CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Muiden it runs 340 km to Muiden; allow about 4 h 43 of riding. The stops in between: Frontiers of the Roman Empire - The Lower, Tiel Inundation Canal and back through Frontiers of the Roman Empire - The Lower. The line favours views over speed.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For 65 km this is Dutch Flower Route, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Out in the open water of the IJmeer, a few kilometres off the old fortified town of Muiden, a low circular fortress sits on an artificial island. This is Pampus, one of more than forty forts that make up the Defence Line of Amsterdam, a ring of fortifications built around the city in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The idea was simple and very Dutch: in case of attack, large areas of land around the city would be flooded to a depth that was too shallow for boats and too deep for soldiers to wade, and the forts would guard the roads, railways and dykes that crossed the flooded zone. Pampus guarded the approach to Amsterdam by water. The line was listed by UNESCO in 1996.
Read the complete Fort along the Pampus write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Fort along the Pampus is where the day begins. Next is Frontiers of the Roman Empire - The Lower.
Where the old Rhine reached the North Sea, near the modern town of Katwijk, the Romans built a string of forts, and Valkenburg was one of them. The Dutch Valkenburg, a village near Leiden, not to be confused with its namesake in Limburg, was the site of a fort and harbour called Praetorium Agrippinae, a base on the northern frontier of the empire that stood on the south bank of the river. Along this stretch the Rhine formed the border of the Roman province of Lower Germany, and the line of forts, watchtowers and roads along it is part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage listing.
Read the complete Frontiers of the Roman Empire - The Lower write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Frontiers of the Roman Empire - The Lower comes up 83 km in. Next is Tiel Inundation Canal.
Tiel is a river town on the Waal, the main branch of the Rhine in the Netherlands, in the middle of the Betuwe, a region of orchards, dykes and meadows between the Waal and the Lower Rhine. Just outside the town, a wide, straight channel runs through the fields, crossed by bridges and lined by dykes. This is the Tiel inundation canal, built in the late nineteenth century as part of the New Dutch Waterline, the defensive system of controlled flooding that protected the heart of Holland, and it is now part of the UNESCO-listed Dutch Water Defence Lines.
Read the complete Tiel Inundation Canal write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
166 km in you reach Tiel Inundation Canal. Next is back through Frontiers of the Roman Empire - The Lower.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Frontiers of the Roman Empire - The Lower write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Frontiers of the Roman Empire - The Lower, late in the day. Next is Fort along the Pampus.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fort along the Pampus write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Fort along the Pampus. That is the ride.
Fort along the Pampus → Frontiers of the Roman Empire - The Lower is 65 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Frontiers of the Roman Empire - The Lower → Tiel Inundation Canal is 101 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Tiel Inundation Canal → back through Frontiers of the Roman Empire - The Lower is 101 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Frontiers of the Roman Empire - The Lower → Fort along the Pampus is 65 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.