Conditions on the Kanakapura Road down to Gundulpet?

[Satish Vangal]

Hi all,

Has anyone ridden this stretch recently? (Bangalore-Kanakapura-Chamarajanagara-Gundulpet). How are road conditions? Many rough patches? Will be on a road bike.

Planning an early AM Saturday (2nd Mar) departure from Bangalore back to Coonoor in case anyone else is headed that way.

Thanks!
Satish

[Karthik Vijayakumar]

I recently went down that road, to malavalli and then onto kollegal. The road is pretty good all along. Coincidentally I too was going towards ooty, infact to ooty, but at kollegal I turned west and headed towards nanjangud and then caught the mysore-ooty highway.

Some words of caution, eateries are pretty much non existent on that road, and at kollegal even after half an hour of hour I couldnt find any decent restaurant, forget decent the only one I could find was a shady nonveg restauarant, and the only veg dish they had was roti with some funny sabji and a weird fried rice kind of thing called pushka. At harohalli a little inside the town you can find good restaurants.

In case you want to do what I did, the road that goes directly from kollegal to nanjangud via Tirumalpuru Narsipura is in really bad shape, but it is an internal village road, where you would be riding along fields almost all the time, but it would be next to impossible to ride on a roadie, I was finding it hard to ride at 15 on an mtb in certain stretches. But right now the fields are all empty, and hence the scenery isn't as exciting as one would expect.

-Karthik

Satish


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[Satish Vangal]

Hi Karthik,

Thanks for the details! The road is indeed in great shape. A bit narrow but not much traffic at all, especially past Kanakapura. Malavalli is around 100 km away (for a potential 200 km brevet as Arvind was mentioning).

I had a rather eventful ride. At around 6 AM, after an hour of riding, a dog ran right into me and I fell off and did the classic cyclists skid and picked up some scrapes and a sore shoulder. Got back on, and at round 135 km, just before Kollegal, my road bike front tire blew out. A cycle shop fixed it, but then it blew again within a couple of km. A bus to Gundulpet, and another bus to Ooty. Need stronger tired!

Satish