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 142 km round trip from Oţelu Roşu - roughly 2 h 54 in the saddle. On the way it passes Iaz Tibiscum / Satu Bătrân, Teregova - La Hideg and back through Iaz Tibiscum / Satu Bătrân. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,050 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Zăvoi lies in the valley of the Bistra, a river running east to west between the Poiana Ruscă mountains to the north and the Țarcu range to the south, and for most riders it is a waypoint on one of the best roads in western Romania: the old route from Caransebeș in the Banat over the Iron Gate of Transylvania to Hațeg and the Roman capital of Dacia at Sarmizegetusa. The Romans used this corridor too. The road between their fort at Tibiscum, near Caransebeș, and the colony of Ulpia Traiana Sarmizegetusa passed through the valley, and Agnaviae was a station along it, where travellers and couriers stopped to rest. Today little remains above ground, but the line of the valley is unchanged.
Read the complete Zăvoi - Agnaviae / Balta Neagră-Fânețe write-up.
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Zăvoi - Agnaviae / Balta Neagră-Fânețe is where the day begins. Next is Iaz Tibiscum / Satu Bătrân.
Where the Bistra and Timiș rivers meet, the Romans built one of the more important towns in their province of Dacia. Tibiscum, near the village of Jupa, grew from a fort into a sizeable settlement, and the low foundations, streets and bath remains can still be walked today with a small museum alongside. Iaz and Satu Bătrân are the neighbouring places on the map, and the whole district sits in the Caransebeș basin, hemmed in by the Țarcu and Semenic mountains.
Read the complete Iaz Tibiscum / Satu Bătrân write-up.
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Iaz Tibiscum / Satu Bătrân comes up about 30 km into the recorded legs. Next is Teregova - La Hideg.
Teregova is a village in the narrow corridor between the Banat mountains and the Țarcu range in western Romania, where the Timiș river flows north toward the plain and a low pass leads south to the Cerna and the Danube. This corridor has been a route since ancient times: the Roman road from Dierna, on the Danube, to Tibiscum, near Caransebeș, ran through here, linking the river crossing with the heart of the province of Dacia. La Hideg is a local place name near the village, and the point is listed among the sites of the Roman frontier of Dacia, the UNESCO site recognised in 2024. As with many such sites, the remains may be hard to spot, but the logic of the location is clear.
Read the complete Teregova - La Hideg write-up.
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about 69 km into the recorded legs you reach Teregova - La Hideg. Next is back through Iaz Tibiscum / Satu Bătrân.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Iaz Tibiscum / Satu Bătrân write-up.
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back through Iaz Tibiscum / Satu Bătrân, late in the day. Next is Zăvoi - Agnaviae / Balta Neagră-Fânețe.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Zăvoi - Agnaviae / Balta Neagră-Fânețe write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Zăvoi - Agnaviae / Balta Neagră-Fânețe. That is the ride.
Zăvoi - Agnaviae / Balta Neagră-Fânețe → Iaz Tibiscum / Satu Bătrân is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Iaz Tibiscum / Satu Bătrân → Teregova - La Hideg is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Teregova - La Hideg → back through Iaz Tibiscum / Satu Bătrân is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Iaz Tibiscum / Satu Bătrân → Zăvoi - Agnaviae / Balta Neagră-Fânețe is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.