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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311 km from Tălmaciu to Tălmaciu, about 5 h 43 of riding. On the way it passes Village of Valea Viilor, Războieni - Cetate - Grajduri CAP and back through Village of Valea Viilor. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,100 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
The Olt does something improbable south of Sibiu. Instead of going around the Carpathians, it cuts straight through them, carving a deep, winding gorge between the Făgăraș and Lotru ranges, and for two thousand years that gorge has been one of the great gateways between Transylvania and Wallachia. At its northern mouth, near the village of Boița, the Romans built a fort they called Caput Stenarum, the head of the narrows, to guard the entrance.
Read the complete Boița - Caput Stenarum / În Rude write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Boița - Caput Stenarum / În Rude is where the day begins. Next is Village of Valea Viilor.
Valea Viilor means Valley of the Vineyards, and the name is honest: the slopes around the village were planted with vines long before anyone thought of mapping them. The Saxons called it Wurmloch, and its fortified church, a tall Gothic hall with a defensive storey built over the choir and a ring wall around it, is one of the seven on the World Heritage list.
Read the complete Village of Valea Viilor write-up.
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Village of Valea Viilor comes up about 72 km into the recorded legs. Next is Războieni - Cetate - Grajduri CAP.
In the Mureș valley near Ocna Mureș, the village of Războieni-Cetate takes the second half of its name, cetate, fortress, from the Roman fort that once stood here, guarding the road and the river in central Dacia. The fort was a base for a cavalry unit, and its remains, close to the farm buildings of the communist era collective, the CAP, whose stables give the site its odd label, are part of the World Heritage listing of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire, Dacia. Little is visible above ground, but the outline of the fort can be traced in the fields.
Read the complete Războieni - Cetate - Grajduri CAP write-up.
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about 159 km into the recorded legs you reach Războieni - Cetate - Grajduri CAP. Next is back through Village of Valea Viilor.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Village of Valea Viilor write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Village of Valea Viilor, late in the day. Next is Boița - Caput Stenarum / În Rude.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Boița - Caput Stenarum / În Rude write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Boița - Caput Stenarum / În Rude. That is the ride.
Boița - Caput Stenarum / În Rude → Village of Valea Viilor is 72 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Village of Valea Viilor → Războieni - Cetate - Grajduri CAP is 87 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Războieni - Cetate - Grajduri CAP → back through Village of Valea Viilor is 79 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Village of Valea Viilor → Boița - Caput Stenarum / În Rude is 73 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.