Manesar Ride

“Smooth Roads ensure Smooth Rides”. I believe in this context & look out for instances that may prove this apt while I ride down the line with my able companion, my bike. Better the condition of the road better is the relief that the rider gets out of it.

Having done numerous rides and having ridden down the best of the highways this country has produced, doesn’t really let you take a sigh of relief & contentment and definitely doesn’t allow you to sit back at home, watch football game on Sunday & enjoy cinnamon with lemon tea. Instead, it generates an anxiety & greed for the exploration of the unknown offbeat tracks; those are never travelled or at least seldom talked about. You see a wide smooth stretch ahead of you leading you to the horizon, as a dedicated biking enthusiast, you don’t for a moment think of turning your back on this one and are fearless enough to push the throttle right away & burn some rubber.

Something of the similar forte happened to me & my friends on that hot & humid day of June. It’s usual to be engaged in your regular stuff on a normal Sunday morning, though there’s always more to it if you are willing for some adventure down the road. I and some of my biker buddies were looking for a ride cum hangout that morning. So we pumped our bikes & packed ourselves up for an awfully torturing ride only to end up stranded in sun, for it usually reached 42^oC those days when the sun held our heads. However, this was a faint enough reason to hold us back & give up from the ride.

Wanderer... (Did u notice the road?)

RIDES & THE RIDERS:

Rahul Arora – Hero Honda HUNK

Karan Bajaj – Bajaj Pulsar200

Priyansh Dwivedi – Bajaj Pulsar220

Sarabhjot Singh – Kawasaki Bajaj Caliber115

Abhishek – Bajaj Pulsar200

All of them..

Goshh, I was the only one with a bike other than Bajaj machines. No, Bajaj didn’t sponsor the ride at all… Manesar, our destination for the day, is situated in the out-skirts of Gurgaon(NCR), roughly 40 kms from Delhi. That turns out to me approx. 60 kms from my place, for I reside in a completely opposite side of the city in East Delhi.

It was 4 in the morning when I woke up. Karan, my cousin & one of the fellow riders, stayed at my place for the night. I freshened myself up & was getting ready when I kicked Karan’s lazy butt alarming him to wake up as well. By the way, I’ve realized that being up so early has never been possible when the purpose of doing so has been studying & preparing for examinations. Apart from studies, everything else can keep creatures like me awake for days. And if it is for Biking, I’m game for tireless adventure! That’s something I pull out of my experience bag held somewhere in my head everytime something like this happens. My Mother usually complaints that I’d not be able to attend school for a single day, if she wouldn’t wake me up in time. I’m in final year of my college now, however the scenario is still the same.

Anyways, chuck it! Priyansh was told to meet me & Karan at 05:30AM at the Dilshad Garden Metro Station which is hardly a 5 minute drive from my place. May be he took the unfair advantage of the vacant roads because he was there before time. We managed to catch up shortly. He was Karan’s college mate and this was the first time that I met him. But no, don’t you wonder that we sat and went through an intro round on that God forbidden dark road at that time. We had to roll from there towards our next meeting point at Regal Cinema in Connaught Place, where our next rider Sarabhjot was waiting with his modified HID fitted Caliber. Yes, you heard it right! It was a Diamond white 4300K HID. The four of us then took the road to Shiv Murti in Mahipalpur from where another friend of mine joined us at 07:00AM Alright, we were five & good to go.

Us!

Abhishek has some of his relatives living there in Manesar & he was much aware of the route better than anyone else in the group, so we followed him on the wide & heavenly smooth NH-8. Although the Caliber guy was willing at times to pull away from the group, but we managed to ride together with discipline and safety. It was 07:45AM and 62 kms on my trip-meter that we reached there. Now it was an offroad leading to some rocky terrain near the highway & the NH8 soothing track. We decided to go offroad this time. It lead us to a scenic place where there were rocky hills having remains of bushes & some steep slopes down the road alongwith a Hanuman Temple on a hill top.

Our cameras were clicking hard! I couldn’t wait to click traces of my first Manesar Roadtrip photographs. Done with the photography part, we looked out for some vulnerable resting place nearby. As it was getting hot enough for us to dig in some shelter quickly, we rode down to a dhaba on the highway side. Delicious paranthas & North Indian recipes were on the go. Casual talkies filled the place & chats wouldn’t end. We were chilling discussing stuff when I heard some engines roaring & coming right towards us on the highway. We ran out of the dhaba out of excitement & guess what it was what I thought in the first place. The G.O.D.S.(Group Of Delhi Superbikers). They rolled on their fierce superbikes & wooing cruisers down the road. The group had it all from Harleys to Suzuki Intruders, from Yamaha YZF R1s to Suzuki Hayabusa & many more. It was a treat to watch them ride together for the first time. The site was so enchanting & exciting that the paranthas literally settled down. Well, what could be a better end to the roadtrip than witnessing such roaring marvels on the go, ain’t it?

Take a look at some of the clicks with our not-so-sophisticated lenses!

(from left) Karan, Sarabhjot & Priyansh

Some off-roading...

The vision...

The Black Beast...

Push it...

Me!

Yea, that's the look...

That was much of it folks. Now we descended towards our very own city, Saddi Dilli and were tired to the extent that one could fall right down on his face if shown a bed. Humour apart! Manesar roadtrip was undoubtedly a successful ride with friends. Hoping for more of such experiences in the near future. Signing out…