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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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
A 104 km round trip from Allensbach - roughly 1 h 57 in the saddle. The stops in between: Bodman-Schachen / Löchle, Insel Werd and back through Bodman-Schachen / Löchle. It crosses from Germany into Switzerland - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules. The line favours views over speed.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 20 km this is Grand Tour of Switzerland, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Lake Constance does not do dramatic. It does soft: a huge sheet of water, a far shore that comes and goes with the haze, and little towns with tidy promenades that seem to have been tidied again while you were not looking. Allensbach's Strandbad is one of those spots, a lido on the Gnadensee, the western arm of the lake, with a swimming area, grass banks and a view across to the Reichenau island and the Swiss shore beyond.
Read the complete Allensbach-Strandbad write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Allensbach-Strandbad is where the day begins. Next is Bodman-Schachen / Löchle.
Lake Constance takes its German name, Bodensee, from this village. Bodman, at the western tip of the Überlinger See arm of the lake, was the site of a royal palace in the early Middle Ages, and the name of the place spread to the water. Below the village, in the shallows at Schachen and Löchle, lie the remains of prehistoric pile dwellings, part of the transnational World Heritage Site of Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps, inscribed in 2011.
Read the complete Bodman-Schachen / Löchle write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Bodman-Schachen / Löchle comes up about 20 km into the recorded legs. Next is Insel Werd.
Where the Rhine leaves Lake Constance at Stein am Rhein, a group of small islands sits in the river, connected to the shore by a wooden footbridge, and on the largest, Werd, stands a small chapel surrounded by trees and water. It was here, in 759, that Saint Otmar, the first abbot of St Gallen, died in exile after falling foul of powerful local nobles, and the island has been a place of pilgrimage ever since. Long before Otmar, people lived here too: the islands and the surrounding shores are among the Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps, a World Heritage site, and excavations have found traces of settlements from the Neolithic onwards.
Read the complete Insel Werd write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 52 km into the recorded legs you reach Insel Werd. Next is back through Bodman-Schachen / Löchle.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Bodman-Schachen / Löchle write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Bodman-Schachen / Löchle, late in the day. Next is Allensbach-Strandbad.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Allensbach-Strandbad write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Allensbach-Strandbad. That is the ride.
Allensbach-Strandbad → Bodman-Schachen / Löchle is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Bodman-Schachen / Löchle → Insel Werd is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Insel Werd → back through Bodman-Schachen / Löchle is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Bodman-Schachen / Löchle → Allensbach-Strandbad is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.