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 Linz it runs 343 km to Linz; allow about 5 h 02 of riding. On the way it passes Kalkalpen - Wilder Graben, Ybbs - Kleinkastell and back through Kalkalpen - Wilder Graben. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,100 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Just west of Linz, the Danube narrows and the steep, wooded slopes of the Kürnberger Wald rise from its southern bank. In the Roman period this river was the frontier of the empire, and the soldiers who guarded it built a chain of forts and watchtowers along the bank to watch for raiders crossing from the north. The Hirschleitengraben watchtower is one of these, a small Roman tower in a side ravine of the forest, part of the Danube Limes, which UNESCO listed in 2021 as one of the great frontiers of the Roman Empire. Its remains are modest, but the position, looking over the river toward Puchenau and the hills of the Mühlviertel, makes the purpose clear.
Read the complete Hirschleitengraben - Wachtturm write-up.
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Hirschleitengraben - Wachtturm is where the day begins. Next is Kalkalpen - Wilder Graben.
Wilder Graben translates as the wild ravine, and the name fits the country south of the Enns valley in Upper Austria, where the Kalkalpen National Park protects a great tangle of limestone mountains, gorges and forest. This is the Reichraminger Hintergebirge, a maze of steep valleys with clear green streams at the bottom and almost no settlements at all. It is one of the largest forested areas in Austria, and parts of its old beech woods belong to the World Heritage site of ancient beech forests across Europe.
Read the complete Kalkalpen - Wilder Graben write-up.
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Kalkalpen - Wilder Graben comes up about 76 km into the recorded legs. Next is Ybbs - Kleinkastell.
Ybbs an der Donau and Persenbeug face each other across the Danube in Lower Austria, connected by a hydroelectric dam that was one of the first built on the Austrian Danube after the war. Persenbeug is dominated by its castle, perched on a rock above the river, which belonged to the Habsburgs and was the birthplace of Emperor Charles I, the last emperor of Austria-Hungary. On the Ybbs side, the remains of a small Roman fort have been found, part of the Danube frontier of the Roman Empire.
Read the complete Ybbs - Kleinkastell write-up.
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about 173 km into the recorded legs you reach Ybbs - Kleinkastell. Next is back through Kalkalpen - Wilder Graben.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Kalkalpen - Wilder Graben write-up.
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back through Kalkalpen - Wilder Graben, late in the day. Next is Hirschleitengraben - Wachtturm.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hirschleitengraben - Wachtturm write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Hirschleitengraben - Wachtturm. That is the ride.
Hirschleitengraben - Wachtturm → Kalkalpen - Wilder Graben is 76 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Kalkalpen - Wilder Graben → Ybbs - Kleinkastell is 97 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Ybbs - Kleinkastell → back through Kalkalpen - Wilder Graben is 94 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Kalkalpen - Wilder Graben → Hirschleitengraben - Wachtturm is 77 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.