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My first topic on this sub-forum, am a relative newbie so please dont be harsh on me. Hehe.
Places: Konkan (Karde Beach) and Mahabaleshwar
Date: 22-24 Dec 2012
Total distance: 520km (as per my RTR's speedo)
Starting point: Hotel Ambience, Wakad, Pune
Riders:
1. Abhijit (Jeetley) - RTR160 (Society friend, 3rd yr B.Com)
2. Suraj - P200 (Society friend, 2nd year into his job)
3. Mayur - CBF Stunner (College bro)
4. Yash - RTR180 (me)
Route:
NH4-Bhor-Poladpur-Khed-Dapoli-Karde Beach (Day 1)
Karde-Dapoli-Poladpur-Mahabaleshwar (Day 2)
Mahabaleshwar-Pune (Day 3)
Accomodation and nutrition
:
Konkan - Were surprised to see most (all) hotel booked to the capacity at Karde. Finally found a (not great) room for a night, for Rs. 800, almost attached to the beach. You could smell the beach there. Food was sub-par, anyone riding to anywhere close to Dapoli take along a few packets of Maggi.
Mahabaleshwar - Jeetley has been here tonnes of times, knows this place in and out. Tried at Soonder Villa, but was packed to its capacity. A middleman took us to Apsarra hotel, got a superb room for 1000 for 24 hours. The place was amazing and recommended to anyone, will post the contact soon. Got some amazing tea, talked to the owner about his 1971 RE which he kickstarted for us. Woah! Food wasn't a problem there, lunch was ordered from Domino's and ate a little in the market at night as no one was really hungry. Breakfast was at the awesome Mapro's on the way back.
Everything else:
Getting permission from Mommy was checkpoint #1. Dad had a near fatal accident 10 years back, she was apprehensive. But agreed nonetheless
The roads after Bhor were simply awesome. Rode at good speeds for long times. Felt great! You don't get to do that everyday. Also the backwaters of the Nira-Deoghar dam served a superb view. Couldn't help but stop multiple times. Very less traffic too, so it was really good. But there was a bad patch of about 10-12km till Bhor, and then a real bad patch of 10km exactly on the way to Mahaby from Poladpur.
Okay. so here's some pictures. Hope you all like it, and in return give me some suggestions. Haha. More after approval!
PS: They're clicked on my Chinese phone. So again, kindly be polite.
Jeetley forgot to get a memory card for his camera.
Cheers!
My RTR at the backwaters of the dam
Mayur and Jeetley at the beach
Grilled sandwich at Mapro's
PPS: Only these 3 are edit, the coming ones will be served raw.
My first topic on this sub-forum, am a relative newbie so please dont be harsh on me. Hehe.
Places: Konkan (Karde Beach) and Mahabaleshwar
Date: 22-24 Dec 2012
Total distance: 520km (as per my RTR's speedo)
Starting point: Hotel Ambience, Wakad, Pune
Riders:
1. Abhijit (Jeetley) - RTR160 (Society friend, 3rd yr B.Com)
2. Suraj - P200 (Society friend, 2nd year into his job)
3. Mayur - CBF Stunner (College bro)
4. Yash - RTR180 (me)
Route:
NH4-Bhor-Poladpur-Khed-Dapoli-Karde Beach (Day 1)
Karde-Dapoli-Poladpur-Mahabaleshwar (Day 2)
Mahabaleshwar-Pune (Day 3)
Accomodation and nutrition
:Konkan - Were surprised to see most (all) hotel booked to the capacity at Karde. Finally found a (not great) room for a night, for Rs. 800, almost attached to the beach. You could smell the beach there. Food was sub-par, anyone riding to anywhere close to Dapoli take along a few packets of Maggi.
Mahabaleshwar - Jeetley has been here tonnes of times, knows this place in and out. Tried at Soonder Villa, but was packed to its capacity. A middleman took us to Apsarra hotel, got a superb room for 1000 for 24 hours. The place was amazing and recommended to anyone, will post the contact soon. Got some amazing tea, talked to the owner about his 1971 RE which he kickstarted for us. Woah! Food wasn't a problem there, lunch was ordered from Domino's and ate a little in the market at night as no one was really hungry. Breakfast was at the awesome Mapro's on the way back.
Everything else:
Getting permission from Mommy was checkpoint #1. Dad had a near fatal accident 10 years back, she was apprehensive. But agreed nonetheless
The roads after Bhor were simply awesome. Rode at good speeds for long times. Felt great! You don't get to do that everyday. Also the backwaters of the Nira-Deoghar dam served a superb view. Couldn't help but stop multiple times. Very less traffic too, so it was really good. But there was a bad patch of about 10-12km till Bhor, and then a real bad patch of 10km exactly on the way to Mahaby from Poladpur.
Okay. so here's some pictures. Hope you all like it, and in return give me some suggestions. Haha. More after approval!
PS: They're clicked on my Chinese phone. So again, kindly be polite.
Jeetley forgot to get a memory card for his camera.Cheers!
My RTR at the backwaters of the dam
Mayur and Jeetley at the beach
Grilled sandwich at Mapro's
PPS: Only these 3 are edit, the coming ones will be served raw.
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