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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From Rapperswil it runs 193 km to Rapperswil; allow about 3 h 57 of riding. The stops in between: Grosse Stadt Kleiner Hafner, Riesi, Egolzwil 3 and back through Riesi. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,150 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 32 km this is Grand Tour of Switzerland, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Feldbach is a small village on the northern shore of Lake Zurich, and a very Swiss kind of calm hangs over it. It belongs to the municipality of Hombrechtikon and lies on the sunny stretch locals call the Gold Coast, where steep vineyards and orchards slope down to the water and the houses cost more than most people care to say aloud. The village has a lakeside park with big old trees, a small harbour and a place to swim in summer, and across the water the opposite shore climbs toward the Albis hills.
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Feldbach is where the day begins. Next is Grosse Stadt Kleiner Hafner.
Zürich's lake has been a home for much longer than the city's banks suggest. The names Grosse Stadt and Kleiner Hafner belong to prehistoric settlement sites in the shallows of the Seebecken, the lake basin where the water meets the old town, and they are part of the UNESCO listing of prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps. Farmers and fishers built villages on stilts here between roughly 4,000 and 800 BC, and the lake mud kept their traces. The site is underwater, so you cannot see it, but you can stand on the Utoquai or the Alpenquai promenade and imagine it.
Read the complete Grosse Stadt Kleiner Hafner write-up.
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Grosse Stadt Kleiner Hafner comes up about 32 km into the recorded legs. Next is Riesi.
Riesi is a stretch of shoreline at the northern end of the Hallwilersee, a long, narrow lake in the Aargau Seetal, between the villages of Seengen and Boniswil. It is a peaceful place of reeds, meadows and walking paths, and below the water and in the marshy ground lie the remains of prehistoric pile-dwelling settlements, part of the World Heritage list of such sites around the Alps.
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about 68 km into the recorded legs you reach Riesi. Next is Egolzwil 3.
Archaeologists named a whole Neolithic culture after Egolzwil, a small village in the canton of Lucerne, because the settlements found in the Wauwiler Moos, a former lake turned into peat bog, revealed a way of life older than anything else known in the region at the time. Egolzwil 3, one of these sites, was a village of farmers who lived on the shore of a small lake over six thousand years ago, and it counts as one component of UNESCO's inscription of prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps. The lake was drained in the nineteenth century to create farmland, and the remains were preserved in the wet peat.
Read the complete Egolzwil 3 write-up.
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Egolzwil 3, about halfway. Next is back through Riesi.
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Read the complete Riesi write-up.
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back through Riesi sits at 127 km, about halfway. Next is back through Grosse Stadt Kleiner Hafner.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Grosse Stadt Kleiner Hafner write-up.
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back through Grosse Stadt Kleiner Hafner comes up about 160 km into the recorded legs. Next is Feldbach.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Feldbach write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Feldbach closes the day.
Feldbach → Grosse Stadt Kleiner Hafner is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Grosse Stadt Kleiner Hafner → Riesi is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Riesi → Egolzwil 3 is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Egolzwil 3 → back through Riesi is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Riesi → back through Grosse Stadt Kleiner Hafner is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Grosse Stadt Kleiner Hafner → Feldbach is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.