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Wheeltrax

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Route Napoleon
« on: May 23, 2011, 03:49:07 PM »
Im off to the South of France soon to deliver a bike for a customer.
Traveling from Germany I'll be touching on Switzerland before heading into France.
Ive planned a 2 nighter to get down to the coast but Ive also tweaked my route to take in the "Route Napoleon".
Anybody ridden it?
It looks to be an absolute corker!
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Re: Route Napoleon
« Reply #1 on: May 23, 2011, 05:40:12 PM »
Apparently its better in a car but just nail it anyway...........  [whistle]
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Re: Route Napoleon
« Reply #2 on: May 23, 2011, 05:49:20 PM »
riden it and driven it

on the bike after a couple of hours it was like "can i just have some straight road please!!!"  [rofl]
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Re: Route Napoleon
« Reply #3 on: May 23, 2011, 06:40:33 PM »
Quote from: HammyUK on May 23, 2011, 05:40:12 PM
Apparently its better in a car but just nail it anyway...........  [whistle]
I'll be on a BMW K1300GT.
Does that count? :D

Picking the route up from Grenoble down to Cannes  :headbang:
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Re: Route Napoleon
« Reply #4 on: May 23, 2011, 09:12:53 PM »
Hi mate just watch renegade riders or the early fast bike vids this was jimmy millers and co testing ground as they called it
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Re: Route Napoleon
« Reply #5 on: May 23, 2011, 10:55:37 PM »
I did it with 4 mates about 10 years ago and a very good mate did it last year on his way to Italy...........AMAZING route fella !!!
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Re: Route Napoleon
« Reply #6 on: May 24, 2011, 09:03:03 AM »
Did it a few years ago on a ZX6 and its fantastic,after a while though you start getting dizzy! The funniest thing though was the mate I went with complaining about the guys on push bikes cutting him up!  [rofl] (he was on an old CB750 though).
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Re: Route Napoleon
« Reply #7 on: May 24, 2011, 04:17:32 PM »
Had a play on Google maps.
This is the last part of my trip down the Route Napoleon into Cannes...
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Ive made the whole trip from Germany (Heidelberg) down to Cannes a two nighter.
So....3 days in the saddle through some gorgeous countryside (i'll ignore the hours of tedious motorway for now) and half a day on the beach in SoF before flying back to Frankfurt. Nice work if you can get it eh!  :tongue3:
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Re: Route Napoleon
« Reply #8 on: May 24, 2011, 05:16:00 PM »
When the Bol D'Or was held at Paul Ricard I used to ride it every year on the way home except one year I turned round at the end & went back to do it again. It IS that good :-)
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Re: Route Napoleon
« Reply #9 on: May 24, 2011, 09:01:02 PM »
I did it in 2003 on a Thundercat north to south and keep threatening to do it again, It always get put down as my most favourite road, Also is was a Sunday when we did it.
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Re: Route Napoleon
« Reply #10 on: May 24, 2011, 10:16:24 PM »
myself dave and 8 like minded nutters did it back in 2006 on a trip to Mugello......

loved it  :headbang:
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Re: Route Napoleon
« Reply #11 on: May 26, 2011, 08:51:08 AM »
Just finished installing my route on the Garmin from home to Antibes in SofF via the route napoleon. (which was a ball ache btw coz I had to do it on the unit itself and pick my waypoints to choose the route I want to go rather than Garmins interpretation of what I want!)
The trip is 1207km start to finish. Thats 750 miles.
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Re: Route Napoleon
« Reply #12 on: May 29, 2011, 12:11:26 PM »
n85 is a good road, but if you can get off it and go to Casterain the road is tremendous!!
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Re: Route Napoleon
« Reply #13 on: June 18, 2011, 10:15:43 PM »
Amazing road, both ways twice!! Havn't ridden it since 2003 and the time before that was 2001. Text a m8 of mine asking if he fancied a blast down there at the end of the summer. As another member said, Grenoble to Cannes in the best part. Enjoy.
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