Garage Noise: Trip²

Four wheels move the body, two wheels move the soul.

There's a breed of humans who breathe this mantra. Their life revolves around a couple of moving parts held together by some metal, in touch with the ground through two patches of rubber smaller than the area of human feet.

Unsafe, uncomfortable, unstable, undermined, understated.
Unforgiving, uncompromising, unreal, undeterred, untouchable.

That's biking. It's a drug. One whiff of wind in your hair, bugs in your mouth and adrenaline as the fuel.

This comes in retrospect of the two trips I made to lonavla a month apart. The first one was On tuesday 9th November, the other one was day before yesterday, Dec 13th.

Superb roads, long fast sweepers, unbelievably tight corners, scary inclines, ridiculous 180 degree turns, constant 125kph straights. And you're just beginning to get the picture. That was the trip to Lonavala and Amby valley.

Seems we cant get enough of lonavla and Aamby valley. Went there last month. And now again yesterday. It was awesome. From panvel onwards till lonavla you have 120+kph roads, long sweepers etc. There's a small diversion to Karla, there's the Ekveera devi mandir there. You have to ride like 3-4 kms and you come across a small hill with very steep inclines. Its fun, I went up down that hill with all the bikes available and it was nice.

The bikes were: 2 black zmas, pulsar 180 v2.1 all black, p150v1 silver, fiat palio 1.2 maroon :D.

But the serious fun began after we went upto amby valley. You take a turn at lonavla (I think second right after entering lonavla from mumbai side). The roads are awesome, you start off with a few straights (one is in the vid below), and then it's like a dream. Fast sweeping corners, nice chicanes, crazy altitude rise/drop 180 degree turns, damn! Its a pity none of the guys wanted to get down there and take the vids. Or pics. I'm goin back there once again, and this time hopefully will get some vids. It's unlike any Indian road. I so wished I had a tank cam!!!

We were leaning like deeper, faster and braking harder and later than we ever have. then on the downhill climb me and my friend decided to cruise along as this Patrol of Amby valley warned us about two guys on two pulsars crashing at a place on the way where there was a truck parked. his legs had to be amputated. :o This friend of mine on the other guy's 180 and me on the zma cruised down slowly till he crossed his car which was being driven by the owner of the bike he was riding :D. He decided to show off a bit, and thats when we started ripping again. Our balls were frozen when my friend ran wide at the very same spot the Patrol guy had mentioned plus there was a lot of gravel at that spot. :eek: But it was a close shave and nothing more. At one steep downhill section me n him were being blocked by a splendour guy. He was taking the inside line at all turns and doing it pretty slow. So we rip past him and start overtaking each other at every corner! It was like last lap stuff by Valentino Rossi and Sete Gibernau (Yea Yea, I know :D :p ), but we did that for like 5-6 turns and FAST!

That was fun! Too many moments to put down. But any guy in two minds about heading to lonavala, head out there TODAY! And goto Amby valley, it's like 45kms round trip from lonavala.
But here's some moments.

Urchins always get excited to see bike groups!