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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From Lomonosov it runs 246 km to Lomonosov; allow about 4 h 01 of riding. On the way it passes Park «The Menagerie», Koltushskoe Highway and back through Park «The Menagerie». It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 58 km this is Saint Petersburg Imperial Shore, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Samuel Greig was a Scottish naval officer from Inverkeithing who rose to become an admiral in Catherine the Great's navy, and in 1788 he fought the Battle of Hogland against the Swedes in the Gulf of Finland, a few weeks before dying of fever at Reval. He is the S.K. Greig of the label, Samuil Karlovich in Russian style, and an estate on this coast called Sans Ennui is associated with the family, French for without boredom, a charming name for a country house. The site lies near Bolshaya Izhora, west of Lomonosov, where the land is flat, wooded and close to the water, and the Izhora river flows toward the gulf.
Read the complete S.K.Grieg's Estate «Sans Ennui» write-up.
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S.K.Grieg's Estate «Sans Ennui» is where the day begins. Next is Park «The Menagerie».
Gatchina is one of the great imperial estates ringing St Petersburg, and the Menagerie, the Zverinets, is its wild back garden: a large walled tract of forest north of the palace that was laid out in the eighteenth century as a hunting reserve, with deer and other game kept for the court. Today it is mostly woods, ponds and paths, and on a hot day it is the coolest place within reach.
Read the complete Park «The Menagerie» write-up.
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Park «The Menagerie» comes up about 58 km into the recorded legs. Next is Koltushskoe Highway.
East of Saint Petersburg, the Koltushskoe highway runs through suburban sprawl and countryside toward the village of Koltushi, and it belongs to a memorial landscape that ties the whole region together: the Green Belt of Glory, a chain of monuments marking the defensive line around Leningrad during the siege of 1941 to 1944, when nearly nine hundred days of blockade cost the lives of hundreds of thousands of civilians. Monuments, steles and memorials stand along the roads where the front lines and supply routes ran, including the Road of Life across Lake Ladoga.
Read the complete Koltushskoe Highway write-up.
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about 125 km into the recorded legs you reach Koltushskoe Highway. Next is back through Park «The Menagerie».
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Park «The Menagerie» write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Park «The Menagerie», late in the day. Next is S.K.Grieg's Estate «Sans Ennui», 64 km on.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete S.K.Grieg's Estate «Sans Ennui» write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at S.K.Grieg's Estate «Sans Ennui». That is the ride.
S.K.Grieg's Estate «Sans Ennui» → Park «The Menagerie» is 58 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Park «The Menagerie» → Koltushskoe Highway is 67 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Koltushskoe Highway → back through Park «The Menagerie» is 62 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Park «The Menagerie» → S.K.Grieg's Estate «Sans Ennui» is 58 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.