I was flicking through the online pages of the latest edition of the German Tourenfahrer magazine 4/2024, when I saw this article:
www.tourenfahrer.de
In essence it’s three bods’ holiday from Germany down into the middle and south coast of France.
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As they start in Germany and ride down to Basel, you can probably strike that bit out.
It’s the loop after that which might become interesting. Let’s start with the loop that goes from Bourg-en-Bresse, around to Gap.
By using MyRoute’s ability to put a layer of Michelin maps on top of a route, you can see that there is a mass of what should be great roads inside this area:
Zoom in a bit further and they all appear.
It wouldn’t take much effort to create an alternative, cutting out the western descent of the article’s motorway run through Issoire, in favour of a scenic run maybe through Courpiere in the north east of the screenshot down to Ambert or down to Saint German l’Herm in the centre. From there down to maybe La Chaise-Dieu in the south east corner.
Likewise, in the south east corner, you could miss out their jaunt through Monaco (“It’s shite mate, I read it here”) and cut up to Briancon instead, picking out some good roads of your choice:
There are plenty of choices inside that shortened loop:
I am using nothing but an iPad. It would be no harder using a half decent paper map or two. They cost just a couple of quid and may well last a lifetime. Your iPad probably won’t last anything like as long.
The people in the article, went the ways they did, because that was where they wanted to go. The full article (I only see the highlights and don’t speak German anyway) might well explain why. But, as with the forum’s answers to, “Tell me and my mate great routes to XYZ” you don’t have to just copy what someone else did. In short: Look at the suggestions and use a little imagination to suit what YOU want to do. Shorten their route up a bit, perhaps. Cut the corners, maybe. The choices are yours. But, what the article did do, was hopefully to give you the idea of a loop from Basel, westwards, then curving east before heading back up again. They did the hard bit, now just fill in the easy bits.
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In essence it’s three bods’ holiday from Germany down into the middle and south coast of France.
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As they start in Germany and ride down to Basel, you can probably strike that bit out.
It’s the loop after that which might become interesting. Let’s start with the loop that goes from Bourg-en-Bresse, around to Gap.
By using MyRoute’s ability to put a layer of Michelin maps on top of a route, you can see that there is a mass of what should be great roads inside this area:
Zoom in a bit further and they all appear.
It wouldn’t take much effort to create an alternative, cutting out the western descent of the article’s motorway run through Issoire, in favour of a scenic run maybe through Courpiere in the north east of the screenshot down to Ambert or down to Saint German l’Herm in the centre. From there down to maybe La Chaise-Dieu in the south east corner.
Likewise, in the south east corner, you could miss out their jaunt through Monaco (“It’s shite mate, I read it here”) and cut up to Briancon instead, picking out some good roads of your choice:
There are plenty of choices inside that shortened loop:
I am using nothing but an iPad. It would be no harder using a half decent paper map or two. They cost just a couple of quid and may well last a lifetime. Your iPad probably won’t last anything like as long.
The people in the article, went the ways they did, because that was where they wanted to go. The full article (I only see the highlights and don’t speak German anyway) might well explain why. But, as with the forum’s answers to, “Tell me and my mate great routes to XYZ” you don’t have to just copy what someone else did. In short: Look at the suggestions and use a little imagination to suit what YOU want to do. Shorten their route up a bit, perhaps. Cut the corners, maybe. The choices are yours. But, what the article did do, was hopefully to give you the idea of a loop from Basel, westwards, then curving east before heading back up again. They did the hard bit, now just fill in the easy bits.
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