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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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
A compact water-and-bends ride for an afternoon with good light. The best part sits around Selent lake shore, Lütjenburg snack stop, Hohwacht water stop, while the most useful town stop keeps the day practical instead of turning it into a fuel or food hunt. Check the OSM map, Google preview and GPX checkpoint order before departure; they use the same waypoint sequence. Ride it with legal pull-offs, patience through villages and enough daylight to stop without rushing.
Water arrives beside the road and stays for 26 km. The line follows the shore because there is nowhere else for it to go — slow enough to look. The surface follows the shoreline, so the corners arrive where the water decided, not where an engineer did.
15 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it. Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through.
Selent is a village of about thirteen hundred people, and its lake, the Selenter See, is the second largest in Schleswig-Holstein, a long glacial basin of roughly twenty-two square kilometres. Nothing here is grand. The shores are low and wooded, reed beds line the edges, and there are good places for birdwatching, with grebes, swans and cormorants common. It is a quiet bit of Holstein Switzerland where the main events are the arrival of the wind, the colour of the water and the occasional sailing dinghy.
Read the complete Selent lake shore write-up.
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Selent lake shore is where the day begins. Next is Lütjenburg snack stop.
A snack stop in a town like Lütjenburg is an education in how small-town northern Germany eats between meals. Every bakery has a counter of rolls, filled with ham, cheese, egg, smoked fish or a slab of Leberwurst, and most of them also sell cake by the slice and coffee in paper cups. You pay at the till, take your bag and sit on a bench in the square, and nobody minds. A fish roll from a stall, with pickled herring, onions and a dill pickle, is the more adventurous choice, and a sweet pastry from the baker the safer one.
Read the complete Lütjenburg snack stop write-up.
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Lütjenburg snack stop comes up about 13 km into the recorded legs. Next is Hohwacht water stop.
Not every water stop has to involve getting wet. Hohwacht works for riders because it offers a place to refill a bottle, sit near the sea and let the engine cool, and because the little harbour has a calm, working character that is a relief after the busier resorts to the east. The marina holds a mix of small fishing boats and sailing yachts, and a few smokehouses and kiosks do a quiet trade. In the early morning, before the day-trippers arrive, you can hear the halyards tapping against the masts and the cry of gulls.
Read the complete Hohwacht water stop write-up.
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about 21 km into the recorded legs you reach Hohwacht water stop. Next is Preetz return line.
Preetz sits on the Schwentine river between two lakes, and its old convent is the reason to slow down. The Benedictine nunnery of Preetz, founded in the early thirteenth century, survived the Reformation by turning into a Protestant convent for unmarried daughters of the Holstein nobility, a role it still plays today, and its Gothic brick church and cloister stand on a peaceful spit of land beside the Kellersee. The nuns, or rather the ladies, are not in view, but the buildings are lovely, and a short walk around the grounds is a quiet pleasure.
Read the complete Preetz return line write-up.
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Preetz return line, about halfway at 22 m. Next is back to Selent lake shore.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Selent lake shore write-up.
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Back at back to Selent lake shore. That is the ride.
Kiel start to Selent lake shore is the transfer part of the road trip. Keep the route loaded, check local signs, and ride it for line, view and timing rather than speed. Use legal pull-offs for photos and keep the villages quiet.
Lütjenburg snack stop to Hohwacht water stop is the coast part of the road trip. Keep the route loaded, check local signs, and ride it for line, view and timing rather than speed. Use legal pull-offs for photos and keep the villages quiet.
Hohwacht water stop to Preetz return line is the scenic part of the road trip. Keep the route loaded, check local signs, and ride it for line, view and timing rather than speed. Use legal pull-offs for photos and keep the villages quiet.