This Christmas I finally had the chance to reattempt a route which I have been trying for 2 years now. Have failed in past due to for various reasons from being overconfident to being poorly planned ride. Yet here I was again to attempt the same route.
From Technical perspective it’s a short ride just under 500km over 3 days, however with an elevation gain of 6000m. This ride touches the...
Kerala and intriguing place as always attracts lot of tourists and local population to its wilderness. I am no different than the lot, apart from just being on a cycle. I have been going around Kerala for last 4 years. The more I visit the place the more I love the place. I have liked this place for many reasons and tourism is probably now last. There is acceptance for...
We had planned a 3-day tour to the princess of hills – Kodaikanal, covering 460kms going across different hills around Kodaikanal.
Day 1
The first day we left city at 5 am- a very standard time for almost every cyclist to start a long ride. Went through wonderful village inroads of Tamilnadu and reaching to a place called Palani, which is one of the major cities when travelling to Kodaikanal.
By 12.30 pm...
Day 1(Coimbatore- Athirapally waterfalls- Perambavoor-230km)
The first day of the tour started early by 4 am so that we can get out of the city by 6 am and avoid city traffic. We hit the highways around 6 am and kicked in riding gears. Since road to Kerala from Coimbatore is slight a downhill, we peddled at speed 27-29kmph. The whole reason for this to achieve our day 1 target of...
The camp concept training is more around fixed period of time ranging from 1-3 months . These trainings are generally around specific sports. By the end of the camp training a significant improvement in the performance of the Athlete can be observed. For example if its basketball – Vertical jumps, ball handling skills will improve etc . If its Athletics speed improvements can be experienced. Methodology of camp trainings are on...
Running sandals have made a name and enjoys a separate customer base from recreational runners to some semi-professional runners. The running sandals have made more mark in the trail running with and aspect of being close to the nature/earth.
The revolution all started when Christopher mcdougall wrote Born to Run and introduced the whole world to the Great Running tribe ‘Tarahumara’ tribe. There are various articles present on them and runners...
For last 2 years I am intrigued by the hills, hairpin Bends and wilderness around Coimbatore. I have been riding to ooty and other hills really clocking some good climbing. While we as cyclist always look out for new routes, there was this Route in the Nilgiris hills which looked challenging, and more scenic since the area is not really exposed to commercial tourism.
Finally, after multiple failed plans we finalized...
Ooty the queen of hills is been pretty famous among cyclist specially from coimbatore. The beauty of the climbs is - no matter how many times one does it , ‘IT IS DIFFICULT ‘
One of the famous sightseeing point in ooty is Dodabetta which is the highest point of tamilnadu at an elevation of 2600 m. Ooty to Dodabetta is about 8km and gains an elevation of 400m. The profile...
After my last solo tour , I have been wanting to execute a short 3-4 day ride which would pass through hills. I popped the idea to one the cyclist friend and luckily his schedule allowed to to join.
We started to plan the route, as usual I had chosen a route which would have lot of Uphills and tough climbs. Our plan was to start from coimbatore cross ooty/gudalur of...
I have been a cyclist with more inclination towards bikepacking and Touring. This summer I had planned a one week Tour. The route went through the major hill stations across Tamilnadu and kerala.
After 1st day of the ride my encounter for next 4 days was going to be with different hill stations. Vagamon hills was the first on the route, which was going well, until I hit last 7kms. With...
I had always wanted to do a tour around Nilgiris and Ride the hills. . The 3 day-route we had planned was Coimbatore-Kotagiri- Ooty , Ooty-Gudalur-Wayanad - Omasery-mukkam-Manarkkad-coimbatore.
The total distance of the tour was around 460km with an elevation gain of 6000m.
Day 1
Day 1 initial plan was to pass Ooty by afternoon and reach Gudalur. This would be around 150km distance and reduce the load for next day...
We have been riding around coimbatore and doing some real one day endurance rides with an average distance of 160km each ride. It seems nature is maginficient on each ride.
The Tree Tunnel
The Team
The Sky
Enter the heaven
The Valley
The Boys
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I have been cycling regularly and have also met of couple of regular riders in coimbatore. It’s been a while, the thought of Riding uphill in mountains is very fascinating ,and after my visit to coonoor- ooty, I was convinced to go for a ride in Nilgiris. I consulted with Karthik and told him my ride plan. Not only he gave me pointers he also joined for the ride upto...
I have been lately off with physical activity eventually leading to, me being out of shape. And it’s not at all a good feeling. Also, I have been visiting Coimbatore for official work and trying to get my head around the city. Coimbatore is a city where, at least it looks that Industrial development and Nature are trying to survive together. It has its own challenges though. Coimbatore location per...
The reason I call it an extraordinary effort because this is a small restoration project executed by a small team who didn’t really knew the technical of the project which they were getting into.
Disclaimer: This is not the first time someone had attempted this. The intent is not to glorify the project, rather we just intend to conclude cycling need not be a costly sport
Well, leaving that aside here...
The decision was made to go for a route which must be more than 200kms with atleast one climb.
This was an aggressive ride which we would have to do and both of us were of opinion to avoid the highway as much as possible in dark, which meant our route must be from the interiors. There is always an advantage of Highway that one can get fast roads to...
It was quite some time I had spent planning a cycling trip which intended to go through the routes covering maximum number of Ghats. The route was all decided, and the approximate distance of the journey was 1000km. The next was to rope my two companions yash, Antony and hope that the plan does not change till the day of ride.
The first fallout happened as Yash backed out because...
