Recognize this tyre?

[T'boo Ted]

I think they did a review of that road in EVO magazine... testing an aston martin or porker or something...

 

[kerryn]

The road has been used on The Tour. It climbs 4000ft over 12km (or there abouts). The pros do it in about 40 minutes. It took me about 2 hours on knobblies. Its a killer. But the reward on the other side was a 20k continuous off road decent. Heaven.

I went there is 1995 on a guided tour by PyraActif. So the location is somewhere close to them.

 

[kerryn]

Found the location. Its the climb to Superbagneres.
Google Map

I was only about half way up at that point.

Incidentally, the PyrActif website claims that the descent from the top of Superbagneres is the longest in the Pyrenees at 1200m. I can tell you, even 14 years later that it was bloody awesome!

 

[Enid_Puceflange]

looks like the road that Jazza and the boys from "Top Gear" "discovered " As the ultimate driving road in europe last year , i cant for the life of me remember what they called it.... stylvio pass or similar

Gary C

 

[kerryn]

Top Gear's road was in the Alps. The did one on the Italian side and another in Switzerland (or perhaps it was Austria) so it wasn't this one. But I would agree that this would make an awesome driving road.