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.
315 km from Enns to Enns, about 5 h 09 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.
Where the little River Enns joins the Danube, about twenty kilometres upstream of Linz, the Romans built their frontier. This was Lauriacum, headquarters of the Second Italic Legion, who were stationed here from the late second century to guard the northern edge of the empire, the province of Noricum, against the tribes beyond the river. Around the fortress grew a civilian town that at its height may have held many thousands of people, and later a bishop is said to have lived here. The modern town of Enns, which takes pride in being the oldest in Austria, grew up beside it, and the legionary camp lay under what is now a mix of fields, streets and suburbs.
Read the complete Enns - Legionslager Zentralbereich write-up.
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Enns - Legionslager Zentralbereich 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 - Legionslager Zentralbereich.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Enns - Legionslager Zentralbereich write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Enns - Legionslager Zentralbereich. That is the ride.
Enns - Legionslager Zentralbereich → 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 Zentralbereich is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.