El Cic

Thanks for the offer alex3313. I admit the title of the post suggests that I need the use of bicycles, however it was about the use of my bicycles for 10 months (the period before I returned to Delhi to recommence cycle touring). At any rate I availed of Avinash’s offer of storing in Kanpur.

To be more precise: My son and I are doing a cycle tour of Rajasthan Jan/Feb from Delhi using two touring bicycles transported with us from Wales to Delhi.

Not yet, but I’ll install Maps.Me to see what it throws up on routes.

But I know what you mean about crazy routes from my experiences with routes given by Google maps.  The funniest of these where the routes took me to an Army or Air Force base – because Google maps had not realised that the relevant region has been procured years back for defence use. The looks on both sentries and myself when these two encounters occured was priceless 😂 The photo – a still from cycle video camera – below is an example of google map route craziness (photo altered to prevent jawan sentry being identified)

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I can’t explain the discrepancy in experiences in Bikaner/Jaipur rural areas.

Yes. Goa. I was chased by what looked like all the dogs in the hamlet that I was cycling through. Vowed never to cycle in Goa again.  Same thing in a hamlet near the Karanataka/TN border. Same vow taken.

When on tour I try and avoid the highways due to the heavy traffic there and lack of nature and interesting environment, so going through villages is necessary.   After the Karanataka/TN  experiences I carry on cycle tour dog deterrents such as pepper spray, ‘sonic weapons’ such as a police whistle and ‘food distraction’ in the form of crumbled biscuits.