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[BDG]

Originally posted by John W
Nice writeup BDG (as was your one in the mag for the land end to john O'groats day trip)

The massif is excellent, isn't it. We did a week there last year. Have a look at the map east of Clermont Ferrand and try to find the - wait for it - D996 & D999
Absolutely blinding roads around there, right the way across to Mauriac.

We've also had the same with coppers in Italy. A few years back a group of us were tearing up the cortina pass & caught a cop car up. Cop car goes for it, doing overtakes whenever he could, and when there wasn't enough room for him he waved the bikes through !!
He caught us up again in Cortina itself having a coffeee. Gave us a toot and a thumbs up

We're off to the Alps in 2 weeks for 10 days, so hoping any coppers we come across are just as laid back this time

John, haven't tried the D999 but i found the part of the D996 (had to try it) too bumpy and nadgery to be real fun on a Ducati, better suited to a supermoto in places, although we haven't done the full length of it.