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 Rapperswil it runs 144 km to Rapperswil; allow about 2 h 26 of riding. It goes by way of Storen-Wildsberg, Riedmatt and back through Storen-Wildsberg. 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.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 52 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.
Read the complete Feldbach write-up.
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Feldbach is where the day begins. Next is Storen-Wildsberg.
The Greifensee lies just east of Zurich, a shallow, quiet lake of about six kilometres in length, framed by reeds, meadows and the gentle hills of the Zurich Oberland. Its shores are largely protected, and there is no road running right along the water, which keeps it remarkably calm for a lake so close to Switzerland's biggest city. At Storen-Wildsberg near the village of Greifensee, the remains of a prehistoric settlement lie under the water and in the shoreline sediments, one of the Swiss sites in the UNESCO listing of Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps. As with all of them, it is the ground itself that is protected; there is nothing to see except the reeds and the water.
Read the complete Storen-Wildsberg write-up.
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Storen-Wildsberg comes up about 20 km into the recorded legs. Next is Riedmatt.
Zug has a reputation as one of the wealthiest places in Switzerland, a small canton of low taxes, glass office blocks and companies registered by the hundred. But beneath the surface, quite literally, lies a much older story. Along the shores of Lake Zug, archaeologists have found the remains of Neolithic and Bronze Age villages built on piles in the shallow water and marshy ground, and Riedmatt, near the border between Steinhausen, Cham and Zug, is one of the sites included in the Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps World Heritage listing. As with most such sites, there is nothing visible on the surface; the remains are preserved in the waterlogged ground.
Read the complete Riedmatt write-up.
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about 72 km into the recorded legs you reach Riedmatt. Next is back through Storen-Wildsberg.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Storen-Wildsberg write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Storen-Wildsberg, late in the day. 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.
Back at Feldbach. That is the ride.
Feldbach → Storen-Wildsberg is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Storen-Wildsberg → Riedmatt is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Riedmatt → back through Storen-Wildsberg is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Storen-Wildsberg → Feldbach is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.