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. Out of Rumson and back again: 598 km, roughly 9 h 23 in the saddle. The stops in between: near Manasquan, Scenic stretch near Dayton, near Hackettstown and near Danbury.
Sea Bright is barely a town at all in the geographic sense: a strip of sand a few hundred metres wide, with the Atlantic on one side, the Shrewsbury River on the other, and Ocean Avenue running down the middle. A great grey seawall shields the road from the ocean, and on a windy day you can feel the spray even though you cannot see the waves. Beach clubs, seafood bars and surf shops line the street, and in summer the whole place hums.
Read the complete Sea Bright write-up.
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Next is High point near Manasquan.
High point near Manasquan comes up about 38 km into the recorded legs. Next is Scenic stretch near Dayton.
Central New Jersey is not where anyone goes looking for mountain roads, and Dayton, part of South Brunswick township, makes no pretence otherwise. It sits in the flat country between New Brunswick and Princeton, crossed by Route 130, the New Jersey Turnpike and US 1, with warehouses, office parks, farms that have survived development and a lot of commuters. Think of this as a place to regroup on the way to the good stuff rather than a destination in itself.
Read the complete Photo stop near Dayton write-up.
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about 93 km into the recorded legs you reach Scenic stretch near Dayton. Next is Photo stop near Hackettstown.
Hackettstown smells faintly of chocolate on some days, thanks to the Mars factory in town, where candy has been made for decades. It is a pleasant small town in the valley of the Musconetcong River, in the hills of north-western New Jersey, with a main street, old churches and a college. For riders, it is a gateway to some of the best roads in the state.
Read the complete Photo stop near Hackettstown write-up.
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Photo stop near Hackettstown, about halfway. Next is Food stop near Danbury.
Food at 354 km, roughly 7 hours into the riding. Next is New York / Hudson Valley rides return.
This corner of Fairfield County is horse fences, old stone walls, apple orchards and white clapboard houses set back among maples, the gentle face of Connecticut between the crowded shoreline and the hills to the north. Easton, with fewer than eight thousand people, has no real town centre at all, just farms, woods and winding roads, and much of its land is held as watershed for the reservoirs that supply Bridgeport and the coast.
Read the complete Near Easton, on the way back write-up.
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New York / Hudson Valley rides return comes up about 398 km into the recorded legs. Next is Delaware Water Gap Long Day checkpoint 8.
Staten Island's north shore faces New Jersey across the narrow Kill Van Kull, and Port Richmond sits right on it, under the steel arch of the Bayonne Bridge. That bridge was raised in recent years, its roadway lifted higher on the old arch so that the giant container ships heading for Newark and Elizabeth could pass underneath, an engineering feat carried out while traffic still flowed. From the waterfront, you watch tugs and ships slide past almost close enough to touch.
Read the complete Port Richmond write-up.
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Delaware Water Gap Long Day checkpoint 8 closes the day. Next is Back to Delaware.
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Read the complete Sea Bright write-up.
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Back at Back to Delaware. That is the ride.
This High point near Manasquan → Scenic stretch near Dayton 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 near Dayton → Photo stop near Hackettstown 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 Hackettstown → Food stop near Danbury 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 Danbury → Near Easton, 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.