Why this ride
A 323 km round trip from Stege - roughly 5 h 28 in the saddle. It goes by way of Stevns Klint, Borgring, Roskilde Cathedral and back through Borgring.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Møns Klint and Roskilde Cathedral starting at Stege
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 323 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 5 h 28
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
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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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
Scenic road chapters
Borgring → Roskilde Cathedral
Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through. 26 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it.
Chapter facts
- Length
- 25 km
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Møns Klint
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.
Read the complete Møns Klint write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Møns Klint is where the day begins. Next is Stevns Klint.
2. 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.
Read the complete Stevns Klint write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Stevns Klint comes up about 100 km into the recorded legs. Next is Borgring.
3. 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.
Read the complete Borgring write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 138 km into the recorded legs you reach Borgring. Next is Roskilde Cathedral.
4. Roskilde Cathedral
Roskilde Cathedral is where Denmark keeps its kings. Since the fifteenth century, almost every Danish monarch has been buried here, and the chapels and crypts hold around forty kings and queens, from medieval stone tombs to ornate baroque sarcophagi and modern designs. The cathedral itself, begun in the late twelfth century under Bishop Absalon, the warrior-churchman who also founded Copenhagen, was one of the first big brick Gothic churches in Scandinavia, and it set the style for church building across the region. UNESCO listed it in 1995. Inside, look for the clock with the figure of St George slaying the dragon, which strikes the hour, and the pillar where royal visitors have marked their height.
Read the complete Roskilde Cathedral write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Roskilde Cathedral, about halfway. Next is back through Borgring.
5. back through Borgring
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Borgring write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Borgring sits at 146 km, about halfway. Next is back through Stevns Klint.
6. back through Stevns Klint
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Stevns Klint write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Stevns Klint comes up about 222 km into the recorded legs. Next is Møns Klint.
7. Møns Klint
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Møns Klint write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Møns Klint closes the day.
Leg by leg
Møns Klint to Stevns Klint
Møns Klint → Stevns Klint is 100 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Stevns Klint to Borgring
Stevns Klint → Borgring is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Borgring to Roskilde Cathedral
Borgring → Roskilde Cathedral is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Roskilde Cathedral to back through Borgring
Roskilde Cathedral → back through Borgring is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Borgring to back through Stevns Klint
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 to Møns Klint
back through Stevns Klint → Møns Klint is 99 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.