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: planning record, not independently verified geometry.
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From Kalkar it runs 318 km to Kalkar; allow about 5 h 29 of riding. It goes by way of Nijmegen-Hunerberg, Tiel Inundation Canal, Bunnik-Vechten | Marsdijk and Works along the IJ before Diemerdam. It crosses from Germany into Netherlands - carry ID and check the toll rules. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
The Lower Rhine around Kalkar and Kleve is wide, flat country: green polders, willows along drainage ditches, brick farmhouses and church spires visible for miles. Till is a small village here, part of Bedburg-Hau, just off the Rhine embankments between Kalkar and Kleve, with Emmerich across the river. It lies close to the line of the Roman frontier, the Lower German Limes, which followed the Rhine to the North Sea.
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Till is where the day begins. Next is Nijmegen-Hunerberg.
Julius Civilis was a Batavian noble who had served in the Roman army, and in the year 69 he turned against it. The Batavians, a Germanic people who lived on the Rhine delta, rose in revolt during the civil war that followed Nero's death, and for a year they threatened Roman power on the northern frontier. Nijmegen, then a Batavian town, was burned, and when the rebellion was crushed, the Romans built a new, massive legionary fortress on the Hunerberg, a rise on the edge of the town, to keep control. The Tenth Legion, called Gemina, was stationed there for more than thirty years, and the settlement that grew beside it became a Roman town with a grid of streets, baths and a market.
Read the complete Nijmegen-Hunerberg write-up.
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Nijmegen-Hunerberg comes up about 34 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.
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about 78 km into the recorded legs you reach Tiel Inundation Canal. Next is Bunnik-Vechten | Marsdijk.
Two layers of Dutch defence history sit on top of each other just south-east of Utrecht. Around two thousand years ago, the Romans built a fort here called Fectio, at the point where a branch of the Rhine met the Vecht, with a harbour for the fleet that patrolled the river frontier. Its remains lie buried in the fields near Vechten and are part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire, Lower German Limes, a World Heritage site since 2021. Close by stands Fort bij Vechten, a nineteenth-century fortress of the New Dutch Waterline, a defensive system that could flood large areas of land to stop an invading army. That system is itself part of the UNESCO site of the Dutch Water Defence Lines. The fort now houses a museum explaining how the waterline worked, and how a country below sea level turned water into a weapon.
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Bunnik-Vechten | Marsdijk, about halfway. Next is Works along the IJ before Diemerdam.
Just east of Amsterdam, where the city's suburbs give way to water and polders, a narrow strip of land runs out along the old shore of the IJ and the IJmeer toward Muiden. The Diemerdam is an old dike, and the works along the IJ before it are part of the Dutch Water Defence Lines, the system of forts, dikes, sluices and inundation fields that the Dutch built over centuries to defend their cities by flooding the land around them. The Defence Line of Amsterdam, a ring of forts around the capital, was listed by UNESCO in 1996 and later joined with the New Dutch Waterline into a single site.
Read the complete Works along the IJ before Diemerdam write-up.
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Works along the IJ before Diemerdam sits at 159 km, about halfway. Next is back through Bunnik-Vechten | Marsdijk.
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back through Bunnik-Vechten | Marsdijk comes up about 203 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Tiel Inundation Canal.
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about 238 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Tiel Inundation Canal. Next is back through Nijmegen-Hunerberg.
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back through Nijmegen-Hunerberg, late in the day. Next is Till.
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The route ends here after 318 km.
Till → Nijmegen-Hunerberg is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Nijmegen-Hunerberg → Tiel Inundation Canal is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Tiel Inundation Canal → Bunnik-Vechten | Marsdijk is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Bunnik-Vechten | Marsdijk → Works along the IJ before Diemerdam is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Works along the IJ before Diemerdam → back through Bunnik-Vechten | Marsdijk is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Bunnik-Vechten | Marsdijk → back through Tiel Inundation Canal is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Tiel Inundation Canal → back through Nijmegen-Hunerberg is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Nijmegen-Hunerberg → Till is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.