The Sineu lattice

Mallorca route guide · Pla de Mallorca

Riding The Sineu lattice

Sineu sits at the middle of the Pla and eight roads leave it; this ride takes the ones the catalogue never used. The Ma-3231 cuts the diagonal from Lloret to Sant Joan, the camí vell de Sineu a Algaida crosses the grain of the plain, the camí de Santa Margalida runs out east of the town and the Ma-3241 climbs to the plaça at Costitx. Flat, walled, and quiet enough that the loudest thing is your own freehub.

This is a true 65.9 km circuit: the road closes naturally rather than using an artificial turnaround.

The route is read through settlement edges: narrow streets, rooflines, roundabouts, church towers, old road alignments, and the moment the built fabric releases the rider back into open country.

Captured in muntro

Relief, gradient, and how to pace it

The elevation trace is rolling rather than alpine, spanning 120 m from low point to high point. There is 581 m of total ascent, enough to reward measured pressure over the rises without turning the whole route into a survival exercise.

Ride the early gradients a shade below the effort you think you can hold. The broken rhythm rewards cadence changes and short, controlled pressure rather than repeated spikes above threshold.

Points to watch for

The best Mallorca routes are remembered as a sequence of places, not as a GPX line. These are the changes of scene that organise this ride.

1. 01

   Sineu

   The route rolls away from Sineu, giving you a few minutes to find cadence and read the road ahead.

2. 02

   Lloret

   Lloret is one of the route’s defining changes of scene and a useful marker for pacing the ride.

3. 03

   Sant Joan

   Sant Joan is one of the route’s defining changes of scene and a useful marker for pacing the ride.

4. 04

   Costitx

   Costitx is one of the route’s defining changes of scene and a useful marker for pacing the ride.

5. 05

   194 m high point

   At 194 m high point, the elevation trace reaches its ceiling before the road releases the height it has earned.

Why this road works indoors

muntro does not flatten the Sineu lattice into a workout backdrop. The route’s bends, height, and junction order come from the road itself, while a compatible trainer reproduces the changing gradient under your pedals.

Because the course closes naturally, it works especially well for repeated laps, steady endurance rides, and comparing the same decisions under fatigue.