C.O.P.S ride to Lavasa

Lavasa, a very known destination for many riders. It is a planned city built 55kms away from Pune. It is inspired by an Italian town called Portofino with a street and several buildings bearing the name of the town. Some streets are also named after ornament plants like Thicket and Celosia. 

This was our selected location for this Sunday. This is also our location when we need to ride short distance but ride through great patches and corners. Another such location is Ambey Valley.  Last two weekend, we rode on two highways, so this sunday we planned to go to a location where we could enjoy the mountains. Our meeting point was Chandini chowk at 6:15 am. Chandini Chowk is situated in Pune on the Mumbai-Bangalore highway. Usually when we ride, we refuel our bikes on the way but on this ride, because there are only two petrol stations on our way, we tank up the night before. We did meet up at the scheduled time but we had to start at 7am as some of our riders came a bit late. The entire journey, from the start point all the way to Lavasa, is mountainous with all sorts of corners like tight corners, left handers and right handers etc. Monsoon makes it even more enjoyable.

The traffic was quite low as it was early. We ride frequently on this road hence all the corners, roads and even the pot holes are engraved in our minds. This makes it easier to ride. The only obstacle on this road was the larger than usual speed breakers. They are not even speed breakers but massive bumps on the road! It's ludicrous. Because of this, we have to keep fluctuating our speed. 

After around 40 kms, we come across Temghar Dam. We reach Lavarde village. After passing the village there is an immediate turn to the left and we are welcomed by the stunning view of the dam. The sun was rising and that made the view even more brilliant. Approximately 15 kms away is Lavasa City. 

    Courtesy: Google Images 

There is a retreat at the location called Ekant. It is owned by Lavasa. Ekant is strategically placed on the cliff from where we could see the Warasgaon water body and the whole of Lavasa city. The breakfast there starts at 8am so we had to wait because we reached a bit early. They serve a 3 star menu buffet with veg and non veg food items and a range of salads all in Rs.600/-. We served ourselves a good portion, and sat at the table with a scenic view discussing about the ride and about rappelling which we will be doing after two weekends. Quite excited for that.

    COPS Team Members

We took some pictures, enjoyed the scenery a bit more and left for Pune. We rode through the beautiful road and reached Chandini chowk and rode our separate ways to go home. Everyone loved the ride as it was more relaxed than our usual ones and also, all the riders love their corners.

This coming weekend, we are riding to Goa! We start on friday and return on Sunday. It is one of the most anticipated ride so stay tuned for all the pictures and details.