The 6 on a motorcycle
Our routes ride 20 miles of the 6 (Central Alps, Switzerland), where it is also called Grimselstrasse. Its longest stretch on our routes turns 323 degrees a mile, in the twistiest third of the 151 roads we track.
- On our routes
- 20 miles
- Curvature
- 323 ° a mile
- Twistiness rank
- 15 of 151
- Longest gap between fuel
- 20 miles
The 6 is drawn in black where our routes use it. Red lines are the full routes; click one to open it.
Routes that ride the 6
| Route | Miles on the 6 | |
|---|---|---|
| Furka, Grimsel and Susten74 miles in all | 20 | GPX |
Passes on the 6
- Grimselpass2,164 m
How we measure it
Curvature is the total change of direction along the road, in degrees for every mile, measured on the route line every 100 metres. Gentle drift under 3 degrees is ignored, so a long sweeping bend counts for less than a run of tight ones. On our routes they run from 6 on the E19 to 701 on the SP638.
Fuel counts stations within 1 km of the line on its longest stretch on our routes (20 miles), from OpenStreetMap. There are 3 on that stretch.