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About this design All designsVashisht, Manali, Himachal Pradesh
Adventure bikes from Vashisht, set up for Spiti and Ladakh with crash guards, a tank bag and a spares kit.
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Adventure fleet
01 / 05 · Motorcycle · Royal Enfield Himalayan 450, 2025
The bike we built the Ladakh package around. Forty horsepower from the water-cooled 452, a seventeen-litre tank that gets you from Keylong to Pang without thinking about fuel, and a…
02 / 05 · Motorcycle · Royal Enfield Scram 411, 2024
The Himalayan's lighter sibling on a nineteen-inch front, which makes it the easiest of the five in Manali traffic and on the gravel out to Jana. Lower seat, less weight,…
03 / 05 · Motorcycle · Royal Enfield Classic 500, 2020
The thump. The long-stroke 500 is not the fastest way up a pass and it is not trying to be; it is the bike people photograph at the top of…
04 / 05 · Motorcycle · KTM 390 Adventure, 2024
The quickest machine in the garage, and the one to take when the trip is tarmac passes rather than river beds: forty-three horsepower, cornering ABS, a quickshifter and a TFT…
Spec the bike
2 to 3 days
Perfect for local exploration around Manali, Kasol and the Kullu valley. Skip the traffic and cruise the valley at your own pace.
7 to 10 days
Tackle the rugged terrain of the Spiti Valley with a fully inspected, mountain-ready machine equipped for the full circuit.
12 to 14 days
The ultimate Himalayan test. Long-term rental tailored for the high passes of Ladakh, complete with extra fuel storage and protective gear.
Vashisht, Manali, Himachal Pradesh
The yard is in Vashisht, on the quiet bank of the Beas above the hot springs. The Leh road is five minutes away, and the ride out skips Manali's Mall Road entirely.
Vashisht sits on the left bank of the Beas, across the river from Manali and a kilometre above it, around the old stone temple and its hot springs. It is quieter than Old Manali and closer to the road that matters: the yard is five minutes from the Leh highway, and the ride out never touches Mall Road. From here the Atal Tunnel is 30 km, Rohtang 50 km with a permit booked online the day before, and Tandi, where the Chandra meets the Bhaga, is the last petrol for 365 km on the way to Leh. Riders back from a long loop wash the dust off in the temple springs, which are free and open until late.
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Your car can stay in the yard while you ride.
Your car can stay in the yard while you ride
Mid-June to early October is the prime riding season when high-altitude passes like Rohtang, Kunzum, and Ladakh routes are fully open. September is the absolute sweet spot with clear skies and minimal water crossings. November to May is off-season as high-altitude passes remain blocked by heavy winter snow.
Through the Atal Tunnel to the Chandra valley and back: the first 30 km of the Leh road, for learning the bike.
The permit ride: 50 km of hairpins to 3,980 m. Permits are issued online a day ahead.
Fill up where the Chandra meets the Bhaga. The next petrol on the Leh road is 365 km on.
Over Rohtang and Kunzum to Kaza: the loop most of our bikes are set up for.
Riders
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Why adventure bikes only
Nitro rents one kind of motorcycle from a yard on the quiet bank of the Beas: the kind that is happy on a broken road. We sold the cruisers in 2021 and kept the bikes our own riders chose for Spiti. Each one leaves with crash guards, a tank bag, a tubeless puncture kit and a spare clutch cable, and comes back to the mechanic who set it up.
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