17th November 2017 15:58:56 Hours
Royal Enfield Riders\' (RER) Club of Colombo visited Diyatalawa on 22nd March 2014. The ride was named as \"RER Diyatalawa Ride 2014\" and it was their first long and two days ride that made out of Colombo covering approximately 500 km either way. RER is a pleasure riding club that exists with the key principle of \'safety first\', consequently they enjoy skillful safe riding on different roads with own set of rules and road discipline.
Colonel Commandant of the Corps Signal, Major General PiyalAbeysekera is the Advisor of RER since its inauguration in 2013, thus six riders of Signal Tattoo and Stunt Riding Team also got a rare opportunity to ride in five Royal Enfield new bikes belongs to the Corps of Signal with the six members of RER who rode to Diyatalawa.All together eleven riders were on road and the Advisor himself too rode with all the riders during the up ride accompanying them.
RER Diyatalawa Ride 2014 started at 06.30 am from the Independence Square in Colombo and reached ‘Mercury House\', the Signal Holiday Bungalow in Diyatalawa by 01.15 pm passing the route Panagoda, Horana, Rathnapura, Balangoda and Haputale. In Diyatalawa, all riders officially visited the Sri Lanka Military Academy and the \'Fox-hill Supper Cross\' track and mountain ranges. After staying overnight at the Mercury House, all the riders safely rode back to Colombo via Bandarawela, Punagala, Diyaluma falls, Koslanda, Beragala, Rathnapura, Ingiriya and Panagoda.For both RER and the Signal riders, it was a testing ride of handling heavy bikes that dealt with different kind of easy and difficult roads in different terrains.
