Austrian Road Hard Loop
Lipno nad Vltavou
With CTW Cycling to Austria, form nowhere to be found. You’ll leave your form somewhere in the Austrian hills and come home with nothing but a memory of it. 120 kilometres, 1,500 metres of climbing and unbelievably smooth Austrian tarmac. Come and find out how fast the pros from CTW Cycling Team really fly.
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You start out gently from Lipno, rolling along the reservoir shore – enjoy it, because the calm ends the moment you cross the border at Aigen. A descent into the Mühl valley drops you down to Haslach, the lowest point of the whole ride. But everything you coast down, Austria charges back with interest: from 500 metres you grind your way up to 880, the high point of the day.
From there the Mühlviertel just keeps rolling – gentle waves of farmland and tidy homesteads. Around Bad Leonfelden you share a short stretch of main road before turning back onto quiet Austrian lanes, then via Reichenthal and Rainbach you cross back home at Český Heršlák. Don't call it a day in Vyšší Brod just yet – one last climb up to Studánky earns you a beer at the local brewery. After that it's all downhill along the Vltava, past the Čertova stěna rock face, where a calm cycle path finally lets you catch your breath. And we ride it with the CTW Cycling pro team – so this is how the pros take it on
- Distance
- 121,6 km
- Duration
- 8:26 hrs
- elevation +
- 1469 m
- highest point
- 880 m
- lowest point
- 500 m
