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.
A 314 km round trip from Enns - roughly 5 h 05 in the saddle. The stops in between: Ybbs - Kleinkastell, Dürrenstein-Lassingtal and back through Ybbs - Kleinkastell. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,100 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
The southwestern edge of Roman Enns is the part that faces the way to Linz, and it is a good place to think about what a frontier town was actually like. The civilian settlement around the legionary fortress spread out along roads in every direction, and the western side held a mix of workshops, houses and burial grounds. Roman law kept the dead outside settlements, so the tombs lined the roads leading out, which is where later farmers kept turning up stone coffins and funerary inscriptions with the plough.
Read the complete Enns - Canabae Südwest write-up.
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Enns - Canabae Südwest is where the day begins. 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 comes up about 62 km into the recorded legs. Next is Dürrenstein-Lassingtal.
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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about 154 km into the recorded legs you reach Dürrenstein-Lassingtal. Next is back through Ybbs - Kleinkastell.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Ybbs - Kleinkastell write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Ybbs - Kleinkastell, late in the day. Next is Enns - Canabae Südwest.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Enns - Canabae Südwest write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Enns - Canabae Südwest. That is the ride.
Enns - Canabae Südwest → Ybbs - Kleinkastell is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Ybbs - Kleinkastell → Dürrenstein-Lassingtal is 92 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Dürrenstein-Lassingtal → back through Ybbs - Kleinkastell is 99 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Ybbs - Kleinkastell → Enns - Canabae Südwest is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.