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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242 km from Überlingen to Überlingen, about 4 h 34 of riding. On the way it passes Wangen-Hinterhorn, Weier I - III, Storen-Wildsberg and back through Weier I - III. It crosses from Germany into Switzerland - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules. The line favours views over speed.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 36 km this is Grand Tour of Switzerland, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
The Bodanrueck is a wooded peninsula that sticks out into the western end of Lake Constance, between the Uberlinger See and the Zeller See, and Litzelstetten is a small village on its southern side, close to the city of Konstanz. The Krahenhorn is a little promontory on the shore, and the whole area is an easy, gentle mix of orchards, forest, reeds and quiet beaches. Mainau Island, the flower island, lies just off the coast, with its palm trees and rhododendrons.
Read the complete Litzelstetten-Krähenhorn 32 write-up.
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Litzelstetten-Krähenhorn 32 is where the day begins. Next is Wangen-Hinterhorn.
When the water of the Untersee, the western arm of Lake Constance, was unusually low in the winter of 1853 to 1854, people around the Swiss and German shores noticed wooden posts sticking out of the mud. They were the remains of prehistoric pile dwellings, villages built on the lakeshore thousands of years ago, and the find sparked a wave of research and a craze for lake-dwelling romance across Europe. Wangen, on the German shore of the Untersee, was one of the first sites studied, and Wangen-Hinterhorn belongs to the World Heritage inscription for prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps, though there is nothing to see above the water.
Read the complete Wangen-Hinterhorn write-up.
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Wangen-Hinterhorn comes up about 36 km into the recorded legs. Next is Weier I - III.
Just outside Thayngen, almost on the German border, a small wetland hides the remains of Neolithic villages that stood here more than five thousand years ago. The sites known as Weier I to III were built on the edge of a former lake or moor, now mostly filled in, and excavations revealed well-preserved timber houses, tools, pottery and food remains that give a detailed picture of early farming communities. They form part of the UNESCO listing of prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps, though as with most such sites, there is little to see above ground today beyond the landscape itself.
Read the complete Weier I - III write-up.
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about 59 km into the recorded legs you reach Weier I - III. Next is Storen-Wildsberg.
The Greifensee lies just east of Zurich, a shallow, quiet lake of about six kilometres in length, framed by reeds, meadows and the gentle hills of the Zurich Oberland. Its shores are largely protected, and there is no road running right along the water, which keeps it remarkably calm for a lake so close to Switzerland's biggest city. At Storen-Wildsberg near the village of Greifensee, the remains of a prehistoric settlement lie under the water and in the shoreline sediments, one of the Swiss sites in the UNESCO listing of Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps. As with all of them, it is the ground itself that is protected; there is nothing to see except the reeds and the water.
Read the complete Storen-Wildsberg write-up.
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Storen-Wildsberg, about halfway. Next is back through Weier I - III.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Weier I - III write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Weier I - III sits at 145 km, about halfway. Next is back through Wangen-Hinterhorn.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Wangen-Hinterhorn write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Wangen-Hinterhorn comes up about 206 km into the recorded legs. Next is Litzelstetten-Krähenhorn 32.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Litzelstetten-Krähenhorn 32 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Litzelstetten-Krähenhorn 32 closes the day.
Litzelstetten-Krähenhorn 32 → Wangen-Hinterhorn is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Wangen-Hinterhorn → Weier I - III is 23 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Weier I - III → Storen-Wildsberg is 64 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Storen-Wildsberg → back through Weier I - III is 59 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Weier I - III → back through Wangen-Hinterhorn is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Wangen-Hinterhorn → Litzelstetten-Krähenhorn 32 is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.