My recent French trip 'Le Carnage'

These sheep slowed us down the one day, must have been 200 being herded up the mountain road, we were stuck there for 20+ mins



Dan feeling the pain of too many 'one for the roads'




Few scenic shots...

One small step for man, one giant leap..............

Originally Posted by specialone

Mega mate, truely mega!
very jelous

[Quiff Wichard]

Know what ... It was a year the weekend just gone that me and mattsv and the wifeys went to France on the bikes and ...



I still not done the write up !


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Some of the Verdon gorge roads were spectacular, roads cut into the rock face with the canopy still above...




The road was approx 20 miles long but had trucks, campervans etc on so going was slow but good job in places.






Got to the campsite which was a municipal again over the road from the lake at the end of Verdon gorge, full of Germans this time, dead cheap again, floor was gravel which made getting my cheese like pegs in the ground interesting

Woweee looks stunning Phil Any chance you have the route link somewhere...?

Apart from a blast down the road to Grasse this was our furthest southerly stop so next morning we packed up and started heading north towards Barcellonette.

I was leading this time as Dan felt rough so had to go back through the gorge roads etc, some of the roads after were simply awesome, we got split for a little while as id got a bit ahead, after a fast long sweeping bend we needed to turn right so i sat just after the turn and waited for Dan, i seen him come round the long bend and started to get me and the bike ready expecting him to pull up behind me, nope he sailed right past so i attempted to turned round but hed gone so went down the road a bit and called him, luckily he heard it and returned, in the meantime i took these...





Dan returning...



On leaving Barcellonette, Dan lead us, going great, got split a bit due to me getting stuck behind a car, look at my satnav and i see a left turn at a mini island coming up but no Dan waiting as normal but see a bike in the distance so i give it some welly and follow this bike, after a mile or so i realise its not Dan, so swing it round and go chasing after him on the wrong road.
This is a cracking, fast twisty sweeping stretch, good visibility so can use the whole road etc, im flying, probably one of the fastest rides on the trip, this went on for about 25+ miles, eventually caught him up at some traffic lights going into a village so lift my visor and say to him "i dont think we are in France anymore, i think we're in Italy", "Eh?" he replies.

Yep, i'd got suspicious when i seen a road sign i hadnt seen before with 3 flags on, one being Italian and also the satnav was saying the road was now called SS21 where before all French back roads are mainly D something, so we spin round and before long came across this...


The French Border lol...

Originally Posted by missyorkie_chris

Woweee looks stunning Phil Any chance you have the route link somewhere...?

Maria, the route is split into about 8 seperate routes and have been converted into tomtom and garmin routes with the TYRE software, i can email you them if you PM me your Address.

Id make small corrections tbh as some of the roads were tough going and i'd avoid Dijon like the plague.

[hindle8907]

B4astard$ !!!

Looks amazing .

[Geodude]

Looks amazing mate im guessing you had a good time

Looks well guilty in this pic, you catch him doing somthing?