July 2023 Monthly Ride
Date: 2nd July
Destination: Avani, Kolar
Distance : 185 km, two ways.
Members Present: AR Rajesh, Vinod, Ajit, Prashant Mishra, Raghavendra Inamdaar, Shrikanth, Mandar, Sashidhar, Sudhakar, Punit, Vijay, Vinay, Venkatesh, Babbana, Manjunath, Nikhil, Dipesh, Avinash, Shanmugham, Jaishankar and Mahadev Dambal.
3 Prospective member’s: Anil Agadi, Rajesh Rao and Jeet Bhatia
3 Pillion Riders: Rahul Dixit, Jaishree Mane and Jr. Shrikanth
Being the first ride of the year 23/24, the response to it was overwhelming, over 25 riders had joined at the start point at ITI Colony gate at 6.45 am, despite a few last minute drop out which got adjusted with last minute joiners. We were having the highest riders for any ride in the recent past as commented by IPS Prashant Mishra. Big thank you to all the riders who joined this morning for the ride. We had two surprise members coming in for the flag off, World President Rtn Sunil Telkar and Rtn Asad Hajjibhoy, it was good to see them, despite their busy schedule they came to see all of us. Thank you Sunil and Asad.
President Rajesh AR had his meeting with all the riders, welcomed all to the first ride, gave a small detail of today’s route and destination, requested Rtn Mandar to offer the prayer, and what best way to start first ride by invoking Lord Ganesh Mantra, for today’s successful ride and everyone’s safety. Riding sequence of 4 group was announced before hand with respective Lead and Sweep, accordingly each group left with a gap of 5 minutes.
The weather was perfect for a morning breakfast ride, it was overcast but no traces of rain and only cool breeze was blowing, all managed to get out of initial traffic and slowly were on a clear highway and cruising at good speed with everyone’s comfort zone. Our first stop was at Highway Star for breakfast in Maiya’s. All took time to have a relaxed breakfast and close to 9.15 am, left for the last 20 kms to Avani town/temple. Soon we were there, this place has a lot of historical importance, all spent over one hour visiting the temple and taking group photographs.
Few opted to Trek on to the hillok nearby. Soon it was decided to leave back for Bangalore and disperse point was after Hoskote Toll plaza, after cruising for nearly one hour all were at the Toll plaza to say goodbye and thanked each other for their company. A great start to 23/24 had begun.