Calais to Rome - 1,280 miles

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This is a series of four routes created in Googlemaps sometime around July 2013 for the HD Owners' Ride to Rome.

I copied the routes, then translated each into separate Garmin friendly Mapsource files. The routes are pretty good.

In essence the four separate routes go:

1. Calais to Reims

2. Reims to Bourg St Maurice

3. Bourg St Maurice to Recco (Genoa)

4. Recco to Rome

I was forced to split the Bourg St Maurice to Recco route at Pinerolo, as there was a Mapsource glitch of some sort. There's a one mile stretch of road that caused the software to crash each time. I tried ever method I know to stretch, cut-n-paste, cheat and fiddle about, without success. The crashes kept occurring. It's only a one mile stretch on a straight road so the routing doesn't really matter.

If anyone wants to see the routes in Googlemaps, here's the link:

http://www.motorcyclenews.com/MCN/B...=widget&utm_medium=widget&utm_campaign=widget

Obviously each leg is fairly long at over 300 miles (very often not on the straightest of roads) so don't just load them up and ride off. That being said, none would be impossible given a decent start and pressing on.

I have cut all four routes together into one file too, hosted on Dropbox. This should make it easier for bods to cut the route about and / or break it at their preferred overnight stopping places.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/14126843/Calais to Rome complete.gdb
 

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  • 1. Calais to Reims.zip
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  • 2. Reims to Bourg St Maurice.zip
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  • 3. Bourg St M to Recco.zip
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  • 4. Recco to Rome.zip
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