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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452 km from Windischgarsten to Windischgarsten, about 8 h 31 of riding. On the way it passes Dürrenstein-Lassingtal, Ybbs - Kleinkastell and back through Dürrenstein-Lassingtal. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,150 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
Where the Pyhrn pass road drops from the Totes Gebirge toward the Enns and the Steyr valleys, Austria keeps one of its most important pieces of old forest. Kalkalpen National Park covers a large area of limestone mountains, gorges and woodland in Upper Austria, and its beech forests are among the last in Europe where trees have been left to grow, fall and rot undisturbed. They are part of a UNESCO listing called the Ancient Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe, a strange name for what is, in the end, a green cathedral of grey trunks and soft, filtered light.
Read the complete Kalkalpen - Bodinggraben write-up.
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Kalkalpen - Bodinggraben is where the day begins. Next is Dürrenstein-Lassingtal.
Dürrenstein-Lassingtal is a wilderness area in the Ybbstal Alps of Lower Austria, where the limestone mountains rise above deep valleys covered with forests of beech, spruce and fir. It includes the Rothwald, one of the largest remaining primeval forests in Central Europe, a forest that has never been logged, and it is part of the transnational World Heritage Site of the Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe. Here trees grow, die and decay naturally, creating a rich habitat for insects, fungi, birds and mammals.
Read the complete Dürrenstein-Lassingtal write-up.
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Dürrenstein-Lassingtal comes up about 127 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 226 km into the recorded legs you reach Ybbs - Kleinkastell. Next is back through Dürrenstein-Lassingtal.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Dürrenstein-Lassingtal write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Dürrenstein-Lassingtal, late in the day. Next is Kalkalpen - Bodinggraben.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Kalkalpen - Bodinggraben write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Kalkalpen - Bodinggraben. That is the ride.
Kalkalpen - Bodinggraben → Dürrenstein-Lassingtal is 127 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Dürrenstein-Lassingtal → Ybbs - Kleinkastell is 99 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Ybbs - Kleinkastell → back through Dürrenstein-Lassingtal is 93 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Dürrenstein-Lassingtal → Kalkalpen - Bodinggraben is 133 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.