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.
352 km from Rapperswil to Rapperswil, about 5 h 20 of riding. It goes by way of Riesi, Weier I - III 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 71 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 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.
Read the complete Riesi write-up.
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Riesi comes up about 71 km into the recorded legs. Next is Weier I - III.
Just outside Thayngen, almost on the German border, a small wetland hides the remains of Neolithic villages that stood here more than five thousand years ago. The sites known as Weier I to III were built on the edge of a former lake or moor, now mostly filled in, and excavations revealed well-preserved timber houses, tools, pottery and food remains that give a detailed picture of early farming communities. They form part of the UNESCO listing of prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps, though as with most such sites, there is little to see above ground today beyond the landscape itself.
Read the complete Weier I - III write-up.
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about 174 km into the recorded legs you reach Weier I - III. Next is back through Riesi.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Riesi write-up.
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back through Riesi, 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 → Riesi is 71 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Riesi → Weier I - III is 103 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Weier I - III → back through Riesi is 105 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Riesi → Feldbach is 72 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.