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 71 km round trip from Hengstdal - roughly 1 h 30 in the saddle. It goes by way of 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.
Go west from Nijmegen along the river and you are following the northern frontier of the Roman Empire. The Lower German Limes ran for about four hundred kilometres along the Rhine, from near Bonn to the North Sea at Katwijk, and for roughly three hundred years it marked the edge of the empire. It was never a wall. It was a line of forts, watchtowers, roads, harbours and ports along a river, defended by auxiliary troops and patrolled by boat, and almost all of it lies buried under fields, villages and dikes. In 2021 it was added to the World Heritage list.
Read the complete Nijmegen-Kops Plateau | West write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Nijmegen-Kops Plateau | West 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 21 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 37 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 | West.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Nijmegen-Kops Plateau | West write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Nijmegen-Kops Plateau | West. That is the ride.
Nijmegen-Kops Plateau | West → Kleve-Keeken is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Kleve-Keeken → Till is 16 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Till → back through Kleve-Keeken is 16 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Kleve-Keeken → Nijmegen-Kops Plateau | West is 19 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.