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 proper escape from Berlin motorcycle escapes with roads worth waking up for. A 305 km loop that starts and ends near Buch, about 4 h 36 of riding. The stops in between: Scenic stretch near Werneuchen, near Zossen and Lichtenrade. in Grünheide is the high point. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Buch, on the far northern edge of Berlin, is a district shaped by medicine. In the early twentieth century, the city architect Ludwig Hoffmann built a series of large hospital complexes here, in a park-like setting outside the crowded city, and Buch has been a centre of hospitals and medical research ever since. Today it is home to the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine and a cluster of biotech companies, as well as a large hospital campus, and the old Hoffmann buildings, with their red-brick and stone façades, are still impressive.
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Next is Scenic stretch near Werneuchen.
Scenic stretch near Werneuchen comes up about 18 km into the recorded legs. Next is High point in Grünheide.
This is where the road stops climbing. Next is Photo stop near Zossen.
Photo stop near Zossen, about halfway. Next is Märkische Schweiz Buckow Flow checkpoint 8.
Back at Märkische Schweiz Buckow Flow checkpoint 8. That is the ride. Next is Food stop near Werder.
Albert Einstein spent his summers in Caputh, on the shore of the Templiner See between Werder and Potsdam, in a wooden house he had built in 1929. He loved sailing on the lakes and called the house his paradise. When the Nazis came to power in 1933, he left Germany and never returned. The house, a modern timber building on a hill above the village, can be visited, and it is a fascinating glimpse into the private life of a genius.
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Food stop near Werder is where this day stops to eat. Next is Berlin motorcycle escapes return.
about 252 km into the recorded legs you reach Berlin motorcycle escapes return. Next is Back to Märkische Schweiz.
Wandlitz is the kind of place that has a famous lake and a notorious past. The Wandlitzsee, a clear glacial lake on the Barnim plateau north of Berlin, draws Berliners for swimming and sunbathing in summer, and the lakeside has a beach, cafes and a path around the water. But for forty years, a small enclosed settlement nearby, the Waldsiedlung, housed the leading members of East Germany's Politburo, behind a fence in the woods, with their own shop and doctor. The East German people called it the ghetto of the leaders.
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Back at Back to Märkische Schweiz. That is the ride.
This Scenic stretch near Werneuchen → High point in Grünheide 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.
Photo stop near Zossen → Lichtenrade 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 Werder → Near Kremmen, 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.