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With my North East leg almost done got pretty relaxed. Skipping out on Eastern Arunachal as the rainy season has started and rains around that place are pretty deadly. Even other wise would be more of an endurance ride instead of an enjoyable trip. Lucky to have two clears days at Tawang.
Start by 8.30 am. Turns out that my friend Pinaki is also reaching Guwahati the same day. Would be meeting him after like 7 years and so will kaushik be reaching From his home town.
Bright sunny weather after few days and awesome North Assam roads and it was a nice relaxing ride. Couple of hourse and Kms flew by. Just when i was getting into Auto Pilot mood and humming some songs, the road construction section begins and quite a few slush sections to negotiate. Its strange that 95% of bad roads i have encountered in this trip are due to road construction or widening! Reach Guwahati by 11.30 am and went straight to HH Pibco motors to get a few things done. But its too crowded, no spared front fender, and non responsive staff took like 3.5 hours to just get the bike washed and change the engine oil. Have been getting priority treatment from HHSCs so far knowing about my travel, but this was an Humbling experience as no 1 gave damn about the purpose and just cribbed about getting the work done. Now really need the front fender cos if it breaks then there would be slush spray. The HH guys said nothing could be done for the Chain cover and have to put a new 1. Now that's at a bomb of 1200 Rs and now way i could get it cut to accomodate the Michelin oversized tire.
Frustrated i leave and go to the Spares shop quite some distance. And i am made to wait there for an hour just to get the fender from godown to the shop! It was really annoying. Thought would try to fit the fender myself. On the way to my friend's house saw a mech and got the fender changed by him. He even arranged for the welding of the chain cover and saved me quite some trouble. He was an interesting mech as he was telling about his experiance of riding to some place in Bihar some 1150 KMs in 20 hours! He said he as done it twice, once on a pulsar and once on a Passion! The max i have done in a day is like 950 KMs. Even noticed the light and horn mods and appreciated the purpose. He had a sharp eye and i was quite thankful for getting the work done.
Now there will be a couple of days of break. Will have to get the M45 fixed and will be heading out to Sikkim in couple of days.
Start by 8.30 am. Turns out that my friend Pinaki is also reaching Guwahati the same day. Would be meeting him after like 7 years and so will kaushik be reaching From his home town.
Bright sunny weather after few days and awesome North Assam roads and it was a nice relaxing ride. Couple of hourse and Kms flew by. Just when i was getting into Auto Pilot mood and humming some songs, the road construction section begins and quite a few slush sections to negotiate. Its strange that 95% of bad roads i have encountered in this trip are due to road construction or widening! Reach Guwahati by 11.30 am and went straight to HH Pibco motors to get a few things done. But its too crowded, no spared front fender, and non responsive staff took like 3.5 hours to just get the bike washed and change the engine oil. Have been getting priority treatment from HHSCs so far knowing about my travel, but this was an Humbling experience as no 1 gave damn about the purpose and just cribbed about getting the work done. Now really need the front fender cos if it breaks then there would be slush spray. The HH guys said nothing could be done for the Chain cover and have to put a new 1. Now that's at a bomb of 1200 Rs and now way i could get it cut to accomodate the Michelin oversized tire.
Frustrated i leave and go to the Spares shop quite some distance. And i am made to wait there for an hour just to get the fender from godown to the shop! It was really annoying. Thought would try to fit the fender myself. On the way to my friend's house saw a mech and got the fender changed by him. He even arranged for the welding of the chain cover and saved me quite some trouble. He was an interesting mech as he was telling about his experiance of riding to some place in Bihar some 1150 KMs in 20 hours! He said he as done it twice, once on a pulsar and once on a Passion! The max i have done in a day is like 950 KMs. Even noticed the light and horn mods and appreciated the purpose. He had a sharp eye and i was quite thankful for getting the work done.
Now there will be a couple of days of break. Will have to get the M45 fixed and will be heading out to Sikkim in couple of days.
The mighty Bhramaputra River...
The real long bridge on the river...
Awesome North Assam Roads...
Some Cattle fair enroute...
Me busy updated the logs at my friend's place...
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