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 197 km round trip from Fredensborg - roughly 3 h 17 in the saddle. It goes by way of Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn, Roskilde Cathedral, Borgring and back through Roskilde Cathedral. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through. 47 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it.
A ridestien is a bridle path, and in Denmark they are taken seriously. Grønholt Vang, in the woodland and open country of north Zealand, has a network of them, and the one marked here runs through trees and along the edge of open ground a few kilometres from Fredensborg and Hillerød. The paths are meant for riders on horseback, so a motorcycle has no business on them, but they are a clue to the character of the area: an old landscape of forest and estate, now shared by walkers, cyclists and horse riders.
Read the complete Ridestien in Grønholt Vang write-up.
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Ridestien in Grønholt Vang is where the day begins. Next is Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn.
Danish kings loved to hunt, and in the late seventeenth century they laid out forests north of Copenhagen in a geometric pattern of straight paths radiating from central points, designed for par force hunting, in which riders and hounds chased a stag until it was exhausted. Jægersborg Dyrehave, the deer park, and Jægersborg Hegn are included in UNESCO's inscription of the par force hunting landscape in North Zealand, together with forests further north. The star-shaped network of rides is still visible, with numbered stone posts at the intersections that helped the hunters find their way.
Read the complete Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn write-up.
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Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn comes up about 27 km into the recorded legs. Next is Roskilde Cathedral.
Roskilde Cathedral is where Denmark keeps its kings. Since the fifteenth century, almost every Danish monarch has been buried here, and the chapels and crypts hold around forty kings and queens, from medieval stone tombs to ornate baroque sarcophagi and modern designs. The cathedral itself, begun in the late twelfth century under Bishop Absalon, the warrior-churchman who also founded Copenhagen, was one of the first big brick Gothic churches in Scandinavia, and it set the style for church building across the region. UNESCO listed it in 1995. Inside, look for the clock with the figure of St George slaying the dragon, which strikes the hour, and the pillar where royal visitors have marked their height.
Read the complete Roskilde Cathedral write-up.
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about 72 km into the recorded legs you reach Roskilde Cathedral. Next is Borgring.
In 2014, archaeologists using laser scanning of the landscape noticed a faint circle in a field near Køge, on the Danish island of Zealand, about forty kilometres south-west of Copenhagen. Excavations confirmed what they had hoped: it was a Viking ring fortress, one of a small group of perfectly circular fortresses built in Denmark in the late tenth century, probably under King Harald Bluetooth. It was named Borgring, and it was the first new ring fortress to be found in Denmark in over sixty years.
Read the complete Borgring write-up.
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Borgring, about halfway. Next is back through Roskilde Cathedral.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Roskilde Cathedral write-up.
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back through Roskilde Cathedral sits at 137 km, about halfway. Next is back through Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn comes up about 170 km into the recorded legs. Next is Ridestien in Grønholt Vang.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Ridestien in Grønholt Vang write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Ridestien in Grønholt Vang closes the day.
Ridestien in Grønholt Vang → Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn → Roskilde Cathedral is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Roskilde Cathedral → Borgring is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Borgring → back through Roskilde Cathedral is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Roskilde Cathedral → back through Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn → Ridestien in Grønholt Vang is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.