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.
Reading history stays on this device. My road watch requires a separate selection; opening it does not subscribe this ride.
Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
From Bolulla it runs 262 km to Bolulla; allow about 6 h 07 of riding. The stops in between: Barranc dels Garrofers, El Pantanet, Abric del Garrofero and back through El Pantanet. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Ask a cyclist on the Costa Blanca about Coll de Rates and watch their face change. The pass road climbing from Parcent toward Tàrbena is a pilgrimage for professional teams in winter training, and it lies only a few kilometres from the Barranc del Xorquet, one of the ravines in the tangled limestone hills behind the coast. This is an area rich in prehistoric rock art: the shelters at Pla de Petracos near Castell de Castells hold some of the best examples of the so-called macro-schematic style, big abstract human figures painted in red thousands of years ago, and the ravines around here hide further sites.
Read the complete Barranc del Xorquet write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Barranc del Xorquet is where the day begins. Next is Barranc dels Garrofers.
Between the towns of Alcoy and Gandia, the mountains of the northern Alicante province fold into a tangle of narrow valleys, and the barranc, the ravine, of the carob trees is a dry gully among them, a few kilometres from the villages of Planes and Beniarrés. The carob, or garrofer in Valencian, is a dark, leathery tree that has grown here for centuries, and its long brown pods were once used as animal feed and sweeteners. The land is rugged limestone, laced with terraces now mostly abandoned and covered in pines and rosemary.
Read the complete Barranc dels Garrofers write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Barranc dels Garrofers comes up about 38 km into the recorded legs. Next is El Pantanet.
Few riders have heard of the Serra de Mariola, and that is a pity, because this little limestone range between Alcoi, Bocairent and Ontinyent is one of the most rewarding corners of inland Valencia. El Pantanet, near the village of Alfafara, is a small rock shelter with prehistoric paintings, one of the many sites in the UNESCO listing of the Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula. As with most of its sisters, it is protected and access may be limited, but the hills around it reward the trip on their own.
Read the complete El Pantanet write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 68 km into the recorded legs you reach El Pantanet. 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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Abric del Garrofero, about halfway. Next is back through El Pantanet.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete El Pantanet write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through El Pantanet sits at 141 km, about halfway. Next is back through Barranc dels Garrofers.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Barranc dels Garrofers write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Barranc dels Garrofers comes up about 224 km into the recorded legs. Next is Barranc del Xorquet.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Barranc del Xorquet write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Barranc del Xorquet closes the day.
Barranc del Xorquet → Barranc dels Garrofers is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Barranc dels Garrofers → El Pantanet is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
El Pantanet → Abric del Garrofero is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric del Garrofero → back through El Pantanet is 64 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through El Pantanet → back through Barranc dels Garrofers is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Barranc dels Garrofers → Barranc del Xorquet is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.