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 Utrecht it runs 117 km to Utrecht; allow about 1 h 57 of riding. On the way it passes Woerden-Centrum, Leiden-Roomburg | Besjeslaan and back through Woerden-Centrum. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through. 35 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it.
Fort Vossegat stands at the eastern edge of Utrecht, close to the university campus of De Uithof, and its watchtower tells you a lot about how this country once planned to survive. A reduit is the central stronghold of a fort, the last place you fall back to when the outer works are gone. At Vossegat it is a tough brick block rising out of a moat, with a tower from which a sentry could see over the flat land toward the approaches east of the city.
Read the complete Watchtower at the reduit of Fort Vossegat write-up.
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Watchtower at the reduit of Fort Vossegat is where the day begins. Next is Woerden-Centrum.
Woerden is a small Dutch town on the Oude Rijn, the old Rhine, halfway between Utrecht and Leiden, in the middle of the Green Heart of Holland, a landscape of polders, meadows, ditches and cows. Its centre is a compact old town ringed by canals, with a castle, a big church and a windmill on the old ramparts. The Romans were here too: Woerden lies on the line of the Lower German Limes, and the remains of a Roman fort lie beneath the town centre.
Read the complete Woerden-Centrum write-up.
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Woerden-Centrum comes up about 24 km into the recorded legs. Next is Leiden-Roomburg | Besjeslaan.
The Rhine ends in a whimper rather than a bang. After its long journey from the Alps, its old main branch, the Oude Rijn, winds quietly through the flat polders of South Holland past Leiden toward the North Sea, and for the Romans this sluggish waterway was the northern frontier of the empire. At Roomburg, on the edge of Leiden and Leiderdorp, stood the fort of Matilo, guarding the river and the canal that linked it with the Meuse, and today its site is part of the Roomburgerpark, a green space with information points and outlines marking where the fort stood. It belongs to the Lower Germanic Limes, listed by UNESCO in 2021.
Read the complete Leiden-Roomburg | Besjeslaan write-up.
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about 58 km into the recorded legs you reach Leiden-Roomburg | Besjeslaan. Next is back through Woerden-Centrum.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Woerden-Centrum write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Woerden-Centrum, late in the day. Next is Watchtower at the reduit of Fort Vossegat.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtower at the reduit of Fort Vossegat write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Watchtower at the reduit of Fort Vossegat. That is the ride.
Watchtower at the reduit of Fort Vossegat → Woerden-Centrum is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Woerden-Centrum → Leiden-Roomburg | Besjeslaan is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Leiden-Roomburg | Besjeslaan → back through Woerden-Centrum is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Woerden-Centrum → Watchtower at the reduit of Fort Vossegat is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.