The latest edition of the German Ride periodical, is devoted to the Pyrenees.
I’ll gather the articles together and share them here.
I’ll gather the articles together and share them here.
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GPX - Ride - Pyrenees special
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We were there earlier in the year. Some fantastic motorcycling roads.
Who would have thought it !! I must dig my map out and get down to Italy soon
You will need an extraordinary map to find the Pyrenees in Italy
I knew there’d be one
Apologies for the delay, the Readly app was refusing to load the second of the detailed maps. By contacting Readly, I was asked to use the web based version and all was well. I have reorientated the maps (the magazine printed these two map pages vertically) to hopefully make it easier to look at.
Tour 1
Here are the GPX files for the suggested four days. I saved them as tracks, rather than routes.
The general information pages are, naturally enough in German, it’s a German publication, after all. It’s easy enough though to guess its contents or to use a translation app:
As usual, the magazine’s maps are displayed nicely, which is something other UK magazines and publications could learn from. Will the suggested routes feature every ‘You must do this road’ road? No, of course not. But what they will (hopefully) do is give bods a helping hand to go to an area they might well not be familiar with. Not least, the Info sections give suggestions on ‘biker friendly’ hotels to possibly stay in and ‘stuff’ to see and do. All frequently asked questions on the forum.
Tour 1
Here are the GPX files for the suggested four days. I saved them as tracks, rather than routes.
The general information pages are, naturally enough in German, it’s a German publication, after all. It’s easy enough though to guess its contents or to use a translation app:
As usual, the magazine’s maps are displayed nicely, which is something other UK magazines and publications could learn from. Will the suggested routes feature every ‘You must do this road’ road? No, of course not. But what they will (hopefully) do is give bods a helping hand to go to an area they might well not be familiar with. Not least, the Info sections give suggestions on ‘biker friendly’ hotels to possibly stay in and ‘stuff’ to see and do. All frequently asked questions on the forum.
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I’ll share the balance of the article’s maps and GPX track files later.
Tour 2
Tour 3
Tour 4
Tour 5
All in German mate. Don't do German me. 
All in German mate. Don't do German me.
Für dich, Tommy, ist der Krieg zu Ende.
A general overview of the large area that the five suggested routes from the magazine covers:
I will be on many of those roads from 24 Sept, east on the Spain side to Puigcerda, west across France to St Jean Pied de Port. Then cross back into Spain for a few more days.
Hopefully have some hotels to recommend when I get back.
They mention the Gran Hotel in Jaca, which was pretty good, in the city centre near the big fort.
Hopefully have some hotels to recommend when I get back.
They mention the Gran Hotel in Jaca, which was pretty good, in the city centre near the big fort.
Have fun.
That looks very similar to the trip I completed with some pals last week and the week before, we started off in Cadaques, the N260 (so beloved of biker mates) originates near there I believe, we loosely followed the N260 and the Pyrenees heading roughly West before heading to Asturias and the Picos D' Europa to finish the trip, then got the Brittany Ferries overnight crossing from Santander to Plymouth.
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Must check this out and see which roads to avoid
The N260 if this is anything to go by:
And we did the reverse of that in May . Great roads
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