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 176 km round trip from Greifensee - roughly 3 h 05 in the saddle. It goes by way of Hurden Rosshorn, Riedmatt, Seematte and back through Riedmatt. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,200 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
This part of the ride is 28 km of Riedmatt → Seematte.
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 Riedmatt.
Zug has a reputation as one of the wealthiest places in Switzerland, a small canton of low taxes, glass office blocks and companies registered by the hundred. But beneath the surface, quite literally, lies a much older story. Along the shores of Lake Zug, archaeologists have found the remains of Neolithic and Bronze Age villages built on piles in the shallow water and marshy ground, and Riedmatt, near the border between Steinhausen, Cham and Zug, is one of the sites included in the Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps World Heritage listing. As with most such sites, there is nothing visible on the surface; the remains are preserved in the waterlogged ground.
Read the complete Riedmatt write-up.
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about 59 km into the recorded legs you reach Riedmatt. Next is Seematte.
Lake Baldegg lies in the Seetal, the lake valley north of Lucerne, a gentle, green landscape of meadows, orchards and woods, with the lake in the middle and the hills rising on either side. Seematte, on the shore near Hitzkirch, is the site of prehistoric lakeside villages, built on piles over the water's edge thousands of years ago, and it was inscribed in the same 2011 listing that covers lakeside villages from France to Slovenia. As with most such sites, there is nothing to see above ground, but the setting is lovely, and standing on the reedy shore you can imagine the wooden houses and dugout canoes.
Read the complete Seematte write-up.
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Seematte, about halfway. Next is back through Riedmatt.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Riedmatt write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Riedmatt sits at 109 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 150 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 → Riedmatt is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Riedmatt → Seematte is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Seematte → back through Riedmatt is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Riedmatt → back through Hurden Rosshorn is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hurden Rosshorn → Storen-Wildsberg is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.