The weather was totally overcast due to neighbouring states Cyclonic conditions, we had 7 riders at the assembly point of ITI Colony gate in K R Puram. The riders were, Mandar, BK Krishnamurthy, Jayaprakash, Manjunath Saligram, Rajesh Rao, Vinod and prospective Rtn. Raghu from Rotary Kalyan. As there was a Ride to Kutch starting at same time from Yeshwantpur, where 4 riders were starting from Bangalore and few had gone to flag of them, we had little low turnout but as people say that show must go on, we decided to go ahead as per original plan. In the absence of President Rajesh, who was riding to Gujarat, Secretary Vinod took over today’s ride management. He addressed all the riders, welcomed them and briefed about the rules of IFMR and thanked Raghu for joining the ride. Mandar was made the Lead and Jayaprakash was today’s Sweep, riding sequence was informed and Manjunath Saligram offered today’s prayer for safety and success of today’s ride. Sharp at 6.45am, we started the ride, there was not much traffic and all were out on the highway in no time.

All were cruising at good speed and were maintaining the momentum, reached our breakfast point at Swathi restaurant after a distance of 50km. It looked like a favourite breakfast stop for bike riders, hordes of bikers were already present with their beast. In fact bike blogger Bulu Patnaik was present too. All had a relaxed breakfast of mini thali options but it turned out to be a little heavy. Had good interaction over food table, exchanged a lot of current topics on bikes, new launches etc

Today’s breakfast was sponsored by Jayaprakash and Manjunath on getting their new toys, Triumph 400 CC bikes. Thank you sir ji. Keep buying new bikes and keep treating us.

As we were about to saddle up and taking few group pictures, a gentleman came and introduced himself as Madhu Atre from Bangalore and said he is one of early member of IFMR India and mentioned few charter member names including our Charter President Prithivi Raval, it was a pleasant surprise to meet him, took few photos with him and bid good bye. We started our final leg of the next 40 km to the destination.

Reached Kotilingeswar Temple by around 9.45am and went straight inside temple, went around all the deities temple inside the complex and were out by 11.15am, without wasting all decided to leave for Bangalore.

Around 1 pm we regrouped near Hoskote Toll, had tea and decided to end the ride and thanked each other and bid goodbye to all. Another good ride came to an end.