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Ride the Rhine Cycle Route (EuroVelo 15) on your smart trainer
EuroVelo 15 from Basel down the Rhine past Strasbourg. Two hundred flat kilometres.
In Chrome or Edge on a laptop or desktop, with a smart trainer or on the keys. No subscription, no card. The iPhone app is coming.
- Distance
- 199 km 123 mi
- Climbing
- 74 m 244 ft
- Highest point
- 249 m 817 ft
- Steepest 200 m
- 2.0%
- At 45 minutes a ride
- about 3 weeks
Along the way
- 0.0 km 0.0 mi Basel
- 126.5 km 78.6 mi Strasbourg
- 198.6 km 123.4 mi Lauterbourg
About the road
EuroVelo 15 follows the Rhine from its source in the Swiss Alps to the North Sea. This part starts in Basel, where Switzerland, France and Germany meet, and runs north down the Upper Rhine past Strasbourg to Lauterbourg.
About as flat as a long road gets: a road for steady kilometres, ridden a little at a time.
Also known as Rheinradweg, Véloroute du Rhin, EuroVelo 15, Rhine cycle path.
How to ride it on your trainer
- Open longvoie in Chrome or Edge on a laptop or desktop. It is free: an email and a code to sign in, no password, no card.
- Connect your trainer: any smart trainer that speaks FTMS (Wahoo, Tacx, Elite…), or a power meter, and a heart-rate strap if you have one. No trainer yet? Ride on the keys.
- Pick The Rhine. longvoie sets your trainer's resistance as the road climbs and eases it as it falls, and you ride it in 3D, on the real street.
- Stop whenever you like. Your next ride starts from the metre you stopped at.
| Your usual ride | The Rhine takes |
|---|---|
| 30 minutes | about 5 weeks |
| 45 minutes | about 3 weeks |
| 60 minutes | about 2 weeks |
| 90 minutes | about 5 rides |
At three or four rides a week, and a steady 25 km/h plus an hour for every 1,000 m up.
Take the road with you
The route is free to download as a GPX file, for your bike computer, Komoot, Strava or another trainer app: ev15-rhine.gpx.
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Route © OpenStreetMap contributors, under the Open Database License. Heights from the Copernicus DEM, through Open-Meteo.