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 one-way ride of 717 km, Moosinning to Neufahrn bei Freising - roughly 12 h 39 in the saddle. On the way it passes Schrobenhausen, in Prittriching, near Penzberg and Grünwald. The climbs: near Tuntenhausen and near Grafing bei München. It tops out at about 1,000 m. Much of it runs through woodland.
For 61 km this is Romantic Road, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it — expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast.
22 km on Back to German Alpine → Walchensee and Kochelsee Sweep fuel gate.
North-east of Munich, the land flattens into a wide plain of fields, drainage ditches and scattered villages. This is the Erdinger Moos, once a vast marsh, drained over the past two centuries and now home to farms, gravel pits and, a few kilometres away, Munich's international airport. Moosinning is one of the villages on its edge, quiet and practical, with a church, a few farms and modern housing.
Read the complete Fuel stop near Moosinning write-up.
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German Alpine Road East is where the day begins. Next is Munich / Bavarian Alps return.
In spring, the sandy fields around Schrobenhausen are covered with long, ridged rows under black plastic, and from April to June the whole region revolves around a single vegetable: white asparagus. Schrobenhausener Spargel is among the best-known asparagus in Germany, protected by an origin designation, and the town even has a museum devoted to it. If you are passing in season, the restaurants serve it in every possible form, classically with boiled potatoes, ham and hollandaise sauce.
Read the complete Schrobenhausen, on the way back write-up.
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Munich / Bavarian Alps return comes up about 75 km into the recorded legs. Next is Food stop in Prittriching.
Prittriching lies on the Lechfeld, the broad gravel plain that the River Lech built as it flowed north from the Alps towards the Danube. The village is small and agricultural, with a church, farms and a few modern houses, and the countryside around it is flat and open, given over to fields of maize, wheat and potatoes. It is a quiet place with a long view in every direction.
Read the complete Food stop in Prittriching write-up.
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A break here. Next is Photo stop near Penzberg.
Penzberg was a coal town until 1966, when its mine closed after more than a century of operation. The miners' houses, the old headframe and a museum recall that past, but Penzberg's real surprise is cultural: its museum houses a remarkable collection of works by Heinrich Campendonk, a member of the Blue Rider group of painters, with his colourful, dreamlike paintings and glass works. It is an unexpected treasure in a small town at the edge of the Alps.
Read the complete Photo stop near Penzberg write-up.
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Photo stop near Penzberg, early in the day. Next is German Alpine Road East checkpoint 8.
It is one of the wealthiest suburbs in Germany, a place of large villas hidden behind hedges, and also home to the Bavaria Film studios at Geiselgasteig, where films and television series have been made for over a century. The studio tour is a classic Munich day out, with sets from famous productions such as Das Boot.
Read the complete Near Grünwald write-up.
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Finish at German Alpine Road East checkpoint 8. That is the ride. Next is High point near Tuntenhausen.
The twin towers of Tuntenhausen's pilgrimage church rise above the meadows between Bad Aibling and Rosenheim, visible from miles around. For centuries, pilgrims have come here to venerate an image of the Virgin, and the church, rebuilt in the seventeenth century, is richly decorated inside with stucco and paintings. It is a quiet place, surrounded by farms and fields, with the Alps rising on the southern horizon.
Read the complete High point near Tuntenhausen write-up.
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High point near Tuntenhausen is the summit of this stretch. Next is Scenic stretch near Ebersberg.
The Ebersberger Forst is one of the largest continuous forests in the lowlands of Germany, a vast expanse of spruce, beech and oak east of Munich, crossed by straight roads and tracks. It was once a royal hunting ground, and it is still full of roe deer, boar and many birds. The town of Ebersberg sits on its edge, with a large church that holds a relic said to be the skull of Saint Sebastian, the object of a pilgrimage for centuries.
Read the complete Scenic stretch near Ebersberg write-up.
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about 343 km into the recorded legs you reach Scenic stretch near Ebersberg. Next is Back to German Alpine.
Flat as a table and wide as the sky, the land around Moosinning and Oberding is the gravel plain northeast of Munich, a former marsh called the Erdinger Moos that was drained over a century ago and is now mostly fields, villages and the long concrete ribbon of Munich Airport. For a rider coming back from the Alps on the German Alpine Road, the mountains are simply gone, and the horizon is a line of trees, a church spire and the occasional aircraft banking in.
Read the complete German Alpine write-up.
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Finish at Back to German Alpine. That is the ride. Next is Walchensee and Kochelsee Sweep.
Next is Scenic stretch near Moosinning.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fuel stop near Moosinning write-up.
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Scenic stretch near Moosinning comes up about 429 km into the recorded legs. Next is High point near Grafing bei München.
High point near Grafing bei München is the summit of this stretch. Next is Photo stop near Holzkirchen.
Photo stop near Holzkirchen, late in the day. Next is Walchensee and Kochelsee Sweep checkpoint 8.
Walchensee and Kochelsee Sweep checkpoint 8 closes the day. Next is Food stop near Herrsching am Ammersee.
On a hill above the Ammersee, the onion-domed church of Andechs Monastery has drawn pilgrims for centuries, but many modern visitors come for something else: the beer. The Benedictine monks of Andechs brew some of the most celebrated beers in Bavaria, and the beer garden next to the monastery, with its view over the countryside, is famous. The climb from Herrsching through the Kiental, a narrow wooded valley, is a pleasant walk for those who want to earn their beer; riders, of course, take the road and leave the beer for later.
Read the complete High point near Herrsching am Ammersee write-up.
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Food stop near Herrsching am Ammersee is where this day stops to eat. Next is Munich / Bavarian Alps return.
about 656 km into the recorded legs you reach Munich / Bavarian Alps return. Next is Back to Walchensee and.
The nearest bigger town is Freising, perched on the Domberg above the Isar, with a cathedral and a brewery at Weihenstephan that claims to be the oldest in the world, running since 1040. That claim is proudly defended, and the brewery's tavern is a pleasant stop for a Bavarian lunch.
Read the complete Walchensee and write-up.
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Back to Walchensee and closes the day.
Fuel stop near Moosinning → Schrobenhausen, on the way back is 75 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Food stop in Prittriching → Photo stop near Penzberg is 94 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Photo stop near Penzberg → Near Grünwald is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
High point near Tuntenhausen → Scenic stretch near Ebersberg is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Scenic stretch near Ebersberg → Back to German Alpine is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Back to German Alpine → Fuel stop in Neufahrn bei Freising is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fuel stop in Neufahrn bei Freising → Scenic stretch near Moosinning is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Scenic stretch near Moosinning → High point near Grafing bei München is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
High point near Grafing bei München → Photo stop near Holzkirchen is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Photo stop near Holzkirchen → Oberhaching is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Food stop near Herrsching am Ammersee → Near Adelzhausen, on the way back is 74 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.