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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70 km from Hengstdal to Hengstdal, about 1 h 30 of riding. On the way it passes Kleve-Keeken, Till and back through Kleve-Keeken. It crosses from Netherlands into Germany - carry ID and check the toll rules. The line favours views over speed.
Julius Civilis was a Batavian noble who had served in the Roman army, and in the year 69 he turned against it. The Batavians, a Germanic people who lived on the Rhine delta, rose in revolt during the civil war that followed Nero's death, and for a year they threatened Roman power on the northern frontier. Nijmegen, then a Batavian town, was burned, and when the rebellion was crushed, the Romans built a new, massive legionary fortress on the Hunerberg, a rise on the edge of the town, to keep control. The Tenth Legion, called Gemina, was stationed there for more than thirty years, and the settlement that grew beside it became a Roman town with a grid of streets, baths and a market.
Read the complete Nijmegen-Hunerberg write-up.
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Nijmegen-Hunerberg is where the day begins. Next is Kleve-Keeken.
Here the Rhine stops being a German river. Just downstream of the village of Keeken, the great river crosses the border into the Netherlands, and a few kilometres further on it divides, with the Waal carrying most of the water west and the Pannerdens Canal leading to the Nederrijn and the IJssel. In Roman times, this was the northern frontier of the empire, the Lower German Limes, and Keeken is one of the sites listed as part of the UNESCO frontier, with traces of Roman military installations along the old river course.
Read the complete Kleve-Keeken write-up.
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Kleve-Keeken comes up about 20 km into the recorded legs. Next is Till.
The Lower Rhine around Kalkar and Kleve is wide, flat country: green polders, willows along drainage ditches, brick farmhouses and church spires visible for miles. Till is a small village here, part of Bedburg-Hau, just off the Rhine embankments between Kalkar and Kleve, with Emmerich across the river. It lies close to the line of the Roman frontier, the Lower German Limes, which followed the Rhine to the North Sea.
Read the complete Till write-up.
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about 35 km into the recorded legs you reach Till. Next is back through Kleve-Keeken.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Kleve-Keeken write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Kleve-Keeken, late in the day. Next is Nijmegen-Hunerberg.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Nijmegen-Hunerberg write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Nijmegen-Hunerberg. That is the ride.
Nijmegen-Hunerberg → Kleve-Keeken is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Kleve-Keeken → Till is 15 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Till → back through Kleve-Keeken is 15 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Kleve-Keeken → Nijmegen-Hunerberg is 19 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.