Participating members: Ajit, Adarsh, Dipesh, Sanjay,Karate, Sudershan, Manjunath, Krishnan, Rajesh Sinha, Paul Sudhakar, R Raju, Mandar, Jai Shankar, S Raju, Venkateshwarn, Ashok, Ranga, Venky, Rajshekhar, Rajesh AR and Vinod

Prospective members: Jeet, Akash, Sudhir, Anand, Parikshit and Surendran

Despite back to back rides planned in a gap of the next 6 days, we had a record breaking participation today 21 Members and 6 Prospective, totalling 27 riders phew, some number to manage. All the riders had come on time, 6.45 am to the starting point. President Rtn. Rajesh AR took the centre stage, informed all about today’s ride and route, guided all with the safety instructions, especially to prospective riders. Gave stress on hand signals and safety gear adherence. Secretary Vinod read out the groupings of today’s ride with Lead, Sweep and riders sequence numbers, 3 groups were formed with 9 riders each and kept 2 prospective riders in each group, for better understanding of their riding skills. Rtn. S Raju was asked to offer today’s prayer for the success and safety of today’s ride and riders. Soon one by one the group started the ride with a gap of 5 minutes.

The weather was absolutely fantastic, it was overcast with a cool breeze, and the highway was with decent traffic to cruise at 80km. All the 3 groups covered 50 km and reached the breakfast point at Durga Sree Grand restaurant at Chikballapur, it was our Rtn Sudhakar Reddy’s find as he is a local boy of Chikballapur, thank you Sudhakar. All spent close to 45 minutes here, bonding over breakfast. The last leg of the ride was just 7 km, covered in no time, all visited the Temple of Rangasthala, offered prayers, understood the history of the temple and gathered for many group pictures around the temple. Local boy, Rtn Sudhakar Reddy and President Rtn Rajesh AR decided to wander inside the village side by covering small and scenic roads before we started our return trip. Around 10 km of village roads were covered before we headed to the Nandi hills road to exit to the main highway for a return trip. Just before Nandi Upachar, all stopped for regrouping and to disperse and say bye to all, as few wanted to go to different locations. It was great to see many members who were not seen for a very long time coming for today’s ride. Overall a great ride in IFMR. Thanks to all who had joined today’s ride.