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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A 310 km round trip from Băneasa - roughly 6 h 09 in the saddle. It goes by way of Reșca - Romula / Cetate, Afrimești - Urluieni and back through Reșca - Romula / Cetate. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Băneasa is Teleorman, and Teleorman is flat. The Wallachian plain here spreads out between the Danube, to the south, and the lower Vedea valley, with big fields, long horizons and the sort of sky that makes motorcyclists look for any rise at all. The label "La Cetate" marks one such rise, where traces of an old fortification are known locally, and the nearby "Traian - La Culă" name hints at the Roman presence that once ran across this part of southern Romania.
Read the complete Băneasa - La Cetate write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Băneasa - La Cetate is where the day begins. Next is Reșca - Romula / Cetate.
Romula was once among the more important towns in Roman Dacia, and the ground at Reșca, in Olt county, is where it stood. The settlement grew near the river Olt on the road between the Danube frontier and the interior, and it rose to the rank of a colony in the later empire; the later name, Romula Malvensis, ties it to the province of Dacia Malvensis that was formed in the third century. Today you see fields, a few low mounds, and the faint outline of an old fortification, with finds from the site kept in nearby museums rather than at the roadside.
Read the complete Reșca - Romula / Cetate write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Reșca - Romula / Cetate comes up about 80 km into the recorded legs. Next is Afrimești - Urluieni.
Flat. That is the first impression of this part of southern Romania, in Argeș county, where the land stretches away towards the Danube in wide fields of maize and sunflowers, broken only by lines of trees and small villages. But across this plain, in the second century AD, the Romans built a frontier: the Limes Transalutanus, a line of earthworks and forts running north to south east of the Olt river, protecting the province of Dacia. At Urluieni, near the village of Afrimești, stood one of its forts.
Read the complete Afrimești - Urluieni write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 155 km into the recorded legs you reach Afrimești - Urluieni. Next is back through Reșca - Romula / Cetate.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Reșca - Romula / Cetate write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Reșca - Romula / Cetate, late in the day. Next is Băneasa - La Cetate.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Băneasa - La Cetate write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Băneasa - La Cetate. That is the ride.
Băneasa - La Cetate → Reșca - Romula / Cetate is 80 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Reșca - Romula / Cetate → Afrimești - Urluieni is 75 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Afrimești - Urluieni → back through Reșca - Romula / Cetate is 74 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Reșca - Romula / Cetate → Băneasa - La Cetate is 80 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.