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Originally Posted by garmei
Dont hang around too long...
they are seriously tearing the road up. we were there last week and there are long stretches (up to 50km) where you have to ride on a diversion as they lay down the base for the new asphalt road.
The work is undertaken in several different sections simultaneously, so it´s a big mess of diversions, fresh pavement an untouched sections. The diversions are pretty bad to ride (at least for this amateur 2 up and fully loaded!); lots of deep silt (they damp down the road with water) and one horrendous section with nothing but deep coarse gravel and cobbles.
All said, it was the hardest riding I´ve ever done and worth every panicky minute for the sections that are untouched and original. We were filled with sadness to see the fresh black asphalt being laid down ( but slighltly relieved to be riding it if I´m truthful!).
The roadworks seemed to stop as you go north into Chubut, so I dont know what the road is like up that way. We tried and failed to find the petrol in Tres Lagos. e have a range of about 380KM and were OK,
Did anyone mention it is windy out there?
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Glad I'm not the only one who found it hard!! Fully (over)loaded GS1200 2 up. I was beginning to feel like the worst rider ever to have ridden the 40 after hearing from other bikers who had ridden it with no wind and no problems. We were there Jan/Feb '10. Had to park up in the free campsite at Tres Lagos for a couple of days waiting for fuel and the wind to drop. Took us 6 hours to ride from there to Estancia La Siberia at Lago Cardiel, 90 KM's!!!! Got blown off 3 times  Fuel Station is off the road on the right as you ride out of town on the El Calafate road just as the pavement starts, or it was when we were there.
There is a 60 KM stretch of asfalto about 50 KM's after Lago Cardiel then the ripio started again, wasn't too bad tho as they were grading it and there was a lot of long stretches of really hard packed ripio we could ride at the side, just the wind being a problem. Lots of tempting freshly laid asfalto between Bajo Caracoles and Perito Moreno, thought that would have been open by now, then windy stretch of asfalto all the way to Los Antiguos.
FUN, FUN, FUN all the way, after we had done it 
1st Pic - Tres Lagos, like this for 50 KM's.
2nd/3rd Pic - Tres Lagos to Lago Cardiel, hate that wind.
4th Pic - Lago Cardiel to Bajo Caracoles, a bit better road!!
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