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 96 km round trip from Neustadt an der Donau - roughly 2 h 00 in the saddle. It goes by way of Watchtowers WP 15/11 to 15/26 and fortlets, Watchtowers WP 15/1 to 15/7 and back through Watchtowers WP 15/11 to 15/26 and fortlets. The line favours views over speed.
The Danube here is already a serious river, and about two thousand years ago it was the edge of the Roman Empire. Abusina, the Roman fort at Eining, stood on the south bank, where a small tributary joins, and its soldiers watched the Germanic lands across the water. The site lies in a bend a few kilometres from Neustadt an der Donau, and what remains are the foundations of a fort that was rebuilt several times, and of a civilian settlement, with a bath house, whose walls you can see outlined in the grass. The fort ended its life in the fifth century, in the unsettled times when Rome let go of the frontier.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Eining write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Fort site and civil settlement of Eining is where the day begins. Next is Watchtowers WP 15/11 to 15/26 and fortlets.
The Altmühl valley in Bavaria is one of Germany's best kept riding secrets, a winding river valley cut deep into Jurassic limestone, lined with juniper heaths, rock towers and castles. Near where the valley meets the Danube, the Roman frontier, the Raetian Limes, ran across the land, and the stretch of watchtowers and small forts numbered WP 15/11 to 15/26 lies in the wooded hills here, between Riedenburg, Dietfurt and the Danube town of Vohburg.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 15/11 to 15/26 and fortlets write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Watchtowers WP 15/11 to 15/26 and fortlets comes up about 24 km into the recorded legs. Next is Watchtowers WP 15/1 to 15/7.
In Bavaria, the Roman frontier changed character. Instead of the wooden palisade used in the Upper German section, the Raetian Limes was eventually built as a stone wall, known locally as the Devil's Wall, because medieval people could not imagine anyone but the devil building something so long. The stretch between Watchtowers 15/1 and 15/7 crosses the hills around the Altmühl valley, near Kipfenberg and Kinding, and the line of the wall can still be traced in places as a low ridge in the forest. It is part of the Upper German-Raetian Limes World Heritage site.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 15/1 to 15/7 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 49 km into the recorded legs you reach Watchtowers WP 15/1 to 15/7. Next is back through Watchtowers WP 15/11 to 15/26 and fortlets.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 15/11 to 15/26 and fortlets write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Watchtowers WP 15/11 to 15/26 and fortlets, late in the day. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Eining.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Eining write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Fort site and civil settlement of Eining. That is the ride.
Fort site and civil settlement of Eining → Watchtowers WP 15/11 to 15/26 and fortlets is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 15/11 to 15/26 and fortlets → Watchtowers WP 15/1 to 15/7 is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 15/1 to 15/7 → back through Watchtowers WP 15/11 to 15/26 and fortlets is 23 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Watchtowers WP 15/11 to 15/26 and fortlets → Fort site and civil settlement of Eining is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.