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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299 km from Kronstadt to Kronstadt, about 4 h 51 of riding. On the way it passes A.F.Orlov's Datcha, Highway Pushkin - Gatchina, The Blocade Ring and back through Highway Pushkin - Gatchina. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 48 km this is Saint Petersburg Imperial Shore, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Anyone who rides to Kronstadt today does it along one of the strangest roads in Europe, a long causeway that crosses the Gulf of Finland on top of a flood barrier. The barrier was built to protect Saint Petersburg from storm surges, which have flooded the city many times since its founding, and the road runs along its top. On either side the water is open, grey and wide, with the cranes of the port and the low grey shapes of ships on the horizon. There is little to hold the wind, and a rider will feel every gust.
Read the complete Kronstadtskoe Highway write-up.
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Kronstadtskoe Highway is where the day begins. Next is A.F.Orlov's Datcha, 40 km on.
Strelna lies on the south shore of the Gulf of Finland, on the road to Peterhof, and it is where Peter the Great first thought of building his seaside palace before he settled on the site a few kilometres to the west.
Read the complete A.F.Orlov's Datcha write-up.
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A.F.Orlov's Datcha comes up about 48 km into the recorded legs. Next is Highway Pushkin - Gatchina.
Two imperial palaces lie at either end of this road, and between them the flat country south of Saint Petersburg still carries the scars of the twentieth century's worst siege. At the northern end is Pushkin, the former Tsarskoye Selo, where the Catherine Palace stretches its blue and white façade for hundreds of metres and the reconstructed Amber Room glows inside. At the southern end is Gatchina, Paul I's palace, grey and fortress-like, in a park of lakes and islands. The historic road between them is one of the many components of the World Heritage Site of the historic centre of Saint Petersburg and its related monuments.
Read the complete Highway Pushkin - Gatchina write-up.
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about 83 km into the recorded legs you reach Highway Pushkin - Gatchina. Next is The Blocade Ring.
The Blockade Ring stands on the south bank of the Neva, east of Saint Petersburg, close to where the Road of Life began its journey toward Lake Ladoga. It commemorates the siege of Leningrad, which lasted from September 1941 to January 1944, roughly 872 days, and the corridor that kept the city alive. When Shlisselburg fell in September 1941, the city was cut off by land, and the only lifeline ran across Ladoga, by boat in summer and over the ice in winter.
Read the complete The Blocade Ring write-up.
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The Blocade Ring, about halfway. Next is back through Highway Pushkin - Gatchina.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Highway Pushkin - Gatchina write-up.
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back through Highway Pushkin - Gatchina sits at 160 km, about halfway. Next is back through A.F.Orlov's Datcha, 40 km on.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete A.F.Orlov's Datcha write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through A.F.Orlov's Datcha comes up about 250 km into the recorded legs. Next is Kronstadtskoe Highway.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Kronstadtskoe Highway write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Kronstadtskoe Highway closes the day.
Kronstadtskoe Highway → A.F.Orlov's Datcha is 48 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
A.F.Orlov's Datcha → Highway Pushkin - Gatchina is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Highway Pushkin - Gatchina → The Blocade Ring is 64 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The Blocade Ring → back through Highway Pushkin - Gatchina is 66 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Highway Pushkin - Gatchina → back through A.F.Orlov's Datcha is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through A.F.Orlov's Datcha → Kronstadtskoe Highway is 48 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.