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: planning record, not independently verified geometry.
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A 265 km round trip from Morges - roughly 4 h 34 in the saddle. It goes by way of Port-Conty, Old City of Berne and back through Port-Conty. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,000 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 70 km this is Grand Tour of Switzerland, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Morges sits on the north shore of Lake Geneva between Lausanne and Geneva, with its castle by the harbour and the Alps of Savoy rising across the water. Just east of the town, at a place called Les Roseaux, the reeds, archaeologists found one of the oldest pile dwelling sites on the lake, dating back to the early Bronze Age, and it is part of the UNESCO group of prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps. Its remains lie underwater and are not visible, but the name and the shore keep the memory.
Read the complete Les Roseaux write-up.
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Les Roseaux is where the day begins. Next is Port-Conty.
Under the shallow water off Port-Conty lie the remains of villages that were built on stilts more than five thousand years ago, and you will see none of them from the shore. The site, near Saint-Aubin-Sauges on the north-western side of Lake Neuchâtel, is one of the many locations in the UNESCO listing of prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps. Archaeologists have found posts, tools, pottery and remains of food preserved in the lake mud, painting a picture of Neolithic and Bronze Age communities who farmed, fished and built their houses along the water's edge.
Read the complete Port-Conty write-up.
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Port-Conty comes up about 62 km into the recorded legs. Next is Old City of Berne.
Bern does not shout. The Swiss capital sits on a sandstone spur in a tight loop of the green Aare, with six kilometres of arcaded streets that let you walk the whole old town in the rain without getting wet. It was founded in 1191 by Duke Berthold V of Zähringen, and legend says he named it after the first animal he killed hunting nearby, a bear. The bears have been the town's mascots ever since, and a few still live in the BärenPark down by the river at the end of the Nydeggbrücke.
Read the complete Old City of Berne write-up.
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about 132 km into the recorded legs you reach Old City of Berne. Next is back through Port-Conty.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Port-Conty write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Port-Conty, late in the day. Next is Les Roseaux.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Les Roseaux write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Les Roseaux. That is the ride.
Les Roseaux → Port-Conty is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Port-Conty → Old City of Berne is 70 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Old City of Berne → back through Port-Conty is 70 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Port-Conty → Les Roseaux is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.