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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A 92 km round trip from Rapperswil - roughly 2 h 13 in the saddle. It goes by way of Storen-Wildsberg, Vorder Au and back through Storen-Wildsberg. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,150 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 26 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 Vorder Au.
The Au peninsula pokes out into Lake Zurich like a green thumb, and at its tip, Vorder Au, the shallow water hides traces of villages built on piles thousands of years ago. It is one of the Swiss sites in the UNESCO listing of prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps, though as with most of them, the archaeology lies under the lake bed and is protected rather than displayed. What you see is a wooded little hill with a castle-like house, vineyards running down to the water, reed beds and a small harbour.
Read the complete Vorder Au write-up.
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about 46 km into the recorded legs you reach Vorder Au. 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 → Vorder Au is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Vorder Au → back through Storen-Wildsberg is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Storen-Wildsberg → Feldbach is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.