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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From Wallsee it runs 430 km to Wallsee; allow about 7 h 56 of riding. The stops in between: Kalkalpen - Bodinggraben, Dürrenstein-Lassingtal and back through Kalkalpen - Bodinggraben. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,150 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
86 km on Wallsee - Kastell → Kalkalpen - Bodinggraben.
Wallsee is one of those Danube villages that people cycle through on the long riverside path without guessing how much history sits under their tyres. A castle rises on a rock above the river, and beneath and around the village lie the remains of a Roman fort that guarded this stretch of the Danube frontier. It is part of the Danube Limes World Heritage Site, inscribed in 2021, which follows the river from Bavaria through Austria to Slovakia, a line of forts, watchtowers and towns that held the northern edge of the empire for centuries.
Read the complete Wallsee - Kastell write-up.
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Wallsee - Kastell is where the day begins. Next is Kalkalpen - Bodinggraben.
Where the Pyhrn pass road drops from the Totes Gebirge toward the Enns and the Steyr valleys, Austria keeps one of its most important pieces of old forest. Kalkalpen National Park covers a large area of limestone mountains, gorges and woodland in Upper Austria, and its beech forests are among the last in Europe where trees have been left to grow, fall and rot undisturbed. They are part of a UNESCO listing called the Ancient Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe, a strange name for what is, in the end, a green cathedral of grey trunks and soft, filtered light.
Read the complete Kalkalpen - Bodinggraben write-up.
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Kalkalpen - Bodinggraben comes up about 86 km into the recorded legs. Next is Dürrenstein-Lassingtal.
Dürrenstein-Lassingtal is a wilderness area in the Ybbstal Alps of Lower Austria, where the limestone mountains rise above deep valleys covered with forests of beech, spruce and fir. It includes the Rothwald, one of the largest remaining primeval forests in Central Europe, a forest that has never been logged, and it is part of the transnational World Heritage Site of the Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe. Here trees grow, die and decay naturally, creating a rich habitat for insects, fungi, birds and mammals.
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about 214 km into the recorded legs you reach Dürrenstein-Lassingtal. Next is back through Kalkalpen - Bodinggraben.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Kalkalpen - Bodinggraben write-up.
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back through Kalkalpen - Bodinggraben, late in the day. Next is Wallsee - Kastell.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Wallsee - Kastell write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Wallsee - Kastell. That is the ride.
Wallsee - Kastell → Kalkalpen - Bodinggraben is 86 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Kalkalpen - Bodinggraben → Dürrenstein-Lassingtal is 128 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Dürrenstein-Lassingtal → back through Kalkalpen - Bodinggraben is 133 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Kalkalpen - Bodinggraben → Wallsee - Kastell is 82 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.