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A short ride which I went on yesterday, no pics, but interesting nonetheless.
A 21 hour Himalayan saga that started at 1 am, Saturday and ended at 10 Pm, the same day. The route followed was:
Chandigarh - Sundernagar - Chail chowk - Janjehli - Chatti - Ani - Sainj - Narkanda - Shimla - Chandigarh. Somewhere around 550 kms.
Chandigarh - Bilaspur is screwed up big time. Bad roads, pot holes here and there. An array of trucks makes things even worse. Sundernagar - Janjehli it rained like crazy. Janjehli is around 80 kms from Sundernagar, not on the NH-21 but a right from it, via the Chail chowk. The roads were non-existent. I faced 3 landslides within a span of 80 kms. The first one I was able to somehow crawl through. The second one was a miraculous save for me as just as I crossed; boulders flew in from behind blocking the road. The third one, a part of the whole mountain had come down ahead with trees and soil blocking the road. I attempted to cross it, but was helplessly left stranded with a portion of the rear wheel over the edge of the cliff and then other one stuck between branches. I attempted to throttle my way out which only resulted in deeper misery owing to wheel-spin. A bigger worry was that if the rest of the mountain came down I would have been buried in the valley that lay below. An idea struck me. I dropped my bike on the ground and pulled the wheel back over land. Straightened my bike and with a lot of effort, heaved it back to square one. I waited around 90 mins before those LnT machines could clear it. Moving further I entered Janjehli at around 9am and Janjehli is worth every pain!
Somehow, after say 15 more kms, we reached a fork. One led to Karsog, the other to Ani. I took the one to Ani. The mud gave way another rocky road for 15 kms till I reached Ani and then I found good roads till Sainj and further the NH22 till Narkanda. Beyond Narkanda, the road is not existent. The ever so present mud, huge craters filled with water so that we can't spot them, the good old dust, on top of that, millions of trucks! This is the plight of the NH22. It is just a namesake, the roads are worse than the internal Himachali roads!
Finally after a painstaking 2.5 hours, I reached Shimla and took the bypass. Solan onwards again the NH22 changed colors. Barog, and beyond Dharampur the roads were far from the NH22 standards that I used to sing songs about.
Bid Vikas farewell and entered my room at 10 PM, exhausted. My defination of "saddle sore", not accredited by IBA, but then, I couldn't care less
Found more respect for my bike. She did great!
If someone would have asked me whether I did enjoy the ride or not my definite answer is YES, but if you were to tell me that would I enjoy the same ride, 2 days, one after the other I would say definitely not
Cheers till next time...
-Vaibhav
A short ride which I went on yesterday, no pics, but interesting nonetheless.
A 21 hour Himalayan saga that started at 1 am, Saturday and ended at 10 Pm, the same day. The route followed was:
Chandigarh - Sundernagar - Chail chowk - Janjehli - Chatti - Ani - Sainj - Narkanda - Shimla - Chandigarh. Somewhere around 550 kms.
Chandigarh - Bilaspur is screwed up big time. Bad roads, pot holes here and there. An array of trucks makes things even worse. Sundernagar - Janjehli it rained like crazy. Janjehli is around 80 kms from Sundernagar, not on the NH-21 but a right from it, via the Chail chowk. The roads were non-existent. I faced 3 landslides within a span of 80 kms. The first one I was able to somehow crawl through. The second one was a miraculous save for me as just as I crossed; boulders flew in from behind blocking the road. The third one, a part of the whole mountain had come down ahead with trees and soil blocking the road. I attempted to cross it, but was helplessly left stranded with a portion of the rear wheel over the edge of the cliff and then other one stuck between branches. I attempted to throttle my way out which only resulted in deeper misery owing to wheel-spin. A bigger worry was that if the rest of the mountain came down I would have been buried in the valley that lay below. An idea struck me. I dropped my bike on the ground and pulled the wheel back over land. Straightened my bike and with a lot of effort, heaved it back to square one. I waited around 90 mins before those LnT machines could clear it. Moving further I entered Janjehli at around 9am and Janjehli is worth every pain!
Somehow, after say 15 more kms, we reached a fork. One led to Karsog, the other to Ani. I took the one to Ani. The mud gave way another rocky road for 15 kms till I reached Ani and then I found good roads till Sainj and further the NH22 till Narkanda. Beyond Narkanda, the road is not existent. The ever so present mud, huge craters filled with water so that we can't spot them, the good old dust, on top of that, millions of trucks! This is the plight of the NH22. It is just a namesake, the roads are worse than the internal Himachali roads!
Finally after a painstaking 2.5 hours, I reached Shimla and took the bypass. Solan onwards again the NH22 changed colors. Barog, and beyond Dharampur the roads were far from the NH22 standards that I used to sing songs about.
Bid Vikas farewell and entered my room at 10 PM, exhausted. My defination of "saddle sore", not accredited by IBA, but then, I couldn't care less
Found more respect for my bike. She did great!
If someone would have asked me whether I did enjoy the ride or not my definite answer is YES, but if you were to tell me that would I enjoy the same ride, 2 days, one after the other I would say definitely not
Cheers till next time...
-Vaibhav
offroading at its best not many so called biker does such a thing just for he wants a ride love you bro you give a meaning to the word bikes you definitely rule kurtrules btw did you use your cbz for all that
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