Might be nipping over for a week to Port Grimaud, inbetween St Tropez and St Maxime

Are there any trail around there?

Failing that anyone know of any French maps or websites where I can find out?

nobody know of any websites with french trails?

I believe our resident Gauloise-puffing, pastis-sipping Frenchman Juan is from that part of the world. He may be too busy eating cheese and surrendering to answer though. 😉

French maps are often a bit rubbish, to be honest.

A quick google for VTT (French for MTB) and St Tropez gives this – http://www.presquile-saint-tropez.com/html/randonnees.html

Helpful bike shop in Cogolin – up the road from Port Grimaud. 18 months back they had a Brit' working there as a mechanic (with a MTB bias); they hired me out a very nice road bike for a day. I flew over the area from Cogolin in a helicopter a number of times and the network of trails & tracks over the hills looked great – but I never got to ride them….

There might be some useful info here – scroll down to the mtb section:

http://riviera.angloinfo.com/information/1/outdoors.asp

The local ski resorts have bubble lifts in operation for mtb in the summer, eg here is the piste map for VTT routes in Auron:

http://www.auron.com/InfoliveDocuments/plan_vtt_auron_2010_web.pdf

I went to Isola 2000 a couple of times this summer, we hired bikes and went up in a bubble lift (my profile pic!), down via the VTT routes – it was great although I had a bad crash at the bottom 🙁

Check out St Maxime bmx track while youre there, then you will see why the French a waaaay ahead in bmx racing.

how's your French? Here's a site where people have uploaded their routes, so have a dig round.

routes all over France

cheers everyone

I found this site too

http://www.vttour.fr/