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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518 km one way from Votice - plan on about 7 h 52 of riding. It goes by way of Scenic stretch near Jesenice, near Litvínov and Dvůr Králové nad Labem. The climb of the day is near Čimelice. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
The hills around Votice belong to the Central Bohemian uplands, a rumpled country of fields, fishponds and small forests between Prague and Tábor. Votice itself is a modest market town with a square, a church and a few thousand inhabitants, a quiet place where the main event of the day might be the arrival of the bus. It has a bakery, shops and fuel, which is all a rider really needs from it.
Read the complete High point near Votice write-up.
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Kokořínsko Sandstone Roads is where the day begins. Next is High point near Čimelice.
You top out here; the road stops climbing. Next is Scenic stretch near Jesenice.
about 175 km into the recorded legs you reach Scenic stretch near Jesenice. Next is Photo stop near Litvínov.
Litvínov lies at the foot of the Ore Mountains, the Krušné hory, in north-western Bohemia, and it is a town of contrasts. Below it stretches the Most basin, scarred by decades of open-cast brown coal mining and dominated by the chimneys of a large chemical works. Above it, the mountains rise steeply in a wall of forest, and a few kilometres up you are in a different world of beech and spruce woods, high meadows and small villages near the German border.
Read the complete Photo stop near Litvínov write-up.
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Photo stop near Litvínov, about halfway. Next is Prague / Bohemia return.
In 1817 a manuscript was found in the church tower of Dvůr Králové, a supposedly medieval collection of Czech epic poems that seemed to prove the antiquity of Czech literature. It became a national treasure, until scholars proved it a forgery decades later, sparking one of the great intellectual battles of the Czech national revival. The town, on the upper Elbe at the foot of the Krkonoše mountains, has never quite lived it down.
Read the complete Near Dvůr Králové nad Labem, on the way back write-up.
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Prague / Bohemia return sits at 439 km, late in the day. Next is Food stop near Bílá Třemešná.
The route ends here after 518 km.
Fuel stop near Votice → High point near Čimelice is 70 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
High point near Čimelice → Scenic stretch near Jesenice is 105 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Scenic stretch near Jesenice → Photo stop near Litvínov is 77 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Photo stop near Litvínov → Near Dvůr Králové nad Labem, on the way back is 244 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.