CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Ordered leg totals agree within rounding. Stop distances are approximate sums of rounded legs. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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Built for flow, views and useful stops rather than navigation busywork. A 684 km loop that starts and ends near Storkow, about 9 h 57 of riding. The stops in between: Scenic stretch near Brück, near Rhinow and near Gramzow. near Dahme is the high point.
Storkow's castle, rebuilt after years of decay, stands by a canal that links the Storkower See with the waterways towards Berlin and the Scharmützelsee. The town is small and quiet, with a church, a market square and a lock where boats wait to pass. It is a gateway to the Dahme-Heideseen nature park, a region of lakes, forests and heathland south-east of Berlin.
Read the complete Fuel stop near Storkow write-up.
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Next is High point near Dahme.
Dahme/Mark sits at the eastern end of the Fläming, where the low hills meet the lowlands of Lusatia, and its castle ruins and old town walls hint at a more important past. The town is small and quiet, with a church, a market square and a park around the ruins of the castle, which burned in the early twentieth century. The surrounding landscape is a mix of forests, fields and small villages, with gentle hills that offer views over the plain.
Read the complete High point near Dahme write-up.
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You top out here; the road stops climbing. Next is Scenic stretch near Brück.
The wet meadows west of Brück are one of the last places in Germany where the great bustard still lives. These heavy, turkey-sized birds, among the heaviest flying birds in the world, strut across the fields of the Belziger Landschaftswiesen, and conservationists have worked for decades to protect them, with observation towers where visitors can watch them display in spring. Even if you do not see one, the meadows, with their big skies and wide horizons, are worth a pause.
Read the complete Scenic stretch near Brück write-up.
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about 145 km into the recorded legs you reach Scenic stretch near Brück. Next is Photo stop near Rhinow.
Human flight has a claim to begin in the hills above Rhinow. On the Gollenberg near Stölln, Otto Lilienthal made many of his glider flights in the 1890s, launching himself from the slope in his bat-winged contraptions, and it was here in 1896 that he crashed and died of his injuries. The hill is now a memorial and a popular site for paragliders, and in a nice twist, in 1989 a large Interflug Ilyushin airliner was landed on the grass airfield at its foot, where it now stands as a museum and wedding venue.
Read the complete Photo stop near Rhinow write-up.
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Photo stop near Rhinow, about halfway. Next is Food stop near Gramzow.
A ruined gable of red brick is all that remains of the church of the Premonstratensian monastery at Gramzow, founded in the twelfth century and one of the oldest in the Uckermark. It stands alone on a rise, framed by trees and sky, a striking reminder of the medieval colonisation of this land. The village around it is small and quiet, and it also houses a museum devoted to the small private railways that once crisscrossed the region.
Read the complete Food stop near Gramzow write-up.
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Food at 354 km, roughly 7 hours into the riding. Next is Berlin motorcycle escapes return.
This is the Lower Oder Valley National Park, the only floodplain national park in Germany, and one of the wildest corners of the country. In spring the river floods the meadows, turning them into a shallow, glittering lake, and the dykes become islands. Birds arrive in huge numbers: cranes, geese, white-tailed eagles, black storks and corncrakes, whose rasping call is heard on summer nights, and beavers have returned to the channels.
Read the complete Berlin motorcycle escapes write-up.
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Berlin motorcycle escapes return comes up about 485 km into the recorded legs. Next is Fläming Skate Villages and Forest checkpoint 8.
Before it was a motorway, the A115 that runs past Zehlendorf was the AVUS, a dead-straight test and racing road opened in 1921, where Mercedes and Auto Union raced in the 1930s on a steeply banked curve that terrified drivers. The banking is gone, and the road is just a busy stretch of the Berlin motorway network, but its history adds a little spice to finishing a ride here.
Read the complete Zehlendorf write-up.
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Fläming Skate Villages and Forest checkpoint 8 closes the day. Next is Back to Fläming Skate.
Storkow is a small town on a lake in the Dahme-Seenland, south-east of Berlin, with a castle at its heart. Burg Storkow, a medieval fortress first recorded in the thirteenth century and rebuilt over time, stands beside the water, with towers and a gate, and the old town around it is a neat cluster of brick houses and a church. The Storkower See, with reeds and a swimming beach, lies right beside, and to the south, the huge lake called Scharmützelsee, the second-largest in the region, is only a few kilometres away.
Read the complete Fläming Skate write-up.
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Back at Back to Fläming Skate. That is the ride.
This High point near Dahme → Scenic stretch near Brück stretch is for rhythm and scenery. Keep your head up, let the view breathe, and resist turning every open bend into a target. Stop once properly rather than half-stopping everywhere.
Scenic stretch near Brück → Photo stop near Rhinow is the technical section. Hairpins, gradients and mixed traffic can stack up quickly; use low drama inputs, stay wide of centre lines and expect buses or riders appearing exactly where optimism says they will not.
This Photo stop near Rhinow → Food stop near Gramzow stretch is for rhythm and scenery. Keep your head up, let the view breathe, and resist turning every open bend into a target. Stop once properly rather than half-stopping everywhere.
Food stop near Gramzow → Near Widuchowa, on the way back can flow quickly, but only if you keep village limits and junction sightlines sacred. Fast connectors are where rides get untidy when fatigue creeps in.