Challekere 400 330km/Sore bottom, could not sit on saddle after 330mm.Never wear a brief inside the cycling shorts! Anchetty 200 Completed the whole course, reached the mid point via a different route despite recede-img the route the week before.Enjoy the chit chats with friends, but don’t miss the turns specified in the cue sheet! Sholapur 1200: Incessant rain for 24 hours right from start , gear shifter and brakes stopped working at 450km.Carry lube, get…
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DNF = Do Not Fret
The decent start marred by a puncture at 80km created a two hour buffer at the first control point at around 200kms. It was steadily eroded by the climbs, and consumed over and beyond by the very steep Boys town climb of 6.25km where we had to walk about 4kms, as riding seemed to put enormous strain on the lower back. The next 20kms to Kalpetta(520km) had patchy roads and these 26kms along with sleep…
Belgaum 1000, oops Dharwad 868
A wonderful 868km brevet to Dharwad and back, the bonding exercise between me and the new Merida Ride 500 road bike went off well. Bad food at a Dhaba before Hubli at 320km and plate meals dinner with poori at Hubli curtailed our ride. We were an hour ahead of the control time at Hubli and 30kms after (near Dharwad), when the after-effects of bad food showed up, causing extreme sleep in Somaskanda and a…
Remembering Challakere 400
Remembering my first 400 ride two years after, my debut DNF.. The road to the future, discovered via cycling three years ago. Well, the future is always interesting and meanders all the way. And when we reminisce the past as FB did for me today, they are wonderful memories. This was my second brevet (400km), my first night ride, where I enjoyed gazing up the stars lying down on a bench outside a closed tea…
Kolhapur 1200 brevet
I was awake before the alarm clock rang at 3:15am on THU the Eleventh of July. The excitement, tension and the slight fear was palpable. It was the longest brevet I was embarking, titled the ‘No-hype 1200’. After an hour I was ready, rode to the start point, the Khoday’s on Kanakapura road, a good 19km from my house. Bike check done, brevet card signed, cue card handed over by Chidambaran, eight of us are all…