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 305 km round trip from Amsterdam - roughly 4 h 21 in the saddle. It goes by way of Corbulo's canal | Romeinsepad, Tiel Inundation Canal and back through Corbulo's canal | Romeinsepad. 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 52 km this is Dutch Flower Route, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Nobody rides a motorbike into the Amsterdam canal ring for the curves. You come because in the early seventeenth century, the city at the height of its Golden Age planned an extension of startling ambition: three main canals, the Herengracht, Keizersgracht and Prinsengracht, laid out in concentric arcs around the medieval core, lined with tall, narrow merchants' houses with gabled roofs and hoisting beams. Work began in 1613, and the result, a UNESCO site since 2010, is still one of the most admired examples of urban planning in the world.
Read the complete Seventeenth-Century Canal Ring Area of Ams write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Seventeenth-Century Canal Ring Area of Ams is where the day begins. Next is Corbulo's canal | Romeinsepad.
Some two thousand years ago, in the year 47, the Roman general Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo had a canal dug between the Old Rhine and the Maas to give his ships a safe route behind the dunes and avoid the dangerous coastal sea. Tacitus mentions it, and later sources say that Corbulo, recalled by the emperor Claudius from further conquests in Germania, kept his soldiers busy with the digging rather than let them grow idle. The channel is known as the Fossa Corbulonis, and in today's landscape it is usually identified with the Vliet, the old waterway that runs between Leiden and Delft through Voorburg.
Read the complete Corbulo's canal | Romeinsepad write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Corbulo's canal | Romeinsepad comes up about 52 km into the recorded legs. Next is Tiel Inundation Canal.
Tiel is a river town on the Waal, the main branch of the Rhine in the Netherlands, in the middle of the Betuwe, a region of orchards, dykes and meadows between the Waal and the Lower Rhine. Just outside the town, a wide, straight channel runs through the fields, crossed by bridges and lined by dykes. This is the Tiel inundation canal, built in the late nineteenth century as part of the New Dutch Waterline, the defensive system of controlled flooding that protected the heart of Holland, and it is now part of the UNESCO-listed Dutch Water Defence Lines.
Read the complete Tiel Inundation Canal write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 152 km into the recorded legs you reach Tiel Inundation Canal. Next is back through Corbulo's canal | Romeinsepad.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Corbulo's canal | Romeinsepad write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Corbulo's canal | Romeinsepad, late in the day. Next is Seventeenth-Century Canal Ring Area of Ams.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Seventeenth-Century Canal Ring Area of Ams write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Seventeenth-Century Canal Ring Area of Ams. That is the ride.
Seventeenth-Century Canal Ring Area of Ams → Corbulo's canal | Romeinsepad is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Corbulo's canal | Romeinsepad → Tiel Inundation Canal is 100 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Tiel Inundation Canal → back through Corbulo's canal | Romeinsepad is 100 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Corbulo's canal | Romeinsepad → Seventeenth-Century Canal Ring Area of Ams is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.