Oxygen Overdose ride

Wow!! Wot a ride!! This is one of those rides I would love to do again...Let me turn the clock back and tell you about my experience of the ride…

I was in two minds to go for an Oxygen overdose or the Medak Century ride, I had two obstacles in front of me: I didn’t know the meetup place: Time of the ride was 05:30.  Krishna garu solved my 1st obstacle, he hooked me up with Satish who was coming from Kukatpally, to meet my 2nd obstacle, I got up at 03:30 in the morning and started pedalling at 04:30.

Satish and I started riding towards Bolaram and after some left and right turns managed to reach Secundrabad club. If you ask me to trace back the path, I’ll turn blank as most of this ride was in total darkness. Satish was riding as if he could see the road. Satish finally fell in the middle of the ride when we could finally see our road!! Amazing, he always manages to fall for every ride, I guess that’s his way to make it memorable :-)

When the sun finally showed up, I could see the beauty around and that’s when I got pumped up and started enjoying the ride…zooming across narrow lanes, into rough roads and out into the open fields…it was just beautiful…

Pradyumna, youngest rider in our group (he is 9 years old) is a real motivator for all riders. His enthusiasm and aggression is really commendable. Hats off to his dad GR for encouraging him and being his guide and trainer. I am sure this young lad will go places with his determination and commitment.

Shamirpet lake was always one place I wanted to go as I had seen many rides scheduled but never got a chance to attend those rides. Krishna garu and everyone happily obliged to extend the ride to Shamirpet lake!! and lo I finally touched the beautiful lake.

Veggie Delight!! well that’s not the subway menu I am talking about, its the farm from where we get to buy mint, coriander and other leafy vegetables for just 1Rs. Yes, bikers stop on the way back and visit the farm and stack their haversack with all the leafy vegetables and prepare some mouth watering dishes…what a way to GO GREEN!!

Wait!! There is one more surprise element in store!! A Chinese cemetery right in the middle of a remote village!! Well that was a interesting visit…

Final part of the ride was refill our fuel tanks with Dosas and idlis and after completing that ritual we parted ways, each rider following different routes to encounter new challenges that were awaiting them…but before that, they promised to meet again for another wonderful ride!!

Relive some of the moments here…

Just Ride!!

HBC

Sunil