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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435 km from Ocland to Ocland, about 9 h 35 of riding. It goes by way of Hoghiz - La Cetate, Cincșor - Cetate, Moieciu - Drumul Carului and Voinești - Măilătoaia. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,300 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
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 Hoghiz - La Cetate.
Where the Olt river bends around the Perșani mountains, between the Saxon villages of southern Transylvania and the Székely country to the east, the land rises into wooded hills, and near the village of Hoghiz, on a terrace above the river, lies an archaeological site known simply as La Cetate, the fortress. The Romans guarded this stretch of the Olt with forts, part of the defensive system of their province of Dacia, and the name hints at an old fortified place that once watched over the valley.
Read the complete Hoghiz - La Cetate write-up.
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Hoghiz - La Cetate comes up about 31 km into the recorded legs. Next is Cincșor - Cetate.
Between Sibiu and Făgăraș, the Olt flows through a broad valley, with the long wall of the Făgăraș mountains rising to the south, the highest in Romania, culminating in Moldoveanu at 2,544 metres. On the north bank, near the Saxon village of Cincșor, known in German as Kleinschenk, the Romans built a fort to guard the river crossing and the road along the valley. The site, known locally as Cetate, the fortress, lies in fields near the village, with only faint traces visible.
Read the complete Cincșor - Cetate write-up.
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about 74 km into the recorded legs you reach Cincșor - Cetate. Next is Moieciu - Drumul Carului.
Between Bran and Rucăr, the road climbs over the saddle that separates the Bucegi mountains from Piatra Craiului, through a landscape of high meadows, hay barns, scattered farms and limestone peaks. The name Drumul Carului, the cart road, recalls the old route across this pass, which has linked Transylvania and Wallachia for centuries, and archaeologists have recorded a Roman-era site here, part of the network of frontier and road posts in Dacia. Fundata, at the top, is one of the highest villages in Romania, at around 1,350 metres, and the scattered houses of Moieciu, Peștera and Șirnea spread across the hills around it.
Read the complete Moieciu - Drumul Carului write-up.
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Moieciu - Drumul Carului, about halfway. Next is Voinești - Măilătoaia.
The Rucăr-Bran corridor is one of the oldest passages through the Carpathians, and at its southern end, in the hills around Câmpulung Muscel, the Romans built a frontier line to guard it. The Limes Transalutanus, the frontier east of the Olt, ran north through this area, and small forts and watchtowers like the one at Voinești-Măilătoaia watched the valleys and the approaches to the pass. The sites are now low earthworks in fields and forest edges, and they belong to the Frontiers of the Roman Empire listing for Dacia, added by UNESCO in 2024.
Read the complete Voinești - Măilătoaia write-up.
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Voinești - Măilătoaia sits at 185 km, about halfway. Next is back through Moieciu - Drumul Carului.
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Read the complete Moieciu - Drumul Carului write-up.
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back through Moieciu - Drumul Carului comes up about 272 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Cincșor - Cetate.
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Read the complete Cincșor - Cetate write-up.
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about 359 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Cincșor - Cetate. Next is back through Hoghiz - La Cetate.
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Read the complete Hoghiz - La Cetate write-up.
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back through Hoghiz - La Cetate, late in the day. Next is Ocland - Cetatea Hășmașului.
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Read the complete Ocland - Cetatea Hășmașului write-up.
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The route ends here after 435 km.
Ocland - Cetatea Hășmașului → Hoghiz - La Cetate is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hoghiz - La Cetate → Cincșor - Cetate is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cincșor - Cetate → Moieciu - Drumul Carului is 83 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Moieciu - Drumul Carului → Voinești - Măilătoaia is 59 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Voinești - Măilătoaia → back through Moieciu - Drumul Carului is 56 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Moieciu - Drumul Carului → back through Cincșor - Cetate is 87 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Cincșor - Cetate → back through Hoghiz - La Cetate is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hoghiz - La Cetate → Ocland - Cetatea Hășmașului is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.