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.
418 km from Alpera to Alpera, about 9 h 27 of riding. It goes by way of Cueva moma, Abric de les finestres IV and back through Cueva moma. 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.
Here the wide plains of La Mancha begin to tilt towards the coast, and the country turns into a patchwork of vineyards, cereal fields and low, pine-covered ridges. Alpera, Carcelén and Alatoz are small villages in the east of Albacete province, close to the border with Valencia, and the landscape has a high, windy character with big skies and few trees on the open ground. The Júcar river runs through a deeper, more broken country to the south, with canyons and reservoirs that give the otherwise dry terrain a green edge.
Read the complete Abrigo I write-up.
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Abrigo I is where the day begins. Next is Cueva moma.
Bicorp's name appears on the map of rock art mainly because of its famous spider cave, but the Cueva Moma sits a few kilometres south-west of the village and has its own quiet claim to attention. It is a Levantine painted site in the dry highlands of the Canal de Navarrés, in the middle of inland Valencia, where the hills are steep, the villages small and the roads wander.
Read the complete Cueva moma write-up.
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Cueva moma comes up about 127 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abric de les finestres IV.
Bocairent is a village built on a rock, its old houses clinging to a limestone spur above a ravine in the Serra de Mariola, in the south of the province of Valencia. Across the ravine, in the cliff face, a row of small square openings looks out like windows: these are the Covetes dels Moros, a series of artificial caves cut into the rock, connected by internal passages, whose purpose is still debated. They may have been granaries, refuges or even a monastery, and their name means the little caves of the Moors.
Read the complete Abric de les finestres IV write-up.
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about 208 km into the recorded legs you reach Abric de les finestres IV. Next is back through Cueva moma.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cueva moma write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Cueva moma, late in the day. Next is Abrigo I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Abrigo I. That is the ride.
Abrigo I → Cueva moma is 127 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cueva moma → Abric de les finestres IV is 81 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric de les finestres IV → back through Cueva moma is 77 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cueva moma → Abrigo I is 133 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.