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 Sursee it runs 344 km to Sursee; allow about 4 h 36 of riding. It goes by way of Storen-Wildsberg, Monastic Island of Reichenau and back through Storen-Wildsberg. It crosses from Switzerland into Germany - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules. It stays on the island.
At the northern tip of Lake Sempach, near the little town of Sursee in the canton of Lucerne, a small peninsula pushes into the water, and on and around it lie the remains of prehistoric lakeside settlements, part of the World Heritage site of the Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps. Nothing remains visible above ground, but under the water and in the wet soil of the shore, piles and objects have survived for thousands of years, telling the story of farmers and fishermen who lived here long before the Romans. Today, the shore is a quiet area of reeds, meadows and paths, popular with walkers and cyclists.
Read the complete Halbinsel write-up.
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Halbinsel is where the day begins. Next is Storen-Wildsberg.
The Greifensee lies just east of Zurich, a shallow, quiet lake of about six kilometres in length, framed by reeds, meadows and the gentle hills of the Zurich Oberland. Its shores are largely protected, and there is no road running right along the water, which keeps it remarkably calm for a lake so close to Switzerland's biggest city. At Storen-Wildsberg near the village of Greifensee, the remains of a prehistoric settlement lie under the water and in the shoreline sediments, one of the Swiss sites in the UNESCO listing of Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps. As with all of them, it is the ground itself that is protected; there is nothing to see except the reeds and the water.
Read the complete Storen-Wildsberg write-up.
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Storen-Wildsberg comes up about 94 km into the recorded legs. Next is Monastic Island of Reichenau.
Reichenau is a flat, green island in the Untersee, the western arm of Lake Constance, connected to the mainland by a long causeway lined with poplars. A wandering bishop named Pirmin founded the monastery here in 724, and over the next centuries it became one of the great centres of learning and art in Europe, famous for its scriptorium and its illuminated manuscripts. The island's three Romanesque churches survive, and UNESCO listed the whole as a World Heritage Site in 2000.
Read the complete Monastic Island of Reichenau write-up.
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about 171 km into the recorded legs you reach Monastic Island of Reichenau. Next is back through Storen-Wildsberg.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Storen-Wildsberg write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Storen-Wildsberg, late in the day. Next is Halbinsel.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Halbinsel write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Halbinsel. That is the ride.
Halbinsel → Storen-Wildsberg is 94 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Storen-Wildsberg → Monastic Island of Reichenau is 77 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Monastic Island of Reichenau → back through Storen-Wildsberg is 81 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Storen-Wildsberg → Halbinsel is 91 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.