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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406 km from Alfter to Alfter, about 5 h 10 of riding. On the way it passes Limessection between watchtowzers WP 1/30, Neuss-Reckberg | Kleinkastell and back through Limessection between watchtowzers WP 1/30. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Bornheim is asparagus country, and if you ride past the Kottenforst in late spring you will see why. The sandy soil on the Rhine terraces just south of Cologne suits the white spears perfectly, and from roughly April to the end of June the farm stands along the roads sell them by the kilo, along with strawberries that follow soon afterwards. This is the Vorgebirge, a low ridge between the Rhine plain and the Eifel foothills, long used for market gardening and orchards, and the Weißer Stein stop sits in the woodland at its edge.
Read the complete Kottenforst Nord | Am Weißen Stein 2 write-up.
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Kottenforst Nord | Am Weißen Stein 2 is where the day begins. Next is Limessection between watchtowzers WP 1/30.
The Roman frontier in Germany starts at the Rhine and heads off into the woods, and the Westerwald is where it first leaves the river. Near Rheinbrohl the Upper German Limes begins, and from there it climbs the hills to the east, a line of earth banks, ditches and watchtowers that once ran for about five hundred and fifty kilometres to the Danube. Between the towers numbered 1 and 30 it crosses the high ground behind Neuwied, through the area of Melsbach and Rengsdorf, and what remains today is mostly a low bank and a shallow ditch in the forest.
Read the complete Limessection between watchtowzers WP 1/30 write-up.
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Limessection between watchtowzers WP 1/30 comes up about 78 km into the recorded legs. Next is Neuss-Reckberg | Kleinkastell.
The Rhine was the northern frontier of the Roman Empire for centuries, and the string of forts, towers and camps along its western bank is now recognised as the Lower Germanic Limes, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2021.
Read the complete Neuss-Reckberg | Kleinkastell write-up.
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about 201 km into the recorded legs you reach Neuss-Reckberg | Kleinkastell. Next is back through Limessection between watchtowzers WP 1/30.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Limessection between watchtowzers WP 1/30 write-up.
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back through Limessection between watchtowzers WP 1/30, late in the day. Next is Kottenforst Nord | Am Weißen Stein 2.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Kottenforst Nord | Am Weißen Stein 2 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Kottenforst Nord | Am Weißen Stein 2. That is the ride.
Kottenforst Nord | Am Weißen Stein 2 → Limessection between watchtowzers WP 1/30 is 78 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Limessection between watchtowzers WP 1/30 → Neuss-Reckberg | Kleinkastell is 123 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Neuss-Reckberg | Kleinkastell → back through Limessection between watchtowzers WP 1/30 is 122 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Limessection between watchtowzers WP 1/30 → Kottenforst Nord | Am Weißen Stein 2 is 82 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.