A road bike tour from Scheidegg could hardly be more aptly summarised: "It's always uphill at the end," says Tobias Steinhauser. The former professional cyclist has cranked up the climbs to his home town countless times. Admittedly, at the end of a 150-kilometre tour, even Steinhauser has cursed the 200 metres of altitude to Scheidegg many a time.
However, cyclists can only expect a really tough climb when they climb the crest of the wave from Heimenkirch: at 15 per cent, the road briefly pushes against cyclists. The other variants, however, can be completed in low gear. Aside from the gruelling finale, Scheidegg's exposed location in the western Allgäu has one major advantage: the municipality has always been at the top of meteorologists' fair weather hit lists in Germany for many years. In spring and autumn, the sun shines from the sky more often than average, while cyclists shiver under a layer of fog in the lowlands of nearby Lake Constance.
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- Tour 1: Allgäu waves (59 km, 1,100 m elevation gain, max. altitude 1,054 metres, max. gradient 10 percent, hilly character)
- Tour 2: Bregenz Forest (106 km, 1,700 m elevation gain, max. altitude 1,120 metres, max. gradient 8 percent, mountainous character)
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