Syclovia - The Sunday sunshine ride

It was one of those usual weekends after a lot of work on weekdays. The Syclovia, the name itself sounded very interest, was a cycling event on Sunday, 21st Sep, 2014 started by Giant Starkenn. Though it was a cycling event, it had more than just cycling. The main purpose was to ride from Langford Town, Hosur Main Road to Phoenix Marketcity, Mahadevapura, but it also had some fun events like zumba, yoga, music and whole lot of fun. And the more interesting thing was that, the event was to be started at 5am in the early morning in the Bangalore climate. After I saw this meetup in BCG blog, I decided that I would go for it and thought that weekend fun was waiting for me.

Nandi Hills - A first long bicycle ride

The first time when I thought of going to Nandi hills was exactly 3 months ago, when BCG arranged a Midnight ride on the same day (13th) in June month. But unfortunately I couldn't go for that ride because of some reasons. I was very interested in joining them, but when I couldn't, I thought I would definitely join the next time they arrange and I was waiting for it. Then I saw a notification from BCG that they are arranging a ride to Nandi hills on 13 Sep, but it was a day ride this time. This was the plan in short.

1. Silkboard - 5:00AM
2. MG road Metro Station: 5:30 AM
3. Hebbal Circle (Esteem mall) : 6:30 AM (Stop 10 mins for all to join)
4. Border Security Force: 7:15 AM
5. Airport Tollgate: 8:00 AM (Stop 10 mins for all to join)6. Nandi Base Entrance: 9:30 AM, finish the climb once and get down ASAP - Just to do it all over again :D. You can expect to reach home by late lunch, it depends on where you stay and how fast you are. If you're too tired you can quit after just one hill climb.
The return journey to Bangalore will be by the individual pace of the rider. You have the liberty to take the shortest possible route to reach back home.