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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222 km from Kleve to Kleve, about 3 h 36 of riding. On the way it passes Uedem-Hochwald | Hochwald 1, Moers-Asberg, Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex in and back through Moers-Asberg. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Kleve sits on the lower Rhine, a few kilometres from the Dutch border, in a landscape so flat that the one low hill outside the town counts as an event. West of it, the Reichswald is a big, dark forest of pine and beech, one of the largest wooded areas in this part of North Rhine-Westphalia, and for a rider coming from the Ruhr it feels like an exhale. The forest roads are straight and shaded, and the surrounding villages, Kranenburg among them, are neat, brick-built and utterly peaceful.
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Kleve-Reichswald | West is where the day begins. Next is Uedem-Hochwald | Hochwald 1.
Hochwald is a ridge of woods, which is a surprising thing to find in the flat country of the Lower Rhine. The ground here was pushed up by the glaciers of the Ice Age, which shoved sand and gravel into long, low ridges known as push moraines, and the woods that cover the ridge near Uedem have been left in peace for generations. Beech and oak form a canopy over the old lanes, and in autumn the leaf litter is deep and the air smells of mushrooms. For a rider used to the endless flatness of the Niederrhein, even a modest hill feels like an event.
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Uedem-Hochwald | Hochwald 1 comes up about 23 km into the recorded legs. Next is Moers-Asberg.
Asberg is a quiet district on the southern edge of Moers, on the left bank of the Lower Rhine, and beneath its houses and fields lies the Roman fort of Asciburgium, one of the earliest military bases on the Rhine frontier. It was founded around the time of the emperor Augustus or soon after, garrisoned by cavalry and auxiliary troops, and abandoned toward the end of the first century, when the Rhine shifted its course and moved away from the fort. The site is now part of the Lower German Limes UNESCO site, and although there is little to see above ground, information boards and outlines help you imagine the scene.
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about 75 km into the recorded legs you reach Moers-Asberg. Next is Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex in.
The headframe of Shaft XII at Zollverein, with its red steel lattice and double wheels, is the Eiffel Tower of the Ruhr, and it is easy to see why. Designed by the architects Fritz Schupp and Martin Kremmer and opened in 1932, the shaft and its surrounding buildings were built in a clean, functional style influenced by the Bauhaus, and it was hailed as the most beautiful coal mine in the world. At its peak, Zollverein was one of the largest and most productive mines in Europe, and the adjacent coking plant processed coal into coke for the steel industry. The mine closed in 1986, the coking plant in 1993, and UNESCO listed the complex in 2001.
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Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex in, about halfway. Next is back through Moers-Asberg.
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back through Moers-Asberg sits at 151 km, about halfway. Next is back through Uedem-Hochwald | Hochwald 1.
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back through Uedem-Hochwald | Hochwald 1 comes up about 199 km into the recorded legs. Next is Kleve-Reichswald | West.
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Kleve-Reichswald | West closes the day.
Kleve-Reichswald | West → Uedem-Hochwald | Hochwald 1 is 23 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Uedem-Hochwald | Hochwald 1 → Moers-Asberg is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Moers-Asberg → Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex in is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex in → back through Moers-Asberg is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Moers-Asberg → back through Uedem-Hochwald | Hochwald 1 is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Uedem-Hochwald | Hochwald 1 → Kleve-Reichswald | West is 23 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.