Puy de Dôme
Volcano in France.
Read about it on Wikipedia Photo: Carsten Steger, CC BY-SA 4.0A loop through the old volcanoes of the Massif Central: from Clermont-Ferrand past the Puy de Dome to Le Mont-Dore and Besse, south to Murat, over the Pas de Peyrol under the Puy Mary, and back through Salers and La Bourboule.
Plotted by us, not yet ridden
Click a dot for details. White dots are the stops, each with a bed search. Yellow dots are places to see.
Measured on the route line from OpenStreetMap data, which can be missing or out of date. Curvature is degrees of turning a mile, measured every 100 metres. On our routes they run from 6 on the E19 to 701 on the SP638.
Pick the miles you like to ride in a day. Each day ends at the named place on the route nearest that distance, and you get a GPX file for each day.
This is your pace, not our estimate of how long the riding takes. Day lengths vary because each day ends at a named place.
Most riders cross to Calais by Le Shuttle or a Dover ferry, or take a longer ferry nearer the route.
Compare every crossingSplit the route into days above and each day gets its own bed search for where it ends.
Back to the daysCheck your bike insurance covers riding abroad, get travel insurance that covers motorcycling at your engine size, and breakdown cover that recovers a motorcycle in every country on the route.
What to check before you buy coverWhat GOV.UK says riders need for it, checked 05/11/2026. Rules change, so read the official page before you go.
On every trip abroad: your licence, insurance that covers riding abroad, the V5C and travel insurance with medical cover. The tour planner turns all of this into a checklist each rider in your group can tick off.
Castles, passes, viewpoints and more within easy reach of the line, in the order you reach them. Yellow dots on the map.
Volcano in France.
Read about it on Wikipedia Photo: Carsten Steger, CC BY-SA 4.0
Castle.
Read about it on Wikipedia Photo: SiefkinDR, CC BY-SA 3.0
Mountain pass (1401 m) of the Massif Central in France.
Read about it on Wikipedia Photo: Vincent Gaudiard, Public domain
French castle.
Read about it on Wikipedia Photo: Pascal Godat, CC BY-SA 3.0
Mountain pass in Cantal, France.
Read about it on Wikipedia Photo: Benoit Kornmann, CC BY-SA 3.0
Château à Anglards-de-Salers (Cantal).
Photo: MOSSOT, CC BY-SA 3.0
Château fort français.
Photo: Photographer and original uploader was Koakoo at fr.wikipedia, Public domain
Site archéologique ; fortification à Clermont-Ferrand (Puy-de-Dôme).
Photo: Aavitus, CC BY-SA 4.0Place details from Wikidata. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each card.