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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242 km from Voorburg to Voorburg, about 3 h 22 of riding. It goes by way of Utrecht-Limes road | Veldhuizen, Droogmakerij de Beemster and back through Utrecht-Limes road | Veldhuizen. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through. 61 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it.
Under the suburbs between The Hague and Delft lie the remains of Forum Hadriani, the northernmost Roman town on the continent, founded in the early second century AD and named after the emperor Hadrian. At Arentsburg, a country estate in Voorburg, excavations revealed streets, houses, a harbour and a canal, the Fossa Corbulonis, dug by Roman soldiers to link the Rhine and the Meuse. The site is part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire, Lower German Limes World Heritage Site, listed in 2021, which follows the Rhine frontier through the Netherlands and Germany.
Read the complete Voorburg-Arentsburg write-up.
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Voorburg-Arentsburg is where the day begins. Next is Utrecht-Limes road | Veldhuizen.
This is a ride along an old frontier that is now a residential suburb. When the Romans held the lower Rhine, the river itself was the border of the empire, and a chain of forts, watchtowers and roads ran along its south bank. One of the forts stood where Utrecht is now, under the name Traiectum, and another, with a fine reconstruction, lies in the modern district of Leidsche Rijn. The whole frontier, the Lower German Limes, was added to the World Heritage list in 2021. Today it is hard to see anything of it, because the Rhine silted up and shifted, and the land is mostly polder, pasture and new housing estate.
Read the complete Utrecht-Limes road | Veldhuizen write-up.
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Utrecht-Limes road | Veldhuizen comes up about 52 km into the recorded legs. Next is Droogmakerij de Beemster.
In 1612 a lake north of Amsterdam disappeared. Wealthy merchants, flush with money from the Dutch trading boom, financed the draining of the Beemster, and the engineer Jan Adriaenszoon Leeghwater used dozens of windmills to pump the water out into a ring canal. What remained was a polder several metres below sea level, laid out in a perfectly regular grid of roads, canals and fields based on Renaissance ideas of order and proportion. The Beemster was inscribed by UNESCO in 1999 as a masterpiece of creative planning, and from above it looks like a ruled sheet of paper.
Read the complete Droogmakerij de Beemster write-up.
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about 121 km into the recorded legs you reach Droogmakerij de Beemster. Next is back through Utrecht-Limes road | Veldhuizen.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Utrecht-Limes road | Veldhuizen write-up.
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back through Utrecht-Limes road | Veldhuizen, late in the day. Next is Voorburg-Arentsburg.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Voorburg-Arentsburg write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Voorburg-Arentsburg. That is the ride.
Voorburg-Arentsburg → Utrecht-Limes road | Veldhuizen is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Utrecht-Limes road | Veldhuizen → Droogmakerij de Beemster is 69 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Droogmakerij de Beemster → back through Utrecht-Limes road | Veldhuizen is 68 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Utrecht-Limes road | Veldhuizen → Voorburg-Arentsburg is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.