The day started as any other would, I mean nothing can change a start of the day can it? The sun would rise, you will get some stupid ‘good morning’ forwards on your cell , the birds chirping away, the dogs barking.. But No, none of that happened today, I got up early… why in the heavens sake would I do that one would ask, especially on a Sunday.
Few hours down that line , and here we were, five sore butts, tired bodies, bruised bikes and a story that stays for ever.. Here is where I document it..
We just finished prash’s* birthday celebration , went to 100 ft restaurant and then coffee day, it was around 12:30 when we all said our goodbyes..Were supposed to meet at Carric’s* house at 6:30 the next day ( technically it’s the same day as it was past 12 ) , but as usual prash delayed, so we ended up meeting up only at 7Am . Carric had some bad news , the useless cops had punctured the tyres of all bikes for fear of theft, their reason, if we remove air from the vehicles the thief’s cannot steal your vehicle. I know, I know.. this is Indian cop situation for you, well so it was a long discussion whether to go or stay and watch a nice movie in the cozy comfort of the bed…
Prash n me being the lazy ones voted for the bed, well not the same bed so no assumptions please, the rest wanted to go .. so it was 3 votes agains 2 so we all met up at the puncture shop.. by the time we left there it around 8… So we headed, Destination Savan Durga..
After a long long ride, roughly 10 km on Bangalore roads, our stomachs had spoken, we stopped at a Shanthi Sagar for breakfast, we all ordered idly vada.. carric from morning wanted alcohol in his body, he went to search for a shop early morning… karthik* went with him.. pran*, prash n me ate our food waiting for the other two to return, n they had good news when they came back… many bags of chips, biscuits, Bacardi breezer, and beer..
So we ( 5 guys, 2 fiero’s , 2 pulsars ) fully filled with fuel started off yet again. Next stop, as carric put it was Savan durga. We got on the mysore road, that road is so so awesome, u can eat dinner off of it ( yeah that’s the correct spoken English wise guy ). So me and prash ( a fiero n a pulsar ) decided to drag, we came up on an empty stretch n came to a halt.. with two bikes with almost the same specifications and two riders equally good it would have been a good drag. So it started, we decided to do one km , who won? Well its really lucky that u cannot lap someone in a drag race.. Pulsar – 0 , Fiero – 1.
Thinking it was just luck and not sheer control and performance, prash figured 2nd time lucky, I even let him take a head start… well for those keeping scores Pulsar – 0 , Fiero – 2…
Took a turn just after a dental college, well the road went downhill from there ( in both sense ), and then weird noises started coming from my bike, two computer, two electrical and one electronic engineers deduced it was the chain causing the problem, well we carried on, luckily in the middle of a village we spotted a repair shop, got the necessary changes done, well I guess Fiero gets minus one for reliability.. a lill ahead we saw the Big banyan tree, if u ask me I think its just a hoax, they just look like a bunch of banyan trees growing close together.. anyway we decided to check it when we were returning..
So on the road yet again and karthik proclaimed ‘next stop savan durga’ , ok we stopped a few km later for a break to buy bananas and soft drinks.
We started yet again and traveling on the bumpy road wasn’t what one would call a smooth ride… then we saw the most beautiful lake we had seen in a long time.. forgot all about the stupid mountain, we all knew we had to stop there.. went down to the lake side, parked our bikes and three hours later we wondered how time flew… we talked about how dumb bush is.. we spoke about how amazing our lives are without women in them.. we spoke about what future holds for us.. we spoke about what we’ll be 5 years from now.. we concluded that carric would be married, rest were as confused as I am…
A couple of hours later, and a quick stop at the big banyan tree, where carric photographed some ‘graphic’ images of naked monkeys, we were back at Bangalore, went to another hotel cause we were all famished, ate loads of food, had lots of ice cream.. came back home.. tired.. bruised bodies.. bikes holding up just together… and yeah the memories.. we’ll do it next week for sure..
* some names n gender have been changed to protect privacy.
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