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 546 km round trip from Sipplingen - roughly 10 h 14 in the saddle. The stops in between: Nussbaumersee, Storen-Wildsberg, Oterswil / Insel Eielen and Halbinsel. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,150 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It crosses from Germany into Switzerland - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules. The line favours views over speed.
52 km on Grand Tour of Switzerland.
For about 59 km this is Grand Tour of Switzerland, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it. Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast.
At Sipplingen the north shore of Lake Constance changes character. The Überlinger See, the long north-western arm of the lake, is hemmed in here by steep molasse cliffs and wooded slopes rising to the Sipplinger Berg, and the village sits on a narrow strip between the hill and the water. Below the surface off the eastern harbour lie the remains of prehistoric pile dwellings, villages of wooden houses built on stilts along the shore some five to six thousand years ago. They are part of the World Heritage site of prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps.
Read the complete Sipplingen-Osthafen write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Sipplingen-Osthafen is where the day begins. Next is Nussbaumersee.
Out in the Thurgau countryside, between Frauenfeld and the Rhine, a chain of small lakes lies in a glacial hollow: the Nussbaumersee, the Hüttwilersee and the Hasensee, with the wetland of the Seebachtal around them. It is a place of reeds and still water, where herons stand in the shallows and dragonflies hang over the surface. The Nussbaumersee is the biggest of them, a modest lake with a wooded shore, and a footpath circles it.
Read the complete Nussbaumersee write-up.
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Nussbaumersee comes up about 103 km into the recorded legs. Next is Storen-Wildsberg.
The Greifensee lies just east of Zurich, a shallow, quiet lake of about six kilometres in length, framed by reeds, meadows and the gentle hills of the Zurich Oberland. Its shores are largely protected, and there is no road running right along the water, which keeps it remarkably calm for a lake so close to Switzerland's biggest city. At Storen-Wildsberg near the village of Greifensee, the remains of a prehistoric settlement lie under the water and in the shoreline sediments, one of the Swiss sites in the UNESCO listing of Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps. As with all of them, it is the ground itself that is protected; there is nothing to see except the reeds and the water.
Read the complete Storen-Wildsberg write-up.
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about 155 km into the recorded legs you reach Storen-Wildsberg. Next is Oterswil / Insel Eielen.
Lake Zug is the quiet one among the central Swiss lakes, long and slender, with the Rigi rising steeply from its southern end and gentle farmland and orchards rolling down to its northern shores. Around its edges, as around many Alpine lakes, people built villages on the shore in prehistoric times, and the remains of these settlements at places like Oterswil and the little island of Eielen are among the sites of the transnational pile dwelling listing inscribed by UNESCO in 2011. Under water and mud, wooden piles, pottery and tools have survived for thousands of years.
Read the complete Oterswil / Insel Eielen write-up.
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Oterswil / Insel Eielen, about halfway. Next is Halbinsel.
At the northern tip of Lake Sempach, near the little town of Sursee in the canton of Lucerne, a small peninsula pushes into the water, and on and around it lie the remains of prehistoric lakeside settlements, part of the World Heritage site of the Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps. Nothing remains visible above ground, but under the water and in the wet soil of the shore, piles and objects have survived for thousands of years, telling the story of farmers and fishermen who lived here long before the Romans. Today, the shore is a quiet area of reeds, meadows and paths, popular with walkers and cyclists.
Read the complete Halbinsel write-up.
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Halbinsel sits at 159 km, about halfway. Next is back through Oterswil / Insel Eielen.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Oterswil / Insel Eielen write-up.
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back through Oterswil / Insel Eielen comes up about 329 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Storen-Wildsberg.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Storen-Wildsberg write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 391 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Storen-Wildsberg. Next is back through Nussbaumersee.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Nussbaumersee write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Nussbaumersee, late in the day. Next is Sipplingen-Osthafen.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Sipplingen-Osthafen write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
The route ends here after 546 km.
Sipplingen-Osthafen → Nussbaumersee is 103 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Nussbaumersee → Storen-Wildsberg is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Storen-Wildsberg → Oterswil / Insel Eielen is 59 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Oterswil / Insel Eielen → Halbinsel is 56 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Halbinsel → back through Oterswil / Insel Eielen is 59 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Oterswil / Insel Eielen → back through Storen-Wildsberg is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Storen-Wildsberg → back through Nussbaumersee is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Nussbaumersee → Sipplingen-Osthafen is 104 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.