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An account of a 400km ride cov­er­ing Bangalore-Vellore-Bangalore in 26 hours and some­thing min­utes, as a part of the Ban­ga­lore Brevets. My cycling jour­ney con­tin­ues and gets more inter­est­ing as the years go by (at least for me). At times, I wish I’d started ear­lier in life (I wasted a lot of good years!), but […]

My first time to the United States turned out to be a short trip indeed. I only had one des­ti­na­tion in my cal­en­dar – San Fran­sisco. A quick trip to Seat­tle hap­pened too, except that I only saw the inte­ri­ors of my aunt’s home there :-)

In Delhi, I met a lady called Anita, who had sold her car around 10 years ago and now cycles around instead. She told me that with her work­place and home not too far from each other, she man­ages on two wheels most of the time. And this too, in Delhi! She said some­thing else that […]

A few days ago, a cyclist was turned away from the Leela Hotel’s main gate to a side park­ing lot on the road. He was there to attend a con­fer­ence when his “hum­ble” cycle did not pass the “high secu­rity stan­dards” of the hotel. He refused, of course, (even I would!) the secu­rity guard’s suggestion […]

Day 3: Has­san to Madik­eri A day filled with scenic routes but a lot of climbs and pretty tir­ing too in the end. It turned out to be a long day for me. The best part was early on when we had the Gorur dam stretch opened up for us to cycle on — around […]

On Day 1, we made it from Ban­ga­lore to Mysore via the National High­way. It wasn’t the most pleas­ant stretch in terms of traf­fic, but I was just glad that I could get this part over with. With trucks and other high speed vehi­cles all mov­ing at break neck speeds and honk­ing con­tin­u­ously, it’s not really con­ducive to cyclists. But after lunch on the road, we reached our des­ti­na­tion — the com­fort­able Hotel Regaalis and even got some time to take in some sight­see­ing in the evening.

Our des­ti­na­tion: Nandi Hills, located about 60 km north of Ban­ga­lore and about 4800 ft above sea level. On top was Tipu Sultan’s sum­mer retreat and the remains of Tipu’s fort still remain. Tipu’s Drop, a 600 metre high cliff face, where pris­on­ers were hurled down the precipice when the king was really angry. Not […]