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 Villars-sur-Glâne it runs 348 km to Villars-sur-Glâne; allow about 4 h 40 of riding. The stops in between: Les Roseaux, Le Crêt de Chatillon and back through Les Roseaux. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,150 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It crosses from Switzerland into France - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules. The line favours views over speed.
Fribourg is the town where French and German meet. It was founded in 1157 by the dukes of Zähringen on a rock in a loop of the Sarine river, and the old city still sits above the water, with a Gothic cathedral, covered wooden bridges and steep cobbled lanes. The border between the languages runs through the city, so locals switch between French and a Swiss German dialect, and the divide has a name, the Röstigraben, after the potato dish that lies on one side. Beyond the city, the canton is green and rolling, with farms, forests and pastures that produce the famous cheese of Gruyères.
Read the complete En Praz des Gueux write-up.
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En Praz des Gueux is where the day begins. Next is Les Roseaux.
Morges sits on the north shore of Lake Geneva between Lausanne and Geneva, with its castle by the harbour and the Alps of Savoy rising across the water. Just east of the town, at a place called Les Roseaux, the reeds, archaeologists found one of the oldest pile dwelling sites on the lake, dating back to the early Bronze Age, and it is part of the UNESCO group of prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps. Its remains lie underwater and are not visible, but the name and the shore keep the memory.
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Les Roseaux comes up about 72 km into the recorded legs. Next is Le Crêt de Chatillon.
The Crêt de Châtillon is the summit of the Semnoz, the long wooded mountain that rises above the western shore of Lake Annecy, and from the top, at around 1,700 metres, the view on a clear day is one of the finest in the French Alps: the whole lake below, the Bauges and the Aravis around, and, to the east, Mont Blanc in all its glory. Sites with names like Châtillon and Les Mongets along this shore preserve the remains of villages built on the edge of the lake thousands of years ago.
Read the complete Le Crêt de Chatillon write-up.
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about 174 km into the recorded legs you reach Le Crêt de Chatillon. Next is back through Les Roseaux.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Les Roseaux write-up.
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back through Les Roseaux, late in the day. Next is En Praz des Gueux.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete En Praz des Gueux write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at En Praz des Gueux. That is the ride.
En Praz des Gueux → Les Roseaux is 72 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Les Roseaux → Le Crêt de Chatillon is 102 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Le Crêt de Chatillon → back through Les Roseaux is 101 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Les Roseaux → En Praz des Gueux is 73 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.