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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389 km from Göstling an der Ybbs to Göstling an der Ybbs, about 7 h 03 of riding. It goes by way of Kalkalpen - Bodinggraben, Enns - Gräberstraße and back through Kalkalpen - Bodinggraben. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,150 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
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.
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Dürrenstein-Lassingtal is where the day begins. Next is Kalkalpen - Bodinggraben.
Where the Pyhrn pass road drops from the Totes Gebirge toward the Enns and the Steyr valleys, Austria keeps one of its most important pieces of old forest. Kalkalpen National Park covers a large area of limestone mountains, gorges and woodland in Upper Austria, and its beech forests are among the last in Europe where trees have been left to grow, fall and rot undisturbed. They are part of a UNESCO listing called the Ancient Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe, a strange name for what is, in the end, a green cathedral of grey trunks and soft, filtered light.
Read the complete Kalkalpen - Bodinggraben write-up.
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Kalkalpen - Bodinggraben comes up about 127 km into the recorded legs. Next is Enns - Gräberstraße.
Enns claims to be the oldest town in Austria, on the strength of a charter granted in 1212, but its roots go much deeper. Just outside the modern town lay Lauriacum, a Roman legionary fortress that housed the Second Italian Legion and grew into one of the most important places on the Danube frontier, with a civilian town, temples and, as the Gräberstraße name suggests, roads lined with cemeteries. The Romans buried their dead along the roads outside settlements, and excavations here have found hundreds of graves, stones and offerings. The site is part of the Danube Limes World Heritage listing.
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about 195 km into the recorded legs you reach Enns - Gräberstraße. Next is back through Kalkalpen - Bodinggraben.
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Read the complete Kalkalpen - Bodinggraben write-up.
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back through Kalkalpen - Bodinggraben, 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.
Back at Dürrenstein-Lassingtal. That is the ride.
Dürrenstein-Lassingtal → Kalkalpen - Bodinggraben is 127 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Kalkalpen - Bodinggraben → Enns - Gräberstraße is 68 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Enns - Gräberstraße → back through Kalkalpen - Bodinggraben is 66 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Kalkalpen - Bodinggraben → Dürrenstein-Lassingtal is 129 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.