A small request to all: Enjoy nature, enjoy your travel but please don’t spoil MOTHER NATURE. Refill bottles, don’t throw plastic in water bodies or roads. Dispose your garbage at proper place. Cheers!
I joined a bullet group in Hyderabad around 2 months back named as Wanderers. I met the group at the right time, when I was getting fed up of Hyderabad, climate, natureless places and no same minded guys. Thanks to Dilip, my friend who introduced me to Wanderers.
I joined a bullet group in Hyderabad around 2 months back named as Wanderers. I met the group at the right time, when I was getting fed up of Hyderabad, climate, natureless places and no same minded guys. Thanks to Dilip, my friend who introduced me to Wanderers.
A weekend ride was planned for Srisailam and it took me no time to jump in. I was riding with such a large group with mostly unknown riders for the first time.
Route : Hyderabad to Srisailam via Vikarabad
Ride : All bullets
Riders : All bulleteers
Distance: 230-240kms
Time: Gross time(while going) 12hours, Net time(while returning with less breaks) - 5 hours
The first leg of ride was really disappointing for me, a big group assemble after a long delay and I waited all alone on the road for more than 1 hour. At that time, I questioned myself - Why the hell I am waiting here? I should leave. But then I thought of giving this group ride a try. At next stop I witnessed some lazy breakfast moments and I was further disappointed.
At that time I felt good when I saw Lalit Bhai(founder of group) asking riders to hurry up and start.
So finally after some 2 hour delay we started off. I called it as a fursat ride as we were stopping for anything and everything. Be it tea, crap, fag, pics, visiting farms, eating or just for nothing at all.
My riding bug was tickling my bones and at more than 1 occassions I was tempted to leave the group and ride by myself. But somehow, I wanted to give myself another chance to get along well with the group.
As I have heard from my rider buddies - "When you are in a group, you are as fast as the slowest member of the group" I understood the meaning behind it for the first time.
And as we cruised further we reached the Ghats which was surprisingly good. And from there we did some offroading inside Srisailam Tiger Reserve. It was then when the rains painted our bulls red with the mud and the temperature dropped down. I was in need of it more than anyone else.
As we crossed further, my bike's tank dried up. don't know how but it was a gross miscalculation. Thanks to Rahool, I was shortly riding again.
A guest house inside temple premises was booked so we rushed up to avail that facility. And as we reached the temple, we were joined by a part of the group after sometime.
Srisailam temple - for some it was Lord Darshan, but for me I didn't even knew that there is some temple there and I went purely for riding. There was a party at Eaglepenta which I didn't joined along with Raju, Dilip & Anil. I really enjoyed conversations with Anil - who is an antique/unique collector. I was impressed by the way he was pursuing all that he wanted to.
Srisailam temple was supposedly grand and Lord Darshan would have got all the peace, seekers wished.
But for me it was a strict no to buy a balcony ticket and watch Lord. I was against this paid up Darshan so I preferred staying back. If I would have bought a 200 bucks ticket to see lord, I would have definitely felt - Is Lord too weak to be confined within a temple? And why the hell is he prefering people with more money? Is he biased? Or he loves development with that money? Is he a master or a slave? Or maybe he is just a myth. Too many questions for my little mind, so I stayed back.
The riders group arrived and completed darshan at Srisailam temple while I walked around in the town with Raju, had Dosas(too many) and tea. We waited for group to re assemble and start for return ride.
The return ride after Eaglepenta was very quick, we did some 240 kms in 5.5 hours to Hyderabad which included 2 stops and riding in Ghat road. There at the Ghat road, you are riding at 90kmph and suddenly you see a big speed breaker, it's hard to control bullet so a tip here for all budding riders, 'Never let your bike go out of control. Be it at 20 or at 100kmph, as long as it is in your control you are safe.'
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| In Srisailam Tiger Reserve |
