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 Micheldorf in Oberösterreich it runs 418 km to Micheldorf in Oberösterreich; allow about 8 h 17 of riding. On the way it passes Kalkalpen - Hintergebirg, Dürrenstein-Lassingtal, Ybbs - Kleinkastell and back through Dürrenstein-Lassingtal. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,200 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
The ride follows Kalkalpen - Urlach → Kalkalpen - Hintergebirg for 46 km.
Somewhere in these forests a beech tree has been standing since before anyone thought to draw a border here, and the Kalkalpen National Park exists largely to keep it that way. This is the largest protected forest area in Austria, spread across the limestone ranges of the Sengsengebirge and the Reichraminger Hintergebirge in Upper Austria, and parts of it belong to the UNESCO listing of ancient and primeval beech forests of Europe. Urlach lies on the edge of that wild country, in the folds above the Steyr valley between Molln and Windischgarsten.
Read the complete Kalkalpen - Urlach write-up.
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Kalkalpen - Urlach is where the day begins. Next is Kalkalpen - Hintergebirg.
The Kalkalpen National Park is the largest forest wilderness in Austria, and the Hintergebirge is one of its quiet corners, a limestone mountain range in Upper Austria with steep wooded slopes, deep valleys and very few roads. It is a landscape of beech, spruce and fir, with some of the oldest unmanaged beech forest in the Alps, so valuable that it is included in the UNESCO listing of ancient beech forests of Europe. Walking in it feels like walking in the Europe before the roads.
Read the complete Kalkalpen - Hintergebirg write-up.
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Kalkalpen - Hintergebirg comes up about 46 km into the recorded legs. 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.
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about 110 km into the recorded legs you reach Dürrenstein-Lassingtal. 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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Ybbs - Kleinkastell, about halfway. Next is back through Dürrenstein-Lassingtal.
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Read the complete Dürrenstein-Lassingtal write-up.
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back through Dürrenstein-Lassingtal sits at 193 km, about halfway. Next is back through Kalkalpen - Hintergebirg.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Kalkalpen - Hintergebirg write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Kalkalpen - Hintergebirg comes up about 373 km into the recorded legs. Next is Kalkalpen - Urlach.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Kalkalpen - Urlach write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Kalkalpen - Urlach closes the day.
Kalkalpen - Urlach → Kalkalpen - Hintergebirg is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Kalkalpen - Hintergebirg → Dürrenstein-Lassingtal is 64 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 → back through Kalkalpen - Hintergebirg is 71 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Kalkalpen - Hintergebirg → Kalkalpen - Urlach is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.