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 169 km round trip from Nidau - roughly 3 h 33 in the saddle. On the way it passes Môtier I, Lobsigensee, Segelboothafen and back through Lobsigensee. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 950 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
For about 34 km this is Grand Tour of Switzerland, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it — expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast.
This part of the ride is 26 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.
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Vingelz / Hafen is where the day begins. Next is Môtier I.
Murten, or Morat as the French speakers call it, is a small walled town on the shore of a lake of the same name, on the language frontier of Switzerland. Its ramparts are among the best preserved in the country, and its main street is lined with arcades and painted fountains. In 1476, it was the site of a decisive battle, when the Swiss Confederates defeated the army of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, and ended his attempt to conquer the region. A stone memorial to the battle, and the legend that a runner carried the news of victory to Fribourg, gave Switzerland a long-lasting patriotic story.
Read the complete Môtier I write-up.
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Môtier I comes up about 34 km into the recorded legs. 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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about 60 km into the recorded legs you reach Lobsigensee. Next is Segelboothafen.
Murten is the rare Swiss town where you can walk the medieval walls almost all the way round, looking down on brown tiled roofs on one side and the lake on the other. Its sailing harbour, the Segelboothafen, lies just below the old town on the shore of Lake Murten, and in the shallows here are the remains of prehistoric pile dwellings, one of the Swiss components of the transnational World Heritage Site of Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps. Nothing shows above the water, but the lakeshore has been a place to live for thousands of years.
Read the complete Segelboothafen write-up.
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Segelboothafen, about halfway. Next is back through Lobsigensee.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Lobsigensee write-up.
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back through Lobsigensee sits at 107 km, about halfway. Next is back through Môtier I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Môtier I write-up.
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back through Môtier I comes up about 135 km into the recorded legs. 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.
Vingelz / Hafen closes the day.
Vingelz / Hafen → Môtier I is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Môtier I → Lobsigensee is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Lobsigensee → Segelboothafen is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Segelboothafen → back through Lobsigensee is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Lobsigensee → back through Môtier I is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Môtier I → Vingelz / Hafen is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.