CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 300 km round trip from Versoix - roughly 4 h 24 in the saddle. The stops in between: Stations de Morges, Lavaux, Les Roseaux and back through Les Roseaux. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,150 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For 50 km this is Route des Grandes Alpes, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Lake Geneva has a gentle northern shore and a steep one, and Bellerive lies on the quiet side. Collonge-Bellerive is a village on the Geneva side of the lake, a few kilometres from the city, with lawns running down to the water, old villas and a small harbour where sailing boats bob. Some five thousand years ago, people built houses on piles in the shallows here, and what remains of that settlement lies below the surface, protected as part of the Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps, listed by UNESCO in 2011. There is nothing to see from the shore except the lake and the Alps, so the visit is about the setting.
Read the complete Bellerive I write-up.
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Bellerive I is where the day begins. Next is Stations de Morges.
On a calm morning the lake off Morges is as flat as polished pewter, with the Savoy Alps on the far shore and Mont Blanc floating above them, and it is hard to believe that anyone ever had to fight for this view. Yet people have been living right here for millennia. Just off the shore, in the shallow water near the town, lie the remains of prehistoric villages built on piles, the Stations de Morges, one of the Swiss components of the UNESCO Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps. Divers and archaeologists have mapped wooden posts and objects from the Bronze Age, but from the shore you will see only water, swans and the occasional paddleboarder.
Read the complete Stations de Morges write-up.
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Stations de Morges comes up 31 km in. Next is Lavaux.
From the shore of Lake Geneva the vineyards of Lavaux climb almost vertically, terrace upon terrace, held up by stone walls, to villages perched on the slopes above. Monks from Cistercian abbeys began shaping these hillsides in the Middle Ages, and generations of winegrowers have rebuilt the walls ever since, carrying soil back up when rain washes it down. The result is one of the most striking wine landscapes in the world, stretching about thirty kilometres between Lausanne and Montreux, and listed by UNESCO in 2007. Locals like to say that the vines here enjoy three suns: the one in the sky, its reflection off the lake and the warmth stored in the stone walls.
Read the complete Lavaux write-up.
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63 km in you reach Lavaux. Next is Les Roseaux.
Morges sits on the north shore of Lake Geneva between Lausanne and Geneva, with its castle by the harbour and the Alps of Savoy rising across the water. Just east of the town, at a place called Les Roseaux, the reeds, archaeologists found one of the oldest pile dwelling sites on the lake, dating back to the early Bronze Age, and it is part of the UNESCO group of prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps. Its remains lie underwater and are not visible, but the name and the shore keep the memory.
Read the complete Les Roseaux write-up.
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Les Roseaux, about halfway. Next is Lavaux.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Lavaux write-up.
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Lavaux sits at 125 km, about halfway. Next is back through Les Roseaux.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Les Roseaux write-up.
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back through Les Roseaux comes up 156 km in. Next is back through Lavaux.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Lavaux write-up.
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188 km in you reach back through Lavaux. Next is back through Stations de Morges.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Stations de Morges write-up.
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back through Stations de Morges, late in the day. Next is Bellerive I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Bellerive I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
The route ends here after 300 km.
Bellerive I → Stations de Morges is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Stations de Morges → Lavaux is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Lavaux → Les Roseaux is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Les Roseaux → Lavaux is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Lavaux → back through Les Roseaux is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Les Roseaux → back through Lavaux is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Lavaux → back through Stations de Morges is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Stations de Morges → Bellerive I is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.