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 304 km round trip from Lebyazh’ye - roughly 4 h 53 in the saddle. It goes by way of The Park «Nearest Dubki», Park «The Menagerie» and back through The Park «Nearest Dubki». 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 62 km this is Saint Petersburg Imperial Shore, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Along the southern shore of the Gulf of Finland, west of Saint Petersburg, a low strip of pine forest and sand runs for kilometres between the road and the sea. Fort Seraya Loshad, the Grey Horse, stands in this coastal country, eleven kilometres from the village of Lebyazhye, among a group of forts built for the defence of the capital and the naval base at Kronstadt.
Read the complete Fort «Seraya Loshad» write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Fort «Seraya Loshad» is where the day begins. Next is The Park «Nearest Dubki».
Dubki simply means little oaks, a common name for a patch of woodland, and the ride titles connect this spot with the Oranienbaum Springboard, which is the south shore, across the water, where a Soviet bridgehead held out through the siege of Leningrad from 1941 to 1944 while the city itself was encircled.
Read the complete The Park «Nearest Dubki» write-up.
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The Park «Nearest Dubki» comes up about 62 km into the recorded legs. Next is Park «The Menagerie».
Gatchina is one of the great imperial estates ringing St Petersburg, and the Menagerie, the Zverinets, is its wild back garden: a large walled tract of forest north of the palace that was laid out in the eighteenth century as a hunting reserve, with deer and other game kept for the court. Today it is mostly woods, ponds and paths, and on a hot day it is the coolest place within reach.
Read the complete Park «The Menagerie» write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 151 km into the recorded legs you reach Park «The Menagerie». Next is back through The Park «Nearest Dubki».
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete The Park «Nearest Dubki» write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through The Park «Nearest Dubki», late in the day. Next is Fort «Seraya Loshad».
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fort «Seraya Loshad» write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Fort «Seraya Loshad». That is the ride.
Fort «Seraya Loshad» → The Park «Nearest Dubki» is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The Park «Nearest Dubki» → Park «The Menagerie» is 89 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Park «The Menagerie» → back through The Park «Nearest Dubki» is 89 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through The Park «Nearest Dubki» → Fort «Seraya Loshad» is 64 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.