CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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237 km from Düsseldorf to Düsseldorf, about 3 h 04 of riding. The stops in between: Cologne Cathedral, Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex in, back through Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex in and back through Cologne Cathedral.
Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through. 46 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it.
Düsseldorf has two reputations that do not always sit comfortably together: fashion and beer. The Königsallee, a wide boulevard with a tree-lined canal down the middle, is lined with expensive shops, and the city is a hub for advertising, trade fairs and business. Yet the old town, the Altstadt, is crammed with traditional brewery pubs serving Altbier, a dark copper top-fermented beer poured fresh from the barrel into small glasses by waiters called Köbes. The stretch is often called the longest bar in the world, and on a Friday night it seems like it.
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Düsseldorf is where the day begins. Next is Cologne Cathedral.
Six hundred and thirty-two years. That is how long it took to finish Cologne Cathedral, from the laying of the foundation stone in 1248 to the completion of the spires in 1880, and when you stand at its foot by the main station it feels as though the building is still growing. The twin towers climb to around 157 metres, black with soot and weather, and for a few years after completion they made it the tallest building in the world.
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Cologne Cathedral comes up 32 km in. Next is Cologne Cathedral.
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65 km in you reach Cologne Cathedral. Next is Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex in.
The headframe of Shaft XII at Zollverein, with its red steel lattice and double wheels, is the Eiffel Tower of the Ruhr, and it is easy to see why. Designed by the architects Fritz Schupp and Martin Kremmer and opened in 1932, the shaft and its surrounding buildings were built in a clean, functional style influenced by the Bauhaus, and it was hailed as the most beautiful coal mine in the world. At its peak, Zollverein was one of the largest and most productive mines in Europe, and the adjacent coking plant processed coal into coke for the steel industry. The mine closed in 1986, the coking plant in 1993, and UNESCO listed the complex in 2001.
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Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex in, about halfway. Next is Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex in.
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Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex in sits at 130 km, about halfway. Next is back through Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex in.
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back through Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex in comes up 162 km in. Next is back through Cologne Cathedral.
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194 km in you reach back through Cologne Cathedral. Next is back through Cologne Cathedral.
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back through Cologne Cathedral, late in the day. Next is Dusseldorf.
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The route ends here after 237 km.
Düsseldorf → Cologne Cathedral is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cologne Cathedral → Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex in is 83 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex in → back through Cologne Cathedral is 83 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Cologne Cathedral → Dusseldorf is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.