Ybbstal Cycle Path

Today we took the Radtramper (bus with bicycle transport) from Amstetten to Lunz am See. On the bus we happened to meet Stefanowitsch, he shares great and interesting tours on Komoot. It was a very short bus ride. From Göstling we had a very strong headwind and from Hollenstein the sun was gone and it was heavily overcast.

This week the weather was once again very good for us, today I rode the Ybbstalradweg from Lunz am See via Waidhofen an der Ybbs, Amstetten to Ybbs an der Donau with my ex-colleague and bike buddy Andi. From Lunz am See to Waidhofen an der Ybbs it was a dream of the scenic impressions and the bike path itself, which partly runs on the route of an abandoned narrow-gauge railway. From Waidhofen an der Ybbs to Amstetten, the cycle path unfortunately runs very often and for a long time next to the main road, there is also one place after another here. From Amstetten to Ybbs you drive quite a long time on country roads. My suggestion to those who also want to ride this cycle path, drive the section from Waidhofen an der Ybbs to Lunz am See, possibly also the same route back, along the way there are always nice places to rest and stop 😉

Before autumn comes, I "had" to go on an (extended) 2 day tour again 😀🚴‍♂️😀🚴‍♂️ For the start it went by car to Lunz am See. From there, the Ybbstal cycle path was on the program for the next 113 kilometers - up to the Danube to the Ybbs-Persenbeug power plant 🚴‍♂️😀🚴‍♂️😀 The tour is really beautiful and offers a lot of variety 👍🚴‍♂️😀👍🚴‍♂️😀 And tomorrow we will continue with the next bike path - back to Lunz am See - where hopefully my car will still be parked ... 😀🚴‍♂️😀🚴‍♂️

The Ybbstalradweg will get new sections in 2023. The published information is the route of 2022, so the Komoot map with photos is only partially correct. The total kilometers and meters in altitude will also change minimally. As soon as the new sections of the route are opened, the data on this website will be updated. The Ybbstalradweg is closed during the winter months (November 1st to April 15th). You can find more information, photos and a video of this bike tour on my website https://www.augustaust.com/rad-und-mtb-touren

Today we leave the Lower Austrian Alpine region in the direction of the Danube, a long pleasure tour with few meters of altitude along the Ybbs into the lowlands. 💯

Get back to me after exactly 3 weeks of abstinence from cycling, high time 🤣☝ !! Before I could even start again, I had to have my bike repaired on Friday. Since arriving in Flensburg 3 weeks ago, the rear tire - which gave me a "very mysterious" flat tire in Hamburg shortly before the end of my D-Tour 🇩🇪 - within a few days (while standing!) Lost all the air. Thank you my dear Ebike 🙏, you kept the chronological order this time, to point out to me beforehand about "shortness of breath" 😇🤣🤣 !!! Now the hose was exchanged a second time within a few weeks - probably the pothole "Ochsenweg" in northern Germany was my cause ... 🙈 So, yesterday I started the Ybbstalradweg from Ybbs a. d. Danube, it ends below in Lunz am See (approx. 110 km). The most interesting landscape is from Waidhofen a. d. Ybbs. Wildly romantic, it is beautiful to follow the crystal clear river in close proximity in the sometimes wider and then a little narrower Ybbstal, always with high mountains in view to the side. It was constantly uphill, so to think less about pedal breaks, it was exhausting enough anyway. Either the must tasting at the Seppelbauer made my legs difficult or I paused too long - but I was exhausted enough and tired in the evening 😅. The last few km to the final destination Lackenhof am Ötscher, Komoot gave me such a bad gravel road in the most lonely forest area, steeply uphill, that I was almost worried about ever arriving back in civilization 🤣. Already saw me as a forest spirit in the night 👻 .. Today it's the Erlauftalradweg back to Ybbs, I hope the weather god is "reasonably" well with me today 🤔. I'm already used to a lot..😇

Ybbstal bike path! Anyone who knows him likes him. If you don't know it yet, try it out! Even on former railway lines, you accumulate a few meters of altitude upstream. A narrow valley is a wind tunnel, downwind of course downwind! And the sun does the rest to get you sweating. If you don't just want to eat at the Chinese or Italian restaurant in Waidhofen - there's nothing else on the main square - you'll find the Punti inn close to the cycle route on the outskirts. Good, down-to-earth cuisine and innkeepers who can still greet local guests by their first names, so people here still know each other. The Schwarzelmüller pastry shop in Hollenstein is a must-stop! If you miss this, you're missing out on a treat! So go ahead and drive!

With pleasant autumnal weather, we enjoyed the Ybbstalradweg, which leads through beautiful countryside, with stops in the interesting town of Waidhofen and in Hollenstein with its little church on the mountain.