Drôme, France - Die, Crest, Valence, Nyons, Montbrun-les-Bains

Wapping · Sep 19, 2022

One of France’s wilder areas but very good motorbiking roads.

This jaunt, courtesy of Motorradmagazin 7/22 is reasonably interesting:

Here are some snaps of mine:

alan29 · Sep 19, 2022

My favourite bit of France by some distance.
There's a great ride from Crest to Nyons via Bourdeaux and Dieulefit.
And there is the Vercors to the north. Worth a week of anyones time.

Wapping · Sep 19, 2022

Indeed so.

One tip for anyone going. If (as you should) you take the D roads, parts of the Drôme are very wild and rural. There is not a fuel station every 50 yards. Start the day with a full tank and refill well before the panic light comes on. Similarly, there is not a cafe and bar in every village….. and there is not many villages, either.

Arsey · Sep 19, 2022

They miss out the best road around there which is north out of Die and over the Col du Rousset

The D93 over the Col de Cabre is stunning too

Wapping · Sep 19, 2022

All and any any routes will always miss out something. It’s a recurring theme on these pages.

alan29 · Sep 19, 2022

Plentiful campsites too.

leadfarmer · Sep 19, 2022

Was down in the Drôme and the Isère a couple of weeks ago, however the only picture I took was this one

Tricky · Sep 19, 2022

Col de Pennes was a bit wild but fun last Saturday.

Engineer · Sep 19, 2022

A fab part of France!

Tricky · Sep 19, 2022

And completely empty of other road users apart from the odd cyclist. :thumb2

Wapping · Sep 20, 2022

Arsey said:
They miss out the best road around there which is north out of Die and over the Col du Rousset

But that misses out the whole of this cracking road, My mate says his mate was told it was so good that someone turned around and did it again, five times before breakfast! As you can see it’s a green lined yellow road, which means Michelin says it’s awesome for bikers and not like red roads.

If I could read German, then I might know why the author of the piece in the magazine went the way he did. Maybe he’d done an article before, when he did hoon up the col du Rousset?

However, none of this is important. All the original post seeks to do is to give some bods (who might not know anything about the Drôme) a bit of a heads-up.

:beerjug:

alan29 · Sep 20, 2022

If you are a miserable git like me you will be glad to know that there are virtually no Brits to be found there, and even fewer organised tours racing from A to B.

er-minio · Sep 20, 2022

Quite a dramatic end for the route:

Wapping · Sep 20, 2022

er-minio said:
Quite a dramatic end for the route:

Indeed…..

er-minio · Sep 20, 2022

I've been through the area on my way south towards Italy in the middle of August.
Will go through the routes when back in London, and post here, as we've seen some very nice gorges I haven't been before...

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