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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308 km from Wachtberg to Wachtberg, about 3 h 54 of riding. On the way it passes Watchtower WP 1/60, Watchtower WP 3/1 to 3/14 including the ci and back through Watchtower WP 1/60. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
South of Bonn the land rises into the Kottenforst, a big forest on a low plateau that the archbishops of Cologne once kept as a hunting ground. They cut long straight rides through it, many meeting at star-shaped junctions so that a hunting party could see the quarry and follow it, and the pattern survives. The woods are mostly beech and oak, with a few conifer plantations and damp hollows, and they cover a large part of the area between Bonn, Meckenheim and Wachtberg. The Riesenweg, the Giants' Way, is one of the paths that cross it, a name that suggests something older and bigger than the track you walk on.
Read the complete Kottenforst Süd | Riesenweg write-up.
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Kottenforst Süd | Riesenweg is where the day begins. Next is Watchtower WP 1/60.
Above Koblenz, on the edge of the Westerwald, the potters of Höhr-Grenzhausen have been making grey, salt-glazed stoneware with cobalt-blue decoration for centuries, giving this corner of Germany its nickname, the Kannenbäckerland, the land of jug bakers. In the forest nearby, the site of Roman watchtower WP 1/60 on the Upper German-Raetian Limes is part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage Site. The tower was one of hundreds along the frontier, a wooden or stone structure from which soldiers watched the land beyond and signalled to their neighbours.
Read the complete Watchtower WP 1/60 write-up.
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Watchtower WP 1/60 comes up about 79 km into the recorded legs. Next is Watchtower WP 3/1 to 3/14 including the ci.
The Taunus is the green upland that keeps Frankfurt's weekend riders sane, and running right across it is the line of the Roman frontier. The stretch of watchtowers numbered 3/1 to 3/14 lies near Taunusstein, north of Wiesbaden, where the Upper Germanic Limes crossed the ridge, and it includes the remains of forts and their civilian settlements. One of the best known nearby is the fort of Zugmantel, near the hamlet of Orlen, where the outline of the fort, the palisade line and reconstructed watchtowers give a real sense of the frontier. The whole line is part of the UNESCO Frontiers of the Roman Empire.
Read the complete Watchtower WP 3/1 to 3/14 including the ci write-up.
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about 159 km into the recorded legs you reach Watchtower WP 3/1 to 3/14 including the ci. Next is back through Watchtower WP 1/60.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtower WP 1/60 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Watchtower WP 1/60, late in the day. Next is Kottenforst Süd | Riesenweg.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Kottenforst Süd | Riesenweg write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Kottenforst Süd | Riesenweg. That is the ride.
Kottenforst Süd | Riesenweg → Watchtower WP 1/60 is 79 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtower WP 1/60 → Watchtower WP 3/1 to 3/14 including the ci is 80 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtower WP 3/1 to 3/14 including the ci → back through Watchtower WP 1/60 is 71 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Watchtower WP 1/60 → Kottenforst Süd | Riesenweg is 78 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.