A tryst with NH 7

When I was young, my Dad used to do a lot of road trips in one of those oldie Jeeps, much of the trips were on Highways, ever since I have always been fascinated with highways, the so called NH Always wanted to go for a long highway drive, but some or the other thing did let me know. This sunday was watching TV with my roomie KDB, it was well past 1 AM, and suddenly I decided go for a bike ride the next morning. Where was the next question, quickly browsed through my TTK India Road map and found a small place Basara some 220 kms from Hyderabad. Off I went to pack my bags for the trip, I was really surprised when KD came up to me and said, “Bro m also coming”, he doesnt like bike trips much, and that too a 450 odd circuit and he has to get back and go to office !!! But he was determined, so we packed our bags and went to bed.

Dont want to write down a lengthy travelogue on it (KDB has already written one here). Next morning we started at sharp 6 am and reached Basar at around 10.30, had a quick darshan and back at HYD by 4.30 PM.  The 450 km circuit was done in approx 10 hrs with stops for tea, breakfast and lunch and a 1 hour break at Basar. Statiscally the circuit was done with an average speed of 50.88 kmph and that too on a bike Max speed reached was around 105 kmph.

Here is some road and route info:

The route is quite straight forward, Hyderabad to Medchal, get on the NH7 from Medchal continue through Tupran, Ramayampet, Kamireddy to Dichipally. Take a left exit from Dichipally and head towards Nizamabad, cross Nizamabad and go upto Jankampet. Take a right exit at the Gandhi Statue there. Basara RS is around 12 kms from there and Basara temple is around 2 kms from then on. The road (NH7) from Medchal to Kamireddy (10 Kms or so from there), is excellent, balack top 4 lane (6 at places) and very good signage. The road from Kamireddy to Dichipally (same NH 7) is a two lane, undivided, balacktop road, the road quality is good but lack of a road divider slows you down. The rest, I guess its a SH is good but not excellent. Loved the NH7 all the way, named this post as a tribute to it

What I liked about the trip:

The sense of you and you bike on an open road is an un-expressable feeling, there is a sense of freedom and an unknown sense of peace that sets in your mind when you drive on a NH. Bike trips do teach a very important thing in life, they harden your patience, at time your arse will go numb, and you will feel like speeding away quickly to your destination, but the road wont allow you to. You ought to remember one very simple rule “On a road trip the road rules and you follow… “. I beleive one is on a learning curve for the first 100000 kms, and I have just completed around 60k, there are still some miles to go …

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