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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From Bicorp it runs 175 km to Bicorp; allow about 5 h 38 of riding. The stops in between: Peñon de los machos, Abric de Tortosillas and back through Peñon de los machos. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 850 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
For most of its length, the Júcar river in Valencia province runs through gorges, reservoirs and dry hills, and in the days before roads, the way to bring timber from the mountains to the coast was to float it. The woodsmen who did this were called gancheros, after the long hooked poles they used to push logs through rapids, and for centuries they took pine trunks down the Júcar and the Cabriel in spring floods, riding the logs and breaking jams. That trade ended in the twentieth century, but their memory is kept alive in villages like Millares and Bicorp. The shelter named for a man, Abrigo de Vicent, lies about five and a half kilometres from Bicorp, and carries painting in the Levantine tradition, protected by UNESCO as part of the rock art of the Mediterranean basin in Spain.
Read the complete Abrigo de Vicent write-up.
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Abrigo de Vicent is where the day begins. Next is Peñon de los machos.
Cofrentes is a village at the confluence of two rivers, the Júcar and the Cabriel, in the interior of Valencia province, and it has a curious mix of attractions. Above it stands a castle on a crag. Nearby rises the Cerro de Agrás, the only recently active volcano in the Valencian Community, a dark cone of basalt in a landscape of limestone. And just outside the village, the cooling towers of the Cofrentes nuclear power station send plumes of steam into the sky. The Peñón de los Machos, a rocky outcrop with painted shelters, lies in the hills between Cofrentes, Jalance and Jarafuel.
Read the complete Peñon de los machos write-up.
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Peñon de los machos comes up about 38 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abric de Tortosillas.
The Abric de Tortosillas lies in the mountains near Ayora, in the inland valley of Ayora-Cofrentes in Valencia, and its paintings of human figures and animals are part of the rich rock art of this region, part of the Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin listing. Nearby, at Alpera in Albacete province, the Cueva de la Vieja holds one of the most famous Levantine panels, with dozens of figures, archers, deer and goats, and an interpretation centre in the village. The landscape here is dry and mountainous, with pine forests, cliffs and the valley of the Júcar river.
Read the complete Abric de Tortosillas write-up.
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about 86 km into the recorded legs you reach Abric de Tortosillas. Next is back through Peñon de los machos.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Peñon de los machos write-up.
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back through Peñon de los machos, late in the day. Next is Abrigo de Vicent.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo de Vicent write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Abrigo de Vicent. That is the ride.
Abrigo de Vicent → Peñon de los machos is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Peñon de los machos → Abric de Tortosillas is 48 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric de Tortosillas → back through Peñon de los machos is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Peñon de los machos → Abrigo de Vicent is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.