[PHOTO — Hairpins above Coonoor, tea slopes]
Coonoor & the tea bends
- DISTANCE
- 19 km
- RIDE TIME
- 45 min
- SURFACE
- Good tar
- HAIRPINS
- 14
Easiest morning out. Busy with tourist cabs after 10am — leave by seven.
Ride from the gate
Bandipur run
Through 36 hairpins to the forest. Elephants on the road at dusk — ride it in daylight.
- DISTANCE
- 82 km
- RIDE TIME
- 2h 30
- SURFACE
- Good tar
- HAIRPINS
- 36
- GATE SHUTS
- 21:00
[PHOTO — Bandipur forest road at dawn]
[ROUTE NOTES — for the host to write: where to start, fuel, the road section by section, where to stop for chai, what to watch for, and the date it was last ridden.]
Other rides
[PHOTO — Kotagiri ridge road, empty tarmac]
Kotagiri ridge
- DISTANCE
- 31 km
- RIDE TIME
- 1h 10
- SURFACE
- Mixed
- HAIRPINS
- 22
The quiet one. Broken edges in two places past the junction — stay off the rim.