Part 2 Everyone present, we made a slightly disorganised start from whyte fort.
Zakkie waited to meet another BHPian, whom the rest of us missed.
Rules of the Drive
1.speeds to be limited to 80kmph
2.everyone was meant to maintain the same sequence as setting off.
rule 1 and 2 were broken in quick succesion by MaserQ(egged on by zakkie?) followed by nikkiebike in his friend's rocket powered diesel innova
then,
it was utter chaos.
by the time we reached the toll at aroor, we had spread out over a kilometer with myself, and DrPullockaran bringing up the rear.
DrPull was pushing the indica as hard as he could, but for reasons elaborated by him on another thread, he was'nt making much headway.
I had neglected to take his phone number and he didnt know the way, so I hung back and took the role of the drag for some time.
An Indicab was giving me trouble and since I couldnt accelerate away as I do normally and leave our own Indica with DrPull behind, I put up with the cab for sometime, till DrPull decided to play defense for me. that quickly solved the problem, and once the Indicab was out of the picture, we settled down to some decent speeds on the 4 lane.
a few words about mansidea's puny scorpio.
mansidea was supposed to be our drag,I think. It didnt quite work out that way.
He was on my tail most of the time, and even though its a friendly scorpio, having one of those filling all 3 RVMs while you're doing a 120kmph is not pleasant. so I let him pass, and took over that role.
there is a good reason the last person is called a drag, its because, It Is. Being the drag is the worst job in a group drive and no wonder mansidea was in such a hurry. I swear, I'm not doing that job again. It is a DRAG govigov,ashvin and mansidea were doing surprising speeds on the 4 lane and they disappeared down the horizon.
saw them stopped at some shady joint after the 4 lane had ended, me and DrPull whizzed by.
mansidea, me, ashvin and Drpull regrouped at the traffic signal on entering allepey, and drove through town and past the Medcollege Jn.
we passed zakkie and MaserQ who were stocking up on fuel and water. then I decided to enjoy the drive.
after that it was fun driving through traffic on the 2 lane.
I'd squeeze past traffic and slow dow and wait for everyone else where the traffic thinned, and there would be this nice orderly queue headed by mansidea most of the time, in my RVMs.
govigov and mansidea were setting landspeed records behind me. Drpull was behind them and ashvin was scaring the local populace with his FFE.
Pulled into kalpakavadi, recieved some disparaging remarks about my style of overtaking.
ram, jk supremebaleno and wis were already there to greet us.
BTW nikkibike was also there to greet us by time we got there, even though he had seen us off from whyte fort.
Note-having mansidea and his scorpio in your RVM is more relaxing than having nikkibike in your RVM in his swift, or even a cycle.
To be continued????? |