Pics: Did a fun weekend ride with my Yamaha R1 and other superbikes

The ride down was a bit harder for the bike with much harder braking needed to be done to negotiate the hairpins.

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Another weekend another ride!

This time around @Xaos636 suggested that we try out Yellagiri Bird Park whereabouts because there are a few harpins and also some twists reading up to and also in between the hairpins as well. Since it's not a huge climb up the 14 hairpins I was also not against the idea because I'm going to just go ahead and say it, Hairpins on big bikes are not too much fun, especially when the bikes are super heavy and too torquey to have a good time negotiating tight hairpins with insane gradients to add to it.

This time around along with Xaos636 and me 2 other friends also joined in, Nandu and Ann on their 10R and Aravind on his lovely bone stock Daytona 675R.

The ride started from E-city and the first stop was at Murugans Idly at Krishnagiri for a heavy breakfast, after a few minutes of chilling about we headed out towards Yelagiri Bird Park.

There was a good and noticeable change in weather by the time we were at the foothill of Yelagiri and the weather kept getting chiller and better as we climbed up.

While it was not too crowded on the way up and down, there were enough people there to say it was not deserted either.

While we liter class fellows struggled a bit to make it up with the R1 and Blade being super heavy and the 10R making the climb 2 up the Daytona just disappeared in front of us while Aravind rides like a Pro the Daytona being a featherweight definitely made a difference.

Once at the top the place was almost filled up so we did not waste time hanging around and walking around in full gear at the bird park was something we were not looking forward to, so we headed down after spending a few minutes up top.

Oh yeah, we stopped to click a photo in front of this signage just for its sake.

The ride down was a bit harder for the bike with much harder braking needed to be done to negotiate the hairpins and the amount of traffic coming up had also started to increase.

Once we were back down at the foothills we stopped at a small shop that had some tender coconut available so we indulged in some nice banter while enjoying our cool drink, meanwhile, the weather started getting a bit hot so we had some icecream too

So a 10-minute drinks break turned into a 1-hour pitstop before we decided to push off back to Bangalore.

We made one more stop along the way to fuel up our bikes before we stopped for lunch around the outskirts of E-city.

After a heavy lunch, we made the final stretch to our respective homes.

That's about it for this ride. Here is the customary ODO meter pic and the trip meter pic before concluding this post.

Cheers

Krishna

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