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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451 km from Brezoi to Brezoi, about 9 h 46 of riding. The stops in between: Voineasa - Crac-Găuri, Târsa - Platoul Târsa and back through Voineasa - Crac-Găuri. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,600 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
Brezoi is where two rivers meet and the mountains lean in. The Lotru comes down from the high ridges of the Parang and Lotru ranges, the Olt arrives from the north through its famous gorge, and below the confluence the valley opens just enough for a town of about seven thousand people to settle. Cozia and Lotrisor sit on either side of this junction, and the great pyramid of the Cozia massif stands over the road to the east, a dark wall of beech and spruce that glows copper in October.
Read the complete Cozia - Lotrisor write-up.
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Cozia - Lotrisor is where the day begins. Next is Voineasa - Crac-Găuri.
North of the Jiu Valley, the land rises steeply into the Șureanu and Parâng mountains, a wild region of high ridges, deep valleys, spruce forests and alpine meadows. Crac-Găuri lies up in this high country, linked by name to the old routes that crossed the mountains in Roman times, when Dacia was a province and soldiers watched the passes between the Transylvanian basin and the south. Little is visible today, and the remoteness is half the attraction: this is mountain land, where shepherds bring their flocks to high pastures in summer and the forest stretches for miles.
Read the complete Voineasa - Crac-Găuri write-up.
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Voineasa - Crac-Găuri comes up about 104 km into the recorded legs. Next is Târsa - Platoul Târsa.
Târsa sits on a high plateau in the Șureanu mountains, in the same ring of hills that sheltered the Dacian kingdom's heart. The platoul, the plateau, is open grassland and forest edge at roughly a thousand metres or higher, the sort of place where shepherds still bring flocks in summer and the wind carries the sound of bells.
Read the complete Târsa - Platoul Târsa write-up.
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about 221 km into the recorded legs you reach Târsa - Platoul Târsa. Next is back through Voineasa - Crac-Găuri.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Voineasa - Crac-Găuri write-up.
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back through Voineasa - Crac-Găuri, late in the day. Next is Cozia - Lotrisor.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cozia - Lotrisor write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Cozia - Lotrisor. That is the ride.
Cozia - Lotrisor → Voineasa - Crac-Găuri is 104 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Voineasa - Crac-Găuri → Târsa - Platoul Târsa is 117 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Târsa - Platoul Târsa → back through Voineasa - Crac-Găuri is 127 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Voineasa - Crac-Găuri → Cozia - Lotrisor is 104 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.