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 Enns it runs 314 km to Enns; allow about 5 h 07 of riding. It goes by way of 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. The line favours views over speed.
When the Roman army reorganised the Danube frontier after the wars against the Marcomanni in the later second century, a legion was posted here, the Second Italica, with a base large enough to hold several thousand soldiers. Fortresses of this kind were laid out to a standard plan, a rectangle with rounded corners, four gates, a main street and a headquarters building at the centre, so a soldier transferred from another province would know where to find the bath house without asking.
Read the complete Enns - Legionslager Nordecke write-up.
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Enns - Legionslager Nordecke 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.
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back through Ybbs - Kleinkastell, late in the day. Next is Enns - Legionslager Nordecke.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Enns - Legionslager Nordecke write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Enns - Legionslager Nordecke. That is the ride.
Enns - Legionslager Nordecke → 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 - Legionslager Nordecke is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.