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**ken cool** · 03-08-2010, 09:14 PM

Interesting idea of a thread.

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**DarthVeda** · 03-08-2010, 10:23 PM

returning from Kodachadri to Bangalore, left at noon, rode around the reservoir (added 100km to distance) and reached at night 2230 to my place with a big burn on my right ankle as a result I couldn't keep my foot down on the ground, rode nonstop for more than 300km without getting of bike. I was wearing dark visor back then it was a pain in the ass ride at night with those!! good times

**Aryan** · 03-08-2010, 11:48 PM

@Kurt: Good thread, this!

I am not that BIG a tourer, certainly not to your standards. However, I would sincierly rate the Spiti ride as THE best and one of the tougher rides that I have done so far.

I won't really be able to pin-point the exact distance, or the exact destination but overall I would rate that ride as THE ride of my life.

**steveburnside2001** · 03-09-2010, 02:50 AM

I would have to state the ride from kovalam to Kanyakumari.people wondering what is tough with that.

I was riding in the peak of summer alone through bad roads for 4 days and this was after that, I could barely ride and complete the last 60 kms because of heavy traffic , small roads and the summer heat.

**blackprince** · 03-09-2010, 04:34 AM

Innovative idea...keep it up...

**hitanshu** · 03-09-2010, 06:05 AM

Umm. That is an interesting thread. Unfortunately, as I look back, I've never found myself in such situations at all. I've taken it easy through the crazy terrain.

I doubt many would have a genuinely tougher ride than your Spiti return. Anyways, I strongly believe that biking is tough only when you're pushing it - else a monkey can sit and twiddle the throttle!! Kudos on your ride!

**kurtrules** · 03-09-2010, 10:27 AM

I would have to state the ride from kovalam to Kanyakumari.people wondering what is tough with that.

I was riding in the peak of summer alone through bad roads for 4 days and this was after that, I could barely ride and complete the last 60 kms because of heavy traffic , small roads and the summer heat.

The idea behind the thread is for us to share the ride which we felt was extremely challenging irrespective of the distance time and terrain.

It is just the perspective which matters.

**Praful** · 03-09-2010, 10:47 AM

Toughest ride so far would be a crazy one day ride from Chennai(NH46/NH7)-Bangalore-Nandi Hills(NH7)-Bangalore-Chennai(NH4/NH46) 823 Kms in about 18 hours.

Terrain wasn't too much of a challenge as it was GQ roads for the most part, but it was tough on me as I was new to riding and it was just the 5th month with my bike. Plus the fatigue caused due to sleeplessness and heat was killing. The return route was a different single lane highway with broken roads and my clutch cable snapping in the middle of nowhere wasn't helping things either. Riding back in the dark with oncoming glare due to a single lane highway wasn't something that enjoyed back then!

Crazy ride that was, got up at 3am decided that I want to meet my then gf. Called her up and told that I'm coming, reached Bangy at about 8.30. Had breakfast, went to Nandi Hills spent some time there, came back to Blore had lunch and left for Chennai via the 'scenic' route...only to have the toughest return journey ever!!

But today I don't think I'd find repeating the same thing that tough! Maybe coz I now prefer broken roads and riding in the night more than back then...

**rachitkohli** · 03-09-2010, 11:27 AM

My toughest Journey was the Mumbai-Leh-Mumbai. But the toughest ride from that journey was, returning from Pangang_Tso - Leh.
The "Chang La" was really terrific, heavy snow-fall. Bike having hiccups due to high altitude(17,800 ft). Hands, fingers where totally numb. I could literally hold the silencer. Roads where extremely bad, wet & slippery. Tough time to control Bike on that Mountain, specially on the curves when it slips over the rocks. Cannot have proper vision due to snowing. If I opened my visor, my face use to get total white with snow. If I close my visor, it will get covered by snow. It was turning dark too, as we did Leh-Pangang-Leh in a single day. Very bad state, I was just praying to god, please dont get any problem in the bike & help me reach Leh in one piece & thankfully I did. People done Leh, can easily visualize this situation & understand how worst it would had been.
I wanted to badly piss, but didnt dare to stop for a second in that deadly climate, accepting the consequences

. After passing the mountain I just couldn't control & stopped.
I wanted to witness a snow-fall, but it didnt had to be like this

**bluevolt** · 03-09-2010, 11:39 AM

For me, it has to be Ghorbunder - Pune during the GAD trip. It was not like that the road was bad or whatever, but a lot of traffic (ID festival) on a very hot day in riding leathers. I felt like I was put in a microwave and someone had turned the knob to 'cook well for two hours' ...

I almost got dehydrated - even when I reached McDonalds at Panvel, I did not take off my jacket in the AC as I might have fallen sick due to the sudden change in temperature. Drank water, lots of it, sometimes a litre in one go.

Ketan R15 and invincible2110 made it easier for me, but it was still very tough.

This relatively short stretch even beats the 19 hours of riding which I did from Bihar to Gurgaon which was comparatively less stressful.

Great thread, by the way!

**bikemanic** · 03-09-2010, 11:41 AM

my toughest ride was 900kms in under 17hrs approx when i was doing calcutta - bangalore and my 1st stop was vizag from calcutta with bad roads worst roads one can see.

**Sunny** · 03-09-2010, 12:02 PM

For me, in recent memory, it was probably from Jaipur back to Delhi on the Blackbird in late 2005. Ashu, my co rider (on a Karizma) met with a horrible accident with a 18 wheeler truck, we had to go to a govt hospital and deal with the police. After that incident, later in the day the Blackbird got a puncture in the *front* tyre which made it very difficult for the bike to steer and required a constant re-inflation every few minutes by finding a roadside pump facility. I didnt have a tubeless tyre puncture repair kit at that time.

**nav75** · 03-09-2010, 12:24 PM

Originally posted by hitanshu View Post

I doubt many would have a genuinely tougher ride than your Spiti return. Anyways, I strongly believe that biking is tough only when you're pushing it - else a monkey can sit and twiddle the throttle!! Kudos on your ride!

+1.
I can't pin point one and say this was the toughest but the following one do comes to my mind instantly.
Running against time (to avoid sleeping in tent), from Tso Moriri to Keylong. Some 335km's done in 14.5hrs. Worse was climbing up snowed B'La around 6:30pm and then ripping in dark for last 30-40km's to reach Keylong.

**rossiter** · 03-09-2010, 12:27 PM

I think I have two rides equalling the toughest ever:

1) Siddapur-Madikeri via Kemmangundi: It was a very tough ride, simply because the way to Hebbe Falls in Kemmangundi resembled more like Martian terrain. 15 kms of boulders, slippery rocks on a path where 4x4 jeeps struggle, took the life out of me. That 15 km stretch took me almost 2 hours to traverse, and 2 hours back. From there, I had torrential downpour almost all the way to Madikeri in the dark, with 2 laned forested roads to contend with. Reached Madikeri at 12 in the night. - September 2009.

2) Trivandrum - Salem via Kanyakumari - The GQ parts weren't completed yet, and was on the R1 with Mithun on the R15. Got plastered by some early morning traffic near Nagercoil. From then on, the alternating heat and rain conditions, plus the never-ending "take diversions" with the road ending abruptly really annoyed me. By the time we reached Namakkal, I was ready to call it a day, but I pressed on till Salem only because Mithun did a fantastic job of leading me.

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