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#1 | We're going to Die datum

Thu Jun 07, 2018 7:17 am

after the B500 we spent Sunday riding down through the Jura mountains, past Grenoble and into Gap. Jura was very pleasant. Around Grenoble wasn't but it was a long day and we had the hotel in Gap waiting.

Tuesday morning was a right off, KTM I'm riding with developed a minor fault, missing clutch fluid, so foreshorten that days plan.

Rode to Briancon via the Col D'Izoard and back. On the return up the north slope I got into the groove and had 6:30minutes of the best riding I've ever had.

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Photo from top looking back down.

BUT Wednesday despite another visit to the KTM dealers... we decided we we're going to Die, and the Col De Rousset

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Now this was special, no traffic no cameras no police just a brilliant road that I rode as fast as I could. We rode up, turned around and rode down, turned around and rode back up, no idea how long but at a guess 5miles and rarely are you upright

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Now this has become my best biking road. There are videos of our ascents and descents but too big a size to load via hotel WiFi, but will get them uploaded on return to the UK.

After the Rousset it is not much further to the Balcony road of the Royans gourges, I'm not good with heights and this was high.

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Then we returned to Gap via Die. 225miles

Ah sorry about the orientation of a couple of those pictures but it's not clear how to correct that.
JasonQ

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#2 | RE: We're going to Die datum

Thu Jun 07, 2018 9:31 am

Nice

I'll be in that area next week, on the Izoard among others on the way south, and on the Rousset and the Gorges on the way back north! Thanks for the mental warm-up for the trip.

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#3 | RE: We're going to Die datum

Thu Jun 07, 2018 11:22 am (Last edited: Thu Jun 07, 2018 11:23 am)

I did much of what is described last year with my touring group. We got to the Jura via France, staying in a lovely hotel in the Argonne Forest near Verdun. Overnight in St Claude in the Jura. Then 3 nights in Grenoble. It is a pleasant city but traffic is horrible despite the Crit'Air system. We used the trams in the evening which were free after 6pm.

I spent a day riding to Dié ticking off various Cols in the Vercors National Park. As you say, this is a great area and I will go back at some point. It's an area you could spend several days exploring. I didn't have time to explore the western part with the gallery roads as I spent too much time in the canyons in the north.

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