(Nearly) Challakere 400 – Tons of experience with a failure.
Having ridden Bangalore - Ranebennur - Bangalore 600 brevet and made a trip to Devarayanadurga , when I saw the route map of Challakere 400 Brevet before the event, I found that I was already familiar with 300+ kms. Also, since I was riding regularly alternative saturdays the last few months, I was quite confident in completing the ride (successfully). But not always the things happen in the way we expect. Here is the experience on such a ride. Kalpesh and I started riding together from the new BHEL road starting control by 0605 hrs, after getting our brevet cards stamped and wished good luck, by Mustafa and Nirmal. Soon, Mr. Ashok joined us, and we three made our move fast through roads to Hessarghatta. One thing to note about Mr. Ashok, his age is 45+ and he rode 350+ km in this ride, that too, well within the time limits allowed for most part of the ride. A salute to him.