Thread: Advice requested for Mlr-Nanded-Indore-Surat-Pune-Ratnagiri-Goa-Mangalore road trip

We are planning to take up this ride on mid-August. Requesting information on the followings:

Cheap but safe places to stay for night (with parking)
Fellow XBHP-ians, if any of you are interested to catch up with us
Contact number of a reliable mechanic for Royal Enfield Thunderbird
Road Condition

The ride map is shared as below:
Mangalore, Karnataka to Mangalore, Karnataka - Google Maps


Any pointer to this will be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Sakshar

Query approved

If You can move Pune from E to B, you can get a much better route overall.

Originally Posted by antz.bin

If You can move Pune from E to B, you can get a much better route overall.

Thanks for the suggestion brother. Do you mean this route?Mangalore, Karnataka to Mangalore, Karnataka - Google Maps

Originally Posted by antz.bin

If You can move Pune from E to B, you can get a much better route overall.

In Surat you can stay at my place.
The house is big enough for 4-5 guests, if you guys can manage to sleep on a quilt i.e.
There's parking for a 100bikes available. I live in a pretty spreadout Society with free street parking.

Originally Posted by ABikerAtHeart

In Surat you can stay at my place.
The house is big enough for 4-5 guests, if you guys can manage to sleep on a quilt i.e.
There's parking for a 100bikes available. I live in a pretty spreadout Society with free street parking.

Thanks for the invitation buddy. I would love to know the notable sites over there too. Please PM me your contact number.

Anyone from Nanded??

Originally Posted by sakshar

Thanks for the invitation buddy. I would love to know the notable sites over there too. Please PM me your contact number.

Anyone from Nanded??

Thats the catch.
Surat is an industrial city. Nothing but tiny tiny congested mills with a huge smoking chinmey, murky hot water let out on the muddy potholed roads and thousands of workers chewing pan,walking about in their underwear.

The residential sites are caste into a corner and the happening places here are nothing but the window-shopper-fed-up malls and highly crowded chat shops. The food? Dont even get me started.

Its a totally hardworking city but work is all it does. Needless to say people here are rich. Filthy rich. Which is why you'll see people riding Intruders, Monsters, RSv4 and Gixxers. The underwear rule applies. Okay boxers if not underwear.

And yeah, any goodlooking chick you see here...she's a tourist.

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Thanks a ton to all of you. We have finalised our trip. In fact, we trimmed down a bit due to lack of number of leaves and we thought of concentrating on visiting places in and around Konkan. Here is the ride plan:



Please join in on our way if possible.

See you on the way.

The road ahead..is calling again... stay tuned for the travelogue.