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: planning record, not independently verified geometry.
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Distances and riding times are planning figures. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
From Sin-le-Noble it runs 249 km to Sin-le-Noble; allow about 4 h 18 of riding. The stops in between: Cités Anatole France et des Electriciens, Funerary and memory sites of the First Wor and back through Cités Anatole France et des Electriciens. It crosses from France into Belgium - carry ID and check the toll rules. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
A kilometre down the road from the workers' housing of Guesnain stands the best place in France to understand what coal really meant. The Centre Historique Minier at Lewarde occupies the old Delloye pit, which closed in 1971, and it walks you through the whole life of a mine: the lamp room, the showers where miners hung their clothes on chains up to the ceiling, the stables for the pit ponies, and a reconstructed gallery underground where you hear the noise of the picks and the creak of the props. Come here first, and every terrace and terril you pass afterwards will make more sense.
Read the complete Cités de Guesnain write-up.
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Cités de Guesnain is where the day begins. Next is Cités Anatole France et des Electriciens.
Bruay-la-Buissière is a town built on coal, and the rows of brick houses that spread around it were designed to keep miners close to their pits. The Cités Anatole France and des Électriciens belong to the great mining landscape of the Nord-Pas-de-Calais, a basin of coalfields, slag heaps and company towns that UNESCO inscribed in 2012. Coal was mined here from the early eighteenth century until the last pit closed in 1990, and the memory of that work is still everywhere.
Read the complete Cités Anatole France et des Electriciens write-up.
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Cités Anatole France et des Electriciens comes up about 61 km into the recorded legs. Next is Funerary and memory sites of the First Wor.
Every evening at eight o'clock, traffic stops under the Menin Gate in Ypres, and buglers from the local fire brigade sound the Last Post in memory of the soldiers of the British Empire who died in the Ypres Salient during the First World War. The ceremony has been held almost every evening since 1928, interrupted only during the German occupation in the Second World War, and it draws crowds of all ages, many of them descendants of the fallen. The gate itself is inscribed with the names of more than fifty thousand soldiers whose bodies were never found. It is one of the sites included in the World Heritage inscription of the Funerary and Memory Sites of the First World War, inscribed in 2023.
Read the complete Funerary and memory sites of the First Wor write-up.
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about 125 km into the recorded legs you reach Funerary and memory sites of the First Wor. Next is back through Cités Anatole France et des Electriciens.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cités Anatole France et des Electriciens write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Cités Anatole France et des Electriciens, late in the day. Next is Cités de Guesnain.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cités de Guesnain write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Cités de Guesnain. That is the ride.
Cités de Guesnain → Cités Anatole France et des Electriciens is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cités Anatole France et des Electriciens → Funerary and memory sites of the First Wor is 64 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Funerary and memory sites of the First Wor → back through Cités Anatole France et des Electriciens is 64 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cités Anatole France et des Electriciens → Cités de Guesnain is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.