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 Neuwied it runs 306 km to Neuwied; allow about 3 h 55 of riding. It goes by way of Kottenforst Nord | Am Weißen Stein 1, Neuss-Reckberg | Kleinkastell and back through Kottenforst Nord | Am Weißen Stein 1. The line favours views over speed.
Rheinbrohl, on the Rhine, is where the Upper Germanic Limes begins, and from there it climbs the hills of the Westerwald and heads east and south for roughly 550 kilometres to the Danube. Watchtowers were numbered along the way, and WP 1/30 is one of the early ones, in the first section after the Rhine, in wooded country a couple of kilometres from the village of Melsbach. The Romans built the frontier in the second century, with timber towers first and stone later, and it marked the edge of their empire for around a century and a half.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 1/30 write-up.
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Watchtowers WP 1/30 is where the day begins. Next is Kottenforst Nord | Am Weißen Stein 1.
The Kottenforst looks like an ordinary Rhineland woodland of oak, beech and hornbeam, with walkers, joggers and the odd horse rider, but in the second half of the first century and beyond it was a training ground for the Roman army. In clearings of the forest, the legion stationed at Bonna, today's Bonn, built a series of temporary camps as exercises, digging ditches and raising ramparts to practise the rapid construction they would need in the field. The remains of these camps, faint earthworks under the trees, are included in the Lower Germanic Limes, which UNESCO listed in 2021. Am Weissen Stein is one of the northern groups.
Read the complete Kottenforst Nord | Am Weißen Stein 1 write-up.
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Kottenforst Nord | Am Weißen Stein 1 comes up about 83 km into the recorded legs. Next is Neuss-Reckberg | Kleinkastell.
The Rhine was the northern frontier of the Roman Empire for centuries, and the string of forts, towers and camps along its western bank is now recognised as the Lower Germanic Limes, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2021.
Read the complete Neuss-Reckberg | Kleinkastell write-up.
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about 154 km into the recorded legs you reach Neuss-Reckberg | Kleinkastell. Next is back through Kottenforst Nord | Am Weißen Stein 1.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Kottenforst Nord | Am Weißen Stein 1 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Kottenforst Nord | Am Weißen Stein 1, late in the day. Next is Watchtowers WP 1/30.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 1/30 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Watchtowers WP 1/30. That is the ride.
Watchtowers WP 1/30 → Kottenforst Nord | Am Weißen Stein 1 is 83 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Kottenforst Nord | Am Weißen Stein 1 → Neuss-Reckberg | Kleinkastell is 71 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Neuss-Reckberg | Kleinkastell → back through Kottenforst Nord | Am Weißen Stein 1 is 71 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Kottenforst Nord | Am Weißen Stein 1 → Watchtowers WP 1/30 is 80 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.