Mysore - Chikmagalur - Mysore

Mysore - Nagamangala - Bindingnavile - Chennarayapatna - Hassan - Chikmangalur - Hassan - K R Nagar - Mysore. (500 kms)

I got my bullet on friday evening.

Saturday Morning I wanted to take the bike out for the "run-in".

We started from mysore at around 7 in the morning. Reached BIndingnavile(This place has a temple which is about a 1000 years old) at around 11 a.m.

The distance from Mysore to Bindingnavile is around 80 kms.

Babu and Myself, were waiting to meet Dwarka's Brother. Somehow he managed not to turn up till 1.pm. We had enough of Bindingnavile, and made a plan to go to Shiradi ghat and stay in Hassan for the night.

We went to Chennarayapatna, and searched for a hotel to have out lunch.
Babu ordered South Indian Meals and I ordered Vegetarion Palao. The waiter got me Fried Rice instead. And the fried rice was plain bad(I can't find any other words to descibe the extent of its badness). I somehow ate it because I was damn hungry. Then we moved on to Hassan.

Plan change we are not going to Shiradi Ghat. We are going to Chikmagalur.

On the way we saw Yagachi Dam(First time I heard about it). Beautiful Dam and got some good pics. Will upload them as soon as possible.

Reached Chimagalur at around 7.30 p.m. All this while we were driving at 40kms/hr. Since it was a new bike.

Got into a shabby hotel with a double bedroom costing us Rs.150.

Had our dinner, and went to bed at around 11.p.m.

Our room in the hotel was on the ground floor and the BULL was parked right in front of the room. Every time I heard someone moving outside, it left me wondering if somebody was stealing my bike. This kept me awake for some time and the first thing I did in the morning when I woke was to see if my BULL was still outside.

Then in the morning we went to Sitalayangiri and Mulayangiri(Excuse me if the spelling is wrong). I had been to Sitalayangiri before but not to Mulayangiri. It's a steep climb to Mulayangiri. Halfway through we had no choice but to continue, unless we wanted to roll over the hills. The BULL roared her way through the steep hills.

You have to climb a steps (not few, quite many) to reach to the top of Mulayangiri.
There s a cave trail on top of the hill. Take a torch if you are planning to go. Lot's of bats and the cave kinda gave me the creeps. Climbing back down, the helmet slipped out of Babu's hand and that was the last time we saw it.
In super slow motion, it went hurling down the hills and all that we could do was stand and stare.

Minus the helmet we reached Chikmagalur. Had some great biryani in Moghul Darbar(Try this place). They make Great Biryani. If you are in Chikmagalur, don't miss to eat their biryani.

Heading back towards mysore, at 40 km/hr, the Bull started to choke just near K R Nagar.
Need to talk to my mechanic and find out. Our interpretation was the engine might have heated up and we let it rest for quite some time.

After giving the bike a rest we tried starting it but in vain.

I am not sure as to why??!!!!

Finally we got hold of a bullet mechanic. The guy comes, gives the bike one kick and behold it starts.


And I have sun burns to add to my misery. My skin is still burning.

We spent the night in my cousin bro's place in K R nagar. My bhabhi made some lovely akki roti's for us.

And we settled down for the night. And so did the Bull.

Finally we left K R Nagar today morning and reached Mysore at around 8.a.m.

This is the story of my BULL's first 500 kms.

So the BULL is ready for the first service of 500kms.

A list of Guest Houses and Lodges in Chikmagalur can be found here.