Ride to Yelagiri – as seen by the gsK

Riding to Yelagiri with BAC was there on my to do list from a long time. I had planned for this 30 days in advance. And as the saying goes, man proposes, God dispeses; My motorcycle got stolen and my left shoulder got dislocated. Doctor fixed my shoulder but what to do with the motorcycle?! Anil Kumar of our club was kind enough to lend his motorcycle to me since he was unable to make it. Thus I was all set to ride to Yelagiri

Sagar and Kiran came to my place next morning to pick me up. From my house, we rode to Electronic City meeting point via NICE road. Surprisingly this time more than half of the riders were on time. That’s when Sunny and I realized that we were running short of fuel. We went a little ahead and got our tanks filled and waited there for the group which was being led by Ankit. After a few minutes, we saw a few lights flashing at a distance. 2 sets of collinear headlights were seen which certainly meant that BAC is coming. We cranked up our engines and joined the group just before the sweep.

We stopped for tea at a tea stall on the way somewhere in Tamil Nadu. Heat was catching up but it didn’t bother us much. Till now Ankit had been maintaining a speed of around 100kph due to which we didn’t feel the heat. Took a brief break, had coffe/tea/snacks and again we were back on road.

Then we rode for a while and we reached our breakfast destination. Over breakfast a healthy but loud debate like leg pulling session happened between brothers regarding who supports which political party. Election time was around and hence the topic seemed interesting enough to keep us waiting till our orders came. Once the delicious idlis, doses and pooris were served, nobody actually cared.

We finished our breakfast and waited for the grand entry of BAC Chennai. Yes, this particular ride witnessed meet up of 2 chapters of BAC; Bangalore and Chennai. Chennai team led by Siddharth received a warm welcome. After the meet and greet, we made a motorcycle formation based on color (No this has got nothing to do with racism). We rode to Yelagiri hills from there. While riding to the top of the hill, we encountered a lot of gravel since the road asphalting was still in progress. We somehow managed to dodge that and finally reached our resort after taking a very small ATM break.

All the boys freshened up and we gathered to ride to a different place for lunch. I do not know how the non vegetarian food tasted, but the veg rice, rasam and papad were too good. We finished our lunch soon and started playing in kids’ play area. Yes we actually did that. Luckily it started raining. We thanked God for giving us much needed rain. After a while, a few boys went topless and played Lagori till the rain stopped. It looked like they had great fun playing it. An injured me watched it from a distance and it looked no less than a gay porn intro

We rode back to the resort where Sunny and Sagar took video bytes of riders. Sagar filmed the whole thing while Sunny played guitar live to suit the mood of the byte. By evening, people got booze and lit up campfire. Sunny and I went to the town to get stationery to write certificates for riders who were being recognized for their efforts during the previous ride of BAC. While returning from town, Sunny took me to his school where I happened to meet his principal who seemed very delighted to know that a biker group has come to Yelagiri. The school also looked very scenic and I was not really in a mood to come back to the resort if it was not for booze.

We reached the resort and I secretly wrote the names of the riders on all the certificates. By then campfire had begun and all the riders were already a few pegs down. Frank confessions started happening. The confessions were interrupted in between to present the certificates. The confessions resumed post that and a few of them really took longer than we thought they would. But then, everything is fair when you are drunk. Dinner was as nicely cooked as lunch. All of us had dinner near our parked motorcycles. Post that a cake cutting session was organized. I got too tired by then and hence, came to my room and slept off. The next morning we freshened up, had awesome breakfast and reminded each other of what everyone spoke about after drinking. Hangover retrospect meetings are always fun. Then we started from Yelagiri. Rode continuously till the place where we had received BAC-C. In between, Srinidhi’s car broke down. Srinidhi reached the restaurant after getting his car fixed. From then on, we rode till a McD non stop. A lot of curious onlookers were taking photos and videos. We felt like the stars of the evening. Post a photography session, we rode to Bangalore non stop. I was delighted to see “Welcome to Karnataka” board. We stopped at our meeting point. From here, the riders rode to their respective homes.

Here is the teaser of the ridomentary

Yelagiri ride, a landmark event for BAC where two chapters of the club met, was indeed a fun joyride with a great display of passion for riding and brotherhood