Cascade du Rudlin
Wasserfall in Frankreich.
Photo: Sapin88, CC BY-SA 4.0The ridge road along the high Vosges, past the Col de la Schlucht, Le Markstein and the Grand Ballon, then down near the Hartmannswillerkopf memorial to Cernay.
100% on the official route
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Measured on the route line from OpenStreetMap data, which can be missing or out of date.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.
Most riders cross to Calais by Le Shuttle or a Dover ferry, or take a longer ferry nearer the route.
Compare every crossingCheck 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.
Wasserfall in Frankreich.
Photo: Sapin88, CC BY-SA 4.0
Mountain pass.
Read about it on Wikipedia Photo: Anthospace, CC BY-SA 4.0
Waterfall in the Vosges Mountains of France.
Photo: Florian Grossir, CC BY-SA 3.0
Chute d'eau du massif des Vosges.
Mountain pass in France.
Read about it on Wikipedia Photo: Cham, CC BY 3.0
French castle.
Read about it on Wikipedia Photo: Gzen92, CC BY-SA 4.0
Fortification à Cernay (Haut-Rhin).
Photo: Rauenstein, CC BY-SA 3.0Place details from Wikidata. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each card.