ir0008 - Anchetty 200

About:

Anchetty 200 is one of the challenging 200K BRMs of India, considering the mammoth elevation gain in the corresponding distance category. Being one of the best rolling routes available to take the randonneuring experience to a different level, this route takes riders, mostly through the greeny villages and serene forests.

The riders start from IISc, reach Kanakpura road through outer ring road, continue on Kanakapura road till Harohalli, then cross the Tamil Nadu Border towards Thalli, before heading south to Anchetty through green rolling hills and landscapes dotted with lakes. The route then heads back up to Denkanikottai and Attibele, entering Bangalore via Hosur Road.

Surface:

Most of the route is in fairly good condition. From Harohalli to Anchetty the roads are fairy good but have some badly potholed patches. Some of the descents are very sudden and steep, and some of these have silt and sand accumulated at the bottom by rainwater.

There are some steep switchbacks on the final descent to anchetty - care must be taken to limit speed so as to not run off the road.

Traffic:

Traffic on Kanakapura road and Hosur Road can be very fast. Please ride carefully. Traffic on the rest of the route is almost non existent, apart from the occasional bus or agricultural vehicle.

Terrain:

Image below is an approximate elevation profile generated by gpsvisualizer.com (using DEM data), there is about 2152m of climbing. The vertical red lines are approximately at Harohalli (54Km) Thalli (88Km) A village after Jawalagiri (115Km) and Anchetty (126Km).