CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
The recorded total and the leg detail need reconciliation. Inspect the leg notes before using this record for timing or navigation. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
curated scenic road. Riviera views, historic villages, cliffs. From Nice it runs 29 km to Monte-Carlo; allow about 41 min of riding. It goes by way of Beausoleil and La Trinité. It crosses from France into Monaco - carry ID and check the toll rules. The line favours views over speed.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For 12 km this is Route des Grandes Alpes, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Nice rises from a wide bay of pebbles and blue water, with a ridge of hills behind it, and it has been a seaside resort since the English began wintering here in the eighteenth century. The Promenade des Anglais, the seafront boulevard they paid for, still runs for several kilometres along the shore, lined with palms, pale hotels and deckchairs, and the old town, Vieux Nice, behind the Cours Saleya flower market, is a tangle of ochre and pink houses with laundry hanging out of windows. Castle Hill, a wooded bluff at the eastern end of the bay, gives a view over the whole sweep of the coast. Italian influence is strong, as the city only became French in 1860, and the food shows it. Try socca, a chickpea pancake, a pan bagnat sandwich or a proper salade niçoise.
Read the complete Nice write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Grande Corniche point 1 sits at 0 km, early in the day. Next is Grande Corniche point 2.
Grande Corniche point 2 comes up 7 km in. Next is Grande Corniche point 3.
At least 16 km in you reach Grande Corniche point 3. Next is Grande Corniche point 4.
Grande Corniche point 4, late in the day.