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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A rider’s loop: clean exit, memorable middle, calm return. 282 km round from Bernau bei Berlin - plan on about 4 h 17 of riding. It goes by way of near Mittenwalde, Scenic stretch near Ludwigsfelde, Beelitz and near Kremmen. in Oranienburg is the high point.
Next is Photo stop near Mittenwalde.
Photo stop near Mittenwalde comes up about 76 km into the recorded legs. Next is Scenic stretch near Ludwigsfelde.
about 113 km into the recorded legs you reach Scenic stretch near Ludwigsfelde. Next is Berlin motorcycle escapes return.
Asparagus is a serious business in Beelitz. Every spring, from April to late June, the sandy fields around this small Brandenburg town southwest of Potsdam produce white asparagus, Spargel, which Germans adore, and roadside stalls, farms and restaurants all over the area sell it fresh, served with butter, hollandaise sauce, potatoes and ham. The season ends traditionally on 24 June, St John's Day, and people come from Berlin just for the asparagus.
Read the complete Near Beelitz, on the way back write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Berlin motorcycle escapes return, about halfway. Next is Food stop near Kremmen.
In 1412, on a causeway through the marshes near Kremmen, the forces of the new Hohenzollern rulers of Brandenburg fought the Dukes of Pomerania in a battle that marked the beginning of the Hohenzollern era, which would eventually lead to Prussia and the German Empire. The causeway, the Kremmer Damm, still crosses the wetland, and a memorial cross marks the site of the battle. Fontane described it in his travels, and the story is part of Brandenburg folklore.
Read the complete Fuel stop near Kremmen write-up.
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Food at 163 km, roughly 3 hours into the riding. Next is High point in Oranienburg.
Oranienburg is a town on the Havel river, a short way north of Berlin, and it carries two very different histories side by side. On one side there is the palace, built in the seventeenth century for Louise Henriette of Orange, the Dutch-born wife of the Elector of Brandenburg, who gave the town its name. It was the first baroque palace in Brandenburg, and its Dutch influence is seen in the proportions and brick. The town became known as Oranienburg, the castle of Orange, and the palace now houses a museum and gardens.
Read the complete Photo stop near Oranienburg write-up.
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High point in Oranienburg is the summit of this stretch. Next is Müritz National Park Long Day checkpoint 8.
Glienicke/Nordbahn is a small town just outside Berlin's northern edge, in Brandenburg, and during the decades of the Berlin Wall it found itself in one of the strangest positions in divided Germany. The town was in East Germany, but it pushed into West Berlin on three sides, and one narrow part of it, known as the Entenschnabel, the duck's bill, was enclosed by the Wall on almost every side, so that residents of a few streets lived inside a corridor of concrete and barbed wire, with West Berlin just over their back fences.
Read the complete Glienicke write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Müritz National Park Long Day checkpoint 8 closes the day. Next is back to Müritz National Park.
Bernau is the old walled town on the northern edge of the Barnim plateau, and it carries a surprising weight of history for a place that most Berliners know as the end of a railway line. Its medieval wall, with stretches still standing and a few towers, encloses a small centre of brick churches and old houses, and local legend says it was saved in 1432 when the women and children of the town poured boiling beer over Hussite attackers. The story has been told so often that a beer festival in July is named for it.
Read the complete Müritz National Park write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at back to Müritz National Park. That is the ride.
Photo stop near Mittenwalde → Scenic stretch near Ludwigsfelde 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.
Scenic stretch near Ludwigsfelde → Near Beelitz, on the way back 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.
Food stop near Kremmen → High point in Oranienburg is the logistics leg. Watch junctions, villages and speed changes, then let the roadbook do its job: move you out of the clutter without spending your best attention too early.
This High point in Oranienburg → Glienicke 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.