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 Brezoi it runs 85 km to Brezoi; allow about 1 h 53 of riding. It goes by way of Rădăcinești - Cetate, Titești - Dealul Cazanului and back through Rădăcinești - Cetate. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,150 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Cozia - Lotrisor is where the day begins. Next is Rădăcinești - Cetate.
Rădăcinești is a quiet village belonging to Berislăvești, tucked into the hills on the east side of the Olt valley in Vâlcea county. The word cetate on the label means fortress, and like many such names in Romania it points to an old fortified height above the village, the kind of place where earthworks and a few stones are all that is left of people who once watched this valley closely. You come for the setting rather than for ruins you can walk through.
Read the complete Rădăcinești - Cetate write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Rădăcinești - Cetate comes up about 17 km into the recorded legs. Next is Titești - Dealul Cazanului.
The Olt is one of Romania's great rivers, and where it cuts through the Southern Carpathians, between Brezoi and Calimanesti, it does so in a long, narrow gorge that has been a corridor for armies and traders for two thousand years. Titesti and Perisani lie just off this corridor, in the hill country that rises on its western side, where the road leaves the traffic behind and climbs through orchards, hay meadows and beech woods. Dealul Cazanului, the Cauldron Hill, is one of those names that points at the shape of the land more than any particular monument.
Read the complete Titești - Dealul Cazanului write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 42 km into the recorded legs you reach Titești - Dealul Cazanului. Next is back through Rădăcinești - Cetate.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Rădăcinești - Cetate write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Rădăcinești - Cetate, 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 → Rădăcinești - Cetate is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Rădăcinești - Cetate → Titești - Dealul Cazanului is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Titești - Dealul Cazanului → back through Rădăcinești - Cetate is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Rădăcinești - Cetate → Cozia - Lotrisor is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.