chennai - palakkad trip

Forget four lanes Ramesh - The roads in Tirupur & Coimbatore district takes the cake. Smooth laid tarmac and lots of scenery around with zilch traffic - the place where you can put your machines to test. As I've been telling you Karur - Kovai stretch is excellent - the road surface quality is better than NH4 & 45 which allowed me to average at 98Km/Hr.

 

So this will be my route for sure when ever i do kla trip nxt time .

Ajit

 

Ofcourse Ramesh .. As usual you will get my PM and I follow the route that you mention ..

Ajit

 

Agreed. I am getting spoiled as well. Clocked an average of 97 between Tiruchi to Vandalur recently. Speed dropped after that. In the end managed 90 when i received home at Nanganallur.

 

Was able to acheive Avg speed of 87 KMPH and above in Chennai-Pondy (Bypass) strech couple of times... managed to reach 165 KMPH couple of times, but didnt have heart to push it further... i was all confident like was crusing 100 KMPH... love you Punto Never took more than 1 hr 20 mins from Mcity to Muthiyalpet, Pondy... once i reached in 1 hr time...

No wonder am getting mileage of <15 KMPL as i always love to push her to the core...

 

Guys i am traveling to kerala on 25 Aug... bit confused about the route...now i am considering 2 routes.
1. Chennai-Trichi-Dindugal-kumali-Kuttikanam-Mundakayam-Erumeli-Ranni-kottayam-Thrissur/Trivandrum
2 Chennai-vellore-krishnagiri- selam-coimbatore-palakkad- thrissur.
i heard that near coimbatore road is in very bad condition ... and not sure about the 1st route. i dont want any underbody scratches for my linea.. thats the main concern. i know that so many TFIns are travelled in therse routes . Please help me to choose the best route or any other best routs. Ajith today i was serching for ur num but no luck pls PM ur Num .. need some update on route..
Sreejith

 

I will aslo suggest what Ramesh mentioned . Till Palaghat the roads are very good .. After that as Ramesh mentioned the roads should be good . I have not taken that route for some time ..

Also in april end i travelled via Chennai - Trichy - Dindigul - Pollachi - Kollengode - Vadakkencherry- Thrissur . i took my old zen for this route . In this route till Pollachi it was great route .. and from pollachi till we enter kerala the roads were good . But once we enter kerala the roads were bad . The roads were narrow and very uneven patch work . There wont be any underbody scrapping . But the max speed you will be able to take is around 50 -60 kmph .. Daytime travelling on this route will be okay .. But night time will be very hectic .

The first route via Theni - Kumily - Kottayam i took in february and this was an excellent strip in february .

But in feb , some raod widening work was goin on @ Theni .. But the deviations were not more than 20 -30 mtrs . If you can cover this stretch in day time then this route is good .. In this route , surprisingly you will get good roads in kerala . At any cost avoid NH 47 in kerala from alpy to tvm . YOu can stick to MC road which is less crowded and decent roads.

Ajit