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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419 km from Bodoc to Bodoc, about 8 h 47 of riding. On the way it passes Village of Prejmer-Tartlau, Râșnov - Cumidava / La Cetate, Rucăr - Scărișoara and Rădăcinești - Cetate. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,300 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 93 km this is Transfagarasan Highway, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
The Olt here is a young river, winding through meadows in the basin north of Sfântu Gheorghe before it bends west across Transylvania. At Olteni, a village on its banks, the Mikó family, one of the noble houses of the Szekler Land, had a manor house set in a park, and the place is linked to one of the Roman sites of the eastern Dacian frontier listed in 2024. The Romans had a fort in this area, guarding the routes through the mountains, and like most sites in the region, little of it can be seen today.
Read the complete Olteni - Castelul Mikó write-up.
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Olteni - Castelul Mikó is where the day begins. Next is Village of Prejmer-Tartlau.
In the Burzenland plain east of Brașov, the village of Prejmer, known to its Saxon founders as Tartlau, is home to one of the most remarkable buildings in Romania: a fortified church surrounded by massive circular walls, with hundreds of storage rooms built into them on several levels. The church was begun in the thirteenth century by the Teutonic Knights, who were invited into the region by the Hungarian king to defend the frontier, and later strengthened by the Saxon villagers, who built the walls to protect themselves against Ottoman and Tatar raids. It is part of the UNESCO listing of villages with fortified churches in Transylvania.
Read the complete Village of Prejmer-Tartlau write-up.
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Village of Prejmer-Tartlau comes up about 32 km into the recorded legs. Next is Râșnov - Cumidava / La Cetate.
The Roman fort of Cumidava stood on a terrace near the village of Vulcan, just west of Râșnov, at the southern end of the Bârsa Land, guarding the route from Transylvania through the mountains to Wallachia. It was one of the forts on the eastern frontier of Roman Dacia, and its name, recorded on an inscription, is believed to be Dacian in origin. The site is part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire, Dacia, added to the UNESCO list in 2024. Little stands above ground, but the setting, with the mountains rising to the south, makes it clear why the Romans chose this spot.
Read the complete Râșnov - Cumidava / La Cetate write-up.
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about 66 km into the recorded legs you reach Râșnov - Cumidava / La Cetate. Next is Rucăr - Scărișoara.
Rucăr sits right where the Dâmbovița comes out of the mountains, a long village of wooden gates and tin roofs strung along the valley floor at the southern foot of the Rucăr–Bran corridor. Behind it the land climbs fast: Piatra Craiului's limestone ridge to the north-west, the rounded bulk of Leaota and the Bucegi to the east, and between them the saddle that has carried traffic between Wallachia and Transylvania for as long as anyone has bothered to write things down.
Read the complete Rucăr - Scărișoara write-up.
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Rucăr - Scărișoara, about halfway. 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.
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Rădăcinești - Cetate sits at 201 km, about halfway. Next is back through Rucăr - Scărișoara.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Rucăr - Scărișoara write-up.
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back through Rucăr - Scărișoara comes up about 302 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Râșnov - Cumidava / La Cetate.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Râșnov - Cumidava / La Cetate write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 351 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Râșnov - Cumidava / La Cetate. Next is back through Village of Prejmer-Tartlau.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Village of Prejmer-Tartlau write-up.
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back through Village of Prejmer-Tartlau, late in the day. Next is Olteni - Castelul Mikó.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Olteni - Castelul Mikó write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
The route ends here after 419 km.
Olteni - Castelul Mikó → Village of Prejmer-Tartlau is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Village of Prejmer-Tartlau → Râșnov - Cumidava / La Cetate is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Râșnov - Cumidava / La Cetate → Rucăr - Scărișoara is 49 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Rucăr - Scărișoara → Rădăcinești - Cetate is 93 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Rădăcinești - Cetate → back through Rucăr - Scărișoara is 94 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Rucăr - Scărișoara → back through Râșnov - Cumidava / La Cetate is 49 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Râșnov - Cumidava / La Cetate → back through Village of Prejmer-Tartlau is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Village of Prejmer-Tartlau → Olteni - Castelul Mikó is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.