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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301 km from Wesel to Wesel, about 4 h 31 of riding. It goes by way of Berg en Dal-De Holdeurn | North, Bunnik-Vechten | Provincialeweg and back through Berg en Dal-De Holdeurn | North. It crosses from Germany into Netherlands - carry ID and check the toll rules. The line favours views over speed.
Hamminkeln gives this stretch of the Lower Rhine its odd claim to a place in military history. On the morning of 24 March 1945, as part of the Allied operation to cross the Rhine, thousands of British and American airborne troops landed around Hamminkeln and Wesel by parachute and glider, in daylight, into a countryside of farms and woods, and the fighting was fierce. Many gliders were shot down, and the losses were heavy. The area has quiet memorials, and it is worth knowing that the fields you ride through carry that history as well as the older, Roman one.
Read the complete Wesel-Flüren | Flürener Feld 3 write-up.
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Wesel-Flüren | Flürener Feld 3 is where the day begins. Next is Berg en Dal-De Holdeurn | North.
Just east of Nijmegen, where the Netherlands suddenly remembers how to make hills, a wooded slope near the village of Berg en Dal hides the remains of a Roman industrial site. De Holdeurn was where the Tenth Legion, Legio X Gemina, stationed at Nijmegen in the late first and early second centuries, made roof tiles, bricks and pottery, stamped with the legion's name and shipped all over the region. The kilns and workshops have been excavated, and the site is one of the many places that make up the Frontiers of the Roman Empire – the Lower German Limes, listed by UNESCO in 2021.
Read the complete Berg en Dal-De Holdeurn | North write-up.
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Berg en Dal-De Holdeurn | North comes up about 77 km into the recorded legs. Next is Bunnik-Vechten | Provincialeweg.
A modern fort and a Roman one stand within a couple of kilometres of each other here, and both exist because of the same river. Vechten, on the Kromme Rijn just east of Utrecht, was the Roman fort of Fectio, one of the best-known sites on the Lower Germanic frontier. It lay at a point where the Rhine split, with the branch that became the Vecht heading north, and that made it a perfect depot. Soldiers, grain, and building stone all went through here, and archaeologists have pulled a remarkable amount out of the ground, including altars, bronze statuettes and the debris of a busy harbour.
Read the complete Bunnik-Vechten | Provincialeweg write-up.
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about 149 km into the recorded legs you reach Bunnik-Vechten | Provincialeweg. Next is back through Berg en Dal-De Holdeurn | North.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Berg en Dal-De Holdeurn | North write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Berg en Dal-De Holdeurn | North, late in the day. Next is Wesel-Flüren | Flürener Feld 3.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Wesel-Flüren | Flürener Feld 3 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Wesel-Flüren | Flürener Feld 3. That is the ride.
Wesel-Flüren | Flürener Feld 3 → Berg en Dal-De Holdeurn | North is 77 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Berg en Dal-De Holdeurn | North → Bunnik-Vechten | Provincialeweg is 72 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Bunnik-Vechten | Provincialeweg → back through Berg en Dal-De Holdeurn | North is 74 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Berg en Dal-De Holdeurn | North → Wesel-Flüren | Flürener Feld 3 is 78 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.