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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257 km from Persenbeug to Persenbeug, about 3 h 55 of riding. It goes by way of Enns - Legionslager Zentralbereich, Kalkalpen - Bodinggraben and back through Enns - Legionslager Zentralbereich. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,150 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
Ybbs an der Donau and Persenbeug face each other across the Danube in Lower Austria, connected by a hydroelectric dam that was one of the first built on the Austrian Danube after the war. Persenbeug is dominated by its castle, perched on a rock above the river, which belonged to the Habsburgs and was the birthplace of Emperor Charles I, the last emperor of Austria-Hungary. On the Ybbs side, the remains of a small Roman fort have been found, part of the Danube frontier of the Roman Empire.
Read the complete Ybbs - Kleinkastell write-up.
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Ybbs - Kleinkastell is where the day begins. Next is Enns - Legionslager Zentralbereich.
Where the little River Enns joins the Danube, about twenty kilometres upstream of Linz, the Romans built their frontier. This was Lauriacum, headquarters of the Second Italic Legion, who were stationed here from the late second century to guard the northern edge of the empire, the province of Noricum, against the tribes beyond the river. Around the fortress grew a civilian town that at its height may have held many thousands of people, and later a bishop is said to have lived here. The modern town of Enns, which takes pride in being the oldest in Austria, grew up beside it, and the legionary camp lay under what is now a mix of fields, streets and suburbs.
Read the complete Enns - Legionslager Zentralbereich write-up.
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Enns - Legionslager Zentralbereich comes up about 61 km into the recorded legs. Next is Kalkalpen - Bodinggraben.
Where the Pyhrn pass road drops from the Totes Gebirge toward the Enns and the Steyr valleys, Austria keeps one of its most important pieces of old forest. Kalkalpen National Park covers a large area of limestone mountains, gorges and woodland in Upper Austria, and its beech forests are among the last in Europe where trees have been left to grow, fall and rot undisturbed. They are part of a UNESCO listing called the Ancient Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe, a strange name for what is, in the end, a green cathedral of grey trunks and soft, filtered light.
Read the complete Kalkalpen - Bodinggraben write-up.
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about 127 km into the recorded legs you reach Kalkalpen - Bodinggraben. Next is back through Enns - Legionslager Zentralbereich.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Enns - Legionslager Zentralbereich write-up.
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back through Enns - Legionslager Zentralbereich, late in the day. Next is Ybbs - Kleinkastell.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Ybbs - Kleinkastell write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Ybbs - Kleinkastell. That is the ride.
Ybbs - Kleinkastell → Enns - Legionslager Zentralbereich is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Enns - Legionslager Zentralbereich → Kalkalpen - Bodinggraben is 66 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Kalkalpen - Bodinggraben → back through Enns - Legionslager Zentralbereich is 68 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Enns - Legionslager Zentralbereich → Ybbs - Kleinkastell is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.