Oops, gotta update that profile. I'm on a KLR650 now. On the URAL I never would've noticed the topes at all, that bike was an absolute tank.
If I ignored the topes and hit them at full speed I think MEX200 would've been much better but, I gotta admit, I don't have the balls to slam my bike (a fully loaded KLR650) into a giant speed bump 100 times a day.
Considering that, the (speed-up-to 15kph STOP speed-up-to-15kph)x10 followed by (speed-up-to-45kph STOP speed up speed-up-to-45kph)x5 followed by a brief stretch of open road until the next hamlet starts everything over again got really old somewhere south of Aculpoco.
Traffic-wise, there are parts of MEX200 between Playa Azul and Puerto Escondido (that's the section I rode) that can get a little backed up, mostly on the twisty parts when you get stuck behind a CocaCola truck, but it was no worse than getting stuck behind RVs heading up Highway 1 in Oregon, and the ride down from the mountains and then back up into the mountains was absolutely amazing.
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