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 Planes it runs 478 km to Planes; allow about 11 h 42 of riding. The stops in between: Cova de la Petxina, Abric del Garrofero, Barranco del Cabezo del moro and Peñon de los machos. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Planes is a small village in the hills of the Comtat in northern Alicante province, crowned by a castle and looking out over a valley of olive and cherry orchards. The Barranc de la Penya Blanca, the ravine of the white rock, lies close by, among the folded limestone ridges between Planes, Benimarfull and the reservoir at Beniarrés.
Read the complete Barranc de la Penya Blanca write-up.
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Barranc de la Penya Blanca is where the day begins. Next is Cova de la Petxina.
Bellús is a small village in the valley of the Albaida river in southern Valencia, just upstream from where the river flows into a reservoir and then joins the Júcar. The old village was partly flooded by the reservoir, and the new one stands on higher ground. The Cova de la Petxina, the cave of the shell, is in the hills near the village, close to Guadasequies and Genovés.
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Cova de la Petxina comes up about 40 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abric del Garrofero.
Bicorp is a small village in the Canal de Navarrés, a valley in the interior of Valencia province walled in by rugged mountains and deep ravines. The surrounding Macizo del Caroig is one of the largest wild areas in the Valencian Community, a vast tableland of pine, scrub and gorges cut by the Júcar's tributaries. The Abric del Garrofero, the shelter of the carob tree, lies in the hills near Bicorp, Quesa and Navarrés.
Read the complete Abric del Garrofero write-up.
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about 85 km into the recorded legs you reach Abric del Garrofero. Next is Barranco del Cabezo del moro.
Almansa is one of those towns you see from the motorway and do not stop at, and that is a mistake. Its castle is spectacular, a Gothic fortress built on a sharp limestone outcrop right in the middle of town, looking exactly like a child's drawing of a castle. Around it spreads a wide plain at about seven hundred metres, the meeting point of the Valencian, Murcian and Castilian lands, and a few kilometres out in the surrounding hills lies the ravine known as the Barranco del Cabezo del Moro.
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Barranco del Cabezo del moro, about halfway. 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.
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Peñon de los machos sits at 152 km, about halfway. Next is back through Barranco del Cabezo del moro.
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Read the complete Barranco del Cabezo del moro write-up.
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back through Barranco del Cabezo del moro comes up about 299 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Abric del Garrofero.
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Read the complete Abric del Garrofero write-up.
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about 394 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Abric del Garrofero. Next is back through Cova de la Petxina.
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Read the complete Cova de la Petxina write-up.
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back through Cova de la Petxina, late in the day. Next is Barranc de la Penya Blanca.
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Read the complete Barranc de la Penya Blanca write-up.
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The route ends here after 478 km.
Barranc de la Penya Blanca → Cova de la Petxina is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cova de la Petxina → Abric del Garrofero is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric del Garrofero → Barranco del Cabezo del moro is 89 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Barranco del Cabezo del moro → Peñon de los machos is 65 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Peñon de los machos → back through Barranco del Cabezo del moro is 60 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Barranco del Cabezo del moro → back through Abric del Garrofero is 95 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abric del Garrofero → back through Cova de la Petxina is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cova de la Petxina → Barranc de la Penya Blanca is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.