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 298 km round trip from Neuwied - roughly 4 h 06 in the saddle. The stops in between: Kottenforst Nord | Am Weißen Stein 2, Neuss-Reckberg | Kleinkastell and back through Kottenforst Nord | Am Weißen Stein 2. The line favours views over speed.
Niederbieber was one of the biggest Roman forts in the German frontier country, and it sits on the edge of the modern town of Neuwied, on the river Wied, a few kilometres from where it flows into the Rhine. The fort was built in the second century as a base for a cavalry unit and later a larger garrison, and a large civilian town, the vicus, grew up around it. In the early third century it was rebuilt and expanded, and it had stone walls, towers and a commander's residence, with a large bathhouse and shops outside.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Niederbi write-up.
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Fort site and civil settlement of Niederbi is where the day begins. Next is Kottenforst Nord | Am Weißen Stein 2.
Bornheim is asparagus country, and if you ride past the Kottenforst in late spring you will see why. The sandy soil on the Rhine terraces just south of Cologne suits the white spears perfectly, and from roughly April to the end of June the farm stands along the roads sell them by the kilo, along with strawberries that follow soon afterwards. This is the Vorgebirge, a low ridge between the Rhine plain and the Eifel foothills, long used for market gardening and orchards, and the Weißer Stein stop sits in the woodland at its edge.
Read the complete Kottenforst Nord | Am Weißen Stein 2 write-up.
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Kottenforst Nord | Am Weißen Stein 2 comes up about 82 km into the recorded legs. Next is Neuss-Reckberg | Kleinkastell.
The Rhine was the northern frontier of the Roman Empire for centuries, and the string of forts, towers and camps along its western bank is now recognised as the Lower Germanic Limes, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2021.
Read the complete Neuss-Reckberg | Kleinkastell write-up.
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about 149 km into the recorded legs you reach Neuss-Reckberg | Kleinkastell. Next is back through Kottenforst Nord | Am Weißen Stein 2.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Kottenforst Nord | Am Weißen Stein 2 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Kottenforst Nord | Am Weißen Stein 2, late in the day. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Niederbi.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Niederbi write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Fort site and civil settlement of Niederbi. That is the ride.
Fort site and civil settlement of Niederbi → Kottenforst Nord | Am Weißen Stein 2 is 82 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Kottenforst Nord | Am Weißen Stein 2 → Neuss-Reckberg | Kleinkastell is 67 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Neuss-Reckberg | Kleinkastell → back through Kottenforst Nord | Am Weißen Stein 2 is 68 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Kottenforst Nord | Am Weißen Stein 2 → Fort site and civil settlement of Niederbi is 81 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.