Thursday, September 03, 2009

Anchetti Ghats..A gruelling day ride

This Sunday (30 Aug 09) , decided to take the whole day off and dedicate it to cycling..
Its been some time since i have done some decent cycling (decent is a relative term and here i mean 100 Kms + rides ). Most of my cycling over the last 6 months have been in the 50-100 kms range.
The trip to Anchetti sounded fantastic and was coordinated by Georg Leuzinger. A trip from bangalore via kanakpura road to a place called Anchetti. The best part of the trip was the back roads / village roads.
Overall the trip was looong -- terrific scenes - awesome group ( around 50 riders ) - lot of rolling hills - lot of uphills.
we had lunch at Anchetti after 111kms and a pleasant morning of cycling. the ride back was more eventful and gruel some. My cycle punctured multiple times (3 in all ,by the time i got home). After completing 130+ kms called it a day and rode a bus to Hosur & then another to bangalore.

The 200 Kms + ride stilll eludes me. Both man and machine need to be in shape for the next attempt.

This time was it a failure of the man / machine ?? well more 100+ rides for the present till the next attempt at 200+


Mid Drive Break Pic


The gang / crowd before the start. About 50-60 riders in all

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