Re: [BBC] Revisit to Nandi hills on 31st August (Saturday)

[Saurabh Singh]

I am in!

Saurabh Singh
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On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 10:25 AM, krishna chandu <chandu....@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello,

I am planning to revisit Nandi hills coming Saturday (31st August 2013). I stay near Indiranagar and planning to kick-start to Nandi hills by around 5:45 am from leela palace.

Please note: it is a relaxed fun ride and not race. Newbies/those targeting their century ride are encouraged to join :)

If you are game for this, please let me know where you stay so we can sync on the route and work on meeting points.

Tentative route: http://goo.gl/maps/jDlLF

Any other suggestions to the ride is most welcome. Feel free to suggest any other route that you think is better to explore.

Regards,
Krishna Chandu
+91 9900111220

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[Promise Gangani]

Why BIA road, why not this route :::::: Old madras road - sivas road - budigere - devanhalli - nandi hills : http://goo.gl/maps/Bcywj

One of the Best scenery route.

And we can come back by BIA road or same route.

[krishna chandu]

The route that I posted earlier is more or less the one I explored last time and it was not that bad :)
Anyways, I am all open to try different route and this new route looks cool too.
Thanks to Promise :)

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[puneeth rao]

Yes sivas road is also a good option but its only 11 km of pure bliss later its plain n gets boring according to me !!! Enjoy the ride!!

[Hrishikesh Landge]

Hi Chandu,

 

I am In. Just tell me how to reach the meeting point from Gopalan Mall bannerghatta road. It would be helpful as I am new to bangalore and dont know the internal roads.

 

Regards,

Hrishi

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[Pretty]

Hi,

I am in.

 

Cheers,

Pretty.

[Darrell D'souza]

Hi Chandu,

I am totally game! I stay in hsr. I can reach 100 feet road by 6.15. Is that ok?

Regards

Darrell

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[krishna chandu]

Great!

Please feel free to bring your friends too along whoever is interested to do this ride :)

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[Shouryamoy Das]

I am tentatively in.

[santosh]

I am tentative.

If coming shall join from the Horamavu (Banaswadi) ORR.

Chandu if starting at Sharp 5.45AM you may reach by 6.10AM. By then I will be there in ORR.

Regards,
Santosh
9972811109

[Mathew]

I'm in. I stay at RT Nagar, when and where do I come?

Thanks

N

[Ramey]

me and other friend of mine are going to do nandi via doddaballapur route...,

starting at yellahanka police station circle at 5:30am

[Darrell D'souza]

I sure will!!

[Nilay Shah]

hi..

I would also like to join tomorrow...

Will start from Brookfield and join at Leela palace at 5:45.

I'm first timer for long ride.. can I call you in the evening for few queries ?? :)

Regards

Nilay

+91 8095669130

[krishna chandu]

That's great! If anyone else here is interested to join the ride, they are still welcome :)

@All riders - Please feel free to invite your other friends too who are interested to join the ride.

Please try to stick on time - 5:45 leela palace (whoever is joining at leela palace) - it is better to hit the base as early as possible

Let us hope the weather favors us and it will be less sunny tomorrow during the ride.

And good luck to all those who are game for brevets 300 tomorrow :) Have a safe ride!

Regards,
Krishna Chandu

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[puneeth rao]

What time ru expected to pass hebbal??

[Nilay Shah]

hey all...

it was memorable ride for me!

Really enjoyed a lot... gr8 group..

keep in touch @ www.facebook.com/nilaydshah <--- my fb id

[Darrell D'souza]

I agree!! A wonderful time!!

This is me on FB:https://www.facebook.com/darrell.dsouza.7

[krishna chandu]

So this is how the ride went yesterday -

Nandi hill ride is my first century ride ever and recently I got a doubt "Did I walk in between when climbing the hill, last time?" So, I thought to climb with minimal breaks(if needed) and with-no-walking-when-climbing rule and finally achieved it.

We were ten riders who headed to Nandi hills and had wonderful ride yesterday. Thanks to the Bangalore weather, we experienced the ride on cool weather in morning, the scorching sun in afternoon/evening and the rain in early evening :) Eight of us could reach the hill top and the rest two, being newbies and their first time long ride ever, could reach till the Nandi base - I really appreciate their achievement to ride till the Nandi base.

We took Siva's road and my bike got flat half way towards Devanahalli. Darrell, Eva and I tried to fix it but no use. Finally I took tempo till Devanahalli (missed ride of around 8kms) and took help in fixing flat from other riders who already went ahead. Thanks to Promise, Hrishikesh and others who helped to fix the bike and we were all ready to reach the destination.

The headwinds were not that bad and by the time we reached Nandi base it was already 12:30 pm. After making stomach little happy, we kicked off to Nandi hill top and every rider was on his own. I followed maintain-consistency policy and slowly started riding from the base and finally reached the top. We were all happy about the achievement of the successful climb; we said hello to i-cycle guys who arranged the same ride. Monkeys and dogs welcomed us at the top and an intelligent monkey was staring at the food that we were eating and we offered one banana - we wondered if other monkeys form a queue for food but luckily no :) The other two newbies called when we were on hill top and said they have reached the base then. We started to return from the hill top and the down hill ride was pretty awesome and cool!

We met the rest two riders at the base and we all started to ride back to Bengaluru city, when the clouds accompanied us and started raining heavily. We rode for some distance in rain (it was really a great experience) and halted in a small shop for the rain to stop - we only wished to have hot tea/coffee/snacks in that weather but no luck. Once we hit the airport road, again the sun was scorching and we all got dried (as we were wet) and also equally fried. Few riders wished to take bus/tempo traveler to reach their home from the airport toll gate. We managed to get a tempo traveler, bargained with him and the four riders bid bye then. The rest six of us started riding back to respective homes; Darrell and I rode together till MG road and bid our ways from there.

Overall, it was a fantastic experience and had wonderful ride with all folks who joined the ride yesterday. I thank you all for joining the ride and pleasure to ride with you all. I look forward to see you guys again in some other ride. I encourage you all to put your yesterday's ride experience :)

Regards,

Krishna Chandu

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[s.a...@gmail.com]

“we all got dried (as we were wet) and also equally fried”.... LoL... 😊

[Subbu]

Krishna,

You always seem to get flats when ur on long rides. I remember u having a flat when doin machinbele as well, where u had to quit at Big banyan tree and come back. You can try tireliners which might help u in reducing the flats 

[krishna chandu]

Yup, this is the second time my bike encountered a flat in one of my long rides; however I managed to ride Nandi hills this time unlike Manchanebele dam ride.
Sure, its a good idea to have tire-liners! But I wonder if tire-liners are available for hybrid bikes. Please show light on this.

Thanks,
Krishna Chandu

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[anil s kadsur]

Krishna Chandu,

Nice ride report and a good ride too, enjoyed reading it (which was pending, I love to read ride reports...)

Was it your first 100? How did the climb go, how much time you took to climb?

very truly,
anil s kadsur
http://kadsur.blogspot.in/

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From: krishna chandu <chandu....@gmail.com>

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Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2013 08:26:39 +0530

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Subject: Re: [BBC] Re: Revisit to Nandi hills on 31st August (Saturday)

[Rahul Raj Dusa]

Nice ride report... :)

Rahul Raju Dusa

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