Please note : This whole report's credit goes to Mahesh. I have been held up with work and only adding pics to his report.
Yes, the report.
After worrying abt oversleeping the previous night, I took off to the rendezvous with 3 hours sleep with Sankar and Brraj in tow. Joined Vikram_D's carcade of 1 car on the way. Pulling into the rendezvous point, the herd had started to gather. They were hovering around a watering hole of some kind. I had found Ajmat.
After doing the difficult job of accountant alongwith Riju for the 45 odd people,we headed out toward Nandi/Woodrich. Riju was upto his usual mastery behind the lens taking pics of our cars in motion.
Chaps my 1st attempt at PANNING.. so pics are a little blur , kindly adjust maadi.
I almost overshot the Nandi deviation before pulling over with the others. Sat in Jay's Zonda to take it for a spin and it was a positively psychadelic experience with the car having more fun than me. Jay - awesome engine, but that handling is a serious issue. Hope you get it fixed before having your girlfriends sit in it - it'll be orgasmic for them and it wont even be due to you.
Riju then leads us back a few million millimeters to the deviation to Woodrich. Let me describe this following drive in this sentence: I'll be going to Satya (blueraven69) very shortly to get good quality damping for all my doors. It was a fantastic sight watching the 25 carcade trailing single-file from my rearview mirror.
Then the right turn towards the resort. This is a trail that the Airforce had been using for practising their bombing runs. The lead Mallik's white Baleno with Riju pulls over in front of a massive water logged section. This was not before his car had dived nose-first into this and had to back out. They waved us thru the safer section of the ditch - nice gents, those 2.
I had Akbaree(
whose Adventure played Saviour) behind me and Ajmat behind him. After a few mins I looked back and was surprised to find that we were the only motorcade with no other cars. This was due to Rudra's Optra deciding to have an intimate session with the same ditch. I heard that his car is up for auction shortly.
No pics as such coz we were busy guiding the other cars.. I think Jassi's group had some pics... Woodrich Enclave:
Nice place. Very spacious. Lots of Big Tits.
Hot idlis, crispy vadas, sambar, chutney, papaya, toasts, butter, jam, coffee and tea. This was inhaled by v1p3r. Permutations of that were consumed by the rest of us.
McStumpy with his plate .
Rudra, Ajmat , Psycho and Prabuav relaxing after the under-bender drive to Woodrich Enclave.
Then we ask the folks there for an alternate route to Nandi Hills. They show us and we go. Mallik and Riju blast off in their white Baleno while I start hearing tapping sounds from my right front tyre.
I must say our convoy on this single village gave the villagers some real amazement. Each kid there was counting the cars. It was a nice feeling.
After we pull onto the good road again, I pull over and inspect my right front and shocked to see 2 opposite lug nuts have flown away in the recent few mins. There are only the other 2 opposite lug nuts remaining. I remove 1 from the left front and put it on the right front to make it 3-each on the fronts and tighten all existing nuts. Ajmat sadly, had already motored away before I could tighten his. Finally, just before the actual hill climb, I remove 1-each from the rears for the fronts to make it full-4s on the fronts. I am going to carry a spare set of lugs from now on.
Riju drove a wonderful pace in my car with Mallik blitzing away. The rest of the pack had already gone on. Fantastic weather all around and fog-filled. Reached the top and joined the crowd.
to be continued.....