Almost 1400 Kilometres long ride ( Gurgaon to Katihar )

Ride date : 5:13AM, 06-June-2020   to    3:00PM, 07-June-2020

Living dream is every one's cup of tea but what is the problem behind it, why everyone is not able to live their dream, this is million dollar question and it's answer is also million dollar, the main problem i noticed is two points:

    1. Caring about others and listing to others

    2. Do not provide 100% effort

Yes... i kept the "100% effort" point in second, the reason is effort is very necessary energy to do anything whatever you want to available in the life, but listening to others is actually a bad energy which creates a wall in front of you to restrict you for moving forward, and you will be afraid about the things after that you will not in the condition to take decision about anything in your life, you will be worried always regarding the results and people, your thinking will be transformed as "what people will think, if i fail then people must criticize etc..." If you really want to win the world then accept my suggestion "Never cares anyone". You must have heard one thing from your parents since your childhood i.e "Listen everyone but do only which you want", it is true, it is your life and you need to drive yourself, you are alone your teacher nobody is here to teach you each and every thing, your experience is the guide. The almost same thing i have completed recently, i am loving two things in my life first is "Write" and second is "Ride", writing is something which i do daily but ride is something which is occasional kind of activity because working Monday to Friday in office is very hectic time, after that we have only 2 days to complete the own work such as house cleaning and shopping, therefore i am running with the short of time for riding, i have bought "Hero Xpulse 200" bike for my riding dream, Okay... now i always wanted to go for long ride, therefore i was always finding the chance for living the city for hundreds of kilometres, finally got an opportunity in June-2020, it was the corona pandemic time, Indian government honorable prime minister Shri Narendra Modi announced the country lock down on 25-March-2020, my office was also told us to work from home, train, flight, bus, state borders etc... were closed and government appealed the nation to stay at home only, till almost 2 months we were locked at home (Gurgaon), now it was the time of "unlock-1" where government opened the state borders, few trains and flights,  IT companies were still focusing into WFH (Work from home) only, now it was good chance for people like us who works outside from home and visits native town once or twice in the year, but the challenges was the pandemic, we were not wanted to be infected because social distancing was the main factor to prohibit the infection. I wanted to come native town but my wife was not to come, i wanted to come with bike because travelling via train and flight is really not safe and we comes in the contact of the many peoples, therefore travelling with the own vehicle is good choice, therefore i wanted to come with the bike and riding bike to such a long distance ( 1400 KM almost) will fill my desire. Finally having discussed the same with my wife, she agreed, well... let me discuss the first attempt of this preparation... now we made a plan to leave Gurgaon on the early morning tomorrow, it was 23-May-2020,, i wanted to confirm few things from someone, such as "Pass is required or not" and "will we able to enter in Bihar border or not", it was the lockdown period, i have discussed with someone who already went Shivan district of Bihar from Noida with bike, he suggested me to do not go without pass, otherwise passing Bihar border will be a great challenge and might be the chance that we will be quarantine in the centers made with tent near the border area before entering into the Bihar, therefore we have changed our plan and it was cancelled.

The second attempt we mad on 4-June-2020, it was unlock period and all state borders were opened as explained few lines above, i took the leave on 5-June-2020 so that i can do some work on my bike and do some shopping for the kids who expects something from us when we will reach to the native home, so 5-June was full of preparation day, both of us worked hard and completed everything till evening and did the packaging overnight, finally we slept at 10 PM and wake up at morning 3:30 AM of 06-June-2020, it was the day when i was going to live my dream, finally we have completed all the work and completed packaging, then we took the luggage and came down towards the bike, took bike out from the home to the road, bound the luggage with bungee cots. It was 5:13 AM morning i set map into google.maps and then kept mobile in mobile bike holder, and set the mobile charging so that the battery  of the mobile cannot go down, i started the bike, now first thing was to fill up the petrol tank of the bike, i was riding bike with good speed therefore i was crossing the distance very very fast, my bike has not the good top speed but the speed was enough, it was maximum 100KMPH with full acceleration, i was riding in average 90 and sometimes 95KMPH speed. I was comfortable and enjoying the ride, but we were started feeling back pain after almost 400 kilometres, after that we started stopping in each almost 200 kilometres, i tried to cover maximum distance in the daylight and finally i have crossed Gorakhpur at evening, it was 4 PM, i had still 2 hours of daylight, i tried to cover more distance therefore i thought to travel, actually i was just watching the mobile screen to see the remaining kilometres, i was thinking to cover all the distance that day only, therefore i was not thinking about any hotels and anything to stay, but here i was actually my fault, i should also think about my wife, she was really needed rest and she wanted to stay, but i was pushing her to be seated in the bike, finally she said "i cannot sit in bike now, either book hotel or leave me here and go alone", then i started thinking seriously and looking for a stay, it was almost 9:30 PM and i was near Gopalganj, we were alone on the road and trucks were everywhere, i was also not comfortable to ride, the headlight of the bike is too bad and no lights were on the road, road's condition was also not good, i was guessing the road and riding bike, it was too dangerous experience, many times i took bike into big pit of roads, it was very very dangerous, now i had no option, i was not finding any good places to stay, even there were no street lights, only darkness was everywhere,  i was afraid this time. After an hours almost it was 11PM, we saw a good hotels in Mujaffarpur, we were happy to see the hotel, i have booked the room and did rest whole night, woke up at 7 AM morning, been fresh, ate something and did hotel checkout, after that we came down with stuffs and kept everything in the bike, and left Mujaffarpur, a new morning was complete fresh and full of energy to start new journey, after almost 4 hours we reached Purnia, my wife's elder brother came to meet us, we spent few hours there, we did lunch in a hotel. I just wanted to take a bath and a deep sleep because the roads of Bihar are very rough, and riding in such conditions is a very big task, I was not really enjoying riding on such roads, riding in such roads are like punishment. We finished all the meeting activity and lunch and left the hotel again, her brother also returned to their place, i reached my home almost 3 PM. I was tired, I just went to the washroom, took a bath, after that I took food and went to sleep.

I have covered almost 1400 kilometres, it was an awesome ride experience. The most panic situation was the tension of fuel, in Lucknow expressway the petrol pumps are in almost 100 kilometres of distance, i was not aware about this thing, i was running shortage of the patrol and i was not finding the patrol pumps, i  have slow the speed of bike and looking both side of the road, even i had 2 extra litres of the patrol in a bottle but still anxious about the petrol pump, i just wanted to full my petrol tank. I was in tension, after almost 40 kilometres i saw the patrol pump and went there refueled the bike, we also stayed there and ate something, we also needed break.

Another panic condition was riding into night, i have learned a lesson in this long ride, the lesson is "Never try to ride at night"... yes, we should not ride at night because it is very risky, few problem are visibility, trucks covers all space of the road, no shops of mechanic for bike issues etc... due to low visibility road pits are not clearly visible, stones and speed breakers are also not easily visible, there is also a chance that bike can collide to any other standing vehicle, highly chance of accident due to heavy truck also truck drivers are driving roughly and less cares about other small vehicle at night, the last one point which i observed which is "issues on bike", yes...  all shops including hotels are being closed, people sleeps, in this condition if any issue happens on bike or you need any help then you cannot even call to anybody, also many more fear about crime such as murder, robbery etc... 

Never ride at night... This is only the thing which should be considered for all the riders, I made this mistake and this was my first and last mistake, ride till day end after that book a hotel stay.

Above few points are very important, whatever... i have lived a dream and created a story of my life for sharing to others, to remember at old age and story of happiness, dare, will power etc... but what i think...! I think this was the start, i will do more long rides, i will do all India rides, if possible i will ride till Bhutan & Thailand.

That's all about my dream story.

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