About us – Gaurav, Satbir & Saurabh (Me). Things common amongst us is our love for bikes, food and long rides. Pune-Murud was our first trip together and we bonded well. Pune – Goa followed and then we did best ride of our life Pune – Leh – Kargil – Jammu – Ludhiana. We completed that trip on 13th June’09 and that was the last time i met them as i moved back to Delhi from Pune.
We are gonna miss Karan who travelled with us to Leh and Kaizad who was instrumental in bringing us together in our first ride to Murud.
About this trip: We have been itching to ride to kanyakumari for a long time now but have not been able to execute it as none of us could afford 2 week leave from our jobs. Ride to Rann of Kutch sounded more realistic. We finalized 28th feb to start our trip from Ahmedabad to Rann of Kutch.
Day 1: Satbir and Gaurav are Riding from Pune to Ahmedabad and I am travelling in train from Delhi to Ahmedabad. Nobody in my family was approving of me riding alone to ahmd and understandably so. I am thankful to them for being cooperative enough and allowing me to go on these rides. I really dont mind extra precautions.
I booked my bike in luggage van in the same train I am travelling in and is hoping they load and unload my bike with extra care. Honestly I am worried about safety of my bike.
I am gonna try and publish every single detail about this ride hoping it will be helpul for other bikers. Railways charged 1% of bike’s declared value for insurance, Rs. 1400/- as fare, 150/- as packing charges and 250/- for loading was paid to agent (Babloo – 9015718755). Train was on time and luckily I got the upper berth. Day has been boring., what else can you expect when you have two old gujarati ladies next to your berth, talking in gujarati about New Jersy and Chicago. Its 11:30 pm now and am trying to sleep. Satbir and Gaurav have reached ahmedabad and will be meeting me @ ahmedabad station tomorrow morning @ 6.
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