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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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
From Hochfeld it runs 272 km to Hochfeld; allow about 4 h 05 of riding. On the way it passes Kalkar-Kalkarberg, Tiel Inundation Canal and back through Kalkar-Kalkarberg. It crosses from Germany into Netherlands - carry ID and check the toll rules. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through. 61 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it.
Werthausen sits on the left bank of the Rhine in Duisburg, across the river from the steelworks, harbour cranes and bridges of one of Europe's great industrial cities. It is an unexpected place to look for Rome, but the Lower Rhine was the frontier of the Roman Empire for centuries, and the line of forts, fortlets and watch posts along it is now inscribed on the UNESCO list as the Frontiers of the Roman Empire, the Lower German Limes. The site at Werthausen is one of these components, part of the chain of military posts that watched the river between the legionary bases at Neuss and Xanten.
Read the complete Duisburg-Werthausen write-up.
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Duisburg-Werthausen is where the day begins. Next is Kalkar-Kalkarberg.
Near the Dutch border, where the Rhine flows through wide meadows and dyked farmland, the small town of Kalkar holds a surprising amount of history. The Kalkarberg is a low rise near Altkalkar, and on it stood the Roman fort of Burginatium, one of the posts along the Lower German Limes, now part of the UNESCO-listed Frontiers of the Roman Empire. The rise would have given a valuable view over the river plain, and the fort controlled the road between Xanten and Nijmegen. Today it is fields and trees, but the shape of the land still hints at the old fortification.
Read the complete Kalkar-Kalkarberg write-up.
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Kalkar-Kalkarberg comes up about 59 km into the recorded legs. Next is Tiel Inundation Canal.
Tiel is a river town on the Waal, the main branch of the Rhine in the Netherlands, in the middle of the Betuwe, a region of orchards, dykes and meadows between the Waal and the Lower Rhine. Just outside the town, a wide, straight channel runs through the fields, crossed by bridges and lined by dykes. This is the Tiel inundation canal, built in the late nineteenth century as part of the New Dutch Waterline, the defensive system of controlled flooding that protected the heart of Holland, and it is now part of the UNESCO-listed Dutch Water Defence Lines.
Read the complete Tiel Inundation Canal write-up.
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about 136 km into the recorded legs you reach Tiel Inundation Canal. Next is back through Kalkar-Kalkarberg.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Kalkar-Kalkarberg write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Kalkar-Kalkarberg, late in the day. Next is Duisburg-Werthausen.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Duisburg-Werthausen write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Duisburg-Werthausen. That is the ride.
Duisburg-Werthausen → Kalkar-Kalkarberg is 59 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Kalkar-Kalkarberg → Tiel Inundation Canal is 77 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Tiel Inundation Canal → back through Kalkar-Kalkarberg is 77 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Kalkar-Kalkarberg → Duisburg-Werthausen is 59 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.