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 72 km round trip from Hengstdal - roughly 1 h 41 in the saddle. The stops in between: Kleve-Keeken, Till and back through Kleve-Keeken. It crosses from Netherlands into Germany - carry ID and check the toll rules. The line favours views over speed.
The Romans were water engineers, and the Berg en Dal aqueduct, near Nijmegen, is a trace of that skill in the Dutch landscape. Nijmegen was a major Roman centre, called Noviomagus, with a legion fortress on the Hunerberg and a town that grew beside it, and it needed a good water supply. The solution was to tap springs in the hills to the east, in the hills around Berg en Dal, and carry the water in a channel for several kilometres. Remains have been found near Louisedal, in the form of stone foundations and traces of the channel.
Read the complete Berg en Dal-aqueduct | Louisedal write-up.
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Berg en Dal-aqueduct | Louisedal is where the day begins. Next is Kleve-Keeken.
Here the Rhine stops being a German river. Just downstream of the village of Keeken, the great river crosses the border into the Netherlands, and a few kilometres further on it divides, with the Waal carrying most of the water west and the Pannerdens Canal leading to the Nederrijn and the IJssel. In Roman times, this was the northern frontier of the empire, the Lower German Limes, and Keeken is one of the sites listed as part of the UNESCO frontier, with traces of Roman military installations along the old river course.
Read the complete Kleve-Keeken write-up.
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Kleve-Keeken comes up about 21 km into the recorded legs. Next is Till.
The Lower Rhine around Kalkar and Kleve is wide, flat country: green polders, willows along drainage ditches, brick farmhouses and church spires visible for miles. Till is a small village here, part of Bedburg-Hau, just off the Rhine embankments between Kalkar and Kleve, with Emmerich across the river. It lies close to the line of the Roman frontier, the Lower German Limes, which followed the Rhine to the North Sea.
Read the complete Till write-up.
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about 36 km into the recorded legs you reach Till. Next is back through Kleve-Keeken.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Kleve-Keeken write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Kleve-Keeken, late in the day. Next is Berg en Dal-aqueduct | Louisedal.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Berg en Dal-aqueduct | Louisedal write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Berg en Dal-aqueduct | Louisedal. That is the ride.
Berg en Dal-aqueduct | Louisedal → Kleve-Keeken is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Kleve-Keeken → Till is 15 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Till → back through Kleve-Keeken is 15 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Kleve-Keeken → Berg en Dal-aqueduct | Louisedal is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.