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 277 km round trip from Neuwied - roughly 4 h 14 in the saddle. The stops in between: Watchtowers WP 2/35 to 2/48 including the, Fortlet Lochmühle and back through Watchtowers WP 2/35 to 2/48 including the. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
For about 62 km this is Moselle Wine Route, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it — expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast.
The ride follows Watchtowers WP 2/35 to 2/48 including the → Fortlet Lochmühle for 65 km.
The Rhine at Neuwied is wide and brown and always busy with barges, and the flat basin around it was shaped by a catastrophe. About thirteen thousand years ago the Laacher See volcano, a little to the west, erupted with tremendous force and blanketed the area in pumice and ash, and the same tephra layer can still be found in sediments across much of Europe. Today the basin is orchards, vegetable fields and quarries for pumice and tuff, a quiet and fertile ground that gives no hint of its violent origin.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 1/27 to 1/29 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Watchtowers WP 1/27 to 1/29 is where the day begins. Next is Watchtowers WP 2/35 to 2/48 including the.
West of the Taunus ridge, where the high country rolls down toward the Rhine gorge and the Lahn, the line of the Upper German Limes runs through farmland and forest near the villages of Holzhausen an der Haide, Katzenelnbogen and Nastätten. Archaeologists have catalogued the sites of the watchtowers along this stretch, numbered WP 2/35 to 2/48, and near Holzhausen are the remains of a stone fort, well preserved and easily visited, with its walls and gate outlines clear in the grass. The Limes here consisted of a palisade of wooden stakes, later backed by a ditch and bank, with watchtowers at regular intervals and forts a few kilometres behind. It formed the frontier of the Roman Empire for more than a century and a half.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 2/35 to 2/48 including the write-up.
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Watchtowers WP 2/35 to 2/48 including the comes up about 62 km into the recorded legs. Next is Fortlet Lochmühle.
The Lochmühle is a small fortlet on the Limes in the Taunus, near Wehrheim and the famous Saalburg, and it guarded a spot where the frontier crossed the valley of the Erlenbach stream. Fortlets like this were small outposts, housing a handful of soldiers who watched the border and controlled traffic, and they formed a link between the watchtowers and the larger forts. Its remains are modest, but the location, in a quiet valley surrounded by forest, has a peaceful charm. The name comes from a nearby mill, now a popular leisure park for families with play areas and farm animals.
Read the complete Fortlet Lochmühle write-up.
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about 127 km into the recorded legs you reach Fortlet Lochmühle. Next is back through Watchtowers WP 2/35 to 2/48 including the.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 2/35 to 2/48 including the write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Watchtowers WP 2/35 to 2/48 including the, late in the day. Next is Watchtowers WP 1/27 to 1/29.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 1/27 to 1/29 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Watchtowers WP 1/27 to 1/29. That is the ride.
Watchtowers WP 1/27 to 1/29 → Watchtowers WP 2/35 to 2/48 including the is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 2/35 to 2/48 including the → Fortlet Lochmühle is 65 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fortlet Lochmühle → back through Watchtowers WP 2/35 to 2/48 including the is 88 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Watchtowers WP 2/35 to 2/48 including the → Watchtowers WP 1/27 to 1/29 is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.