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 306 km round trip from Barbaresco - roughly 5 h 38 in the saddle. It goes by way of Nizza Monferrato and Barbera, Monferrato of the Inferot, VI.1-Emissario and back through Monferrato of the Inferot. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 900 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. Rolling hill country.
Barbaresco is a hill, a village, a tower and a wine, and in the Langhe those things are hard to separate. The village sits on a ridge above the Tanaro river a few kilometres northeast of Alba, its medieval brick tower standing over rows of vines that roll off in every direction like a green sea frozen mid-swell. Together with the neighbouring Barolo country and the Roero and Monferrato, these hills form the vineyard landscape of Piedmont listed by UNESCO in 2014.
Read the complete Hills of Barbaresco write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Hills of Barbaresco is where the day begins. Next is Nizza Monferrato and Barbera.
Barbera is the everyday red of Piedmont, the wine on every trattoria table, and around Nizza Monferrato it has been raised to something more serious. The hills between Nizza, Vinchio, Castelnuovo Calcea and Mombercelli are covered in vines, planted in rows that follow the contours of the slopes, and the best wines from this area carry their own designation, Nizza DOCG, made from barbera alone. The vineyard landscapes of Langhe-Roero and Monferrato were listed by UNESCO in 2014, and this corner of the Asti hills is a fine example of what that means: a working landscape shaped by centuries of farming, with hilltop villages, brick churches, and small family wineries at the end of gravel tracks.
Read the complete Nizza Monferrato and Barbera write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Nizza Monferrato and Barbera comes up about 28 km into the recorded legs. Next is Monferrato of the Inferot.
The low hills of the Monferrato, in Piedmont, roll between the Po to the north and the Tanaro to the south, and the Inferot label points at the part of them near Cella Monte, Rosignano and Frassinello, ten kilometres from Casale Monferrato. This is soft country, sandstone ridges clothed in vines, with brick villages on the crests and fog in the valleys on autumn mornings.
Read the complete Monferrato of the Inferot write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 70 km into the recorded legs you reach Monferrato of the Inferot. Next is VI.1-Emissario, 45 km on.
Lago di Viverone is a small, warm lake in northern Piedmont, cupped inside one of the most remarkable glacial landforms in Europe. Ice flowing out of the Aosta Valley during the last glaciations dumped a vast ring of moraine here, the Morainic Amphitheatre of Ivrea, and its eastern wall, the Serra, runs for many kilometres as an almost perfectly straight wooded ridge. The lake sits at the foot of it, with the villages of Viverone and Azeglio on its shores and Ivrea around a quarter of an hour's ride to the northwest.
Read the complete VI.1-Emissario write-up.
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VI.1-Emissario, about halfway. Next is back through Monferrato of the Inferot.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Monferrato of the Inferot write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Monferrato of the Inferot sits at 177 km, about halfway. Next is back through Nizza Monferrato and Barbera.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Nizza Monferrato and Barbera write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Nizza Monferrato and Barbera comes up about 278 km into the recorded legs. Next is Hills of Barbaresco.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hills of Barbaresco write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Hills of Barbaresco closes the day.
Hills of Barbaresco → Nizza Monferrato and Barbera is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Nizza Monferrato and Barbera → Monferrato of the Inferot is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Monferrato of the Inferot → VI.1-Emissario is 83 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
VI.1-Emissario → back through Monferrato of the Inferot is 83 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Monferrato of the Inferot → back through Nizza Monferrato and Barbera is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Nizza Monferrato and Barbera → Hills of Barbaresco is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.