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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513 km one way from Rottach-Egern - plan on about 7 h 07 of riding. On the way it passes Scenic stretch near Schwabmünchen, near Donauwörth and Johanniskirchen. near Navis is the high point. It tops out at about 1,300 m. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 76 km this is German Alpine Road, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
At the southern end of the Tegernsee, Rottach-Egern sits where the lake meets the mountains, and it has long been one of the most comfortable addresses in Upper Bavaria. Painted houses, carved balconies and well-kept gardens line the shore, and in summer the lake is busy with sailors and swimmers. The Wallberg rises steeply behind the village, and on a clear day its summit looks close enough to touch.
Read the complete Fuel stop near Rottach-Egern write-up.
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Allgäu High Roads is where the day begins. Next is High point near Navis.
Navis lies in a long, quiet side valley that branches east from the Wipptal, the great Brenner corridor south of Innsbruck. Down on the main valley floor the motorway and the railway carry an endless stream of traffic towards Italy; turn off at Matrei or Steinach and climb into Navis, and within minutes the noise is gone. What remains is a scattered farming village strung along the valley for several kilometres, with steep meadows, wooden barns and a church that seems to keep watch from its slope.
Read the complete High point near Navis write-up.
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You top out here; the road stops climbing. Next is Scenic stretch near Schwabmünchen.
South of Augsburg the land flattens into the Lechfeld, a broad gravel plain shaped by the Lech river as it runs north from the Alps. Schwabmünchen is the market town of this stretch, a practical place with a long main street, a handful of churches, and all the shops and services a rider needs. It is not a postcard town, and it does not pretend to be, but it makes a reliable pause between Augsburg and the Allgäu.
Read the complete Scenic stretch near Schwabmünchen write-up.
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about 171 km into the recorded legs you reach Scenic stretch near Schwabmünchen. Next is Photo stop near Donauwörth.
Donauwörth stands where the Wörnitz flows into the Danube, a meeting of waters that made the town important for trade and crossings since the Middle Ages. Its main street, the Reichsstraße, is lined with colourful gabled houses, churches and the old town hall, and it was once part of an important trade route between Nuremberg and Augsburg. Today it is a stop on the Romantic Road, the tourist route that runs from Würzburg to Füssen.
Read the complete Photo stop near Donauwörth write-up.
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Photo stop near Donauwörth, about halfway. Next is Munich / Bavarian Alps return.
The Rottal, in Lower Bavaria, is a land of rolling hills, small woods and wide fields, with farmhouses scattered across the slopes and onion-domed church towers rising above the villages. It is far from the famous Alpine scenery of the south, and few tourists come here, but it has a quiet, pastoral beauty that many riders find refreshing. Johanniskirchen is a small village in the hills between the Vils and the Rott, on the way back towards Munich, and the lanes around it are as calm as any in Bavaria.
Read the complete Near Johanniskirchen, on the way back write-up.
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Munich / Bavarian Alps return sits at 481 km, late in the day. Next is Food stop near Arnstorf.
Arnstorf is a small market town in the Rottal, the gently rolling country of Lower Bavaria between the Isar and the Inn. It is farming country through and through: maize, wheat, hop gardens here and there, big Bavarian farmsteads and onion-domed churches on every rise. The Rottal is also famous for horse breeding, and you may see paddocks of the sturdy Rottaler horses along the lanes.
Read the complete Food stop near Arnstorf write-up.
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The route ends here after 513 km.
Fuel stop near Rottach-Egern → High point near Navis is 76 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
High point near Navis → Scenic stretch near Schwabmünchen is 95 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Scenic stretch near Schwabmünchen → Photo stop near Donauwörth is 78 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Photo stop near Donauwörth → Near Johanniskirchen, on the way back is 244 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.