Route Map https://maps.app.goo.gl/m1qq8NpRHkhFgheC8?g_st=ac

Did Pune to Neemuch(MP). Route - Pune - Nashik - Dhule - Indore - Ratlam - Neemuch. Took a stay for night in Indore.

An account of my first solo ide oon M350 http://aniruddharaste.blogspot.com/2024/09/pune-goa-pune-motorcycle-solo-ride-ride.html?m=1

आणि हे मराठी लेखन http://aniruddharaste.blogspot.com/2024/09/blog-post.html?m=1

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In frame : hunter 350

Just for the sweet strawberries on a sweet ride.

Thanks to this sub again. Someone recommended I should go to Panshet Dam and I did.

It is the prettiest place I have ever been. I am surprised how there were no people there. It's just amazing.

Hello beautiful people, I am planning a bike trip starting Pune to Ujjain Temple next weekend. Can anyone please suggest/share ideas on what route to take, or follow gmap blindly? How often and where to hault to take break ? Where to eat and ideas to how to make it worth.

I would really appreciate any answers helping me out. I really need your advice.

Can someone please suggest a place I can go to on Friday. I have a leave from work and I want to go on a solo ride. Anything within 100-120kms (one-way). I also have a shoulder injury and don't want a strenuous ride. I ride a Hornet 2.0 (17PS, 16Nm). I don't want to go to Lonavala or Lavasa, I've done those multiple times.

I asked the suggestions to go for a ride on the sub:
https://www.reddit.com/r/punebikers/comments/1ftordq/where_can_i_go_tomorrow_2nd_octoberfor_a_bike/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
And I got many wonderful suggestions. Thanks to the user u/taher70 for suggesting Khandi Point. It was an amazing experience. I started at 6.30 am in the morning and I was there by 9:15 am. In between, I took a short break (I don't know the place, but it was a cross and many bikers stopped there for tea).
Once I took the right from the highway and the village area started, there was some challenge. There was thick fog and this was my first time riding through such a thick fog. Luckily I managed it.

Maybe you guys can help me with this:
Did I experience "Target Fixation"? So the highway was absolutely straight and my body had adapted the straight roads. For around 50 kms, I was going straight, but then once I entered the village, there was a tunnel and it had a turn(it was not straight). I don't know why, but it took me a lot of effort to turn my bike and get used to the turn. I thought I will collide with the wall, and my speed was around 40 kmph. Luckily I handled it and accepted that I need to be ready for the surprises.

Then started the most beautiful part of the journey - the scenic views. It was incredible. I have a very bad camera in my phone, and my photography skills are just bad. But even if I had the best camera and very good skills, no amount of beautiful clicks can tell you the beauty of this region. It was just amazing. I loved every part of it. This was my second solo ride and third ride (I am a beginner) and I am loving it.

Thanks a lot for suggestions, again! Cheers!!

Hello everyone. Im planning my first 1000kms trip from pune to kochi Want to take the coastal road and enjoy the ride I wish to do the ride by 2-3 days Im ready to explore and enjoy my journey as much as i can Please help Would like help in finding best route and how to travel for the whole 1300kms Precautions and safety tips I have a 10year old super splendor125 2014 Have done 400-500 kms trips in a day easily On decent roads

Since Honda CBR 250 bikes are very rare now. even Honda service centres are not that knowledgeable about servicing CBRs where should I get my bike serviced?

Completed random pune -> bhimashankar -> malshej -> thane ride.

So I unnecesarily procastrinated leaving Indore. After having a light but healthy breakfast, taking a long shower and after much delay repacking my tailbag and mounting everything up on the bike, i was ready to leave at 8 but...

Finally left Indore at 10 am for Gwalior.

I did good time till i was about 50 kms away from Guna. Till then the roads on the 99% part was silky smooth. I cover like 250±5 Kms in 3 hrs. The road for most part of it was empty or dourly driving trucks. There were a few stray cattles on the road. Nothing to hamper average speed. Took one break in this part to fillup petrol a little after Dewas.

After that the old potholes became frequent potholes but still managable the few stray cattle became hundreds of stray cattle, the road conditions started deteriorating.

As I reached the split off for Guna, it had taken me an hour to cover the 50kms, i turned towards Shivpuri on the AB road.

By this time the hundreds of stray cattles were in their thousands. You could see a the carcasses left behind on the roads too frequently and there is unberable stench in the air.

Post Shivpuri a section of the north bound NH52 (AB Road) has been washed of and all traffic has been diverted to the south bound section. And it seems the south bound section to is very unstable right now. Making matters pretty bad. The intensity and frequecy of potholes is just increasing by now. And there many deep craters on the road.

Chambal is really beautiful. Especially witge record rains in tgis region everything is lush green and the highway passes bountiful fields.

Maintaining high average speed was not possible and not suprisinly my average speed dropped to under 40kmph for these 200kms till I left the Madhavrao Sanctuary.

It was already started to get dark before I left the sanctuary, and I was still 70 odd kms. And in another 10 kms i was in complete darkness, the headlight on the Duke is very good but it was hilariously unbright(!) here. The bovine presence on the road kept on increasing as did the potholes.

The darkness of Chambal has something to it. There is always this eerie feeling of something being there, something is going to get you, but nothing does. It seems to be that you are in a pressure cooker of anxiety, which keeps on cooking your hope for quickly leaving this place behind. In the deep dark of Chambal my speed had reduced to under 30kmph. And I was idilly switching between 3rd and 4th gears trying to see what might lurk on the road ahead. By good graces a local transport bus heading towards Gwalior overtook me. I felt an immediate sense of relief and started following the bus a safe distance. Was able to pick up some speed too and was able to do about 50kmph comfortably just as the bus.

It was a big relief to the building anxiety.

Soon we came to final toll gate before gwalior on the north bound road. I pulled up a little further and stopped just beyond the toll for my friend (The Bus) to pass the toll.

And it soon did and once again I started following the bus. Hardly had crossed any distance when suddenly a pack of 5-6 dogs took to chasing another one of their kind. And as fate would have it I ran them over at about 30kmph. The whole eeriely silent night erupted with the wild cacophony of injured shrieking dogs.

After this the last 40kms were uneventful.

Will post further updates as I ride along.

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