Savandurga 100 : The Monolith Populaire.
The Ride
Savandurga is a large monolith to the south-west of Bangalore city. Surrounded by Savandurga forest, this is an ideal route for the monsoon season. We start out on Magadi Road, an uncharacteristically green and quiet state highway, before venturing onto quiet village roads. En route, we visit T G Halli Reservoir, Manchanbele dam, the Indian DSN at Byalalu, and Dodda Alada Mara (Big Banyan Tree) to make for an eventful 100km. Note that this is a rolling route with steep ascents and descents. Like a brevet, this populaire is a completely self-supported ride to be completed in a fixed time. A populaire is usually of a distance less than 200K. Note that brevets and populaires are not competitive rides.Ride Summary
Date: October 27, 2012, 06:30 AM -- Registration formalities start at 06:00AM Start: Indian Institute of Science Gymkhana Gate, Yeshwantpur End: Indian Institute of Science, A-Mess Gate/Kendriya Vidyalaya Gate, Mathikere Road Distance: 100km Time limit: 8 hours (Non-standard limit) Note the the ride has steep ascents and descents. Please make sure you're fit enough to ride a challenging rolling route and your bicycle is is good repair, especially the brakes.
The ride is open to all cyclists regardless of their affiliation.
Online registration for the populaires is FREE.
However, if you register on the spot at the venue, a surcharge of INR 50 will be applied since we'd like to minimize the inconvenience of handling on-the-spot registrations.
Rules and Regulations
Please read the rules and regulations for a randonnée.
Since this is a daylight ride, the following rules are relaxed for this ride:
- You do not need to wear a reflective vest.
- You need not possess front or rear lights. If you do, however, they must meet the regulations.
Registration Information
You can register online using RRBM. Online registrations are free. Online registrations close automatically on Oct 26, 2011, 3PM.
You will need to sign a waiver at the start, if you haven't done so already.
You can see the current list of registrants here.
Please note on-the-spot registrations at the venue will attract a surcharge of INR 50 since we'd like to minimize the inconvenience of handling on-the-spot registrations.
Route
Surface: Roads are in good to excellent shape for most of the route. One section of about 5km has a small road in fair condition. Most roads are two-laned, except for a very low traffic 8km section which is one laned. The beginning of the route on Pipeline road is dugup and maybe difficult to navigate, but is rideable.
Traffic: Roads have very low traffic, however SH-85/Magadi Road on the return has light to medium traffic and the Mahalakshmipuram Layout road on the return has medium to heavy traffic.
Terrain: Here is the elevation profile generated from the GPX by utrack.crempa.net for the route, there is about 1000m of climbing, with some very steep climbs (6%) and descents.
For a GPX you can analyze, see this attachments.
Please note map and GPX are provided for convenience only. The cue-sheet is the only official route guide.
Cue-sheet
A cue-sheet is now available. Versions of the cuesheet suitable for printing on A4 paper are attached to that page.
Results
Cumulative statistics:
Total number of registrants : 28
Riders started : 12
Riders who completed : 07
Did not finish (DNF) : 05
The detailed results can be seen here.
Credits
Map: Abhijit, Prakash, Sreepathi, Mustafa
Recce: Dheeraj, Sreepathi.
Cue-sheet: Mustafa, Sreepathi
Control Volunteers: Abhijit, Alex, Dheeraj, Mustafa, Sreepathi, Tulasi Ram, Vijay.