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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A 348 km round trip from Altea - roughly 6 h 45 in the saddle. On the way it passes Barranc de les Coves- Abric I, Barranco del Cabezo del moro and back through Barranc de les Coves- Abric I. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
On a map of the Costa Blanca, the Serra de Bernia looks like a wall dropped between two very different worlds. On one side, high-rise Benidorm and the busy coast; on the other, the quiet valleys of Jalón and Guadalest. The Penya del Vicari is one of the rocky outcrops in these hills above Altea and Calp, a place where the limestone is cut by caves and shelters, some of which carry traces of prehistoric painting. It is a small, quiet site in an area otherwise famous for sun loungers.
Read the complete Penya del Vicari write-up.
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Penya del Vicari is where the day begins. Next is Barranc de les Coves- Abric I.
Ibi is the toy capital of Spain, a fact that surprises everyone who rides through this mountain town in the hills of Alicante. Since the early twentieth century, workshops here have produced dolls, tin toys and plastic figures, and the Valencian Toy Museum tells the story. The rock shelter named Barranc de les Coves Abric I lies in the hills between Ibi and Alcoy, in a ravine whose name simply means the gully of the caves.
Read the complete Barranc de les Coves- Abric I write-up.
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Barranc de les Coves- Abric I comes up about 88 km into the recorded legs. Next is Barranco del Cabezo del moro.
Almansa is one of those towns you see from the motorway and do not stop at, and that is a mistake. Its castle is spectacular, a Gothic fortress built on a sharp limestone outcrop right in the middle of town, looking exactly like a child's drawing of a castle. Around it spreads a wide plain at about seven hundred metres, the meeting point of the Valencian, Murcian and Castilian lands, and a few kilometres out in the surrounding hills lies the ravine known as the Barranco del Cabezo del Moro.
Read the complete Barranco del Cabezo del moro write-up.
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about 171 km into the recorded legs you reach Barranco del Cabezo del moro. Next is back through Barranc de les Coves- Abric I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Barranc de les Coves- Abric I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Barranc de les Coves- Abric I, late in the day. Next is Penya del Vicari.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Penya del Vicari write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Penya del Vicari. That is the ride.
Penya del Vicari → Barranc de les Coves- Abric I is 88 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Barranc de les Coves- Abric I → Barranco del Cabezo del moro is 83 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Barranco del Cabezo del moro → back through Barranc de les Coves- Abric I is 88 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Barranc de les Coves- Abric I → Penya del Vicari is 89 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.