Re: Best and worst roads we have been on

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Roads whether good or bad are nothing but inanimate strips that we ride on. For me it is the people we meet and the food we eat that actually make up the ocean of experiences.

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I have been to Thattekere a place 50 kms from bagalore. We started at 8am on a Sunday morning. The starting road was filled with trafic and then later after bommasandra the road became bad and after a point there was no road. It was loose gravel and also little rocky at times. But it was a good ride and we were a good 9 members on 9 bike. We rode around 50 to 80 kmph on an average. But it was still fun with all of us riding through and following each other on the road, We had a leader which will signal for any potholes or guttur in the road or a slippery area and each one behind follows them for the later riders to be careful and again signaling to the one behind. All together we enjoyed the ride .

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Within my relatively short riding experience, I have found the road to Hemnagar from Lebukhali the most enchanting one. It's almost a dead end of the country with very limited connectivity available. It might not be a very big road but, with almost smooth tarmac complimented with lush green paddy fields on both the sides - makes you want to go back time and again.



The worst road according to me is a 7-8 km stretch between Uluberia and Gadiara in Howrah district. Went there a few months back with xBhp team members. Took us around 30-35 minutes to cover that stretch. Unfortunately I don't have any pictures of that.

The road in India I ever aspire to be on is the stretch between Rameshwaram and Dhanushkodi.
And of course the Seven Mile Bridge in Florida.

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Bad roads are part of any road journey & without them, the ride & the journey are totally worthless; often more, these bad roads do not last for ever like the tough times in life.

Enough of philosophy, here're some of my tortured moments...
Sanderao - Pali, 2011
Kolli hills, 2011
Sulya - Jalsoor, 2012
Hunsur - Mysore, 2012
Shiradi ghat at Sakaleshpur, 2013
Goregaon - Srivardhan, 2013
Murud - Kashid - Alibaug, 2013
Virajpet - Gonikoppal - Kutta, 2014
Kottathara - Mulli, 2014
Some route via Sadashivgad towards Davangere, 2015

Some of unforgettable moments, so many, will update here as I recall
Mt Abu - Udaipur, 2011
Pokhran - Jaisalmer, 2011
Allahabad bypass, Vazhikadavu ghat, 2012
Keezhakarai - Tiruchendur, Bandadhara - Ghoti, Ropar - Dholavira, Navlakhi, Azhikode, Murud, Kashid, Alibaug, Ganapatipule, 2013
Ramnagar - Molem, Ratnagiri, Dapoli, 2014
Sadhashivgad, Cape Rama, 2015

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The worst I travelled was a road on the borders of telangana..chhattisgarh..orissa,connecting between konta and sukma ,it was an 80 kms stretch which took 8 hrs to complete.

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Ya konta and sukma highway are extremely dangerous naxalite area so roads are not good. Naxalite cut the roads or dig up the roads and it's not safe to travel in these areas at night.

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The Best roads were the express highways of gujarat, right from maharashtra gujarat border, till the Rann of Kutch

On an average most of the roads on the Leh-Manali highway are bad, but the Keylong to Manali stretch, particularly the climb upto the Rohtang pass is downright miserable, I have never had to get off my bike to push it along before, or after this experience...