Road R3 to Londres | Warning

January 29th, 2024 by luccacbrosa

I rode everything with a heavy loaded bike. The description is exactly what Daanasma said, tricky but super fun (if you enjoy Mtb). If you are not familiar with rocks and Mtb, you might suffer a little bit in some sections. The views are incredible!
No water but you can camp anywhere, there’s a lot of good places, even in the middle of the road (no one will pass there hahaha).

The last 15 km still the same, a lot of sand before getting to Londres. If you are going north to south you’ll suffer a lot, I don’t think is rideble with this amount of sand going uphill.
Enjoy!!

January 14th, 2024 by petesduesouth

We did this road on a V-Strom DL650A and a Himalayan 411 (2up). Somewhat intense in sections but definitely passable.

Expect large river rock, narrow roads, and light sand. I wouldn’t do this road with anything other than on 2 wheels. Very enjoyable ride with pretty views.

July 3rd, 2023 by daanasma

I took this road by bicycle. As previously said, it doesn't seem possible by car because of some very narrow sections.

I was able to ride it all on a fully loaded gravel bike (2.0 tires), but sometimes it was tricky. The descent on the other side had lots of loose rocks, and the last 15k before hitting the 40 had an insane amount of ankle deep loose dust - due to road construction. Probably this section will be better next year. I don't know whether this loose dust part would be rideable in the other direction, as I struggled going downhill.

There is no water.

I camped in a dry river on the gentle 'warmup part' some 10km from Tinogasta. Lots of good spots here and it gives you a head start for the day ahead.

Enjoy:) It's a beautiful ride!

May 21st, 2023 by rueegsegger.nino

There is a sign that says the R3 is impassable to Londres. We drove the road all the way to londres on two fully loaded CRF300 Rally and it went quiet well.

Attention:
- There is no way to drive this road with any car. It's to narrow up in the hills and it's not possible to turn around.
- I would not recommand to drive it on heavy bikes. We drove most of the time in first or second gear because of the rocks.
- The "road" is more or less a hiking trail at some points.
- It's extremly rocky trough all the sections.
- There is a large stretch of deep sand at the end.
- There are many deep washed out road colapses.
- There are lots of rockfields with loos rocks.
- At the end they are building the new road, because it was sunday no one was around.

It also have nice sections where you ride through the wilderness.

As we left Tinogasta on the gravel road to arriving on tarmac again in Londres took us +/- 3 hours with no breaktime.