Tarkarli 2009 -- A ride in "brief"!

Nothing ever works out as planned when it comes to riding in groups. Never does everyone turn up as planned, people drop off at the last moment, people start the ride in smaller groups at different time of the day instead of riding together. Less said the better. But none the less, every ride has something worth remembering it for.
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This one was a cracker cause we covered 968kms within 36hrs which is a hell lot of riding. The route was tried & tested and extremely fast roads to ride.
We took the Route-1 on the way to Tarkarli and almost took the Route-2 on the way back except that we joined NH4 from Chiplun via the Koyna ghat.
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Best part of any ride, for me personally, is all the riding in the night. On this one, i did almost 500 of the 1000kms in the night. Both ghats during the night! God, I never wanted to come back home! And this was the longest ride ever on the Comet which basically meant i not only kept up, but in fact was ahead of the most. The beauty of the engine is that it can keep running at 120's for miles and miles with no hints of stress. Something a Bullet will never do without its fair share of nakhras. Quite crotch-rocket the V-Twin is!
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And word of advice to junta out there. Proper gear is extremely important on such long rides. And gear starts from the first clothes on your skin! Damned you are if you ride such distances with your stupid briefs digging into your skin and riding up your.....And its no joke. Can you imagine doing a tight corner at 80 while trying to fix your briefs?? Jeez! I almost ran off the road a couple of times. And by the 500th kilometer, I was wearing a jeans made of needles!
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Say no to Briefs and welcome Boxers!
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No words can actually capture the fun so just look at a picture of mine taken (without my knowledge). The grin says it all!! :)