CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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557 km from Genève to Genève, about 8 h 42 of riding. On the way it passes Hautecombe, Baie de Grésine, Lavaux and back through Lavaux. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,150 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It crosses from Switzerland into France - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For 1 km this is Lavaux Vineyard Road, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Geneva sits at the south-western tip of Lake Geneva, which locals call Lac Léman, and on a clear day the white shoulder of Mont Blanc rises over the far shore, more than sixty kilometres away. The Rhône leaves the lake here, fast and blue-green, and the city spreads along both banks. The most famous thing is the Jet d'Eau, a fountain that throws a plume of water about a hundred and forty metres into the air from the lake, visible from far across the water.
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Geneva is where the day begins. Next is Hautecombe.
Hautecombe Abbey stands on the western shore of Lac du Bourget, in Savoy, and it is almost impossible to reach without seeing the lake first. The Lac du Bourget is the largest natural lake entirely in France, a deep blue sheet under limestone cliffs, and the abbey sits on a small rocky spur above the water, with a boat landing and a church whose tower is visible across the bay. The poet Lamartine, who fell in love here in 1816, wrote a famous poem called Le Lac, about a lost love at this water.
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Hautecombe comes up 56 km in. Next is Baie de Grésine.
Lac du Bourget is the largest natural lake in France, a long, deep lake in Savoie between the Jura and the Alps, and the poet Alphonse de Lamartine made it famous with his poem Le Lac, written after a love affair that began on its shores. The Baie de Grésine, near Brison-Saint-Innocent on the eastern shore, is one of the prehistoric pile-dwelling sites of the lake, part of the Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps listed by UNESCO in 2011. As with other such sites, the remains lie underwater, but the bay and its surroundings are a beautiful place to stop.
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112 km in you reach Baie de Grésine. Next is Lavaux.
From the shore of Lake Geneva the vineyards of Lavaux climb almost vertically, terrace upon terrace, held up by stone walls, to villages perched on the slopes above. Monks from Cistercian abbeys began shaping these hillsides in the Middle Ages, and generations of winegrowers have rebuilt the walls ever since, carrying soil back up when rain washes it down. The result is one of the most striking wine landscapes in the world, stretching about thirty kilometres between Lausanne and Montreux, and listed by UNESCO in 2007. Locals like to say that the vines here enjoy three suns: the one in the sky, its reflection off the lake and the warmth stored in the stone walls.
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Lavaux, about halfway.
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Lavaux sits at 224 km, about halfway. Next is back through Lavaux.
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back through Lavaux comes up 280 km in. Next is back through Baie de Grésine.
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336 km in you reach back through Baie de Grésine. Next is back through Hautecombe.
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back through Hautecombe, late in the day. Next is Geneva.
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Read the complete Geneva write-up.
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The route ends here after 557 km.
Geneva → Hautecombe is 74 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Hautecombe → Baie de Grésine is 5 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Baie de Grésine → Lavaux is 145 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Lavaux → back through Baie de Grésine is 145 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Baie de Grésine → back through Hautecombe is 5 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hautecombe → Geneva is 74 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.