Courtesy of Tourenfahrer magazine 2/2024
Here are the six tracks from the magazine’s website:
Is it all off-road? No
Is it ‘heavy duty’ off-road? It doesn’t look like it
In MyRoute you can change the map from its default of ‘Here’ map to a Michelin map. Doing this you can see the type of roads / trails the GPX track will take you along. Here is an example where it clearly goes from a white unadopted road (shown on the Michelin map, running top to bottom. If it is shown on the map, it’s probably driveable in a family car) to what must be a trail, branching off:
If you then view the same section of road using MyRoute’s ability to show Google Streetview you’ll maybe not want to ride it on your FireBlade in the winter:
Imagination might tell me that it’s some sort of probably unmade road, which accesses the ski runs in summer and / or some sort of ‘trail’ which leads off it.
Ten seconds to find the area in Google Maps, right back to Embrun where the six routes are centred on, will tell me that my imagination is probably right. It’s all based in or around a popular skiing area:
A little bit more imagination will tell me that, if it’s a huge skiing area, it’ll have lots of hotels, probably in the towns and villages around the ski lift stations. A bit more imagination will tell me that there will be car parks and / or garages, capable of taking a motorcycle. A tiny bit more, will tell me that the hoteliers will all like tourists, even those who arrive on a motorcycle.
PS Some people love to knock Google for the huge quantity of money it makes. But, on the reverse of the same coin, they are mapping the world, showing me (on an iPad in central London) obscure parts of another country, having taken a ski mobile up there to do it. Add in that an app has brought me a German motorcycle magazine (and its article / GPX files) to the same iPad and another app, a powerful route creation tool and seemingly unlimited storage library, it is quite incredible. The same information / apps will appear on my iPhone, which (with the use of one more app) I could then ride the routes, starting from my front door. It’ll even find me a hotel, a restaurant, somewhere to get my hair cut and a bank. Hugely powerful but somehow, remarkably simple stuff. That this post, its GPX files, pictures and blurb might then be seen by 10’s of thousands around the world, from a simple Google search or a chance surf, is truly amazing.
Here are the six tracks from the magazine’s website:
Is it all off-road? No
Is it ‘heavy duty’ off-road? It doesn’t look like it
In MyRoute you can change the map from its default of ‘Here’ map to a Michelin map. Doing this you can see the type of roads / trails the GPX track will take you along. Here is an example where it clearly goes from a white unadopted road (shown on the Michelin map, running top to bottom. If it is shown on the map, it’s probably driveable in a family car) to what must be a trail, branching off:
If you then view the same section of road using MyRoute’s ability to show Google Streetview you’ll maybe not want to ride it on your FireBlade in the winter:
Imagination might tell me that it’s some sort of probably unmade road, which accesses the ski runs in summer and / or some sort of ‘trail’ which leads off it.
Ten seconds to find the area in Google Maps, right back to Embrun where the six routes are centred on, will tell me that my imagination is probably right. It’s all based in or around a popular skiing area:
A little bit more imagination will tell me that, if it’s a huge skiing area, it’ll have lots of hotels, probably in the towns and villages around the ski lift stations. A bit more imagination will tell me that there will be car parks and / or garages, capable of taking a motorcycle. A tiny bit more, will tell me that the hoteliers will all like tourists, even those who arrive on a motorcycle.
PS Some people love to knock Google for the huge quantity of money it makes. But, on the reverse of the same coin, they are mapping the world, showing me (on an iPad in central London) obscure parts of another country, having taken a ski mobile up there to do it. Add in that an app has brought me a German motorcycle magazine (and its article / GPX files) to the same iPad and another app, a powerful route creation tool and seemingly unlimited storage library, it is quite incredible. The same information / apps will appear on my iPhone, which (with the use of one more app) I could then ride the routes, starting from my front door. It’ll even find me a hotel, a restaurant, somewhere to get my hair cut and a bank. Hugely powerful but somehow, remarkably simple stuff. That this post, its GPX files, pictures and blurb might then be seen by 10’s of thousands around the world, from a simple Google search or a chance surf, is truly amazing.
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but gives an idea of the overall route across and the stunning scenery.
