RoadsRoute 1096
ทางหลวงแผ่นดินหมายเลข 1096
The rehearsal. A hundred kilometres from your hotel, and the same curve density as the famous road.
7.38curves per kilometre — its hardest two kilometres
What it is
Mae Rim to Samoeng, ridden as a day loop out of Chiang Mai and back. Not part of the Mae Hong Son circuit, and the best possible preparation for it.
The long version
Inference — the case for riding this first is strong and almost nobody makes it. Measured off OSM the stitched run is 29.8 kilometres carrying 130 curves at a 25-degree threshold with 19 hairpins — 6.34 curves a kilometre, the densest road measured on this whole network, against Route 1095's 5.71.
So it is the same riding, in a day, from a hotel you are already in, on a bike you have just rented, with Chiang Mai an hour away if something is wrong. A rider who finds the Samoeng loop tiring has learned something very cheap about what four days of it would be.
Runs with
- legThe Samoeng warm-up — The day this road makes.
- kitRenting the bike — The bike you are testing on it.
- story1,864 curves — Denser than the road with the shirt.
Named here by
- legThe Samoeng warm-up — The road it uses.
- story1,864 curves — Densest of all, and an hour from Chiang Mai.
- storyWhy a small bike is more fun here — The densest road measured here.
Where each claim comes from
| Field | Tier | Source | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| default | harvested | OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap contributors | |
| text.story | inference | ||
| text_th | inference | written in Thai by this project, not machine-translated |
Sources
- Curve and distance measurements off the OSM polyline — This project
- Samoeng district — Wikipedia (en)
- Mae Rim district — Wikipedia (en)
cited Cited — a named source, linked · harvested Harvested — fetched from an open dataset, with its licence · tradition Tradition — general knowledge of the tradition, hedged · inference Inference — this project's own reasoning from the above · field Field — someone stood there