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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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
From Hüttwilen it runs 102 km to Hüttwilen; allow about 2 h 03 of riding. It goes by way of Weier I - III, Bodman-Schachen / Löchle and back through Weier I - III. It crosses from Switzerland into Germany - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
The ride follows Grand Tour of Switzerland for 19 km.
Out in the Thurgau countryside, between Frauenfeld and the Rhine, a chain of small lakes lies in a glacial hollow: the Nussbaumersee, the Hüttwilersee and the Hasensee, with the wetland of the Seebachtal around them. It is a place of reeds and still water, where herons stand in the shallows and dragonflies hang over the surface. The Nussbaumersee is the biggest of them, a modest lake with a wooded shore, and a footpath circles it.
Read the complete Nussbaumersee write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Nussbaumersee is where the day begins. Next is Weier I - III.
Just outside Thayngen, almost on the German border, a small wetland hides the remains of Neolithic villages that stood here more than five thousand years ago. The sites known as Weier I to III were built on the edge of a former lake or moor, now mostly filled in, and excavations revealed well-preserved timber houses, tools, pottery and food remains that give a detailed picture of early farming communities. They form part of the UNESCO listing of prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps, though as with most such sites, there is little to see above ground today beyond the landscape itself.
Read the complete Weier I - III write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Weier I - III comes up about 19 km into the recorded legs. Next is Bodman-Schachen / Löchle.
Lake Constance takes its German name, Bodensee, from this village. Bodman, at the western tip of the Überlinger See arm of the lake, was the site of a royal palace in the early Middle Ages, and the name of the place spread to the water. Below the village, in the shallows at Schachen and Löchle, lie the remains of prehistoric pile dwellings, part of the transnational World Heritage Site of Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps, inscribed in 2011.
Read the complete Bodman-Schachen / Löchle write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 51 km into the recorded legs you reach Bodman-Schachen / Löchle. Next is back through Weier I - III.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Weier I - III write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Weier I - III, late in the day. Next is Nussbaumersee.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Nussbaumersee write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Nussbaumersee. That is the ride.
Nussbaumersee → Weier I - III is 19 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Weier I - III → Bodman-Schachen / Löchle is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Bodman-Schachen / Löchle → back through Weier I - III is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Weier I - III → Nussbaumersee is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.