Route Ideas

[siddo]

Saw this link on a cycle route map in my hotel.
Maybe useful as it has good details of elevations etc: https://www.wikiloc.com/wikiloc/user.do?id=3242242&from=60&to=70

 

[Wapping]

Thank you.

Many of the roads and hotels that are enjoyed by cyclists, can be enjoyed just as much by bods on motorcycles and in sports cars.

The routes download well. Here’s a sample of one:

 

[Simon_100]

Some amazing routes around there but the roads are very narrow!

 

[Ectopic]

I've ridden in that area a couple of times, though not sure about exactly those routes. They are fantastic roads. I saw the WRC on telly many years ago, tracked down the routes, then planned them into circular day trips (we were staying for a few days in Tortosa). They resurface the roads for the WRC week, so the surfaces were perfect.

I have to say that given a choice of one region to have a biking holiday, I'd go for Catalunya.

A story I've told before...

We were riding from Flix to La Bisbal de Falset on the T-703. I was on my R1150GS (Conti Road Attack tyres - fantastic) and it was a perfect late summer's day. The road was just perfect for a GS - hardly any straight bits, lots of ups and downs, great road surface. It was one of those days when I was riding like a god - absolutely in tune with the bike and surroundings, faster than a very fast thing, throwing it around with supreme confidence.

After a while, I spotted another couple of bikes in the distance - initially across a little valley. "Yippee!" I thought "A target to chase." The first bike was a couple riding gently on a Honda Deauville. I caught them easily (hardly surprising) and passed them with a cheery wave. The second bike took a lot more catching! It was harder and harder to keep up, let alone catch, but I sensed that I was gradually closing in on it. With renewed vigour and concentration, and by now beginning to sweat in the heat with the effort of throwing me and my super steed round increasingly twisty and steep roads, I chased down my quarry.

Eventually, I was within a hundred yards or so, although as the road was so twisty there were still only occasional glimpses. Eventually I caught up and overtook. It was a bloke on a 250 scooter - open faced helmet, t-shirt and shorts, flip-flops, and a bag of shopping between his knees.

Maybe I wasn't a riding god after all...

 

[Jockser]

It's difficult to find bad roads in that area but as Simon says many of them are quite narrow. That said the surface is generally better than we're used to & traffic is light. I would opt for the ones without the 'scenic' green line though as you really don't have time to be distracted by the scenery

If you want fast & twisty I would highly recommend the C-44 (at the bottom of the picture) between the A-7 & Tivissa. After that it opens out a bit but it's still fun to ride to the big roundabout at the C-12. A speed trap at either end of Vandellòs is not unknown

 

[siddo]

I just downloaded the app and took a quick look. They have motorcycle routes that you can send to your GPS. £20 a year.
I'll give it a try when I'm next away.

 

[Simon_100]

I've ridden in that area a couple of times, though not sure about exactly those routes. They are fantastic roads. I saw the WRC on telly many years ago, tracked down the routes, then planned them into circular day trips (we were staying for a few days in Tortosa). They resurface the roads for the WRC week, so the surfaces were perfect.

I have to say that given a choice of one region to have a biking holiday, I'd go for Catalunya.

A story I've told before...

We were riding from Flix to La Bisbal de Falset on the T-703. I was on my R1150GS (Conti Road Attack tyres - fantastic) and it was a perfect late summer's day. The road was just perfect for a GS - hardly any straight bits, lots of ups and downs, great road surface. It was one of those days when I was riding like a god - absolutely in tune with the bike and surroundings, faster than a very fast thing, throwing it around with supreme confidence.

After a while, I spotted another couple of bikes in the distance - initially across a little valley. "Yippee!" I thought "A target to chase." The first bike was a couple riding gently on a Honda Deauville. I caught them easily (hardly surprising) and passed them with a cheery wave. The second bike took a lot more catching! It was harder and harder to keep up, let alone catch, but I sensed that I was gradually closing in on it. With renewed vigour and concentration, and by now beginning to sweat in the heat with the effort of throwing me and my super steed round increasingly twisty and steep roads, I chased down my quarry.

Eventually, I was within a hundred yards or so, although as the road was so twisty there were still only occasional glimpses. Eventually I caught up and overtook. It was a bloke on a 250 scooter - open faced helmet, t-shirt and shorts, flip-flops, and a bag of shopping between his knees.

Maybe I wasn't a riding god after all...

Probably Marc Marquez 's dad, they're from Cervera, not so very far away to the north.

 

[Ectopic]

Probably Marc Marquez 's dad, they're from Cervera, not so very far away to the north.

We visited Cervera a few years ago. My current wife is a big Marquez fan so we took a trip to the shop and then the little museum in town. It's a very pleasant little town.

You can see why the locals get good on bikes, with the nearby roads. the C-25 from Cervera to Manresa could be a boring dual carriageway. In fact it's like a 40 mile racetrack, all swoops and turn and hills.

 

[Simon_100]

You should try the roads around there in general - for years I rode to and from Tremp in the Pyrenees to Tarragona on the coast, where we used to have a flat, always trying to find different routes, so much choice, so much fun ... one of the best being from Cervera to Santa Coloma de Queralt and the on to Vila-rodona via Santa Maria de Miralles. That way I could be on lovely back roads through Brafim and Nulles right up to within a few kms of the city - bliss!