DAY 3, 0500 HOURS AFTER TOSSING
AND TURNING FOR MOST PART OF NIGHT, the heat the mosquito the odomos and all
combined we are up and might as well get a move on,
Rahul, akiki, rathore and me decide
to make an exit, an early exit to ride in the shade and before the sun is too
brutal on us.
We mange to all get ready and
take off by 0600 hours.
OD: 05216, I fuelled up,
loaded tank between my legs time to ride on.
Akiki riding lead, me and
Rathore oscillating in between and Nitin Gaikwad to bring up the rear, Nitin is a fast
rider, and the only way to make him stay with us is to give him the tail, so he
does not do the usual and ride off at 120 kmph.
The morning ride was a
pleasure it was cool, n we were riding west, the sunrise behind us, we were
making good speed first hour we covered 65 km,
we stopped for tea, for 10
minutes n we were away again, we reached Aurangabad at 0840, OD: 6357
As we were onwards towards
shirdi
spirits high post a fulfilling meal |
Paratha, Aloo Paratha |
As we left Aurangabad behind
us 30 km after Aurangabad, I felt the tyre wobbling and was thinking about a
flat tyre as I pulled over to check, it was OK
As I got on the bike I saw
Akiki checking his bike too, he too felt his tyre wobbling, maybe it was the
cross wind that made the bikes go about wobbling, I also realized this was the
same vicinity where I had a crash 2 years back while returning from RM 2015 Nagpur
Yes we did cross the speed
breaker where the crash was and we stopped to have a drink of sugarcane juice
to rehydrate our self and celebrate the fact that I did not go through a similar
fate again, ( call me superstitious)
suger cane stop
As the day progressed so did
the heat, we were beginning to feel our self in need of hydration and we were doing
more stops, every 60 – 75 km to get a drink of water
|
We had a fairly smooth ride for
rest of the way,
We reached shirdi by 1240
hours and decided to continue as none were too hungry, also we wee sure we had
crossed most of the bad roads mostly 4 lane expressway greeted us and we made good speed as we rode on, we were almost home without any further ado
a final selfie stop was due before we split up on our own ways,
4 riders, Akiki, Nitin, Jayesh and me |