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: planning record, not independently verified geometry.
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From Rapperswil it runs 344 km to Rapperswil; allow about 5 h 56 of riding. The stops in between: Oterswil / Insel Eielen, Ägelmoos, Inkwilersee Insel and Old City of Berne. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,150 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
43 km on Emmental Panorama Road.
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 Oterswil / Insel Eielen.
Lake Zug is the quiet one among the central Swiss lakes, long and slender, with the Rigi rising steeply from its southern end and gentle farmland and orchards rolling down to its northern shores. Around its edges, as around many Alpine lakes, people built villages on the shore in prehistoric times, and the remains of these settlements at places like Oterswil and the little island of Eielen are among the sites of the transnational pile dwelling listing inscribed by UNESCO in 2011. Under water and mud, wooden piles, pottery and tools have survived for thousands of years.
Read the complete Oterswil / Insel Eielen write-up.
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Oterswil / Insel Eielen comes up about 35 km into the recorded legs. Next is Ägelmoos.
Lake Hallwil is a long, narrow lake in the Aargau, lying north to south between low hills, and it is the quiet cousin of the bigger Swiss lakes. At its northern end stands a moated castle, Schloss Hallwyl, a grey medieval fortress surrounded by water that looks as if it belongs on a stage, and which holds a museum of its centuries of family life. The lake's shore is a mix of reed beds, meadows and villages, and the water is clean enough for swimming in summer. Rowing boats and small sailboats drift across it on warm afternoons.
Read the complete Ägelmoos write-up.
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about 72 km into the recorded legs you reach Ägelmoos. Next is Inkwilersee Insel.
You could ride past the Inkwilersee a dozen times without noticing it. It is a small, shallow lake tucked into a fold of farmland right on the line between the cantons of Bern and Solothurn, ringed with reeds and alders, with a tiny wooded island near its middle. That island is the reason for the label: beneath its trees and in the mud around it lie traces of prehistoric lakeside settlement, enough to earn the Inkwilersee a place among the Alpine pile-dwelling sites on the World Heritage list.
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Inkwilersee Insel, about halfway. Next is Old City of Berne.
Bern does not shout. The Swiss capital sits on a sandstone spur in a tight loop of the green Aare, with six kilometres of arcaded streets that let you walk the whole old town in the rain without getting wet. It was founded in 1191 by Duke Berthold V of Zähringen, and legend says he named it after the first animal he killed hunting nearby, a bear. The bears have been the town's mascots ever since, and a few still live in the BärenPark down by the river at the end of the Nydeggbrücke.
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Old City of Berne sits at 172 km, about halfway. Next is back through Inkwilersee Insel.
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Read the complete Inkwilersee Insel write-up.
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back through Inkwilersee Insel comes up about 215 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Ägelmoos.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Ägelmoos write-up.
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about 272 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Ägelmoos. Next is back through Oterswil / Insel Eielen.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Oterswil / Insel Eielen write-up.
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back through Oterswil / Insel Eielen, late in the day. Next is Feldbach.
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Read the complete Feldbach write-up.
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The route ends here after 344 km.
Feldbach → Oterswil / Insel Eielen is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Oterswil / Insel Eielen → Ägelmoos is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Ägelmoos → Inkwilersee Insel is 57 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Inkwilersee Insel → Old City of Berne is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Old City of Berne → back through Inkwilersee Insel is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Inkwilersee Insel → back through Ägelmoos is 57 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Ägelmoos → back through Oterswil / Insel Eielen is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Oterswil / Insel Eielen → Feldbach is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.