MC's Cycling Diary

Date: 2 July 2017 Total distance: 212 Kilometers Start Time: 3:30 am Return Time:  2:45 pm With: - Altitude Profile: Koramangala - Gudibanda - Koramangala A week had passed and I did not have a location in mind for the ride. I spent Saturday painting the wall in the room and had written off riding during this week. However, as I painted I realised that there are still few locations around Bangalore that I have not covered and one location stood out since I had cancelled the ride on 3 occasions. The desire to ride to this location increased and I decided to ride on Sunday. On 3 previous occasions I had planned to ride and had not woken up as I had missed the alarm. I set the alarm and hoped that history would not repeat itself. The alarm rang at 2:30 am. I rolled around in bed for half an hour and was up at 3:00 am. Got ready quickly and was ready to start at 3:30 am. I had prepped the road cycle yesterday and did not have to work on it in the morning. This ...

Date: 25 June 2017 Total distance: 178 Kilometers Start Time: 4:40 am Return Time:  4:45 pm With: Sushanth till Chikka Tirupathi, Madhusudhan till Hoskote, rest of the ride - alone Altitude Profile: Koramangala - Chikka Tirupathi - Hoskote - Devanahalli - Doddaballapur - Hesarghatta - Koramangala Got a call from Sushanth two weeks ago asking if I had any plans for the 24th - 25th June weekend. I had not made any plans and was not aware that it was a long weekend as well. Sushanth asked if we could ride to Chikka Tirupathi on 25th June. I agreed and told him that I would check on the group as well. As usual when there is time for the ride we get a lot of people who are interested, however when the day gets closer the number of riders begins to dwindle. Sushanth and 4 of his colleagues from office were confirmed and I had confirmed. As I had ridden to Chikka Tirupathi, it did not hold a lot of interest in terms of the route. I looked up the map and tried to s...

Date: 3 June 2017 Total distance: 256 Kilometers Start Time: 5:00 am Return Time:  8:15 pm With: - Altitude Profile: Koramangala – Kolar Gold Fields - Kuppam - Krishnagiri - Koramangala I had to cancel the ride the previous week due to the rains in Bangalore. A week had passed by and I was itching to go for a ride. The plan started with going for a 2 day ride and as the week progressed due to the uncertainty on the work front I had to settle on a day ride. I had a few options on the location front. The only thing that I did not want to do was combine a ride and trek this weekend. That ruled out the locations on Tumkur Road and tilted the balance in favour of Kolar Gold Fields (KGF). The plan was to ride to KGF which is about 100 kilometers one way. I had a couple of return options, try the interior route through Malur or ride back on the Old Madras Road, ride to Mulabagal before getting back on the Old Madras Road or ride to Krishnagiri and return on Hosur ...