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 Reichraming it runs 505 km to Reichraming; allow about 9 h 08 of riding. On the way it passes Dürrenstein-Lassingtal, Ybbs - Kleinkastell, Blashausgraben - Wachtturm and Traismauer - Kastell südwestlicher Fächert. 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.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 30 km this is Wachau Danube Road, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
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 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 81 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 180 km into the recorded legs you reach Ybbs - Kleinkastell. Next is Blashausgraben - Wachtturm.
The Wachau is the most beautiful stretch of the Danube in Austria, a narrow valley between Melk and Krems where the river winds between steep hills covered in vineyards and forest, with castles, abbeys and villages on its banks. It is a UNESCO World Heritage site in its own right. Near the village of Aggsbach, on the southern bank, a small Roman watchtower stood in the Blashausgraben, a side valley, as part of the Danube frontier of the Roman Empire.
Read the complete Blashausgraben - Wachtturm write-up.
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Blashausgraben - Wachtturm, about halfway. Next is Traismauer - Kastell südwestlicher Fächert.
Traismauer is a small wine town on the south side of the Danube, just where the Traisen river comes down from the Alpine foothills to meet the big river, and it has been a fortified place for something like eighteen centuries. The Romans called their fort here Augustianis, one link in the chain of camps and watchtowers that guarded the frontier of the province of Noricum. In 2021 the Danube Limes was added to the UNESCO list, and Traismauer is one of the places where you can still see the old walls doing a job.
Read the complete Traismauer - Kastell südwestlicher Fächert write-up.
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Traismauer - Kastell südwestlicher Fächert sits at 195 km, about halfway. Next is back through Blashausgraben - Wachtturm.
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Read the complete Blashausgraben - Wachtturm write-up.
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back through Blashausgraben - Wachtturm comes up about 290 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Ybbs - Kleinkastell.
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Read the complete Ybbs - Kleinkastell write-up.
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about 324 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Ybbs - Kleinkastell. Next is back through Dürrenstein-Lassingtal.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Dürrenstein-Lassingtal write-up.
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back through Dürrenstein-Lassingtal, late in the day. Next is Kalkalpen - Wilder Graben.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Kalkalpen - Wilder Graben write-up.
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The route ends here after 505 km.
Kalkalpen - Wilder Graben → Dürrenstein-Lassingtal is 81 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 → Blashausgraben - Wachtturm is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Blashausgraben - Wachtturm → Traismauer - Kastell südwestlicher Fächert is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Traismauer - Kastell südwestlicher Fächert → back through Blashausgraben - Wachtturm is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Blashausgraben - Wachtturm → back through Ybbs - Kleinkastell is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through 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 - Wilder Graben is 88 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.