...Indian on Voyage...: Riding to the beach.. again...

Destination - Bhatye beach, Ratnagiri
Distance from matunga - approx 370kms
time taken one way - approx 8 hours (including an hour of break for breakfast and other stuff)

It was a saturday night.. all of us were laughing our hearts out at Sankets jokes.. and in the talks came the plan to ride in a group after a long time..
all of us there were eager to ride.. Vinod had plans of a 500km ride starting Friday night.. but they had to change all that because of me..
thank you all very much for that gesture..

so it was again deepak who had to find out a destination .. and this is what he sent on the mail..
excerpts from the mail..
"With initial places being decided at Tambarde and Kunkeshwar in Malvan- it would only be possible to leave on Friday night. Leaving on Saturday morning riding for 550 kms and then returning back the next day wouldnt make much sense. So I've shortlisted a place called Bhatye Beach in Ratnagiri. As per info from my colleague who is from Pavas which is close to Bhatye, there are ample and inexpensive accomodation options to stay overnight. Here's the pic of the beach. Googled around for a few snapshots of the beach and got this (seems pretty clean):

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/78/154084585_6411a3a066_o.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/53/154084615_7649676b1e_o.jpg

http://www.konkandarshan.com/tourist/images/bhatye_big.jpg "

so it was decided.. Bhatye beach it is going to be..

Riders list
Deepak -- P150
Revel -- Hunk
Vinod -- P180
Sarang -- P180
Vaibhav -- P180
Dhananjay -- P220
Alkesh -- P220
Glen -- Zma
Arjun -- Zma
Sanket -- Zma
Parimal -- Zma (he joined us later at the destination)

All were to meet at the Palm beach road at 5.00am on the saturday morning and leave by max around 5.15am.. But i got a bit late and reached the vashi toll naka at around 5.25am.. to my surprise everybody (including deepak) was there.. As we were getting ready for the ride.. a silver 180 came near the group and started revving.. no one understood who it was.. and finally after he left we saw the BN sticker.. Vinod chased him and got to know that it was PPS (Praveen Sathaye) who was riding to pune..
Sanket was getting a bit late and we decided that we move on as he could easily catchup the group in no time..

the first break was at the Panvel naka for fuelling the bikes.. Sanket reached there in mean time..
Bikes full, all set.. Vinod took the charge of the road ahead.. Deepak was sweeping the pack.. All riding in harmony were moving in a pack..
Deepak zoomed past me on the Karnala curves.. i could see that he was enjoying them as usual.. he dropped his pace back to join me at the back of the pack..

We kept riding through the beautiful NH17.. to everyones surprise it was really cold on the road.. i was literally shaking inside my mesh jacket.. as the time started ticking everyone started feeling hungry..
We decided to stop at Wadkhal for breakfast but were there pretty early as the hotels had yet to be opened.. so we decided that we stop near nagothane which was around 20kms from wadkhal..
We kept riding at pretty good speeds and reached nagothane in no time.. but the lead of the pack just kept riding..
finally we stopped somewhere on the highway for our breakfast..

Wadapav and missal pav.. garam garam.. was served and a nice hot tea made a really great start to the day..

April 03, 2009

Riding to the beach.. again...

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