Why this ride
A 599 km round trip from Slagelse - roughly 9 h 13 in the saddle. On the way it passes Borgring, Stevns Klint, Møns Klint and back through Møns Klint. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Trelleborg and Stevns Klint
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 599 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 9 h 13
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
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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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Trelleborg
In the late tenth century, on the western coast of Zealand, King Harald Bluetooth built a fortress that must have looked to its neighbours like a statement written in earth. Trelleborg is a perfect circle, about a hundred and thirty metres across, ringed by a high rampart with four gates facing the compass points, and inside, sixteen long houses are arranged in four neat blocks around a central crossing, like a plan drawn with a compass and ruler. Archaeologists dated the timbers to around the 980s, and the same geometry turns up at other Danish fortresses, at Fyrkat in Jutland and Aggersborg by the Limfjord, which suggests a royal building programme under a single mind.
Read the complete Trelleborg write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
Trelleborg is where the day begins. Next is Borgring.
2. Borgring
In 2014, archaeologists using laser scanning of the landscape noticed a faint circle in a field near Køge, on the Danish island of Zealand, about forty kilometres south-west of Copenhagen. Excavations confirmed what they had hoped: it was a Viking ring fortress, one of a small group of perfectly circular fortresses built in Denmark in the late tenth century, probably under King Harald Bluetooth. It was named Borgring, and it was the first new ring fortress to be found in Denmark in over sixty years.
Read the complete Borgring write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
Borgring comes up about 67 km into the recorded legs. Next is Stevns Klint.
3. Stevns Klint
Stevns Klint is a white cliff of chalk and limestone, some fifteen kilometres long, on the east coast of Zealand, south of Copenhagen, and it holds one of the most important records of a global catastrophe. About sixty-six million years ago, an asteroid struck the Earth near what is now the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico, causing a mass extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs and much of life on Earth. In the cliff, a thin, dark layer of clay, called the fish clay, marks that moment, and it contains high levels of iridium, a metal rare on Earth but common in asteroids. This layer was a key piece of evidence for the impact theory, and the cliff was listed by UNESCO in 2014.
Read the complete Stevns Klint write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 101 km into the recorded legs you reach Stevns Klint. Next is Møns Klint.
4. Møns Klint
Møns Klint is where the Baltic suddenly gets dramatic. Over a stretch of some six kilometres on the east coast of the island of Møn, chalk cliffs laid down in the late Cretaceous rise straight out of the sea, white and crumbling and streaked with grey flint, to a height of about a hundred metres and more. The highest point of the cliffs is the Dronningestolen, the Queen's Chair, reaching more than a hundred and twenty metres above the beach. Beech woods grow right to the edge, and in the green light under the trees the contrast with the chalk is a surprise.
Read the complete Møns Klint write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
Møns Klint, about halfway. Next is Stevns Klint.
5. Stevns Klint
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Stevns Klint write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
Stevns Klint sits at 201 km, about halfway. Next is back through Møns Klint.
6. back through Møns Klint
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Møns Klint write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
back through Møns Klint comes up about 401 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Stevns Klint.
7. back through Stevns Klint
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Stevns Klint write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
about 501 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Stevns Klint. Next is back through Borgring.
8. back through Borgring
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Borgring write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
back through Borgring, late in the day. Next is Trelleborg.
9. Trelleborg
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Trelleborg write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
The route ends here after 599 km.
Leg by leg
Trelleborg to Borgring
Trelleborg → Borgring is 67 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Borgring to Stevns Klint
Borgring → Stevns Klint is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Stevns Klint to Møns Klint
Stevns Klint → Møns Klint is 100 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Møns Klint to Stevns Klint
Møns Klint → Stevns Klint is 100 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Stevns Klint to back through Møns Klint
Stevns Klint → back through Møns Klint is 100 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Møns Klint to back through Stevns Klint
back through Møns Klint → back through Stevns Klint is 100 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Stevns Klint to back through Borgring
back through Stevns Klint → back through Borgring is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Borgring to Trelleborg
back through Borgring → Trelleborg is 60 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
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