CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Ordered leg totals agree within rounding. Stop distances are approximate sums of rounded legs. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
Out of Sangarcía, one way: 484 km, roughly 8 h 01 in the saddle. On the way it passes Torrecuadradilla, near Cifuentes and Alcorcón. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,150 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Sangarcía is a small village on the high meseta of Segovia province, in the stretch of pine and farmland that locals call the Tierra de Pinares. At roughly a thousand metres above sea level, the land is flat to gently rolling, with wide fields of cereals, stands of resin pine and big, clear skies. To the south, the Sierra de Guadarrama forms a blue wall on the horizon, often snow-capped in winter and spring.
Read the complete Photo stop in Sangarcía write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Photo stop in Sangarcía is where the day begins. Next is Madrid / Central Spain return.
Few places in Western Europe feel as empty as the high plateau of Guadalajara. This stop lies between Torrecuadradilla, Canredondo and Abánades, villages that once held hundreds of people and now count their year-round residents in dozens. The land is a high, rolling plateau of cereal fields, juniper and holm oak, cut by deep river valleys, with huge skies and very little traffic.
Read the complete Near Torrecuadradilla, on the way back write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Madrid / Central Spain return comes up about 262 km into the recorded legs. Next is Food stop near Cifuentes.
A break here. Next is Gredos Mountain Weekend checkpoint 8.
Gredos Mountain Weekend checkpoint 8 closes the day. Next is Back to Gredos Mountain.
Aranjuez is the town where Spain's kings went to get away from Madrid, and it has been laid out like a long, formal garden ever since. The royal palace, begun in the sixteenth century under Philip II and finished in the eighteenth, stands on the banks of the Tajo, surrounded by parks, canals, avenues of plane trees and orchards, and the whole landscape was added to the UNESCO list in 2001. The setting is exceptional: after miles of dry plain, the green of the river valley is a shock.
Read the complete Gredos Mountain write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Finish at Back to Gredos Mountain. That is the ride.
Photo stop in Sangarcía → Near Torrecuadradilla, on the way back is 262 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Food stop near Cifuentes → Near Alcorcón is 138 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.