Brucey wrote:If you ride from the Cime de la Bonette southwards, it is (apart from a 100m stretch in one town en route) downhill all the way to Nice, over 100km away. In fairness it is only just downhill for the last 50km or so but it is still downhill rather than uphill.
If you just follow the road, there's about a 50m height gain over half a mile or so coming out of St Etienne de Tinee. I think there's a bypass through the town back roads and down the river, but it's not obvious unless you've looked it up beforehand.