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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292 km from Neuwied to Neuwied, about 4 h 31 of riding. It goes by way of Kottenforst Nord | Dürrenbruch 1, Monheim-Haus Bürgel and back through Kottenforst Nord | Dürrenbruch 1. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
This single tower, WP 1/39, belongs to a stretch of the Upper German-Raetian Limes that runs close to Rengsdorf and Melsbach, on a gently rolling shoulder of the Westerwald. Unlike many of its neighbours it has been marked and reconstructed in a way that lets you see how it might have looked, with a timber tower over a stone base, and a cleared line of sight in each direction. The towers were usually just a few metres square, with a lookout floor on top and a ladder you could pull up. A handful of soldiers at most would have lived in one, which gives you a sense of scale: it was a sentry post, not a castle.
Read the complete Watchtower WP 1/39 write-up.
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Watchtower WP 1/39 is where the day begins. Next is Kottenforst Nord | Dürrenbruch 1.
A forest closer to a city than most people realise, the Kottenforst spreads over a low ridge between Bonn and the Eifel foothills, and the Dürrenbruch is one of the quiet corners of its northern half. The old prince-electors of Cologne used it as a hunting ground, cutting long straight rides through the trees that radiate like the spokes of a wheel, which is why the forest feels strangely geometrical when you look at a map. Today it is a Bonn-area refuge of beech, oak and hornbeam, cut by cycle paths and walking trails.
Read the complete Kottenforst Nord | Dürrenbruch 1 write-up.
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Kottenforst Nord | Dürrenbruch 1 comes up about 81 km into the recorded legs. Next is Monheim-Haus Bürgel.
Haus Bürgel is a manor farm that sits on top of a Roman fort, quite literally. The walls of a late Roman fortification, built in the fourth century to guard the Rhine frontier, form part of the foundations and outer walls of the medieval and later farm buildings, and the site is part of the Lower German Limes World Heritage Site, inscribed in 2021. Between Monheim and Düsseldorf-Urdenbach, it lies in a broad meadow landscape on the right bank of the Rhine.
Read the complete Monheim-Haus Bürgel write-up.
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about 147 km into the recorded legs you reach Monheim-Haus Bürgel. Next is back through Kottenforst Nord | Dürrenbruch 1.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Kottenforst Nord | Dürrenbruch 1 write-up.
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back through Kottenforst Nord | Dürrenbruch 1, late in the day. Next is Watchtower WP 1/39.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtower WP 1/39 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Watchtower WP 1/39. That is the ride.
Watchtower WP 1/39 → Kottenforst Nord | Dürrenbruch 1 is 81 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Kottenforst Nord | Dürrenbruch 1 → Monheim-Haus Bürgel is 66 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Monheim-Haus Bürgel → back through Kottenforst Nord | Dürrenbruch 1 is 65 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Kottenforst Nord | Dürrenbruch 1 → Watchtower WP 1/39 is 80 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.