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.
Reading history stays on this device. My road watch requires a separate selection; opening it does not subscribe this ride.
Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
A big-mile bridge to the real theatre. 605 km round from Bergamo - plan on about 8 h 12 of riding. The stops in between: Lake Iseo, Trento and Canazei. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,900 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
Water arrives beside the road and stays for 40 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.
For about 104 km this is Passo Rolle and Valles Loop, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it. Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast.
Check the pass is open before you commit to it.
Bergamo is two cities in one: a modern lower town of boulevards, offices and shopping streets spread across the Lombard plain, and above it, on a steep spur of the foothills, the Citta Alta, a walled medieval city of cobbled lanes, towers and piazzas. The upper city is the point of this stop, a place to finish a long day and walk around while the stone cools. The city as a whole has about 114,000 people, and Orio al Serio, home of Milan's third airport, is just to the south.
Read the complete Bergamo old town write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Bergamo old town sits at 0 km, early in the day. Next is Lake Iseo pause.
Lake Iseo is the quiet one among the big Lombard lakes, and the western shore, where this pause sits, shows why. The road runs close to the water between cliffs and small villages, with Monte Isola, Europe's largest lake island, rising green in the middle of the lake. Fishing boats and ferries cross to its villages, and in summer the sound of engines drifts over the water. The surroundings are less polished than Lake Como, with working harbours and unfussy cafés, and many riders find that a relief.
Read the complete Lake Iseo pause write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Lake Iseo pause comes up about 43 km into the recorded legs. Next is Trento food.
Trento is the real beginning of the Dolomites, even though the famous peaks are still a good way north. The city lies in the Adige valley, ringed by steep mountains that rise abruptly from the valley floor, and the light that falls on its walls is distinctly alpine, while the cooking and the architecture have a southern ease. It is a university city with about eighty thousand people, and the cafés on its piazzas are full of students and cyclists.
Read the complete Trento food gate write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
A break here. Next is Canazei base.
Canazei base, late in the day. Next is Back to Bergamo old town.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Bergamo old town write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Back to Bergamo old town. That is the ride.
This Lake Iseo pause → Trento food gate stretch is for rhythm and scenery. Keep your head up, let the view breathe, and resist turning every open bend into a target. Stop once properly rather than half-stopping everywhere.
Trento food gate → Canazei base is the logistics leg. Watch junctions, villages and speed changes, then let the roadbook do its job: move you out of the clutter without spending your best attention too early.