day 4 contd1: jespa - barlachala - bharathpur to Pang

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All the wonderful views we reached darcha and itssss..... Breakfast time :)


We had some bread omlets and some noodles. Packed some biscuits and had some water. The water was COLD
After Darcha, the hills looked little greenish, But the roads became very dirty.


After all this Dirt riding, I found a blueish pond on the road side. The pond was so still that it attracted attention


I had a dip in this water, a few of the fellows soak their palms but Chetan didnt near the pond even :) There I learnt that Chetan had a fall. The Sumil's Bike is drinking Crazy !


The roads became gravelish and there were they were very dirty that is was best to avoid riding in a group. I and sumit led while Sunil and Chetan followed. This is just to avoid inhaling the dirt thrown by the vehicles.


This Sign was really motivating


As we started climbing barlachala, the roads were very good. But we didnt ve the guts to play on the curves, as it had some gravel, plus we knew that something more exciting is waiting for us.




The roads were good, but we found it very long, I kept checking a jeep track that vertically climbed the mountain. At the last moment I took a steep off road. i stopped in the middle of the offroad, switched off the engine and was posing for some pics taken by my friend Mohan from hsi jeep. I then saw, Sumit coming towards me and started my bike. Then I tried to accelerate and Shit! the bike refused to move. I was really shocked and couldn't believe, Soon chetan and Sunil passed and Sumit was following. I revved the engine hard and let the clutch go, the bike stalled. hmmm.. Something is going wrong, May be I shouldn't ve stopped but let it go. I switched off the engine and like a dumb fellow disengaged the clutch, the bike started moving back/down. I kissed the bike to the earth. I then forced Sumit not to take this route instead go down and take the normal route. All this drama is happening at the barachala Top. I gave the bike to Sunil, who came near me and walked the steep path up. While climbing up I was just thinking wat might be wrong, the worst I could imagine was a "burnt Clutch". but I know my bike wont yield so fast, Bcoz.. I LOVE IT and IT LOVES ME!!!

My Stupidity..!!


As I reached the roads climbing, I was gasping as if my lung is gonna burst, I couldn't feel the air getting into my lungs. I jus laid down, soon Chetan, Sunil and Sumit too laid down. We didnt ve the energy to even pass the chocolates around. After 5 minutes, we stood up tired and every got on to their bikes. My bike though it moved, I felt its just revving up but not moving so well. I continued for a few Kms was it was a decend on the other side of Barlachala. Crossed a couple of streams like this. Then stopped as the situation didnt improve. Checked the engine oil and it was little low. Refilleed and hoped that things will be normal. But I was disappointed. Continued a bit more and reached Barathpur. Were we had some hot tea and bread omlet. There i remembered that in the morning I tweaked the clutch a bit tight, immediately dont it back my loosening it and Hureyy!! Its UP and RUNNING "in IT style) :D
Jumped with joy and ran into the tent to inform this. But there I saw Chetan drowsing, had a little head ache and felt a mild head spin. His eyes too was red. The driver immediately told that this is AMS and we showed move.! There we met a group of cyclist, there were riding from Manali and on a 3 month vacation !! Wow what a way to spend the vacation!!

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