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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From Bad Hönningen it runs 252 km to Bad Hönningen; allow about 4 h 30 of riding. The stops in between: Upper Middle Rhine Valley, Watchtowers WP 3/24 to 3/40Watchtowers WP and back through Upper Middle Rhine Valley. 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 61 km this is Moselle Wine Route, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Rheinbrohl is where Germany's longest Roman frontier begins. The Upper Germanic Limes, a line of watchtowers, palisades and forts, starts at the Rhine here and runs east and south for some five hundred kilometres across Germany. At the Rheinbohl fortlet you can see the lines of a small Roman post, a few dozen soldiers who watched the river approach and the crossing over to the left bank. It is a modest place in terms of stonework, but the idea is wonderfully clear: an empire decided that this is where it ended, and put a post on the end of it.
Read the complete Fortlet Rheinbohl write-up.
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Fortlet Rheinbohl is where the day begins. Next is Upper Middle Rhine Valley.
Between Bingen and Koblenz, the Rhine cuts a deep, winding gorge through the slate hills of the Rhenish Massif, and for centuries this has been one of the great landscapes of Europe: steep slopes covered with vineyards, castles on every crag, villages of half-timbered houses along the river, and barges gliding past. The Upper Middle Rhine Valley was listed by UNESCO in 2002, and Sankt Goarshausen sits at its heart, at the foot of the most famous rock on the river.
Read the complete Upper Middle Rhine Valley write-up.
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Upper Middle Rhine Valley comes up about 61 km into the recorded legs. Next is Watchtowers WP 3/24 to 3/40Watchtowers WP.
On the western side of the Taunus, the hills are lower and the forest gives way more often to farmland, with villages in the folds of the valleys. Idstein, a small town with a remarkable old centre, sits on this side, with Waldems and Glashütten nearby. Through the woods above them ran the Roman frontier, and the stretch of watchtowers numbered WP 3/24 to 3/40 followed the ridges here, part of the Upper Germanic Limes and of the UNESCO Frontiers of the Roman Empire site.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 3/24 to 3/40Watchtowers WP write-up.
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about 123 km into the recorded legs you reach Watchtowers WP 3/24 to 3/40Watchtowers WP. Next is back through Upper Middle Rhine Valley.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Upper Middle Rhine Valley write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Upper Middle Rhine Valley, late in the day. Next is Fortlet Rheinbohl.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fortlet Rheinbohl write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Fortlet Rheinbohl. That is the ride.
Fortlet Rheinbohl → Upper Middle Rhine Valley is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Upper Middle Rhine Valley → Watchtowers WP 3/24 to 3/40Watchtowers WP is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 3/24 to 3/40Watchtowers WP → back through Upper Middle Rhine Valley is 68 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Upper Middle Rhine Valley → Fortlet Rheinbohl is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.