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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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
339 km from Diemen to Diemen, about 4 h 34 of riding. The stops in between: Valkenburg-De Woerd | South, Tiel Inundation Canal and back through Valkenburg-De Woerd | South. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through. 61 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it.
East of Amsterdam, where the IJ widens into the IJmeer and the city gives way to water and sky, the old dike village of Durgerdam sits on a strip of land between the sea wall and the polders. Its wooden houses, painted in strong colours and leaning on each other along the dike, look out over a lake that was once the Zuiderzee, open to the North Sea until the Afsluitdijk closed it in 1932. The works along the IJ here belong to the Defence Line of Amsterdam, now part of the Dutch Water Defence Lines World Heritage Site.
Read the complete Works along the IJ before Durgerdam write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Works along the IJ before Durgerdam is where the day begins. Next is Valkenburg-De Woerd | South.
For a few hundred years, the mouth of the Rhine was the edge of the world. West of Leiden, the river that once spilled into the North Sea along the Old Rhine channel marked the frontier of the Roman Empire, and the legions kept a line of forts along its banks. Valkenburg, a small village near the coast north of The Hague, was one of them, and the site of a fort known by the name Praetorium Agrippinae, which is the Roman name that archaeologists give to the Valkenburg fort. It sat on the south bank of the river, with a harbour, a bridge or two, and a settlement of traders and soldiers around it, and the finds from the area include timbers, shoes, and tools preserved in the damp clay.
Read the complete Valkenburg-De Woerd | South write-up.
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Valkenburg-De Woerd | South comes up about 56 km into the recorded legs. 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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 169 km into the recorded legs you reach Tiel Inundation Canal. Next is back through Valkenburg-De Woerd | South.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Valkenburg-De Woerd | South write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Valkenburg-De Woerd | South, late in the day. Next is Works along the IJ before Durgerdam.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Works along the IJ before Durgerdam write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Works along the IJ before Durgerdam. That is the ride.
Works along the IJ before Durgerdam → Valkenburg-De Woerd | South is 56 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Valkenburg-De Woerd | South → Tiel Inundation Canal is 113 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Tiel Inundation Canal → back through Valkenburg-De Woerd | South is 113 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Valkenburg-De Woerd | South → Works along the IJ before Durgerdam is 57 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.