member decided to go for ride. The destination was decided “Haldgao”(Near Umred). But somehow our leader, Anukaran could not manage to join us. So we changed the destination i.e. “Ghodazari”. I was very excited to see this place as it is new to me.

This time we have new club members with us, Prashen and Raj. Anmol singh, a very old member of Wanderlust also joined us for this ride.
Ghodazari is just 110kms from Nagpur city. It is situated on Umred road.

Near Nagbhid village, suddenly my bike got dry. No petrol !! but luckily Ashish was with me and he gave me some fuel from his bike.

I think with couple of pauses and pee breaks, we reached the turned from where the Ghodazari road started.

Short road, surrounded with trees, red soil, sunrays coming through trees, Wow.. amazing atmosphere. When we reached Ghodazari dam, it was just like nature was welcoming us by putting red-brown carpet. It was a awesome experience.

We found good but expensive restaurant which was the only restaurant in that area. :p Since we were very hungry, we had heavy lunch at same location.

After that we enjoyed the huge dam location. Took couple of photos and started back to Nagpur.

Beautiful road - Ghodazari - Nagp

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.

Pre-Monsoon Club ride to Silai Mendha

After long time, I received SMS from Anu for club ride. Since I was almost cured from unfortunate car accident, I sent my “YES” (approval of presence) for ride at Degma (a place near to Zilpi). But unfortunately I didn’t have my bullet. It was with Shanu for rebranding/renovation. So I decided to come as pillion in this ride. The summer heat was still ON. On Sunday, Anu informed about the meeting point and timings. We decided to start late evening to avoid heat.

We (Anu, Inder, Harsh, Uzair and Me) started at approximately 5.30pm. I was pillion on Anu’s bike. After refueling at hingna naka, we gathered at Hingna Bus stop. We were discussing about refreshments and other stuff.

A guy approached us, as people always do when they see club riders with stylish bikes and riding attires. He asked us to join his team and visit Silai Mendha spot. He was carrying around 12-15 snakes. Yeah, he was SarpaMitra (Snake-Friend), his name was Monu Singh. We had a quick chat and decided to join him as he was going to show us new place called Silai Mendha.

We touched zilpi route and took immediate left turn at the starting of same route (As shown in the map). The road condition was average but it was thrilling as well as exciting to visit new destination.

We followed Monu singh team and reached at destination. We were amazed to see reservoir, in Nagpur summer also, the water level was enough. But surrounding was dry and dusty.

After enjoying off-roading , the real fun and thriller started. Sarpamitra taken out different snakes from sack and boxes. They were handling those snakes so easily. Harsh said “ye to isko keychain jaise pakadke huwe hai” :p

Inder, first dared to handle non-poisonous snake. Then I also dared to take rat snake in my hand. The feel was so amazing and different. Initially I was scared but then was enjoying the feel and movements of snake.

Harsh and Uzair were very scared, they didn’t dare to take snake in their hands. :D Finally, guys taken out KING COBRA from box. Dangerous, Khararnak, Phadu !! we could here Hissssssss sound when Cobra was freed.

~ Sarp Mitra - Monu Singh & his team

Wanderlust everywhere .. Anu & Harsh bikes

After taking loads of photos/videos and discussions with Snake friends, we started for return journey. It was lightning heavily. Anu taken wonderful snaps of lightning.

We came back to Hingna, had sip of tea, shared moments of ride. Everyone was very happy to have wonderful and different ride unexpectedly.

Wanderlust Ride @ Waki Woods

Waki woods.. a well-known place near Nagpur for hangout. If you want to see white sand beach near Nagpur city, this is the best place. Yes, I am not joking. Wanderlust, my bullet club, decided to have a ride at this place.
How to reach Waki woods? Very simple!! Every nagpurian know koradi.. that’s it .. You can follow Koradi road. As displayed in map, you can bypass the Koradi and need to reach Patansavangi. Then you need to take right turn. If you got confused then you can take help from local people to locate this place.

~ Anu Paji (Our leader) and Inder (Co-moderator of club) ready for ride.

We reached on destination without any problem. Though railway crossing took little bit of time. As usual, I was very excited. We follow small raw roads instead of tar roads. Off-roading.. you know. We were enjoying twisty & bumpy ride. From the bushes, trees, we were finding the way to reach the decided location i.e. beach.

Before reaching on destination, my bullet made a weird sound and stopped. I looked down at rear tyre to check what exactly happened. Ohh no.. Chain of my bullet slipped. :( Inder & Anup tried to fix the problem but no success. We left the bullet there and proceed. When we reached on the destination, Inder, Anup & Sandeep did burnout. I was really cool.

We relaxed on the beach. Guys had sip of bear. :p I was hungry, so I had light snacks. Neeraj was as usual busy in taking snaps. Anu paji also accompanied him. I also captured few moments. We enjoyed and played in river water.

~ Wanderlust everywhere ..

~ As evening @ Waki woods !!


In evening, we again tried to fix the problem of my bike but we couldn’t. So I left the bike at my friend’s farm house and came back to Nagpur.