CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Diemen it runs 327 km to Diemen; allow about 4 h 34 of riding. It goes by way of Corbulo's canal | Starrenburg, Tiel Inundation Canal and back through Corbulo's canal | Starrenburg. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through. 64 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it.
Just east of Amsterdam, where the city's suburbs give way to water and polders, a narrow strip of land runs out along the old shore of the IJ and the IJmeer toward Muiden. The Diemerdam is an old dike, and the works along the IJ before it are part of the Dutch Water Defence Lines, the system of forts, dikes, sluices and inundation fields that the Dutch built over centuries to defend their cities by flooding the land around them. The Defence Line of Amsterdam, a ring of forts around the capital, was listed by UNESCO in 1996 and later joined with the New Dutch Waterline into a single site.
Read the complete Works along the IJ before Diemerdam write-up.
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Works along the IJ before Diemerdam is where the day begins. Next is Corbulo's canal | Starrenburg.
Corbulo's canal is one of the oldest engineering works in the Netherlands, and it was dug by soldiers. In AD 47 the general Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo, commanding the Roman army in Lower Germany, put his men to work cutting a canal between the Rhine and the Meuse, partly to keep them busy and partly to give ships a sheltered route that avoided the open sea, with its storms and raiding Frisians. The Fossa Corbulonis, as it was called, ran through the low country between modern Leiden and the Meuse mouth, and its line is thought to be followed today by the Vliet, a quiet waterway that runs between Leiden and Delft.
Read the complete Corbulo's canal | Starrenburg write-up.
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Corbulo's canal | Starrenburg comes up 80 km in. Next is Tiel Inundation Canal.
Tiel is a river town on the Waal, the main branch of the Rhine in the Netherlands, in the middle of the Betuwe, a region of orchards, dykes and meadows between the Waal and the Lower Rhine. Just outside the town, a wide, straight channel runs through the fields, crossed by bridges and lined by dykes. This is the Tiel inundation canal, built in the late nineteenth century as part of the New Dutch Waterline, the defensive system of controlled flooding that protected the heart of Holland, and it is now part of the UNESCO-listed Dutch Water Defence Lines.
Read the complete Tiel Inundation Canal write-up.
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160 km in you reach Tiel Inundation Canal. Next is back through Corbulo's canal | Starrenburg.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Corbulo's canal | Starrenburg write-up.
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back through Corbulo's canal | Starrenburg, late in the day. Next is Works along the IJ before Diemerdam.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Works along the IJ before Diemerdam write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Works along the IJ before Diemerdam. That is the ride.
Works along the IJ before Diemerdam → Corbulo's canal | Starrenburg is 64 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Corbulo's canal | Starrenburg → Tiel Inundation Canal is 96 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Tiel Inundation Canal → back through Corbulo's canal | Starrenburg is 96 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Corbulo's canal | Starrenburg → Works along the IJ before Diemerdam is 64 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.