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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Built for flow, views and useful stops rather than navigation busywork. 678 km round from Bad Aibling - plan on about 9 h 22 of riding. It goes by way of Scenic stretch in Peißenberg, near Dinkelscherben and near Schierling. near Kochel is the high point. It tops out at about 1,300 m.
Slow enough to look. The surface follows the shoreline, so the corners arrive where the water decided, not where an engineer did. Water arrives beside the road and stays for 64 km. The line follows the shore because there is nowhere else for it to go.
Next is High point near Kochel.
You top out here; the road stops climbing. Next is Scenic stretch in Peißenberg.
Peißenberg owes its existence to coal. For more than a century a deep mine worked the seams of pitch coal under the town, and when it closed in 1971 the place had to reinvent itself. You can still see traces of the mining past in the old shaft buildings and a small museum, but the modern town is a pleasant, unpretentious market centre in the rolling foothills between the Ammersee and the Alps.
Read the complete Photo stop in Peißenberg write-up.
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about 161 km into the recorded legs you reach Scenic stretch in Peißenberg. Next is Photo stop near Dinkelscherben.
West of Augsburg, the land rises into a quiet country of wooded hills and valleys, protected as the Augsburg Western Forests nature park. Dinkelscherben is a small market town in the valley of the Zusam, with a church, a few shops and inns, and it makes a peaceful stop on a ride through the Swabian countryside, far from the busy roads around the city.
Read the complete Photo stop near Dinkelscherben write-up.
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Photo stop near Dinkelscherben, about halfway. Next is Food stop near Schierling.
Food at 354 km, roughly 7 hours into the riding. Next is Munich / Bavarian Alps return.
Straubing lies a little to the northeast, and this stop sits in the great grain country around it, the Gäuboden. It is some of the most fertile land in Bavaria, a broad plain between the Danube and the Bavarian Forest covered in deep loess soil laid down by wind in the ice age, and the locals call it the breadbasket of the state. The villages of Leiblfing, Mengkofen and Geiselhöring each have a church with an onion dome and a ring of large farms. In summer the fields stand tall and golden, and the whole area smells of dust and warm straw.
Read the complete Munich / Bavarian Alps write-up.
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Munich / Bavarian Alps return comes up about 471 km into the recorded legs. Next is Ammergau and Plansee checkpoint 8.
Ammergau and Plansee checkpoint 8 closes the day. Next is Back to Ammergau.
Irschenberg is the hill that every driver on the Munich to Salzburg motorway knows, the long ridge where the road crests and the whole Alpine front suddenly appears, a row of grey peaks across the green foreland. On a clear day, the view from the old church on the hill, the pilgrimage church that is the village landmark, takes in the Wendelstein, the Kaisergebirge and the faraway Zugspitze.
Read the complete Ammergau write-up.
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Back at Back to Ammergau. That is the ride.
This High point near Kochel → Scenic stretch in Peißenberg 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.
Scenic stretch in Peißenberg → Photo stop near Dinkelscherben is the technical section. Hairpins, gradients and mixed traffic can stack up quickly; use low drama inputs, stay wide of centre lines and expect buses or riders appearing exactly where optimism says they will not.
This Photo stop near Dinkelscherben → Food stop near Schierling 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.
Food stop near Schierling → Near Mengkofen, on the way back can flow quickly, but only if you keep village limits and junction sightlines sacred. Fast connectors are where rides get untidy when fatigue creeps in.