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 159 km round trip from Voinești - roughly 4 h 04 in the saddle. The stops in between: Rucăr - Scărișoara, Codrul secular Șinca and back through Rucăr - Scărișoara. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,300 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
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 is where the day begins. 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 comes up about 20 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 80 km into the recorded legs you reach Codrul secular Șinca. Next is back through Rucăr - Scărișoara.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Rucăr - Scărișoara write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Rucăr - Scărișoara, late in the day. Next is Voinești - Măilătoaia.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Voinești - Măilătoaia write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Voinești - Măilătoaia. That is the ride.
Voinești - Măilătoaia → Rucăr - Scărișoara is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Rucăr - Scărișoara → Codrul secular Șinca is 60 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Codrul secular Șinca → back through Rucăr - Scărișoara is 60 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Rucăr - Scărișoara → Voinești - Măilătoaia is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.