Heidelberg / Rothenburg ob der Tauber route

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Courtesy of a Tourenfahrer-Motorrad magazine article.

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What I have tried to do in this post is show how easy it is to create a jaunt using nothing more than an iPad, some Googling, some help from Kurviger and a decent dollop of imagination. If I can do it, anyone can. Here goes.....



Heidelberg is not a million miles away from the north east Channel ports; an easy ride direct down the motorways, as this from Googlemaps shows:

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Or take a scenic route through the Ardennes, as suggested by Kurviger at 450 miles, a nice enough start to any holiday.

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The Scenic app suggests a different route to take:

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ViaMichelin has its own ideas:

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The popular MyRoute app, set to bicycle, has its idea on how to go A to B

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Which suggested route is best? Kurviger or Scenic? Maybe ViaMichelin’s perhaps? Maybe it’s MyRoute, as people swear by it?. Who knows? You decide. Maybe go one way and come back another, it’s your holiday.

Either way, by now you’ll have got the gist that there are lots of free ways to get intimate details on half decent routes from A to B (and A to B to C to.... Z) with very little effort. So let’s crack on.....

The Tourenfahrer-Motorrad route is built into three sections. From a Google translation of the blurb in the original article it’s easy to work out its length and that it has been created by three separate local tourist agencies working in partnership, an interesting enough idea to encourage visitors.

The tourism organizations in Hohen lohe, Odenwald and Taubertal have onevaried motorbike pleasure tour developed. Brand new is the completely over worked folding card »H.O.T. Biker enjoyment trip".

This is a 478 km long * circuit through the Main Valley,through a part of the Odenwald, through Hohenlohe and the lovely Tauber Valley. The route through this popular holiday areas between Frankfurt am Main and Stuttgart (north-south axis) or betweenHeidelberg and Rothenburg ob der Tauber (east-west axis)

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Then last of all, through nothing more than a little bit of Googling, here is the H.O.T website:

https://www.hot-bikertour.de/

Hot tip: All I did was enter the name of one of the regions ‘Odenwald’ add ‘Motorrad’ to it and add ‘Touren’ to give a three word Google search of ‘Odenwald motorrad touren’. I then scrolled down the suggested websites that Google threw up until I found one that looked as if it might be OK, simply as it had H.O.T in the brief description.

Once in the H.O.T website I just tapped around on anything that looked like a hot link and even found a version in English. Though even in German (of which I speak not one word) it’s easy to guess what bits must mean. Play around, you can’t break it and it’s free.

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Tap on the links to the biker friendly hotels:

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Zoom in on the map:

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Tap around enough and you’ll even get to the GPS downloads....

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Job done.


Richard



* That is near enough London to Newcastle, direct
 
Just for something to do, I put the place names on the route in order into Kurviger, to see what happened.

It did a fairly good job. With a bit of zooming in and out and fine tuning of places in between other known locations, could be made near enough spot on.

Again, all done on a iPad, so it can’t be hard to do.

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That is excellent Wappers. Thanks.

I've been doing the 'hot biker' stuff for years whilst shouting Ja ja (very loudly) and it's given me a few pointers:thumb2
 


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