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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644 km from Rosenheim to Isen, about 9 h 30 of riding. On the way it passes Chiemsee shore, Aschau mountain view, Miesbach roads and near Isen. The climbs: in Peißenberg, near Miesbach and Scenic stretch in Bruckmühl. It tops out at about 1,000 m. It keeps close to the shore for long stretches.
Slow enough to look. The surface follows the shoreline, so the corners arrive where the water decided, not where an engineer did. Water arrives beside the road and stays for 31 km. The line follows the shore because there is nowhere else for it to go.
Rosenheim is the main town of the Inn valley south of Munich, a city of around sixty thousand people at the point where the Mangfall flows into the Inn. Its name means rose home, though the town grew rich on something less romantic: salt. For centuries salt from Bad Reichenhall travelled here through a pipeline of wooden pipes, was boiled in local pans and loaded onto boats on the Inn, and the merchants who handled it built the arcaded houses around Max-Josefs-Platz that still give the old centre its look. Television viewers may know it from a detective series, but the real thing is livelier and less murderous.
Read the complete Rosenheim fuel write-up.
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Rosenheim fuel is where the day begins. Next is Chiemsee shore.
The Chiemsee is the biggest lake in Bavaria, so big that Bavarians call it the Bavarian Sea, and from the shore near Gstadt and Prien it looks like one, a wide pale expanse with the Alps behind it. Two islands sit in the middle. The Herreninsel carries the palace that Ludwig II began building in the 1870s as his copy of Versailles, never finished, and the smaller Fraueninsel has a Benedictine abbey that was founded in the eighth century and is still occupied by nuns. The islands are reached by ferry from Prien, and on the road to the pier, a little steam railway runs from the town to the harbour, an old-fashioned way to start an excursion.
Read the complete Chiemsee shore write-up.
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Chiemsee shore comes up about 29 km into the recorded legs. Next is Aschau mountain view.
Aschau im Chiemgau lies at the mouth of the Prien valley, where the river leaves the mountains for the plain, and it has the best view of the Kampenwand, the jagged limestone ridge that stands over the Chiemsee region. The summit reaches about 1,670 metres, and a cable car from the village takes walkers to the top. Seen from the road at the right time, with low sun on the pale cliffs and shadows in the gullies, it is a classic Bavarian skyline. The village has about five thousand people, a few shops and a petrol station, with Frasdorf, three thousand people, just along the road.
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about 44 km into the recorded legs you reach Aschau mountain view. Next is Miesbach return roads.
Miesbach is the main town of the Oberland district of the same name, a place of about eleven thousand people on the Schlierach river, where the foothills rise from the plain. It sits in the Leitzach valley country that links the lakes of Schliersee and Tegernsee with Munich, and the roads leading out of it, to the capital to the north and to the lakes to the south, are among the pleasantest in Bavaria for a return ride. The town has everything you could need: petrol stations, supermarkets, bakeries, banks and a railway to Munich.
Read the complete Miesbach return roads write-up.
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Miesbach return roads, early in the day. Next is Back to Rosenheim fuel.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Rosenheim fuel write-up.
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Finish at Back to Rosenheim fuel. That is the ride. Next is Tegernsee and Sudelfeld Pass.
Tegernsee and Sudelfeld Pass is the fuel stop for this leg. Next is Munich / Bavarian Alps return.
South of Ingolstadt on the Danube plain, the ground is so flat that the horizon becomes the main landscape feature. This stop lies between Manching and Ingolstadt, in a region once covered by the great Donaumoos, a peat bog drained in the eighteenth century under the Bavarian elector Karl Theodor, who wanted farmland and settlers. The road network that crosses the old moor is neat, straight and carefully ditch-lined, with fields of maize, wheat and sugar beet standing behind.
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about 283 km into the recorded legs you reach Munich / Bavarian Alps return. Next is Food stop near Affing.
Somewhere to get off the bike, about 349 km into the recorded legs. Next is Photo stop in Peißenberg.
Peißenberg owes its existence to coal. For more than a century a deep mine worked the seams of pitch coal under the town, and when it closed in 1971 the place had to reinvent itself. You can still see traces of the mining past in the old shaft buildings and a small museum, but the modern town is a pleasant, unpretentious market centre in the rolling foothills between the Ammersee and the Alps.
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The high point of this section. Next is Tegernsee and Sudelfeld Pass checkpoint 8.
It is a quiet, wealthy area of villas and forests, and for riders coming back from the Tegernsee and the Sudelfeld it is a pleasant, low-key finish, close enough to the city but still among trees.
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Tegernsee and Sudelfeld Pass checkpoint 8 closes the day. Next is High point near Miesbach.
In 1882, a wire strung on poles between Miesbach and Munich carried electricity over a distance of fifty-seven kilometres, one of the first long-distance power transmissions in history, a demonstration organised by the engineer Oskar von Miller and the French physicist Marcel Deprez. It powered a small pump driving an artificial waterfall at an exhibition in Munich. The achievement helped launch the age of electricity, and Oskar von Miller went on to found the Deutsches Museum.
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High point near Miesbach is the summit of this stretch. Next is Scenic stretch in Bruckmühl.
The Mangfall flows out of the Tegernsee and winds north through a deep, wooded valley before turning east towards Rosenheim and the Inn, and Bruckmühl sits on its banks, a modest industrial town with a church, a few factories and modern homes. The valley's springs supply a large part of Munich's drinking water, which is famously pure, and the forests along the river are protected to keep it that way.
Read the complete Scenic stretch in Bruckmühl write-up.
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You top out here; the road stops climbing. Next is Back to Tegernsee and.
East of Munich the Alps vanish from view, and the landscape becomes one of gravel terraces, fields of wheat and rapeseed, and little towns clustered around onion-domed churches. The dot sits in the Erding district, near Buch am Buchrain and Pastetten, where the main business is farming and where the roads are straight and the villages have a tidy, prosperous look. It is the tail end of a long day that took in the Chiemgau and the Tegernsee valley.
Read the complete Tegernsee and write-up.
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Back to Tegernsee and closes the day.
Rosenheim fuel → Chiemsee shore is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Chiemsee shore → Aschau mountain view is 15 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Aschau mountain view → Miesbach return roads is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Miesbach return roads → Back to Rosenheim fuel is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Back to Rosenheim fuel → Fuel stop near Isen is 55 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fuel stop near Isen → Near Manching, on the way back is 100 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Food stop near Affing → Photo stop in Peißenberg is 111 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Photo stop in Peißenberg → Grünwald is 59 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
High point near Miesbach → Scenic stretch in Bruckmühl is 13 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Scenic stretch in Bruckmühl → Back to Tegernsee and is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.