visakhapatnam they are a bunch of adventureloving denizens who driven by wanderlust frequently head off for biking cycling or trekking expeditions especially on weekends ideally with schools and colleges closed for the better part of the past one month these adventure enthusiasts should have been the happiest as the unexpected break provided them the best opportunity to get away but for the last five weeks they have been unable to do so as adventure sports lover from trekkers cyclists and bikers association in the city have been forced to put off their expeditions due to the ongoing samaikyandhra agitation these associations are also worried that the bifurcation of the state would affect training as most professional institutes are situated in hyderabad chairperson of the youth hostel association of india ap state branch ch srinivas prasad said between august 2 and 4 around 25 members were supposed to go to venkatagiri durgam in nellore district for trekking but some of the members from different parts of coastal ap could not turn up because the agitation had begun and some were too scared to go trekking in such an uncertain scenario now we are not taking up any new trekking expeditions for the time being however we have planned for a bullock cart expedition and boat cruising in konaseema area of east godavari sometime in november hopefully the agitation would have subsided by then he added members of the vizag adventure and bicycling club vabc are also miserable about not being able to zip through the highways on their bikes or scale the heights of the eastern ghats every weekend unable to resist the lure of a long drive four of us had hit the road last week on our bikes late at night and reached araku at 2am we chose this timing to avoid the samaikyandhra agitators blocking the highways at every junction and burning tyres or puncturing them however even in araku there was a strike and we reached back with great difficulty we have been forced to stop all activities such as biking birdwatching and trekking for about a month now due to the nonstop agitation said vivek r one of the members of vabc organisers of such events too are in the same boat as the agitation has forced them to postpone all trekking and biking programmes to avoid being caught in the samaikyandhra stir vteam event manager veeru mama said our members used to go for trekking to araku or madhavadhara near simhachalam but to trek to these hilly areas we needed to park our bikes at the foothills but after some trekkers and bikers had their bikes damaged and tyres deflated by samaikhyandhra agitators nobody is daring to go for these treks now m v satyanarayana president vizag cycling academy said due to the samaikyandhra agitation hardly anyone is coming forward for cycling expeditions given the transport strike and fear of being caught in the agitations people are not even coming for practice on beach road