Day 2 kannur - Kuruva Island - bangalre

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Day2 - Kannur - Kuruva Island - pulpally - bathery - Gundalpet - Mysore - banglore - 420

Vinal woke at 6 itself and started waking up others.. The plan was to wake up630 only.. and am like a guy who will never get even a minute before the planned time..(dont assume that I get up the right time thou ) None was ready to take bath so brushed and left the resort.
We spent a lot of time in cleaning the disc breaks and lubricating the Chain(Thanks Sunil - For the chain spray ) We same to highway and stopped for bun-T break(no bubblies thou ) There we saw the chain lub had made a protective coating on the chain.. The spray was awesome..



We inquired the route and moved pretty fast.. the roads were sloppy and narrow but good. and ppl had a lot of traffic sense(I find it through out kerala).
At a break..




Tried some macros but it was windy and didnt ve the patience to discover the settings...





Suddenly everyone started complaining that the fuel we git was not good as the bikes were not reving and pickup was slow. I too faced the same issue but soon realised that there was slight elevation through out and soon we recognised that we we almost on top of a hill. the gradient was so small that we didnt recognize it. We then stopped for a small break..









Soon we were out on the mananthavade route.. It felt a little familiar for me and way it was the kuruva island route and we took on Gp2. Then a quick decision was made. i visited the island. There was little water on the other side so that we can cross on the rocks itself. The island had tall tall trees and some trees and we did some monkey things..












HAHA..




We had lunch there a normal kerala meals and soon we left towards bathery via pulpally. It had one of the best roads. Though the forest was dry it had greens towards bathery. had some excellent twisties and it was not a blind curve we could see through the woods.


Alien in the middle












We did a little off roading...






And then reached bathery.. had some tender coconut and bide adieu to Vinal and promised him to visit his home again(ya we confessed that its for food and nothing else.. ) and we left towards mysore.



We(me and Sumit) maintained good sppeds initially and then slowed done for bad roads to pass. Sumit went over the pot hole that Iwas speaking in the onward ride but almost at zero. then we picked up speed. A imported mitsubishi Montero for company and this is the first time we saw it flesh.
We did a few turns at 100+ scrapping the foot pegs and he too did it (ofcourse not scrapping his )

but once we crossed the forest we lost sight of it. We took a break after Gundalpet. A good 80+ km covered in 80 mins.. (guys its an approximation dont raise questions on this figure)

We got a msg from Vinal that he is jus 40 kms from calicut








We then drove towards banglore and took a long break at MCD. There Sumit raised a concern - His front wheel was jumping a bit at 80s on the mysore Road. He is the third after me and Sunil to notice that. "The Mysore to Banglore is like that - One would get a small vibration when we are around 80s. " He was relieved


We left MCD around 10:30 and reached home by 11:30 An eventful ride he had Thanks Sumit and Vinal