⌛ The Road Trip

Cowboy here, my friends and i here in dipolog city are also planing a trip around negros with some very large bikes. If you have any pitfalls i would sure like to hear about them and also the road conditions.. Thanks cowboy

 

I agree with Shadow your missing the island ...going so fast you missed the P & I in siPAlay Hehehe have a good trip

 

I'm still here in Bacolod @ 08:20am. Yesterday after I posted that I going to go to Kalibo Aklan, I got an email from the Atty. Changing my Appointment from Saturday to Thursday. So now, the Kalibo Aklan trip is off the radar screen.
Fritz I do not have a map that is why I do not know where I was when I got lost. It was over cast all day yesterday so navigating by the sun was out of the equation.
If I didn't know where I was that might explain why I was lost in the first place. Any way the Suzuki had enough gas to get me back on the right road.
I got to find some sun block before I burn to ashes.
Happy trails, till we meet again.

 

Left Bacolod 11:00 am.

Had lunch at Waddy's Place About 14:00 hrs. Pulled it over and shout it down at 19:00 hrs. Had quit a time finding a wifi place tho. The odometer says I went 698.9 K sense I left Dumaguete.
Sure glad I got and applied the sun block. It acted like a magnet for the road dirt. I must have washed a kilogram of diet off plugged up the shower drain.
Any of you care to guess where I am tonight?
Cowboy Bill Bob,
As for the road conditions, The costal highway is f*cked! The suzuki took a terrible beating. What makes it worse is it can go from really good road to really bad with little and some times NO warning. And pot holes big enough to lose a bus in them. That goes for the entire around the Island costal highway.

 

Welcome to the Philippines!:D

 

At least your not on a honda wave

 

good luck men. hope you finished it in good health and nobody's being hurt.

 

Apart from a few areas of roadwork, the southern part of the coastal highway is actually in pretty good condition all the way from Dumaguete to Basay. Or at least it was, when I last drove it about 1 year ago

After the provincial border to Negros Occidental, there is about 25 km of udpaved road, but after that the road is fine again all the way to and past Sipalay.

The rest of the national highways on Negros, including the inland route via Mabinay, are however in a quite poor condition, and are best traveled by a truck based vehicle of some kind or alternative an off-road type motorcycle.

You can pass then in a normal car also, but you need to be very mindfull of the roads condition all the time, unless you want to regularly rebuild the suspension on your car

The main reason for the poor road conditions are the tropical climate, lack of maintenence and not least damage caused by heavy trucks including the many sugercane trucks, that plow the roads on Negros.