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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413 km from Alfter to Alfter, about 5 h 14 of riding. The stops in between: Limessection between watchtowers WP/ 1/34, Neuss-Reckberg | Kleinkastell and back through Limessection between watchtowers WP/ 1/34. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
The Kottenforst is a large forest on the hills west of Bonn, a remnant of the woodland that once covered the Rhine plain, and its northern part, near Alfter, is a quiet, old-fashioned place of oak and beech. For centuries it was a hunting forest of the Electors of Cologne, who ruled from Bonn, and the straight rides that cut through it, laid out for hunting parties, are still visible as long avenues between the trees. A hunting lodge of the eighteenth-century elector Clemens August stands in the forest to the south.
Read the complete Kottenforst Nord | Domhecken 1 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Kottenforst Nord | Domhecken 1 is where the day begins. Next is Limessection between watchtowers WP/ 1/34.
North of Neuwied, the hills of the Westerwald rise steeply from the Rhine, and through their forests ran the Roman frontier known as the Upper German-Raetian Limes. The section between the watchtowers numbered WP 1/34 and its neighbours lies near Melsbach and Rengsdorf, and it is part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage Site, inscribed in 2005 for this stretch. The Limes began on the Rhine at Rheinbrohl, a little downstream, and ran for over 500 kilometres to the Danube, a line of wooden palisades, ditches, ramparts and watchtowers.
Read the complete Limessection between watchtowers WP/ 1/34 write-up.
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Limessection between watchtowers WP/ 1/34 comes up about 84 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 207 km into the recorded legs you reach Neuss-Reckberg | Kleinkastell. Next is back through Limessection between watchtowers WP/ 1/34.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Limessection between watchtowers WP/ 1/34 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Limessection between watchtowers WP/ 1/34, late in the day. Next is Kottenforst Nord | Domhecken 1.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Kottenforst Nord | Domhecken 1 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Kottenforst Nord | Domhecken 1. That is the ride.
Kottenforst Nord | Domhecken 1 → Limessection between watchtowers WP/ 1/34 is 84 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Limessection between watchtowers WP/ 1/34 → 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 watchtowers WP/ 1/34 is 122 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Limessection between watchtowers WP/ 1/34 → Kottenforst Nord | Domhecken 1 is 84 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.