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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A 242 km one-way ride from near Giubiasco, about 3 h 21 of riding. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,300 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It crosses from Switzerland into Italy - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules.
Giubiasco lies at the southern edge of Bellinzona, the capital of the Swiss canton of Ticino, where the valley of the Ticino river opens towards the Magadino plain and Lake Maggiore. For centuries, this was the gateway to the Alpine passes, the Gotthard, San Bernardino and Lukmanier, and whoever controlled Bellinzona controlled the trade routes between Italy and northern Europe.
Read the complete Food stop near Giubiasco write-up.
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Food stop near Giubiasco is where the day begins. Next is Photo stop near Vercelli.
Photo stop near Vercelli comes up about 149 km into the recorded legs. Next is Val Trebbia Sweep checkpoint 8.
Leave Milan to the south and within twenty minutes the city gives way to rice. The Parco Agricolo Sud Milano protects a wide belt of farmland around the city, and between Binasco, Zibido San Giacomo and Noviglio the fields are flooded each spring, turning the plain into a vast mirror of sky, laced with canals and lines of poplars. The locals call it the chequered sea.
Read the complete Near Binasco write-up.
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The route ends here after 242 km.
Food stop near Giubiasco → Photo stop near Vercelli is 149 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Photo stop near Vercelli → Near Binasco is 93 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.