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From Valserhône in France it's 18km to the Swiss border (and the first 12km is on a busy road, starting with a climb), followed by 20km to central Geneva.

After passing through the middle of Geneva the route follows the north shore of Lac Leman, mostly on the coast road (which has fairly decent cycle lanes or tracks much of the way).

The route starts near Valserhône station and ends in the suburbs of Lausanne at Hotel SwissTech on the EPFL university campus.

After a ride through Lausanne the route follows the coast east, with a 400m climb that offers scenic views of the lake below. The route then turns north through rolling farmland to Bulle and Fribourg.

The route starts at EPFL just west of Lausanne and ends at ibis budget in the northern suburbs of Fribourg.

From Fribourg the route heads east, through fairly hilly farmland, on a mixture of minor roads and busier roads, to the edge of Thun. The route then flattens and continues, mostly on minor roads or busy roads with cycleways, to Spiez and along the south shore of Lake Thun (Thunersee) to Interlaken.

This is a circular loop, clockwise, from Interlaken which could be cycled, unladen, during a two-night stop in Interlaken. The route is flat for the first 32km to its eastmost point near Meiringen. The route then turns south-west. The next 17km is a long, very steep, 1350m climb to the 1962m summit of the Grosse Scheidegg (49km). From the summit it's a long descent to Grindlewald (60km) and Interlaken (79km).

The first 33km to Meiringen is pretty flat, on fairly quiet roads. The climb to the Grosse Scheidegg is on a fairly narrow, minor, road but with quite a lot of tourists in cars. However after Schwartzalp (47km) there is a 12km section over the summit where most cars are prohibited. After Grindlewald the route follows the main road, which probably is what the rider wants as they can go quite fast.

For the first 33km to Meiringen the route is flat, and along relatively quiet local roads. After that the route is on busier roads for the remainder of the route (particularly over Grimselpass which is plagued with motorcyclists). After Innertkirchen (35km) the long ascent of Grimselpass (2165m) begins, followed by a descent to Gletsch (1768m) and second climb over Furkapass (2436m). The route ends with a long and fast descent to Hospental.

The ride starts with a short descent to the resort town of Andermatt, after which the long climb of Oberalp Pass begins. This is an 11km climb from 1400m to 2044m. The summit (14km) is the rource of the River Rhein. After that the whole ride is downhill apart from a smaller climb 65-73km and a very short climb at Tamins (88km).

The first 64km to Ilanz is on Highway 19. After that the route follows minor roads.

This route leaves Chur on local roads but at Tamins (12km) switches to Highway 13 to Thusis, though this is not especially busy due to a parallel motorway. The route then follows National Cycle Route 6 ("Graubünden Route"), Route 6, stage 2: Thusis-Bergün.

However that website describes this section as "dangerous", mainly because it uses the 450m Passmal Tunnel (34km) and the 1.1km Solis Tunnel immediately after it, and recommends cyclists to take the train or bus between Thusis (27km) and Tiefenkastel (41km) instead. The route passes both train/bus stations.

From Tiefenkastel the route starts a very long 1200m climb to the top of Abulapass (72km, 2315m) which is followed by a fast descent to Zernez (supermarkets) and Susch.

This route follows the main road for 38km to Martina where there is a border post, though the actual border with Austria is at 45km. At 41km, when we rode it, a cycle ban forced us to deviate from this route and take an unsurfaced path for 2km before we could rejoin the main road.

The remaining 37km is in Austria, along minor roads and cycleways all the way to Landeck.