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 Ocland it runs 310 km to Ocland; allow about 6 h 05 of riding. The stops in between: Reci - Cetate, Codrul secular Șinca and back through Reci - Cetate. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,200 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
The Homoród valley runs south through the Székely land of Harghita county, a gentle, green valley between wooded hills, with villages of whitewashed churches and carved gates. Ocland is one of them, a small village with a fortified church, and on a hill above it stood a medieval castle, Cetatea Hășmașului, of which only traces remain. The rides that pass here connect it with the fortified churches of Transylvania, the extraordinary defensive churches built by the Saxon and Székely communities in the Middle Ages to protect themselves from Tatar and Ottoman raids.
Read the complete Ocland - Cetatea Hășmașului write-up.
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Ocland - Cetatea Hășmașului is where the day begins. Next is Reci - Cetate.
Reci lies on the flat floor of the Târgu Secuiesc basin, in Covasna county, where the Olt river meanders between mountains in the heart of the Szekler Land, the Hungarian-speaking region of eastern Transylvania. The site known as Reci - Cetate, the fortress, belongs to the eastern line of the Roman frontier in Dacia, part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire inscribed in 2024. The Romans guarded the passes through the Carpathians with forts and towers here, though today the site is little more than a raised area in the fields.
Read the complete Reci - Cetate write-up.
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Reci - Cetate comes up about 73 km into the recorded legs. Next is Codrul secular Șinca.
Codru is an old Romanian word for a deep forest, and the Codrul Secular Șinca, the ancient forest of Șinca, is exactly that: a stand of old-growth beech and fir on the northern slopes of the Făgăraș mountains in Brașov county, where trees have grown, died and fallen for centuries without being cut. It is part of the UNESCO listing of the ancient and primeval beech forests of Europe, a chain of protected forests across many countries that together tell the story of how beech spread across the continent after the last ice age. Walking among trees that are hundreds of years old, with fallen trunks covered in moss and fungi and the canopy closing high above, is a humbling experience.
Read the complete Codrul secular Șinca write-up.
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about 156 km into the recorded legs you reach Codrul secular Șinca. Next is back through Reci - Cetate.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Reci - Cetate write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Reci - Cetate, late in the day. Next is Ocland - Cetatea Hășmașului.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Ocland - Cetatea Hășmașului write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Ocland - Cetatea Hășmașului. That is the ride.
Ocland - Cetatea Hășmașului → Reci - Cetate is 73 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Reci - Cetate → Codrul secular Șinca is 83 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Codrul secular Șinca → back through Reci - Cetate is 81 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Reci - Cetate → Ocland - Cetatea Hășmașului is 73 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.