Network routing issue

[human1987]

I am facing network routing issue. If anyone would care to look at my configuration.

I have a default gateway which I have specified in my switch config.
ip route-static 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 10.10.1.1 description To Gateway

It also has a VLAN with the IP 10.1.8.x.
interface Vlanif8
ip address 10.1.8.1 255.255.255.0

The problem is when I do a ping to 10.1.8.1, I have a TTL expired in transit error. It has got to do with the static route in the switch. Without the default route, I am not able to communicate with the world.

I have this static route in my gateway router so that the network attached to the gateway can communicate back to the 10.1.8.x network.
ip route-static 10.1.0.0 255.255.0.0 10.10.1.2

Thus the packet is bouncing to-and-fro which I suspect why my network may experience some lag issue sometimes.