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 Greifensee it runs 149 km to Greifensee; allow about 3 h 08 of riding. It goes by way of Hurden Rosshorn, Winkel, Hurden Seefeld and back through Winkel. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,200 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
This part of the ride is 24 km of Winkel → Hurden Seefeld.
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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Storen-Wildsberg is where the day begins. Next is Hurden Rosshorn.
Where Lake Zurich narrows to a waist between Rapperswil and Hurden, a low peninsula runs out from the Schwyz shore, and at its tip, the Rosshorn, the remains of prehistoric lakeside villages lie beneath the shallow water. People lived here in the Neolithic and Bronze Ages, in houses built on wooden piles, and they also built some of the earliest known bridges across the narrows. The site is one of the prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps that UNESCO listed in 2011, a group of sites that has given archaeologists a remarkably detailed view of everyday life thousands of years ago, preserved in the mud of lakes and moors.
Read the complete Hurden Rosshorn write-up.
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Hurden Rosshorn comes up about 25 km into the recorded legs. Next is Winkel.
Under the calm surface of Lake Zurich, just off the shore at Erlenbach, lie the remains of villages that people built here more than five thousand years ago. The site called Winkel is one of the Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps, a UNESCO site of more than a hundred settlements, and here, as elsewhere on the lake, archaeologists diving in the shallow water have found wooden piles, pottery, tools and food remains preserved in the mud. There is nothing to see from the shore, only the water and the reeds, but it is fascinating to think that the people who farmed and fished here in the Neolithic chose the same sunny slope that, thousands of years later, would become known as the Gold Coast.
Read the complete Winkel write-up.
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about 50 km into the recorded legs you reach Winkel. Next is Hurden Seefeld.
Lake Zurich has a narrow waist, and at the waist stands a long causeway called the Seedamm. It links Rapperswil on the north shore with the Pfaffikon side on the south, and the peninsula of Hurden sits at its northern end. The upper lake, the Obersee, lies to the east, a quieter, shallower basin with reed beds, while the main lake stretches away to the west. Behind it all, the Glarus Alps and the Churfirsten rise to the horizon on a clear day.
Read the complete Hurden Seefeld write-up.
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Hurden Seefeld, about halfway. Next is back through Winkel.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Winkel write-up.
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back through Winkel sits at 98 km, about halfway. Next is back through Hurden Rosshorn.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hurden Rosshorn write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Hurden Rosshorn comes up about 121 km into the recorded legs. Next is 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.
Storen-Wildsberg closes the day.
Storen-Wildsberg → Hurden Rosshorn is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hurden Rosshorn → Winkel is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Winkel → Hurden Seefeld is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hurden Seefeld → back through Winkel is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Winkel → back through Hurden Rosshorn is 23 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hurden Rosshorn → Storen-Wildsberg is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.