a short trip with ups and downs

as a self proclaimed biker the time had come for me to stop doing the talk talk and try do a ride. and specially after last weeks ride with the bikesonroad i realised how slow and unfit i am. my daily rides to office is not sufficient to keep pace with the world. finally this saturday morning i decided to ride on the gurgaon-faridabad highway. i still remember what the road used to be 5-6years back, now we call it a highway it was no more than a village road i would say. anyways now in it's new avtaar it looks tempting to drive or ride and hence i started. the first uphill coming my way shook my spirit a bit but then i decided to make it till teri at any cost. as once you cross teri the road is flat and for me that won't be an issue as going uphill. also i really wanted to have fun on the downhill on my way just after crossing village ghata. all my dreams where shattered once i reached the slope after ghata...

there was a massive traffic jam early in the morning.



people where stuch there i don't know since when some of them where taking u-turns and back to gurgaon. similar thoughts cam in my mind. but yet again the the realisation of being. of being on a bike enlightened me. and i started seeing the gaps betwen the truck & the tavera. between the alto & the indica. between the qualis & baleno. and here was I the smoothly gliding through the unseen passages and in around a minute through with the jam.



by the time i crossed the jam, i started having other plans for the route to be tracked. took a left turn towards aya nagar from teri (instead going straight for faridabad) and pedalled past the village coming my way. though these villages are not more of small rural pockets inbetween the larger cityscape. and very much a part of the texture we see in google earth of delhi and it's neighbourhood. they seamlessly blend into the fabric of our urban landscapes. giving it a nice relief, watch it in google earth looks pretty fine. as i was riding through the narrow lanes of the villages never realised when did i cross the border and enter delhi. nothing to worry it's not one of the problematic borders.



took a short break for a photo session. and again i kept riding via khullar karms to m.g. road.




as about to reach the main road i met bandharv ram the mobile industrialist who goes from place to place on his bike and and repairs those folding beds we get. and once we over use the beds for whatever reason we need bandharv ram to fix it. well thats another story to be touched upon on another occasion.



waving goodbye to bandharv ram i touched the m. g. road and the sensation of maddening traffic could be felt in the air, a deep breath would be filling your lungs with the smoke and dust of the passing traffic. traffic created by the lesser known creatures of the world who work on saturdays (hahaha atleast this weekend i hope i'm not working).

middle of the road one can see the grand construction of delhi metro on it's way to connect gurgaon with the main stream. and on the left side can be seen the leftovers of the once flourishing m.g. road retail sector, which had been demolished or shut down a couple of years back. though some sparks of life can be seen as some shops have re opened and doing business.




as i pedaled towards gurgaon, got used to the traffic. and kept my all time lazy pace. a bit before aya nagar crossing saw this small roadside shrine, which i had otherwise always overlooked. didn't get down just took a couple of shots sitting in my bike and carried on, the woman there was probably expecting some shoot charges and looked a bit dissapointed at my early leave.




in the next few minutes i'm in gurgaon and on my regular commuting area. another short photo session



trying to make my bike well traveled mountain bike. prefered to follow the longer route home with a bit more of uphills, somehow this time it didn't tire me at all and soon i was home downloading the pictures on to my machine. and here i am finally writting down the trail.