I'd say that route is a bit obvious and misses many of the really great roads in the Pyrenees.
It doesn’t claim to be the definitive route to take in the Pyrenees, nor does the thread. It’s just something different.
There are loads of threads and posts on ‘Great roads, mate’ in the Pyrenees. They can range from something like this:
https://www.ukgser.com/forums/showt...Pyrenees-and-back-again-ADAC-map-and-GPX-file
Through to the RiDE magazine ideas on ‘Great bikermate roads’, through to trip reports on riding the rock strewn and all but impassable unmade tracks *, unless you are an off-road riding God with four days’ growth of stubble and the thousand mile stare of someone who really has looked into the face of a mountain goat and not shat themselves.
* These are totally unsuitable for many many of the bods who litter this site, who moan when their very expensive GS bike apparently cannot cope with the broken up surface of some roads in the Ardennes in autumn when they sometimes have gravel and leaves on them. Their suspension cannot deal with it, so they say. Feck me, we even have bods who hate regular Alpine hairpins with a pillion and others who wonder if they should perhaps have ordered their 1200 with the alternative first gear, as they can’t manage one up with panniers, top box, tank bag and other stuff strapped on.... despite the bike having had a trip to Hilltop.
Buy hey, now that we have your attention, give us your definitive ‘must do’ 1000 km route through and across the Pyrenees. You’ll need to include:
Place names
Road numbers
Which maps they will need to buy or better still download for free as shops are a rip off and they don’t like talking to people face to face, better to have first hand knowledge here. That is actually coded bikermate speak for: I can’t be arsed to go out and I lack any imagination
What the weather will be like
A GPS route and one that won’t just load straight lines when the bod trundles of the ferry at Santander, having spent 24 hours in the company of like minds, chilling probably
Biker safe accommodation, something beyond “We stayed in a great hotel”
And, not least, routes on how to get to the start and send points from their home in Bolton, as they always ride their bike, never take a motorway, never touch ferries (or cages or aeroplanes) and they leave tomorrow with their six mates, except one of them has got to do overtime and another one has just remembered that he has no MOT so can someone recommend a place to stop near Oundle that is open at 8 pm and run by a bloke who understands bikes and can someone tell them......