Breakfast at Kamat Loka Ruchi
It was a Saturday and we started late. A car and me in my bike. Google showed the route through the city and not the Nice road. Mistake.
Bangalore – Mysore traffic is back with a vengeance. The Metro constructions and the road widening has made it unrideable.
Note to self : Never ever go through the city to reach Mysore Road. Take the Nice road. Always.
Reached Kamat around 10:30 AM – just when they were shutting down Morning breakfast. Had AKka Roti, bit of Kadubu and Poori. I think it was sort of an anti climax – food wasn’t that great. I liked our neighbourhood Udupi food better.
Kamat to Bheemeshwari
This was the best part of the entire trip. It was through winding village roads.
First time I confidently leaned the bike. Tried recollecting the few lessons I learnt from Youtube on cornering. When I approach a curve I let go off the throttle. Then lean. If I see a straight I raise the throttle, but if there is another curve I will not raise the throttle till I pass it.
It was lot of fun.
San joined me for this stretch. She was mighty impressed with the bike when I went from 90 to 30 and almost a stop instantly. When I took a test ride this is the exact same thing that I was sold on. Not the fancy features ( ahem that too ), but the deciding factor was the Sharp breaking Adventure does.
We reached around 1:00 PM ish. There is absolutely no network coverage. And the place is filthy. Full of plastic and broken bottles. We tried going to the water, but turned back.
Food is another problem. We had 60+ ers in our group and did not want to starve them. We found simple lemon rice and curd rice in one of the roadside shops.
The shops rent out Gas cylinders and vessels. Most were cooking their own food.
A little effort from the administration and from the junta visiting this place could have made this place a heaven. Such a beautiful river and what a mess we have made. We humans are the most disgusting species. Sorry aliens – I am not proud of my own species.
Return stop at Chikku Farm
Return we decided to take the Kannakapura road. It was good – a few diversions but I could ride fast.
We decided to stop at A2B – but I spotted a cool road side cafe – stopped to check and liked it. Messaged the car people to stop here. It was a good decision. The place was deserted, food was quite affordable ( Rs.60 for a roll – Not at all Bangalore rates ) and the place was beautiful.
Chikku Farm to Home – 2 Hours +
We checked Google Maps before leaving Chikku Farm – it said 2 hours and distance was only 60kms.
Thought perhaps Google was wrong. Apparently I was wrong. There was lot of diversions and construction and hell lot of traffic. Saw Art of living Ashram and knew there was light at the end of the tunnel – was almost at the Nice road now.
Paid the toll and entered Nice road. Then it was bliss. I sticked to the 2 wheeler lane – lot of 2 wheelers were going in that and I decided to follow the crowd. Now and then will stray to the 2 lanes to overtake a few 2 wheelers.
Once I got out of Nice Road it was Saturday evening / night traffic. Bellandur was a mess. Outer Ring Road was busy, but at least traffic was moving.
Finally reached home. It was exhausting. Butt was aching. The air cushion I got seems to have punctured already. I have to either get used to the stock seat or do some juggad.
Wondering if this trip was worth the pain? Yes. The ride from Kamat to Bheemeshwari to Chikku Farm was fully worth it. For a Bangalore rider – living in Whitefield – I have to live with this escaping and returning back to traffic.
