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 403 km round trip from Køge - roughly 5 h 23 in the saddle. The stops in between: Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn, Møns Klint and back through Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
In 2014, archaeologists using laser scanning of the landscape noticed a faint circle in a field near Køge, on the Danish island of Zealand, about forty kilometres south-west of Copenhagen. Excavations confirmed what they had hoped: it was a Viking ring fortress, one of a small group of perfectly circular fortresses built in Denmark in the late tenth century, probably under King Harald Bluetooth. It was named Borgring, and it was the first new ring fortress to be found in Denmark in over sixty years.
Read the complete Borgring write-up.
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Borgring is where the day begins. Next is Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn.
Danish kings loved to hunt, and in the late seventeenth century they laid out forests north of Copenhagen in a geometric pattern of straight paths radiating from central points, designed for par force hunting, in which riders and hounds chased a stag until it was exhausted. Jægersborg Dyrehave, the deer park, and Jægersborg Hegn are included in UNESCO's inscription of the par force hunting landscape in North Zealand, together with forests further north. The star-shaped network of rides is still visible, with numbered stone posts at the intersections that helped the hunters find their way.
Read the complete Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn write-up.
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Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn comes up about 55 km into the recorded legs. Next is Møns Klint.
Møns Klint is where the Baltic suddenly gets dramatic. Over a stretch of some six kilometres on the east coast of the island of Møn, chalk cliffs laid down in the late Cretaceous rise straight out of the sea, white and crumbling and streaked with grey flint, to a height of about a hundred metres and more. The highest point of the cliffs is the Dronningestolen, the Queen's Chair, reaching more than a hundred and twenty metres above the beach. Beech woods grow right to the edge, and in the green light under the trees the contrast with the chalk is a surprise.
Read the complete Møns Klint write-up.
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about 202 km into the recorded legs you reach Møns Klint. Next is back through Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn, late in the day. Next is Borgring.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Borgring write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Borgring. That is the ride.
Borgring → Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn is 55 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn → Møns Klint is 147 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Møns Klint → back through Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn is 147 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn → Borgring is 53 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.