The ride started with many doubts, how will the bike perform? is it comfortable for the pillion? Can it take the cramster saddle bag? and many , all were pity well answered , the bike performed beautifully , the new age engines are so refined and coming from the stable of royal Enfield smooth engines are something which I was not used to , the AS 200 as said earlier was a great highway performer , but does the AS200 does justice for its tag of a AS(Adventure Sport) , I beg to differ , handling of the bike in bad roads is difficult , with the seating position there is a huge pressure on the hands specially on the palms when doing downhill , but the positive to are the great MRF tyres it comes with and also a very effective disk brakes.
We started our ride on the Independence day , living up to the tradition am following from 2009 and am glad it all started with my 2009 ride to Chikmagaloor , when I look back I feel extremely happy that what in 2009 started as a one of jolly bike ride has grown into a deep routed passion , 2009 independence day ride was followed by 2010 Kudremukh , 2011 Danushkodi , 2012 NH17 , 2013 LEH , 2014 Vagamon and 2015 Chikmagaloor again. The only change was from Std 350 to AS 200.
The ride started early at sharp 6 , the cramster saddle bag fitted perfectly and off we went. We fuelled up at the shell near Jalahalli and took the Nelmangala-Hassan-Belur-
We booked a room in the town ,unsaddled had lunch and a little rest and headed to Mullayanagiri , there was a huge traffic congestion on the way up and the roads were patchy , here's where I felt a royal enfield would have done better , we reached the Mullayanagiri top and the excitement in aashu's face was something I cherish , what travelling specially biking does is something only to be experienced , we went to the small temple on the hill top , it rained for sometime when we were at the temple , we descended Mullayngiri and headed to the beautiful Hirekolale lake .
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A small temple @ Seetalayyanagiri Top |
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View Of Hirekolale Lake from Mullayanagiri Top |
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View from Mullayanagiri |
Just to find out that it’s near the same lake we had stayed on my first ride I did way back in 2009 with RTMC , the lake is in midst of lush green chain of hills we spent a good 3 hrs near the lake clicking a few pics and we headed back to our room , a quick dinner at 8pm and zzzzzz for the day.
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Hirekolale Lake |
We got up around 7am on Sunday , breakfast and headed back home , we started at 9am and 1.15 we were home. What a ride! Nextride on the 2nd 3rd and 4th of October , will be back with my blog. Be happy , god bless