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.
Reading history stays on this device. My road watch requires a separate selection; opening it does not subscribe this ride.
Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
From Erlach it runs 89 km to Erlach; allow about 1 h 40 of riding. The stops in between: Segelboothafen, Les Grèves and back through Segelboothafen. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 950 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 19 km this is Grand Tour of Switzerland, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
The south shore of Lake Biel is a gentle place of reeds, vineyards on the far bank and farmland stretching back towards the Seeland plain, and at Lüscherz, one of the small lakeside villages, the remains of a prehistoric pile-dwelling settlement lie in the shallows. Dorfstation, as the site is known, is part of the transnational World Heritage Site of Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps, inscribed in 2011. Neolithic and Bronze Age farmers built their houses on wooden piles along the shore, and the waterlogged ground preserved timbers, tools, textiles and food remains for thousands of years.
Read the complete Dorfstation write-up.
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Dorfstation is where the day begins. Next is Segelboothafen.
Murten is the rare Swiss town where you can walk the medieval walls almost all the way round, looking down on brown tiled roofs on one side and the lake on the other. Its sailing harbour, the Segelboothafen, lies just below the old town on the shore of Lake Murten, and in the shallows here are the remains of prehistoric pile dwellings, one of the Swiss components of the transnational World Heritage Site of Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps. Nothing shows above the water, but the lakeshore has been a place to live for thousands of years.
Read the complete Segelboothafen write-up.
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Segelboothafen comes up about 19 km into the recorded legs. Next is Les Grèves.
Reeds, mostly. That is the first thing you notice when you roll down to Les Grèves on the southern shore of Lake Neuchâtel: a soft wall of reed and willow between the fields and the water, with the Jura sitting long and blue on the far side of the lake. This stretch between Portalban, Gletterens and Chevroux belongs to the Grande Cariçaie, the biggest lakeshore marsh in Switzerland, and it only exists because people once moved an entire lake level.
Read the complete Les Grèves write-up.
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about 44 km into the recorded legs you reach Les Grèves. Next is back through Segelboothafen.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Segelboothafen write-up.
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back through Segelboothafen, late in the day. Next is Dorfstation.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Dorfstation write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Dorfstation. That is the ride.
Dorfstation → Segelboothafen is 19 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Segelboothafen → Les Grèves is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Les Grèves → back through Segelboothafen is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Segelboothafen → Dorfstation is 19 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.