Morning 5am, I get up and get ready for the OTR. No not for the driving, but for the ride.
I start at 5:30am from my house and reach National Games Village in Koramangala at sharp 6am. I call vijay and tell him I am in the gate. He guides me to his apartment and I park my vehicle in his place.
After the initial checkup, filling engine oil etc, the JEEP starts from there @ 6:15am. We head towards METRO and reach Metro around 7am.
We see a Gypsy and a MM standing there. Gypsy is of Dwaraks and other MM is of Girish.
After initial hi we see other jeeps coming one by one. Kittu came and gave a surprise. Probably he could not resist himself since there was 14jeeps participating in this and he dont want to be left alone.
If a Gypsy can hide a goat, a MM can also hide a puppy
Then Raj & Neil joins us. They complain that their Gypsy gives a strange noise. Dwarak peeps in the bay and finds that the tube from the air filter to the engine is broken. Also, one more pipe is out of its position. Then he puts in place and fix a tape to cover the broken tubes.
Dwarak in action
Goes for a ride and then comes back, parks it to a corner and asks the people not to take this to OTR.
What happen? It was a bad luck that the Engine mount got loosened and so all these happening. So, Raj calls his mechanic and we head for the Kadumane.
Raj & Neil waiting for the mechanic
During this time, we had Khan joining us. Also, Bhanu came in his Accent thinking that he can park in the Metro. But was denied since he did not had any membership card. So, we asked him to park it in Kadumane.
Then we leave from there and reach Kadumane. We had "thatte idli" and vada. Hrag and other guys join us for the breakfast. I hop in to the Safari and once we are done, we leave for the OTR. Once we reach Ramnagaram, we see Andhi standing in middle of the road and waving hands to stop. We moved to the left and found that we need to take a right from there into a Arch and reach the OTR place.
Then we get there. Not to mention about the villagers surprises when they see a dozen of the jeep going into the village.
We reach the OTR spot. Then Sunil and Dwarak request for the crowds to gather and advise what to do and not to do.
Behind this hill is our OTR spot
Wondering where Dwarak is pointing to?
This is where he points
One thing I heard more often is - "No braking, no cluth, no accelerator". After initial briefing, we start for the action.
We reach the other side of the hill and first to lead is Sunil's jeep.
Umm, first to climb - on top.
Watch the Dwarak's Gypsy climbing. It took 2 3 attempt to get to the top.
What's Khan doing outside his Gypsy?
Yes, his better half wanted to show she is no less than him and
here she goes
One thing I noticed is, Khan was so serious to take pics of the drive. Possibly lesson learned from the previous one.
Next to follow was our Kitty and Vijay
Kitty - No BIG cat Vijay - Star jeeper
Now comes our Safari. You would heard about the betting and other stuff for this in the first post. But, nothing stoped his beast, bull or what so ever. Did a clean climb in the first attempt making everyone surprise.
Here I come
Kissing the rock before climbing
Go... go... go.... And on the top
Girish in action
Heard this is his first OTR. But never seem to be.
Others to follow,
Everyone is done
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