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 159 km round trip from Regensburg - roughly 3 h 04 in the saddle. On the way it passes Weltenburg‐Am Galget - Kleinkastell, Fort site and civil settlement of Pfoerrin, Watchtowers WP 15/11 to 15/26 and fortlets and back through Watchtowers WP 15/11 to 15/26 and fortlets.
Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through. 33 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it.
The Danube gorge at Weltenburg is the best reason to ride south from Regensburg. About forty kilometres upstream, the river hits a wall of Jurassic limestone and, instead of turning aside, cuts straight through it in a narrow defile with cliffs on both sides, some of them over a hundred metres high. At the entrance to the gorge sits Weltenburg Abbey, one of the oldest monasteries in Bavaria, founded around 700, with a baroque church by the Asam brothers and a brewery that claims to be the oldest monastery brewery in the world.
Read the complete Regensburg - Legionslager VIII write-up.
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Regensburg - Legionslager VIII is where the day begins. Next is Weltenburg‐Am Galget - Kleinkastell.
The Danube does something unexpected just upstream of Kelheim. Instead of wandering across flat Bavarian farmland, it cuts straight through a band of white Jurassic limestone, squeezed between cliffs that rise steeply from the water. This is the Weltenburg Narrows, and on the hill above the abbey at Weltenburg, at the spot called Am Galget, the Romans put a small fort to watch the river and the frontier.
Read the complete Weltenburg‐Am Galget - Kleinkastell write-up.
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Weltenburg‐Am Galget - Kleinkastell comes up about 32 km into the recorded legs. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Pfoerrin.
Between Ingolstadt and Kelheim, the Danube flows through a broad, flat valley in Bavaria, with hop gardens, fields of maize and asparagus beds on its banks. Pförring is a small market town on the north bank, with Neustadt an der Donau and Vohburg on the other side. In Roman times, this was the frontier: the Raetian Limes ended at the Danube just downstream, and the Romans built a fort here, known as Celeusum, with a civil settlement outside its walls.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Pfoerrin write-up.
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about 52 km into the recorded legs you reach Fort site and civil settlement of Pfoerrin. Next is Watchtowers WP 15/11 to 15/26 and fortlets.
The Altmühl valley in Bavaria is one of Germany's best kept riding secrets, a winding river valley cut deep into Jurassic limestone, lined with juniper heaths, rock towers and castles. Near where the valley meets the Danube, the Roman frontier, the Raetian Limes, ran across the land, and the stretch of watchtowers and small forts numbered WP 15/11 to 15/26 lies in the wooded hills here, between Riedenburg, Dietfurt and the Danube town of Vohburg.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 15/11 to 15/26 and fortlets write-up.
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Watchtowers WP 15/11 to 15/26 and fortlets, about halfway.
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Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Pfoerrin write-up.
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Fort site and civil settlement of Pfoerrin sits at 84 km, about halfway. Next is back through Watchtowers WP 15/11 to 15/26 and fortlets.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 15/11 to 15/26 and fortlets write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Watchtowers WP 15/11 to 15/26 and fortlets comes up about 92 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Fort site and civil settlement of Pfoerrin.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Pfoerrin write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 105 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Fort site and civil settlement of Pfoerrin. Next is back through Weltenburg‐Am Galget - Kleinkastell.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Weltenburg‐Am Galget - Kleinkastell write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Weltenburg‐Am Galget - Kleinkastell, late in the day. Next is Regensburg - Legionslager VIII.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Regensburg - Legionslager VIII write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
The route ends here after 159 km.
Regensburg - Legionslager VIII → Weltenburg‐Am Galget - Kleinkastell is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Weltenburg‐Am Galget - Kleinkastell → Fort site and civil settlement of Pfoerrin is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil settlement of Pfoerrin → Watchtowers WP 15/11 to 15/26 and fortlets is 13 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 15/11 to 15/26 and fortlets → Fort site and civil settlement of Pfoerrin is 12 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil settlement of Pfoerrin → back through Watchtowers WP 15/11 to 15/26 and fortlets is 15 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Watchtowers WP 15/11 to 15/26 and fortlets → back through Fort site and civil settlement of Pfoerrin is 13 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Pfoerrin → back through Weltenburg‐Am Galget - Kleinkastell is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Weltenburg‐Am Galget - Kleinkastell → Regensburg - Legionslager VIII is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.