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 proper escape from Oslo with roads worth waking up for. Out of Kirkebygda and back again: 688 km, roughly 13 h 09 in the saddle. On the way it passes Scenic stretch near Lampeland, near Flå and near Kongsvinger. The climb of the day is in Andebu. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Next is High point in Andebu.
You top out here; the road stops climbing. Next is Scenic stretch near Lampeland.
Lampeland is a small village in Flesberg, in the lower part of Numedal, the long valley that runs north-west from Kongsberg into the mountains of southern Norway. The river Numedalslågen flows through the valley, wide and calm in places, rushing over rapids in others, and the road follows it, with forested slopes rising on both sides and farms on the valley floor.
Read the complete Photo stop near Lampeland write-up.
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about 149 km into the recorded legs you reach Scenic stretch near Lampeland. Next is Photo stop near Flå.
Flå sits in the lower part of Hallingdal, one of the great valleys of southern Norway, where the river Hallingdalselva flows south into Lake Krøderen. Rv7, the main road from Oslo to Bergen over Hardangervidda, runs through the valley, and Flå is often the first stop for travellers heading west into the mountains.
Read the complete Photo stop near Flå write-up.
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Photo stop near Flå, about halfway. Next is Oslo / Norway Scenic Roads return.
West of Oslo, the land tilts down to the fjord in a long slope of forest, villas and small farms, and the area between Asker, Billingstad and the Kolsås ridge is where the city's commuter belt meets real countryside. Kolsås itself, a flat-topped ridge of old volcanic rock, rises steeply above the houses, and from its cliffs climbers and walkers look out over the inner Oslofjord, its islands and the city in the distance.
This stop is called Back to Rondane, which is a slight misnomer, because the point actually lies in Østfold on the eastern side of the Oslofjord, near Rygge and the town of Moss. Rondane's high plateaus are a long day's ride north. What you have here is a very different side of Norway, gentle, farmed and close to the sea.