A ride for pure sportsbike fun, enjoying the big sweeping roads around the Lac de Sainte-Croix. Payback time for all those gym sessions and everything else: rides like this make it all worthwhile.
A misty start with an intriguing dawn over Marseille. Fog unexpectedly around St-Maximim-la-Ste-Baume but glorious autumn clarity and colours once over the ridge to the low scrub oak forest surrounding the Lac de Sainte-Croix, the huge artificial lake created in 1972-3 at the end of the Gorges du Verdon.
Snow on the Alps above Digne and Allos in the far distance to the north but clear to Mont Ventoux and the valley of the Rhône to the west.
New boots good, new heated gloves good but disappointed that the batteries in the wrists didn’t quite last the whole ride, even on the lowest heat (yellow) setting.
New boots and gloves. Fog wasn’t really what I was hoping for
