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 135 km round trip from Enns - roughly 2 h 17 in the saddle. It goes by way of Linz - Befestigung Schlossberg, Schlögen - Kastell and back through Linz - Befestigung Schlossberg. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Enns calls itself the oldest town in Austria, and it has a very good case, since a Roman settlement stood here long before there was an Austria to speak of. Roman Lauriacum was a legionary base on the Danube frontier, and around the fort grew what the Romans called the canabae, a sprawling civilian settlement of traders, craftsmen, veterans' families, innkeepers and anyone else who made a living from the soldiers. This corner of the map marks the north-eastern end of that civilian quarter.
Read the complete Enns - Canabae Nordost write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Enns - Canabae Nordost is where the day begins. Next is Linz - Befestigung Schlossberg.
Linz is a city that has reinvented itself. For much of the twentieth century it was known mainly for its steelworks and its uncomfortable links with the Nazi period; today it markets itself as a city of culture and technology, with the Ars Electronica centre glowing on the Danube bank at night, the Lentos art museum opposite, and a lively music scene. The Schlossberg, the castle hill above the old town, is where it all began: the Romans had a fort here called Lentia, part of the Danube frontier of the empire, and the Danube Limes is now on the World Heritage list. The castle that stands there now dates largely from the Renaissance, built for Emperor Frederick III, who spent his last years in Linz and died here in 1493. It houses a branch of the Upper Austrian state museum.
Read the complete Linz - Befestigung Schlossberg write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Linz - Befestigung Schlossberg comes up about 26 km into the recorded legs. Next is Schlögen - Kastell.
The Danube here performs one of its most famous tricks. Forced by hard granite, the river makes two tight hairpin turns, the Schlögener Schlinge, doubling back on itself in a loop so neat it looks drawn with a compass. From the viewpoint on the wooded slope above, a short walk from the road, you look down on the river curling around a forested spur, and it is one of the classic images of Upper Austria.
Read the complete Schlögen - Kastell write-up.
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about 67 km into the recorded legs you reach Schlögen - Kastell. Next is back through Linz - Befestigung Schlossberg.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Linz - Befestigung Schlossberg write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Linz - Befestigung Schlossberg, late in the day. Next is Enns - Canabae Nordost.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Enns - Canabae Nordost write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Enns - Canabae Nordost. That is the ride.
Enns - Canabae Nordost → Linz - Befestigung Schlossberg is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Linz - Befestigung Schlossberg → Schlögen - Kastell is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Schlögen - Kastell → back through Linz - Befestigung Schlossberg is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Linz - Befestigung Schlossberg → Enns - Canabae Nordost is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.