Véloroute de la Vallée de la Baise (V82 bike route)

Distance: Currently 165km.
Difficulty: Easy to moderate. Some small hills of gradient 1-2%. There are some gentle climbs of (mostly) around 100m in gain.

The Véloroute de la Vallée de la Baise is one of France's 'off-the-beaten' track bike routes. It follows the Baïse river from Barbaste, just west of the Canal de Garonne, through beautiful Nerac and Condom to Valence-sur-Baïse and on to the source of the river Baïse in Lannemezan in the foothills of the Pyrénées.

 Vallée de la Baise bike route elevation

There are some gentle hills on this route but – when you look at the numbers above – it's not as bad as the graph makes out. Mostly they are small hills of gradient 1-2% (sometimes a bit more). So there is some gentle climbing here of (mostly) less than 100m in gain.

Mostly this is a shared road route – some 154km of the 165km follow roads and the balance on dedicated cycle paths.

It links with the Bordeaux-Toulouse-Sete route on the Canal de Garonne at Agen and with the Voie Verte de l'Armagnac in Condom.

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Condom, France

Condom in the Gers department of France. Photo: Asabengurtza (own work, CC BY-SA 3.0) 

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