Planning the first trip to Nandi Hills - Advice Please!

[Muralidhar Duvvuri]

Hi,

I have been an on again off again bicycle rider for the last 9 months. Not heavy, doing around 10-11 kms up and down together, 3-4 days a week on an average.

Finally, summoned the courage to give Nandi a shot, and have 3 other first timers, to test ourselves mostly for this weekend.

We are looking to rent cycles for this trip. Can anybody please suggest models and renters. I saw a list of renters in bots blog. But the list is too big, any recommendations please :D

I have been using a Hercules Rodeo, but want to also buy a proper urban bike for commuting purposes with a weekend trip around bangalore thrown, what kind of a model should I be considering for this?

Cheers,

Murali

[Opendro]

You can try calling Sachin of Pedals and Wheels. I had rented a road
bike once.

On Feb 22, 10:15 pm, Muralidhar Duvvuri <infratab.mura...@gmail.com>
wrote:

[kartoon]

Nice to see a lot of people interested in cycling trips to Nandi.

I don't want to demotivate you but Nandi is a huge crowd during weekends. You need to be extra cautious as I have seen some silly Bangalore youth who have their GF's (or whoever you know!) on pillion who come carelessly close to you as and start teasing you just for their adrenaline rush that a girl is sitting behind and start acting weirdly as if they are playing a game of road rash or something!

[The reason I say this is coz during my recent ride back home one-sick-physco on his apache came close to me and started pedalling in air next to me just to tease me! I was about to kick him but he escaped and sped away but later I see that he was caught on police speed gun :) I felt quite pleased as I overtook him and showed-him-middle-finger while he was begging literally at the feet of the inspector]

They don't value the cyclists. According to my experience couple of times now, the place isn't safe too. People get mugged if they are isolated. So try to ride together.

Carry tools with a patch kit! Long time back when I was a first timer to Nandi on my Hercules MTB, The mudguard broke! and fell off skidding past the tyres and got stuck. I had to manage to cut it off with a hacksaw as I had no tools! One of the good learning experiences is to fail :)

You can take the SH74 Dobbaballapur route till the banyan tree (ask for locals) and then take left turn or take Right turn from NH4 further about 22 kms. (I feel NH4 route is wider and safer from incoming traffic)

You get bananas and tender coconut at a lot of places enroute. Also there is an idli point also at the base of Nandi for some decent lunch.

Since you say many are first timers, you may get really tired on the way back. You can stop after the flyover junction soon after airport checkpoints to take a volvo back to bangalore. Some drivers are considerate to carry if the bus is fairly empty.

Cheers!
Happy riding,
Karthik

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[aditya joshi]

Hey I am intrested. Let me know when you are riding.
Aditya

[Pratap]

Hi Murali and others,

I am also planning to do this ride. You are doing it on saturday or
sunday? If saturday, then I also would like to join.
Let me know the details.

thanks
Pratap

> >> Visitwww.bangalorebicyclechampionships.comfor more details

[Gurudeep]

Try iCycle.....their cycles are very well maintained and of very god
quality.

Contact Person: Manjesh
Contact Number: 9880162659

On Feb 22, 10:15 pm, Muralidhar Duvvuri <infratab.mura...@gmail.com>
wrote:

[deepakvrao]

Not to be a wet blanket here, but you are doing 10-11 km a ride, and
you are planning a maybe 130-140km [don't know where you will start
from] ride with a pretty tough climb thrown in. Not a great idea in my
opinion, even though you will get a bunch of guys jumping n me and
saying 'it's all in the mind' etc.

[anilk...@gmail.com]

+10


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[Surya Prakash Gurunarayanan]

if u are pretty much new to climbing i think even the few small climbs before nandi base will be a good challenge...

i think u guys should ride to the base a couple of times before attempting nandi hill...

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Manyata Tech Park, Nagavara, Bangalore-560045. India.

[Muralidhar Duvvuri]

Karthik, thanks for the heads up!

Hi Pratap, we are a group of 5 now, with Aditya and Harsha of this group joining in too. We are doing it tomorrow morning. Like I have told to them.....as all of us are doing it for the first time, the goal is do as far as we can before calling it quits. About climbing the hill, we can always take a call at its base. Call me up, my number is 8147470363

Hi Gurudeep and Opendro, I booked treks and rockriders from a guy called Vivek, whose contact i got from the bumsonthesaddle blog. Thanks for the suggestions.

Hi Anil, Deepak, Surya, we aren't going bull headed here, we are measuring ourselves, how well we can do this, groups plan is people halt when they are spent and wait for the others to come back......plan on carrying our mobiles, to set up rendezvous points......there is always a first time, anyways. 

[Muralidhar Duvvuri]

[deepakvrao]

Have a great ride. We'll probably meet somewhere on the way.

[Vineet]

@Kartoon
+1 for mentioning the mad bikers. I don't know what point they are
trying to prove. Anyone can rev a motorcycle. No big deal. I'd rather
challenge them to ride up to Nandi without falling dead from
exhaustion.

Regards
Vineet

On Feb 24, 4:01 pm, Muralidhar Duvvuri <infratab.mura...@gmail.com>
wrote:

[aditya joshi]

Hi murali,

So we all are meeting up at NGV signal 4:30 right?. I will give you call once I start.

cheers.

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Aditya Joshi

[Murali Katta]

to win, one must have the capacity to fail

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[Amit]

Even I was a starter few years back .. Please don't plan ,, just do it
and you will never repent ,,
You have a grp that automatically gives a hope

On Feb 24, 7:36 pm, Murali Katta <muralikatta_2...@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> > Not to be a wet blanket here, but you are doing 10-11 km a ride, and
> > you are planning a maybe 130-140km [don't know where you will start
> > from] ride with a pretty tough climb thrown in. Not a great idea in my
> > opinion, even though you will get a bunch of guys jumping n me and
> > saying 'it's all in the mind' etc.
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> > --
> > biking conversations on the world famous "Bangalore Bikers Club" :)
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> > are you a part of the bicycle racing scene?

> > Visitwww.bangalorebicyclechampionships.comfor more details

[Muralidhar Duvvuri]

Hi Amit & Murali, we did it. I had to walk up the last two kilometres, as the final steep did me in. I also took a fall early on at Karahalli, over a speedbreaker, that I carelessly missed. Apart from that, the trip went smooth, we took sufficient breaks in between. Not many aches or rawness today.

Loved it, thanks all for the advice and concern, I am overwhelmed! I am glad that I did it, and thankful to the other guys who joined us through this group for their company :D

[deepakvrao]

Were you the guys we met on Siva's Rd? There was a group of 4 [I
think] headed towards Nandi on Sat morning.

[Muralidhar Duvvuri]

Deepak, is it the road near Yelamma lake? If so, I don't think it was our group, we were 6, and started from Koramangala, and went through MG Road & Hebbal

[muagarwal]

Oh .. I think it was our group .. 4 of us .. we just did some 60k
ride, budigere - bagalaru - hennur and back to home. :)

On Feb 26, 9:15 pm, Muralidhar Duvvuri <infratab.mura...@gmail.com>
wrote: