Dattatreya Patil, the grape farmer from Sangli who was part of TFN had a surprise announcement to make at the end of the tour. Every year his cycling club at Sangli identifies an exceptional cycling talent between the ages of 11-15 and confers a “young achiever” award named after Swami Vivekananda. Previous recipients of this award [...]

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The Tour of Nilgiris riders are on their way back (see pictures by Prashanth Kota shot this morning on the way to Bangalore) ie 31 December!

Nachiket Ulhas Joshi

Deeksha

Joshine Antony
You can join them at around 4 pm at the Mysore Satellite Terminal or a little later at Vidhan Soudha. Plus don’t forget that if you are in [...]

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Ooty is 2286 meters above sea level, and it can be quite cold in winter. Yesterday there was frost in the morning. Today it was 11 degrees C at 7 am, rising to 17 degrees C by 10 am. Rushing down the 12 per cent descent through the Kalhatti Ghats and through the 36 hair-pin-bends the [...]

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29 December is a rest day. We will not be reporting on TFN. Everyone deserves their privacy.
But our guess is that a whole bunch of riders will go out to enjoy the sights, many will service and clean their bikes and of course many bonds of new friendships will be sealed over hot cups of [...]

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The good news: Ulhas Joshi from Pune has joined the support team. After his spill late yesterday evening, he was advised not to ride and now he is busy cheering everyone on the route from one of the support vehicles.
The funny news: Two people on TFN are not riders, says Tour Director Pradeep BV. “They are machines,” [...]

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The day started off with celebrating Mumbai-boy Kaushik Iyer’s birthday in Mercara — with some chocolate mousse thrown in by Nilgiri’s. Being the birthday boy gave him the privilege of leading the ride for the first 5 of the 145 km ride to Sultanbathery. You can see him with some friends in the picture below (first [...]

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It was a nice ride on 26 December from Mysore to Mercara. The traffic reduced itself to almost zero on the way, part of the road was great for road bikes, and the landscape slowly changed to lush greenery and then quickly to lush forested stretches.
Mercara is a small town, still peppered with colonial attitude. [...]

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Over 200 people turned up for the flag off on Christmas morning! There were 52 participants of TFN, neatly (well, sort of) lined up and ready to go. But before that there was much exchanging of notes and many, many smiles as everyone tucked into the breakfast organised by Nilgiri’s (carbs, what else!). It was one [...]

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This is our man Aashish Solanki, Founder / Designer at NetBramha Studios at the early morning TFN kick off — he is the creative mind that designed the memorable TFN logo, this website, the TFN posters, ads and bookmarks and look what it has done to him: he has developed a love for cycling! Who else [...]

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