Day -1
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Taking the 4pm bus yesterday (31/08) was probably the most exciting thing in the entire month of August. I was finally off for TGT (The Grand Tour). Made it at the most crawling pace ever in a bus cold as arctic to Parle by 10.15pm. Regular chat with Amol & dinner later, was in bed by 11.30pm (earliest ever at Amol's so far!). As expected, couldn't sleep. What the heck!
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Day 0
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Thankfully Indigo saves the low-cost airlines the blushes and was off sharp at 6.30am & landed at a near perfect 8.30am. By 9.30am, i was finally at Anant's place and raring to go. All plans of riding solo till Chandigarh seemed so near. Finally the "RIDE" part of TGT was going to start. And then....sigh. The bike refused to start..sputtered to death. Anant checked the fuse and yep, it had blown. Ideally a small job but some screw up while changing left the wires running to the battery in smoke!!!! The plastic casing simply sizzled and melted off leaving bare wires. Damn..not a great omen ain't it? At least a new fuse, some shitty insulation tape later the bike started and was dutifully left at Pappu's. "Sham ko milega" were the words that basically cemented the fact that i wasn't going to ride today. Guess it all happens for good so a plan going awry meant the bike was thoroughly checked once more and is all set. For me to ride out at 3am with Yogesh!!! Damn..
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While the bike was being done..we went all over the city gathering stuff (read bike related stuff) for roadshakers that Anant is going to carry to Pune tomorrow morning.
A trip to karolbagh (50xNana Peth) & we dropped Dharam to catch his bus to Manali at 5pm. Home by 5.30pm, bike ripping on roards back home from pappu and now ready for dinner and a little wink.
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All in all a sweaty day spent in exchanging a zillion stories about roadshakers and the bullet with Anant! Not a bad start if you look at it! :)
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