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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Scenery first, traffic last, with checkpoints that make sense on a bike. 419 km round from Bernau bei Berlin - plan on about 7 h of riding. On the way it passes Lindow, near Nauen, near Trebbin and Marienfelde. The climb of the day is near Spreenhagen. Much of it runs through woodland.
Next is Berlin motorcycle escapes return.
North of Berlin the Brandenburg countryside dissolves into lakes, and Lindow sits between three of them, a small town of cobbled streets, brick houses and old trees. The ruins of a Cistercian nunnery stand on the shore, and Theodor Fontane, the great chronicler of the Mark Brandenburg, wrote about the nuns of Lindow in his travels through the region. It is a quiet, slightly melancholy place, and on a summer evening, with the light on the water, very beautiful.
Read the complete Near Lindow, on the way back write-up.
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Berlin motorcycle escapes return comes up about 90 km into the recorded legs. Next is Food stop near Nauen.
Tall masts rising out of the flat Havelland meadows mark Nauen's claim to fame. The transmitting station here, founded in 1906, is considered the oldest radio station in the world still in operation, and in its early days it sent messages to German colonies and ships across the oceans. Its main building, designed by the architect Hermann Muthesius in the 1920s, is a fine example of brick modernism. Guided tours are offered occasionally.
Read the complete Food stop near Nauen write-up.
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A break here. Next is Photo stop near Trebbin.
Photo stop near Trebbin, about halfway. Next is Spreewald Canals and Forest Roads checkpoint 8.
Between 1953 and 1990, more than a million people who had fled or left East Germany passed through a camp in Marienfelde, in the far south of West Berlin. The Notaufnahmelager, the emergency reception centre, was where they were registered, questioned by Western intelligence services, housed and sent on to new lives in the West. Part of it is now a museum, with exhibits and personal stories that bring the divided city vividly to life, and it is one of the more moving places in Berlin to spend an hour.
Read the complete Marienfelde write-up.
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Back at Spreewald Canals and Forest Roads checkpoint 8. That is the ride. Next is High point near Spreenhagen.
Spreenhagen is a scattered rural municipality south-east of Berlin, where the River Spree winds through forests and meadows between Fürstenwalde and the capital. The villages here are small and quiet, with old churches, farmhouses and modern homes for commuters, and the landscape is a typical Brandenburg mix of pine forests, wet meadows and lakes.
Read the complete High point near Spreenhagen write-up.
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High point near Spreenhagen is the summit of this stretch. Next is Scenic stretch near Petershagen.
about 380 km into the recorded legs you reach Scenic stretch near Petershagen. Next is Back to Spreewald Canals.
The Barnim plateau looks plain until you ride it. East of Bernau and north of Berlin, it is a broad swell of land left by the glaciers, with fields of rye and rapeseed rolling to the horizon, small woods of pine and oak, and tidy villages built around churches made of fieldstone, the rough granite boulders that the ice dropped across the whole region.
Read the complete Spreewald Canals write-up.
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Back at Back to Spreewald Canals. That is the ride.
Treat Food stop near Nauen → Photo stop near Trebbin as bend craft. Brake early, look high through the turn, and keep throttle changes gentle. It is more satisfying to link ten clean bends than rescue one silly one.
Photo stop near Trebbin → Marienfelde is shade riding: beautiful, cooler and sometimes slick. Expect damp patches, leaves, gravel and wildlife where the trees meet the road.
Use High point near Spreenhagen → Scenic stretch near Petershagen as clean positioning. Keep it tidy, ignore impatient traffic and save the enthusiasm for the good road ahead. The value here is not drama; it is arriving at the riding section with space, fuel and concentration intact.