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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403 km from Alfter to Alfter, about 5 h 05 of riding. On the way it passes Watchtowers WP 1/35 and 1/35a, Neuss-Reckberg | Kleinkastell and back through Watchtowers WP 1/35 and 1/35a. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
The Domhecken, the cathedral hedges, takes its name from the way the old hedgerows and tall trees here once met overhead like the roof of a church. The area in the northern Kottenforst, a short distance from the town of Alfter, is part of the great forest south-west of Bonn, and it carries the traces of old land use: hedge banks, ditches, boundary stones and long, straight forest roads laid out for hunting parties.
Read the complete Kottenforst Nord | Domhecken 3 write-up.
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Kottenforst Nord | Domhecken 3 is where the day begins. Next is Watchtowers WP 1/35 and 1/35a.
Pumice is the clue to this corner of the Rhineland. About thirteen thousand years ago the Laacher See volcano blew itself apart not far upstream, and the ash and pumice it threw out settled across the Neuwied basin, where it was dug, pressed into building blocks and carted off for centuries. Up on the hills above the basin, near Melsbach and Rengsdorf, the Romans chose the high ground for a pair of small watchtowers, one of which carries an extra letter in its number because archaeologists found a second structure next to it. They were part of the Upper Germanic Limes, which begins at the Rhine only a few kilometres away.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 1/35 and 1/35a write-up.
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Watchtowers WP 1/35 and 1/35a comes up about 79 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 Watchtowers WP 1/35 and 1/35a.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 1/35 and 1/35a write-up.
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back through Watchtowers WP 1/35 and 1/35a, late in the day. Next is Kottenforst Nord | Domhecken 3.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Kottenforst Nord | Domhecken 3 write-up.
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Back at Kottenforst Nord | Domhecken 3. That is the ride.
Kottenforst Nord | Domhecken 3 → Watchtowers WP 1/35 and 1/35a is 79 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 1/35 and 1/35a → Neuss-Reckberg | Kleinkastell is 122 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Neuss-Reckberg | Kleinkastell → back through Watchtowers WP 1/35 and 1/35a is 122 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Watchtowers WP 1/35 and 1/35a → Kottenforst Nord | Domhecken 3 is 80 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.