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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273 km from Český Krumlov to Český Krumlov, about 5 h 03 of riding. It goes by way of Schlögen - Kastell, Schlögen - Vicus, Oberranna - Kleinkastell and Linz - Befestigung Schlossberg. It crosses from Czechia into Austria - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
The Vltava makes a series of tight loops through the south Bohemian hills, and Český Krumlov sits inside one of them like a stone kept in a closed hand. The old town, the castle on its rock above the river, and the bridges and rooftops are all squeezed into the bend. It is a very small place, only about fourteen thousand people, but it has the air of something much larger, because for centuries it was the seat of powerful noble families, first the Rosenbergs and later the Schwarzenbergs and Eggenbergs, who built and rebuilt the castle until it had grown into dozens of buildings around a string of courtyards.
Read the complete Český Krumlov write-up.
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Cesky Krumlov is where the day begins. Next is Schlögen - Kastell.
The Danube here performs one of its most famous tricks. Forced by hard granite, the river makes two tight hairpin turns, the Schlögener Schlinge, doubling back on itself in a loop so neat it looks drawn with a compass. From the viewpoint on the wooded slope above, a short walk from the road, you look down on the river curling around a forested spur, and it is one of the classic images of Upper Austria.
Read the complete Schlögen - Kastell write-up.
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Schlögen - Kastell comes up about 77 km into the recorded legs. Next is Schlögen - Vicus.
The Danube does something remarkable at Schlögen. Forced by hard granite, the river makes a tight double hairpin, the Schlögener Schlinge, turning back on itself twice in a deep, wooded valley in Upper Austria, and the view of it from above is one of the most famous in the country. A short walk from the river up through the forest leads to the Schlögener Blick viewpoint, where you can see the river coiling below like a green-brown snake between steep slopes.
Read the complete Schlögen - Vicus write-up.
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about 78 km into the recorded legs you reach Schlögen - Vicus. Next is Oberranna - Kleinkastell.
The Danube between Passau and Linz is one of the loveliest stretches of the whole river, and near Oberranna, on the Upper Austrian bank, it flows quietly between steep wooded slopes, dark and almost gorge-like. Here, beside the water, archaeologists found a small Roman fort, a Kleinkastell, part of the Danube Limes that guarded the northern frontier of the province of Noricum. Its remains are now protected under a modern shelter, and it forms part of the UNESCO listing of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire along the Danube.
Read the complete Oberranna - Kleinkastell write-up.
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Oberranna - Kleinkastell, about halfway. Next is Linz - Befestigung Schlossberg.
Linz is a city that has reinvented itself. For much of the twentieth century it was known mainly for its steelworks and its uncomfortable links with the Nazi period; today it markets itself as a city of culture and technology, with the Ars Electronica centre glowing on the Danube bank at night, the Lentos art museum opposite, and a lively music scene. The Schlossberg, the castle hill above the old town, is where it all began: the Romans had a fort here called Lentia, part of the Danube frontier of the empire, and the Danube Limes is now on the World Heritage list. The castle that stands there now dates largely from the Renaissance, built for Emperor Frederick III, who spent his last years in Linz and died here in 1493. It houses a branch of the Upper Austrian state museum.
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Linz - Befestigung Schlossberg sits at 142 km, about halfway. Next is back through Oberranna - Kleinkastell.
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Read the complete Oberranna - Kleinkastell write-up.
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back through Oberranna - Kleinkastell comes up about 187 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Schlögen - Vicus.
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Read the complete Schlögen - Vicus write-up.
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about 196 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Schlögen - Vicus. Next is back through Schlögen - Kastell.
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Read the complete Schlögen - Kastell write-up.
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back through Schlögen - Kastell, late in the day. Next is Cesky Krumlov.
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Read the complete Český Krumlov write-up.
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The route ends here after 273 km.
Cesky Krumlov → Schlögen - Kastell is 77 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Schlögen - Vicus → Oberranna - Kleinkastell is 9 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Oberranna - Kleinkastell → Linz - Befestigung Schlossberg is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Linz - Befestigung Schlossberg → back through Oberranna - Kleinkastell is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Oberranna - Kleinkastell → back through Schlögen - Vicus is 9 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Schlögen - Kastell → Cesky Krumlov is 77 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.