CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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232 km from Saint-Aubin-Sauges to Saint-Aubin-Sauges, about 4 h 08 of riding. On the way it passes Le Locle, Pointe de Montbec I, Dorfstation and back through Pointe de Montbec I. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 900 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For 25 km this is Jura Crest Scenic Road, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Under the shallow water off Port-Conty lie the remains of villages that were built on stilts more than five thousand years ago, and you will see none of them from the shore. The site, near Saint-Aubin-Sauges on the north-western side of Lake Neuchâtel, is one of the many locations in the UNESCO listing of prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps. Archaeologists have found posts, tools, pottery and remains of food preserved in the lake mud, painting a picture of Neolithic and Bronze Age communities who farmed, fished and built their houses along the water's edge.
Read the complete Port-Conty write-up.
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Port-Conty is where the day begins. Next is Le Locle.
Le Locle, high in the Swiss Jura near the French border, is a town built for making watches. After a series of fires in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, it was rebuilt on a grid of parallel streets, with houses and workshops designed to let maximum light into the rooms where watchmakers worked at their benches. The town, with neighbouring La Chaux-de-Fonds, was listed by UNESCO in 2009 as an example of urban planning shaped entirely by a single industry. Tissot was founded here in 1853, Zenith in 1865, and many smaller firms continue the tradition. Daniel JeanRichard, a goldsmith who is said to have founded the Jura watch industry, worked here in the eighteenth century.
Read the complete Le Locle write-up.
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Le Locle comes up 27 km in. Next is Pointe de Montbec I.
The south shore of Lake Neuchâtel is a long, soft margin of reeds, shallow water and woodland, and it hides one of the richest archaeological records in Europe. Pointe de Montbec, near the villages along the Fribourg and Vaud shore opposite Neuchâtel, is one of the places where prehistoric lake dwellers built their villages on the water's edge thousands of years ago. Their houses stood on piles driven into the soft lake shore, and when lake levels rose, the remains were sealed under water and mud, preserving wood, textiles, seeds and tools in astonishing detail. The prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps were inscribed by UNESCO in 2011 as a single serial site spanning six countries, and this shore contributes a good number of them.
Read the complete Pointe de Montbec I write-up.
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53 km in you reach Pointe de Montbec I. Next is Dorfstation.
The south shore of Lake Biel is a gentle place of reeds, vineyards on the far bank and farmland stretching back towards the Seeland plain, and at Lüscherz, one of the small lakeside villages, the remains of a prehistoric pile-dwelling settlement lie in the shallows. Dorfstation, as the site is known, is part of the transnational World Heritage Site of Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps, inscribed in 2011. Neolithic and Bronze Age farmers built their houses on wooden piles along the shore, and the waterlogged ground preserved timbers, tools, textiles and food remains for thousands of years.
Read the complete Dorfstation write-up.
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Dorfstation, about halfway. Next is back through Pointe de Montbec I.
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Read the complete Pointe de Montbec I write-up.
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back through Pointe de Montbec I sits at 106 km, about halfway. Next is back through Le Locle.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Le Locle write-up.
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back through Le Locle comes up 133 km in. Next is Port-Conty.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Port-Conty write-up.
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Port-Conty closes the day.
Port-Conty → Le Locle is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Le Locle → Pointe de Montbec I is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Pointe de Montbec I → Dorfstation is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Dorfstation → back through Pointe de Montbec I is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Pointe de Montbec I → back through Le Locle is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Le Locle → Port-Conty is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.