Ok heres a short report
1) We all assembled outside bmw showroom, and then mclaren took attendance, like a school teacher
2) Started from bmw showroom at around 630-645 and drove for an hour. We then saw mclaren and other bhpians (these guys deserve bravery awards for standing in the middle in the road) trying to stop oncoming high speed bhpians for a breakfast stop at reliance bunk i.e. A1 restaurant
3) Had some idlis, dosas and wadas and then most of the people moved out of that place by 815-830. Except for a few of us guys who stayed a bit longer as ironwolfs camera was stolen by the waiters (no we didnt get it back!! we even searched the hotel kitchen in vain)
4) After reliance was some amazing open empty roads, two stops at the toll nakas to get onto GQ and then back to high speeds and spotting the occassional bhpians' car or bike. We passed krishnagiri and a few other places.
5) This was followed by some more long unending roads (i had wheeler next to me) with some good rock music (had to play real loud to as it was getting drowned by the sound of exhaust
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6) We then reached yelagiri and then the drive uphill along the ghat like turns with amazing vistas/viewpoints of the hilly area.
7) At 10ish we reached the top (the high speed peeps reached by 930 i believe). As the chennai guys were still not there (slow and safe - or maybe they started late - we'll see their side of the report), we decided to go to a nearby point where there was a few temples and some enthu bhpians event went on a trekk. Most of us however preferred to use our feet only for pressing the accel, clutch and brakes and skipped the trek
8) Got back to our yelagiri resort, caught up with the chennai bhpians who had reached by then. Note - Esteem_lover did not gimme the team-bhp stickers, despite me being the first to electronically transfer 20 rs. to his account!!
9) Drinks and snacks time, followed by lotsa talk on cars, ice, mods, indian economy, home loan rates and what nots!!
10) Hungry bhpians then, hogged on a buffet lunch.
11) It was 3pm now and we all decided to get a few group pics (hope they get posted soon)
12) Then started the long journey back. We decided to take some shortcut which skipped one of the two toll nakas (despite having paid return trip too fee at both nakas). I think the shortcut was too crowded and slow, as compared to the highway drive towards yelagiri.
13) We then hit GQ again and back to amazing roads and good controlled speeds (130 max for me and patience_wins' getz). Also note that patience_wins was running in his getz 1.3 and had vowed to not go past 90 when we started in the morning hehhe
14) We see bhpians (bravery awards walas) again on the road, waving us to stop and get in towards golden club.
15) Had some snacks and car talk and fun at golden club.
and then the end of an awesome day. Bid adieu to the bhpians who made it to the golden club (blueraven wanted to level his headlights, but the leveler was missing, so he drove with one headlight high and one low or so it seemed haha but he has awesome ice in the boot of his icon!!)
I then dropped wheeler at koramangla, had some dinner with a friend at chandni chowk and back home now, catchin up on some tv.
So thats a SHORT non-pictorial update - wait for the pics, I guess they will be up soon
Cheers,
j