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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Distances and riding times are planning figures. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
A 74 km round trip from Nidau - roughly 1 h 17 in the saddle. It goes by way of Lobsigensee, Old City of Berne and back through Lobsigensee. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,000 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
This part of the ride is 17 km of Grand Tour of Switzerland.
Biel and Bienne are the same city, one name in German and one in French, and street signs, conversations and even jokes switch between the two languages without anyone noticing. At its western edge, the lakeside district of Vingelz, with its small harbour, has given archaeologists remains of prehistoric pile dwellings in the shallow water of Lake Biel, and the site is one piece of the World Heritage property for pile dwellings around the Alps. The lake, long and narrow, lies at the foot of the Jura mountains, and its shores have been inhabited for thousands of years.
Read the complete Vingelz / Hafen write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Vingelz / Hafen is where the day begins. Next is Lobsigensee.
Lobsigensee is a tiny lake, barely more than a pond, hidden among fields and woods on a low hill above Aarberg in the Bernese Seeland. It is a nature reserve, ringed with reeds and alder trees, and it is home to frogs, newts, dragonflies and birds. It also hides one of the Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps World Heritage sites: the remains of Neolithic settlements along its shore. There is nothing visible on the surface, but the quiet, green setting gives a sense of what the landscape might have looked like thousands of years ago.
Read the complete Lobsigensee write-up.
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Lobsigensee comes up about 17 km into the recorded legs. Next is Old City of Berne.
Bern does not shout. The Swiss capital sits on a sandstone spur in a tight loop of the green Aare, with six kilometres of arcaded streets that let you walk the whole old town in the rain without getting wet. It was founded in 1191 by Duke Berthold V of Zähringen, and legend says he named it after the first animal he killed hunting nearby, a bear. The bears have been the town's mascots ever since, and a few still live in the BärenPark down by the river at the end of the Nydeggbrücke.
Read the complete Old City of Berne write-up.
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about 37 km into the recorded legs you reach Old City of Berne. Next is back through Lobsigensee.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Lobsigensee write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Lobsigensee, late in the day. Next is Vingelz / Hafen.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Vingelz / Hafen write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Vingelz / Hafen. That is the ride.
Vingelz / Hafen → Lobsigensee is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Lobsigensee → Old City of Berne is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Old City of Berne → back through Lobsigensee is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Lobsigensee → Vingelz / Hafen is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.