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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A 337 km round trip from Linz - roughly 4 h 58 in the saddle. The stops in between: Kalkalpen - Wilder Graben, Ybbs - Kleinkastell and back through Kalkalpen - Wilder Graben. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,100 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Linz is a city that has reinvented itself. For much of the twentieth century it was known mainly for its steelworks and its uncomfortable links with the Nazi period; today it markets itself as a city of culture and technology, with the Ars Electronica centre glowing on the Danube bank at night, the Lentos art museum opposite, and a lively music scene. The Schlossberg, the castle hill above the old town, is where it all began: the Romans had a fort here called Lentia, part of the Danube frontier of the empire, and the Danube Limes is now on the World Heritage list. The castle that stands there now dates largely from the Renaissance, built for Emperor Frederick III, who spent his last years in Linz and died here in 1493. It houses a branch of the Upper Austrian state museum.
Read the complete Linz - Befestigung Schlossberg write-up.
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Linz - Befestigung Schlossberg is where the day begins. Next is Kalkalpen - Wilder Graben.
Wilder Graben translates as the wild ravine, and the name fits the country south of the Enns valley in Upper Austria, where the Kalkalpen National Park protects a great tangle of limestone mountains, gorges and forest. This is the Reichraminger Hintergebirge, a maze of steep valleys with clear green streams at the bottom and almost no settlements at all. It is one of the largest forested areas in Austria, and parts of its old beech woods belong to the World Heritage site of ancient beech forests across Europe.
Read the complete Kalkalpen - Wilder Graben write-up.
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Kalkalpen - Wilder Graben comes up about 72 km into the recorded legs. Next is Ybbs - Kleinkastell.
Ybbs an der Donau and Persenbeug face each other across the Danube in Lower Austria, connected by a hydroelectric dam that was one of the first built on the Austrian Danube after the war. Persenbeug is dominated by its castle, perched on a rock above the river, which belonged to the Habsburgs and was the birthplace of Emperor Charles I, the last emperor of Austria-Hungary. On the Ybbs side, the remains of a small Roman fort have been found, part of the Danube frontier of the Roman Empire.
Read the complete Ybbs - Kleinkastell write-up.
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about 169 km into the recorded legs you reach Ybbs - Kleinkastell. Next is back through Kalkalpen - Wilder Graben.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Kalkalpen - Wilder Graben write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Kalkalpen - Wilder Graben, late in the day. Next is Linz - Befestigung Schlossberg.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Linz - Befestigung Schlossberg write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Linz - Befestigung Schlossberg. That is the ride.
Linz - Befestigung Schlossberg → Kalkalpen - Wilder Graben is 72 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Kalkalpen - Wilder Graben → Ybbs - Kleinkastell is 97 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Ybbs - Kleinkastell → back through Kalkalpen - Wilder Graben is 94 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Kalkalpen - Wilder Graben → Linz - Befestigung Schlossberg is 74 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.