Tezu police flag off Shivgeet Singh Hooda for a 3,590 km east to west record attempt across India on 27 October

Police in Arunachal Pradesh's Lohit district flagged off motorcyclist Shivgeet Singh Hooda from Tezu on 27 October 2026 for a ride of nearly 3,590 km to Koteshwar in Gujarat's Kutch district, with the news carried on 28 October. Hooda, who is from Gurugram in Haryana, is attempting what reports describe as the fastest east to west motorcycle ride across India. The local police did the send-off and wished him a safe run.

The target is specific. Bengaluru rider Balaji Mohan covered the same Tezu to Koteshwar line in 66 hours and 37 minutes in March 2017, riding 3,743 km on a Honda CBR 250R between 29 and 31 March. Mohan slept roughly 3 hours and 10 minutes in total, lived on dry fruit and ORS, and said afterwards that around 65 per cent of the route was in poor condition, with Bihar the hardest part. He has also ridden Leh to Kanyakumari in 61 hours and the Golden Quadrilateral in 89 hours.

Hooda is not new to this kind of ride. According to the India Book of Records, as cited by The Print and the Arunachal Observer, he rode Srinagar to Kanyakumari solo in April 2026, covering 3,696.7 km in 54 hours and 44 minutes on a BMW GS 1200, starting on 1 April and finishing on 3 April.

Why this is still a claim

No figures have been published for Hooda's current run yet, and none of the reports name the body that will certify it. That matters on this beat. Guinness World Records does carry Indian single country distance titles, and its live page for the longest journey by motorcycle in a single country (male) credits Venkata Karthik Tupili with 140,094.1 km in India between 14 February 2022 and 6 October 2023. We could not find a live Guinness page for a fastest east to west crossing of India, which means a claim of this type usually goes to an Indian record body such as the India Book of Records or the Limca Book of Records, with GPS logs, fuel receipts and witness signatures as evidence. Until one of those publishes an entry with a time on it, treat the number that comes out of Kutch as a rider's own claim.

What the route actually asks of a rider

The line from Tezu to Koteshwar runs out of the far east of Arunachal, down through Assam, across the Gangetic plains and then west through Rajasthan or Gujarat to the Arabian Sea. The clock, not the terrain, is the problem. Beating 66 hours and 37 minutes over close to 3,600 km means almost no sleep, fuel and food stops measured in minutes, and night riding on highways shared with trucks and stray cattle. Mohan's own framing of it as discipline of mind, body and machine rather than top speed is the useful line for anyone tempted to copy this.

If you ride long distance in India, the honest takeaway is that these attempts live on a knife edge of legality and safety. Speed limits apply all the way, and a crash at hour 50 on a national highway is the most likely outcome of pushing a stage you should have slept through. The interesting part of Hooda's ride will be the paperwork: whether the timing is independently logged, whether the record body accepts it, and how the figures compare with 2017 once they are on a live page rather than in a press report.

Sources

• Tezu Police Flag Off Biker's 3,590-km East-to-West India Record Attempt, The Sentinel Assam
• Arunachal: Police flag off biker for Tezu-to-Koteshwar ride, The Print
• Police flag off biker for Tezu-to-Koteshwar ride, Arunachal Observer
• Fastest Indian on a motorcycle, Balaji Mohan rides from Arunachal Pradesh to Kutch in 66 hours, Rushlane
• Longest journey by motorcycle in a single country (male), Guinness World Records