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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From Hengstdal it runs 68 km to Hengstdal; allow about 1 h 26 of riding. The stops in between: Kleve-Keeken, Till and back through Kleve-Keeken. It crosses from Netherlands into Germany - carry ID and check the toll rules. Open plateau country, wide and exposed.
Climb to the northern edge of the Kops Plateau and the land falls away to a wide green river valley, the Waal, the Rhine's biggest arm, and beyond it the flat polders of the Betuwe stretch toward the horizon. The ridge you stand on is a relic of the Ice Age. About a hundred and fifty thousand years ago an enormous glacier pushed ahead of itself a wall of sand and gravel, and the hills around Nijmegen, which locals call the seven hills even though nobody agrees which seven, are its leftovers. For the Dutch, who live mostly below sea level, this is genuinely high ground.
Read the complete Nijmegen-Kops Plateau | North write-up.
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Nijmegen-Kops Plateau | North 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 18 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 33 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-Kops Plateau | North.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Nijmegen-Kops Plateau | North write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Nijmegen-Kops Plateau | North. That is the ride.
Nijmegen-Kops Plateau | North → Kleve-Keeken is 18 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-Kops Plateau | North is 19 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.