RUST magazine: RUST#30

circuit de pyrénées
As far as we were concerned, of the two daylight options left, and
given that our machines were no longer state of the art and nor were
their pilots, the pre-65 route seemed the most appropriate. in fact, the
Vieilles Motos route includes the same special tests of Bois du Bager,
La Mouline and Col de Marie Blanque as well as all the forestry roads
but less road work.
6.00 grand départe – not quite
not for us the roaring crowds of mainly up-all-nighters of 30 years ago,
as we pulled out of the Place de Verdun at 7.40 and down Rue Marca to
the Pont du 14 Juillet. instead, it was a motley collection of probably
half-asleepers waiting for buses to get in to work and young women in
hi-viz overalls with brooms, trying to tidy the streets that paved our way
out of Pau and up towards the mountains.