Towns: Treignac, Tulle, , Mont Verde, Pont-D'Orgon, St-Paul-Des-Lades,Espinat, Aurillac, Montsalvy, Espalion, Palmas, Laissec, Severac-Le-Chateau, Millau, Chirac, Marvejols, Nasbinals, Chaudes-Aigues, St Flour, Moissac, Condat, Bort-Les-Orgues, St Angel, Maymac, Bugeat, Viam.
Regions: Corezze, Cantal, Puy-Dome, Aveyron, Lozere, Midi Pyreneese, Auvergne, Limousin
Roads: D940, N120 (D1120), D920, D28, N88 (D1088), D809,A75, D911, N9 (D1009 or D1109), D267, D900, D12, D13, D989, D921, D679, D979, D940, D160, D132e3
Attractions: Millau Viaduct
Coffee Stops: Tulle, Aurillac, Espallion Lunch in Millau, Marvijols, St Flour, La Belvedere overlooking the Barrage at Bort-Les-Orgues, Bugeat
Description: This is a long days riding however if you are heading on rather than back to http://www.ridersrest.net/ then you can take either route down and either over night in Millau or continue to the Rhone Alps via the Tarn Goges or down to Toulouse angain via the Tarn River roads. I would reccomend the route through Aurillac as being the fastest route but still with some excellent tarmac and fast swooping bends. But if you are coming back up to http://www.ridersrest.net/ then after a good lunch in the cnetre of Millau it is a good 200 mile run back through some beautiful mountinious views over St Flour, and down through Bort-Les-Orgues. So if you have the stammina and the desire to visit the Millau these are good routes there and back.
The bridge is somewhere almost every biker who ventures into the region heads for so is kind of a biker mecca the roads to get there are superb even the A75 motorway is a biking motorway. Plus you are in some of the spectacular views France can offer...If you head North and West you head into the Volccano's Puy Mary and Puy Dome, Mount Dore, Super Besse. The Dordogne Valley running from Beaulieu-sur-Dordogne to Argentat and Bort-le-orgues with its Castle-De-Val or further West to Aurillac and Rocamadour on some good tarmac with relatively uncongested roads... If you head North and East you enter the many many gorges and passes into the Rhine Alps or South on to the Med... But I digress...
The Millau Bridge
A view of the Millau Viaduct from the town of Millau
Crossing the Millau Voaduct
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