A saddlebag and handlebar bag for baggage only, fast paced for quite a few days on a single of the good crossings of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region.
The Great Crossing of the Massif Central
will make you discover this location by its most grandiose prism, although the Fantastic crossing of the Ardèche it will reveal a far more personal side to you.
Amongst all the possibilities, we have picked a few crucial routes!
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THE Great CROSSING OF THE Higher LOIRE
The Haute-Loire is a person of the greatest kept secrets and techniques of the Auvergne. Crossing the Grande Traversée de la Haute-Loire by mountain bicycle signifies going through a distinctive journey over a lot more than 600 km. As in a Tour de France, every single stage reserves a wonderful wide variety of landscapes and a great wide variety of routes (one, monitor …). At just about every phase there are accredited Respirando lodging specially tailored for motorcyclists, which let them to park their bikes in entire basic safety, but also to wash them and recharge the batteries. This crossing is also the discovery of the 9 VTT-FFC internet sites of the Haute-Loire that give a community of over 3,700 km marked! Made and conceived for E-MTB and muscular mountain bikers, for sportsmen, epicureans, adventurers and traveling travelers, the route provides all the pleasures of apply. Eventually, the “gates” allow for you to enter and exit the route and give a sequence of suitable companies these types of as TER stations, supervision, mountain bike rental, luggage transport, and many others.
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THE Great CROSSING OF THE RHONE
An off-road route of 230km, the wonderful crossing of the Rhone starts in the coronary heart of Beaujolais, skirts Lyon on the western facet and then crosses Mont Lyonnais and the place of golden stones ahead of ending in the Rhone valley. This route, sporty if accomplished around the overall length, is accomplished by mountain bicycle and aims to be relatively technical, in specific with the ascent of passes, the passage as a result of steep places and long descents. The route incorporates 6380 m of elevation obtain and as numerous negatives, enough to function the thighs! But you can also examine it in a additional contemplative way with villages to find out these types of as Vaux en Beaujolais, vineyards and wineries to stop by, sights to admire and Douglas pine forests to traverse.
THE Wonderful CROSSING OF THE Utmost CENTRAL
Due to the fact 1995 the Grande Traversée du Massif Central, or GTMC for lovers of
legendary paths, fills or tends to make mountain bikers aspiration. In 2018 it renewed by itself and doubled the distances. This new 1380km variation, by much the longest mountain bike crossing in France, thoroughly marked and labeled by the French Cycling Federation (FFC), will delight lengthy-length mountain bikers or gravel bikers, as perfectly as roaming newbies. . and those people, more and much more various, who consider their hand at electrically assisted mountain biking (VTTAE). Linking the wonderful lakes of Morvan in Burgundy to the warm sands of the Mediterranean, the GTMC addresses the overall Massif Central from north to south.
Other crossings are also value contemplating when picking out your next spot:
© O. October / GTMC-VTT
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