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 Murten/Morat it runs 194 km to Murten/Morat; allow about 4 h 02 of riding. It goes by way of Lobsigensee, Forêt de la Bettlachstock, Inkwilersee Insel and back through Forêt de la Bettlachstock. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 950 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
25 km on Grand Tour of Switzerland.
Murten is the rare Swiss town where you can walk the medieval walls almost all the way round, looking down on brown tiled roofs on one side and the lake on the other. Its sailing harbour, the Segelboothafen, lies just below the old town on the shore of Lake Murten, and in the shallows here are the remains of prehistoric pile dwellings, one of the Swiss components of the transnational World Heritage Site of Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps. Nothing shows above the water, but the lakeshore has been a place to live for thousands of years.
Read the complete Segelboothafen write-up.
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Segelboothafen is where the day begins. Next is Lobsigensee.
Lobsigensee is a tiny lake, barely more than a pond, hidden among fields and woods on a low hill above Aarberg in the Bernese Seeland. It is a nature reserve, ringed with reeds and alder trees, and it is home to frogs, newts, dragonflies and birds. It also hides one of the Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps World Heritage sites: the remains of Neolithic settlements along its shore. There is nothing visible on the surface, but the quiet, green setting gives a sense of what the landscape might have looked like thousands of years ago.
Read the complete Lobsigensee write-up.
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Lobsigensee comes up about 25 km into the recorded legs. Next is Forêt de la Bettlachstock.
Above the watchmaking towns of Grenchen and Bettlach, the first chain of the Jura rises like a wall out of the Aare plain, and on its steep southern flank grows the beech forest of the Bettlachstock. In 2021 it became one of the Swiss components of the UNESCO Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe, a serial site that stretches across the continent to show how beech spread after the last Ice Age. What makes this patch special is that it has been left largely to itself for decades, on slopes so steep and rocky that nobody bothered to log them hard, and so the trees grow old, fall, rot and feed the next generation.
Read the complete Forêt de la Bettlachstock write-up.
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about 67 km into the recorded legs you reach Forêt de la Bettlachstock. Next is Inkwilersee Insel.
You could ride past the Inkwilersee a dozen times without noticing it. It is a small, shallow lake tucked into a fold of farmland right on the line between the cantons of Bern and Solothurn, ringed with reeds and alders, with a tiny wooded island near its middle. That island is the reason for the label: beneath its trees and in the mud around it lie traces of prehistoric lakeside settlement, enough to earn the Inkwilersee a place among the Alpine pile-dwelling sites on the World Heritage list.
Read the complete Inkwilersee Insel write-up.
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Inkwilersee Insel, about halfway. Next is back through Forêt de la Bettlachstock.
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Read the complete Forêt de la Bettlachstock write-up.
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back through Forêt de la Bettlachstock sits at 108 km, about halfway. Next is back through Lobsigensee.
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Read the complete Lobsigensee write-up.
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back through Lobsigensee comes up about 170 km into the recorded legs. Next is Segelboothafen.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Segelboothafen write-up.
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Segelboothafen closes the day.
Segelboothafen → Lobsigensee is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Lobsigensee → Forêt de la Bettlachstock is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Forêt de la Bettlachstock → Inkwilersee Insel is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Inkwilersee Insel → back through Forêt de la Bettlachstock is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Forêt de la Bettlachstock → back through Lobsigensee is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Lobsigensee → Segelboothafen is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.