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 380 km round trip from Stege - roughly 5 h 58 in the saddle. On the way it passes Stevns Klint, Borgring, Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn and back through Borgring. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Møns Klint is where the Baltic suddenly gets dramatic. Over a stretch of some six kilometres on the east coast of the island of Møn, chalk cliffs laid down in the late Cretaceous rise straight out of the sea, white and crumbling and streaked with grey flint, to a height of about a hundred metres and more. The highest point of the cliffs is the Dronningestolen, the Queen's Chair, reaching more than a hundred and twenty metres above the beach. Beech woods grow right to the edge, and in the green light under the trees the contrast with the chalk is a surprise.
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Møns Klint is where the day begins. Next is Stevns Klint.
Stevns Klint is a white cliff of chalk and limestone, some fifteen kilometres long, on the east coast of Zealand, south of Copenhagen, and it holds one of the most important records of a global catastrophe. About sixty-six million years ago, an asteroid struck the Earth near what is now the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico, causing a mass extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs and much of life on Earth. In the cliff, a thin, dark layer of clay, called the fish clay, marks that moment, and it contains high levels of iridium, a metal rare on Earth but common in asteroids. This layer was a key piece of evidence for the impact theory, and the cliff was listed by UNESCO in 2014.
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Stevns Klint comes up about 100 km into the recorded legs. Next is Borgring.
In 2014, archaeologists using laser scanning of the landscape noticed a faint circle in a field near Køge, on the Danish island of Zealand, about forty kilometres south-west of Copenhagen. Excavations confirmed what they had hoped: it was a Viking ring fortress, one of a small group of perfectly circular fortresses built in Denmark in the late tenth century, probably under King Harald Bluetooth. It was named Borgring, and it was the first new ring fortress to be found in Denmark in over sixty years.
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about 138 km into the recorded legs you reach Borgring. Next is Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn.
Danish kings loved to hunt, and in the late seventeenth century they laid out forests north of Copenhagen in a geometric pattern of straight paths radiating from central points, designed for par force hunting, in which riders and hounds chased a stag until it was exhausted. Jægersborg Dyrehave, the deer park, and Jægersborg Hegn are included in UNESCO's inscription of the par force hunting landscape in North Zealand, together with forests further north. The star-shaped network of rides is still visible, with numbered stone posts at the intersections that helped the hunters find their way.
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Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn, about halfway. Next is back through Borgring.
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Read the complete Borgring write-up.
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back through Borgring sits at 194 km, about halfway. Next is back through Stevns Klint.
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Read the complete Stevns Klint write-up.
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back through Stevns Klint comes up about 280 km into the recorded legs. Next is Møns Klint.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Møns Klint write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Møns Klint closes the day.
Møns Klint → Stevns Klint is 100 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Stevns Klint → Borgring is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Borgring → Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn → back through Borgring is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Borgring → back through Stevns Klint is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Stevns Klint → Møns Klint is 99 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.