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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283 km from Attersee to Attersee, about 4 h 08 of riding. It goes by way of Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg, See, back through See and back through Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,050 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
51 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it — speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through.
Water arrives beside the road and stays for 41 km. The line follows the shore because there is nowhere else for it to go. Slow enough to look. The surface follows the shoreline, so the corners arrive where the water decided, not where an engineer did.
Abtsdorf lies on the western shore of the Attersee, the largest lake in the Salzkammergut, a region of lakes, forests and limestone peaks east of Salzburg. The water is remarkably clear, a deep blue-green that looks almost Mediterranean on a bright day, and the lake is about twenty kilometres long, which makes it a gentle place to ride beside. The towns along the shore, Attersee and Weyregg among them, are small and old-fashioned, with sailing clubs and cafes that open onto the water.
Read the complete Abtsdorf I write-up.
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Abtsdorf I is where the day begins. Next is Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg.
Salzburg's old town is a stage set that happens to be real. Squeezed between the river Salzach and the steep rock of the Mönchsberg, it packs baroque domes, church towers and tall merchants' houses into a few dense streets, while the white walls of Hohensalzburg fortress sit high above everything like a lid on a jewellery box. The city has around a hundred and fifty thousand people, yet the centre still feels small enough to cross on foot in twenty minutes.
Read the complete Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg comes up about 57 km into the recorded legs. Next is See.
At the southeastern tip of the Mondsee, where the lake narrows toward the Attersee and the cliffs of the Drachenwand and the Schafberg crowd in on both sides, lies a hamlet with the shortest name you will find on any map: See. Just offshore, in the shallow water where the lake drains, divers found the remains of a prehistoric pile-dwelling settlement, and the finds were so characteristic that archaeologists named a whole Neolithic culture after the lake: the Mondsee culture, known for its decorated pottery and early copper working. The site is part of the UNESCO listing of Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps, and as with most of them, there is nothing to see except the water, which is part of the point.
Read the complete See write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 100 km into the recorded legs you reach See.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg write-up.
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Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg, about halfway. Next is back through See.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete See write-up.
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back through See sits at 177 km, about halfway. Next is back through Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg comes up about 227 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abtsdorf I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abtsdorf I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Abtsdorf I closes the day.
Abtsdorf I → Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg is 57 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg → See is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
See → Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg → back through See is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through See → back through Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg → Abtsdorf I is 58 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.