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 Utrecht it runs 185 km to Utrecht; allow about 2 h 57 of riding. The stops in between: Woerden-Centrum, Leiden-Roomburg | Besjeslaan, Van Nellefabriek and back through Leiden-Roomburg | Besjeslaan. The line favours views over speed.
Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through. 35 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it.
Pull up near the shelter and you are in the southeastern part of Utrecht, a stone's throw from the university campus of De Uithof and a short ride from the city's canals. The label does not say which shelter, and in this district there are several, so treat it as an introduction to the countryside along the Kromme Rijn, the old Rhine course that once carried the river's main flow past Utrecht before it silted up and moved south.
Read the complete Shelter write-up.
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Shelter is where the day begins. Next is Woerden-Centrum.
Woerden is a small Dutch town on the Oude Rijn, the old Rhine, halfway between Utrecht and Leiden, in the middle of the Green Heart of Holland, a landscape of polders, meadows, ditches and cows. Its centre is a compact old town ringed by canals, with a castle, a big church and a windmill on the old ramparts. The Romans were here too: Woerden lies on the line of the Lower German Limes, and the remains of a Roman fort lie beneath the town centre.
Read the complete Woerden-Centrum write-up.
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Woerden-Centrum comes up about 24 km into the recorded legs. Next is Leiden-Roomburg | Besjeslaan.
The Rhine ends in a whimper rather than a bang. After its long journey from the Alps, its old main branch, the Oude Rijn, winds quietly through the flat polders of South Holland past Leiden toward the North Sea, and for the Romans this sluggish waterway was the northern frontier of the empire. At Roomburg, on the edge of Leiden and Leiderdorp, stood the fort of Matilo, guarding the river and the canal that linked it with the Meuse, and today its site is part of the Roomburgerpark, a green space with information points and outlines marking where the fort stood. It belongs to the Lower Germanic Limes, listed by UNESCO in 2021.
Read the complete Leiden-Roomburg | Besjeslaan write-up.
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about 58 km into the recorded legs you reach Leiden-Roomburg | Besjeslaan. Next is Van Nellefabriek.
The Van Nelle factory, on the edge of Rotterdam, is one of the most beautiful industrial buildings ever made. Built between 1925 and 1931 for a company that processed coffee, tea and tobacco, it is a long, light building of glass and steel, with curtain walls that let daylight flood into the workspaces. The designers, Johannes Brinkman and Leendert van der Vlugt, created what became an icon of modernist architecture, a factory of light and air for its workers. It was added to the UNESCO list in 2014.
Read the complete Van Nellefabriek write-up.
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Van Nellefabriek, about halfway. Next is back through Leiden-Roomburg | Besjeslaan.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Leiden-Roomburg | Besjeslaan write-up.
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back through Leiden-Roomburg | Besjeslaan sits at 125 km, about halfway. Next is back through Woerden-Centrum.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Woerden-Centrum write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Woerden-Centrum comes up about 161 km into the recorded legs. Next is Shelter.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Shelter write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Shelter closes the day.
Shelter → Woerden-Centrum is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Woerden-Centrum → Leiden-Roomburg | Besjeslaan is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Leiden-Roomburg | Besjeslaan → Van Nellefabriek is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Van Nellefabriek → back through Leiden-Roomburg | Besjeslaan is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Leiden-Roomburg | Besjeslaan → back through Woerden-Centrum is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Woerden-Centrum → Shelter is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.