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 461 km round trip from Göstling an der Ybbs - roughly 7 h 41 in the saddle. On the way it passes Kalkalpen - Hintergebirg, Wallsee - Kastell, Ybbs - Kleinkastell and Blashausgraben - Wachtturm. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,200 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
89 km on Kalkalpen - Hintergebirg → Wallsee - Kastell.
For about 30 km this is Wachau Danube Road, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it. Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast.
Dürrenstein-Lassingtal is a wilderness area in the Ybbstal Alps of Lower Austria, where the limestone mountains rise above deep valleys covered with forests of beech, spruce and fir. It includes the Rothwald, one of the largest remaining primeval forests in Central Europe, a forest that has never been logged, and it is part of the transnational World Heritage Site of the Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe. Here trees grow, die and decay naturally, creating a rich habitat for insects, fungi, birds and mammals.
Read the complete Dürrenstein-Lassingtal write-up.
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Dürrenstein-Lassingtal is where the day begins. Next is Kalkalpen - Hintergebirg.
The Kalkalpen National Park is the largest forest wilderness in Austria, and the Hintergebirge is one of its quiet corners, a limestone mountain range in Upper Austria with steep wooded slopes, deep valleys and very few roads. It is a landscape of beech, spruce and fir, with some of the oldest unmanaged beech forest in the Alps, so valuable that it is included in the UNESCO listing of ancient beech forests of Europe. Walking in it feels like walking in the Europe before the roads.
Read the complete Kalkalpen - Hintergebirg write-up.
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Kalkalpen - Hintergebirg comes up about 64 km into the recorded legs. Next is Wallsee - Kastell.
Wallsee is one of those Danube villages that people cycle through on the long riverside path without guessing how much history sits under their tyres. A castle rises on a rock above the river, and beneath and around the village lie the remains of a Roman fort that guarded this stretch of the Danube frontier. It is part of the Danube Limes World Heritage Site, inscribed in 2021, which follows the river from Bavaria through Austria to Slovakia, a line of forts, watchtowers and towns that held the northern edge of the empire for centuries.
Read the complete Wallsee - Kastell write-up.
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about 153 km into the recorded legs you reach Wallsee - Kastell. Next is Ybbs - Kleinkastell.
Ybbs an der Donau and Persenbeug face each other across the Danube in Lower Austria, connected by a hydroelectric dam that was one of the first built on the Austrian Danube after the war. Persenbeug is dominated by its castle, perched on a rock above the river, which belonged to the Habsburgs and was the birthplace of Emperor Charles I, the last emperor of Austria-Hungary. On the Ybbs side, the remains of a small Roman fort have been found, part of the Danube frontier of the Roman Empire.
Read the complete Ybbs - Kleinkastell write-up.
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Ybbs - Kleinkastell, about halfway. Next is Blashausgraben - Wachtturm.
The Wachau is the most beautiful stretch of the Danube in Austria, a narrow valley between Melk and Krems where the river winds between steep hills covered in vineyards and forest, with castles, abbeys and villages on its banks. It is a UNESCO World Heritage site in its own right. Near the village of Aggsbach, on the southern bank, a small Roman watchtower stood in the Blashausgraben, a side valley, as part of the Danube frontier of the Roman Empire.
Read the complete Blashausgraben - Wachtturm write-up.
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Blashausgraben - Wachtturm sits at 194 km, about halfway. Next is back through Ybbs - Kleinkastell.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Ybbs - Kleinkastell write-up.
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back through Ybbs - Kleinkastell comes up about 265 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Wallsee - Kastell.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Wallsee - Kastell write-up.
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about 307 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Wallsee - Kastell. Next is back through Kalkalpen - Hintergebirg.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Kalkalpen - Hintergebirg write-up.
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back through Kalkalpen - Hintergebirg, late in the day. Next is Dürrenstein-Lassingtal.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Dürrenstein-Lassingtal write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
The route ends here after 461 km.
Dürrenstein-Lassingtal → Kalkalpen - Hintergebirg is 64 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Kalkalpen - Hintergebirg → Wallsee - Kastell is 89 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Wallsee - Kastell → Ybbs - Kleinkastell is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Ybbs - Kleinkastell → Blashausgraben - Wachtturm is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Blashausgraben - Wachtturm → back through Ybbs - Kleinkastell is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Ybbs - Kleinkastell → back through Wallsee - Kastell is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Wallsee - Kastell → back through Kalkalpen - Hintergebirg is 84 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Kalkalpen - Hintergebirg → Dürrenstein-Lassingtal is 69 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.