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: planning record, not independently verified geometry.
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An 230 km round trip from Boşorod - roughly 3 h 59 in the saddle. The stops in between: Dacian Fortresses of the Orastie Mountains, Pianu de Jos - Muncelu-Lăutaorea and back through Dacian Fortresses of the Orastie Mountains. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,400 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Târsa sits on a high plateau in the Șureanu mountains, in the same ring of hills that sheltered the Dacian kingdom's heart. The platoul, the plateau, is open grassland and forest edge at roughly a thousand metres or higher, the sort of place where shepherds still bring flocks in summer and the wind carries the sound of bells.
Read the complete Târsa - Platoul Târsa write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Târsa - Platoul Târsa is where the day begins. Next is Dacian Fortresses of the Orastie Mountains.
Two thousand years ago, on a ridge in the Orastie Mountains, a king built a capital whose walls were a puzzle that Roman engineers had to solve with blood. The Dacians were a people of the Carpathians, farmers, shepherds and ironworkers, who under their king Burebista and later Decebalus built a powerful state that frightened Rome. To protect it, they built a ring of stone fortresses on hilltops in these mountains, using a technique called murus dacicus, a wall of dressed stone blocks with a core of rubble and timber ties, which could stand up to attack. The six fortresses, including Sarmizegetusa Regia at the heart, Costesti and Blidaru, Luncani-Piatra Rosie and others, were listed by UNESCO in 1999.
Read the complete Dacian Fortresses of the Orastie Mountains write-up.
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Dacian Fortresses of the Orastie Mountains comes up about 49 km into the recorded legs. Next is Pianu de Jos - Muncelu-Lăutaorea.
High above the Sebeș and Cugir valleys, where the Șureanu foothills fold into long grassy shoulders, the Romans kept watch over the southern approaches to their province of Dacia. The name on the map, Muncelu-Lăutaorea, belongs to the ridge country above Pianu de Jos, and it is one of the many small frontier points that archaeologists have tied to the Roman defensive system here. Do not expect walls to lean on. What survives on these hilltops is usually a faint platform, a ditch you notice only when the light is low, and a view that explains everything about why a sentry was posted there.
Read the complete Pianu de Jos - Muncelu-Lăutaorea write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 115 km into the recorded legs you reach Pianu de Jos - Muncelu-Lăutaorea. Next is back through Dacian Fortresses of the Orastie Mountains.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Dacian Fortresses of the Orastie Mountains write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Dacian Fortresses of the Orastie Mountains, late in the day. Next is Târsa - Platoul Târsa.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Târsa - Platoul Târsa write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Târsa - Platoul Târsa. That is the ride.
Târsa - Platoul Târsa → Dacian Fortresses of the Orastie Mountains is 49 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Dacian Fortresses of the Orastie Mountains → Pianu de Jos - Muncelu-Lăutaorea is 66 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Pianu de Jos - Muncelu-Lăutaorea → back through Dacian Fortresses of the Orastie Mountains is 66 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Dacian Fortresses of the Orastie Mountains → Târsa - Platoul Târsa is 49 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.