Cyclone Neelam and my bullet....

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!

 

Once again, I have arrived at a juncture where I am going to listen to my instinct. I have to ride my bike from Hyderabad to Bangalore on Sunday - 4th November, with reports of cyclone Neelam still doing the rounds. I am not afraid, but excited. Just a weather update - It was raining continuously from last 2 days in Bangalore and heavily in Hyderabad. So far, everyone advising against riding in incessant rains.
But more than anything else, I need my bullet here in Bangalore with me:
1) To get rid of pathetic transport system of my company where my cab drops me to office 30 minutes before trip time and picks 20 minutes after trip time and explaining everyday to cab driver about my address location in Hindi is difficult.
2) To start riding and exploring places beyond Bangalore.

At one stage, I got a little influenced by people around and called Bharathi Travels and ask them for canceling my ticket (from Bangalore to Hyderabad). But the person on other side confirmed me in affirmative tone that no bus will be affected due to rains and water, though there are very few people than usual traveling this Friday. And it gave me a reason - when a bus can go in bad weather, a bike can also go. Just that we need experienced hands for both.

And I will reach Hyderabad on 3rd November, spend time in checking my bullet (hopefully it should be fine), fix battery, meet Wanderers(my bullet club in Hyderabad), get my left overs and pack them properly behind my bullet and will start on Sunday for Bangalore, some 600 kms in total. So far I had only heard about bullet - only bike on whih you can move your house and your wife. I will experience the first half of the statement this time.

Signing off now, not praying Neelam to go less fierce, but to give me more strength to deal with it.
Will update after returning. Ok, I am back. Covered 580 kms in 10 hours. I started at sharp 5 am from Hyderabad and reached my room in Bangalore at 3pm. The highway was one of the best in India, with literally no potholes and full metal road. There was very less traffic and it was more about speed than skills to ride on such roads.
And there were no rains at all, so I could not sing my rain ride song:
"It's gonna be lots of rain, it's gonna be no sun;
I wanna go ride again, it's gonna be so fun"

Took 2 break s, one for dosa and tea and second for tea and biscuits in addition to water, susu and petrol breaks :)
Now that my bike is with me I am very excited to explore more of South. Very soon I will cover Coorg, Gokarna, Puducherry, Wayanad, Kanyakumari and a lot more.