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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203 km from Săcuieu to Săcuieu, about 4 h 27 of riding. On the way it passes Hurez - Poic, Agrij - Coasta Lată, Românași - Largiana / Cetate and Buciumi - Grădiște. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 800 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
22 km on Hurez - Poic → Agrij - Coasta Lată.
Bologa is a village in the valley of the Crișul Repede, the swift river that flows west from the hills of Cluj county towards Oradea and the Hungarian plain. On the hill above it, known as Măgura Bologii, lie the remains of a castle that once guarded the valley, and in the fields nearby are the traces of a Roman fort, built to protect the north western edge of the province of Dacia. The fort, known in antiquity as Resculum, is part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire, Dacia, listed by UNESCO in 2024, a line of forts, watchtowers and walls that ran along the edge of the Roman province from the second to the third century.
Read the complete Bologa - Măgura Bologii write-up.
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Bologa - Măgura Bologii is where the day begins. Next is Hurez - Poic.
Ciucea is the first place to know before you ride into Hurez, because the road from Cluj to Oradea passes through it and the poet Octavian Goga lived and died there. Goga, one of the voices of Transylvanian Romanian nationalism, served briefly as prime minister in 1937 and 1938, and the castle at Ciucea, where he spent his later years, is now a memorial museum. It sits in a small park above the road, with a view of the green hills of the Apuseni mountains, and Goga's grave is nearby.
Read the complete Hurez - Poic write-up.
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Hurez - Poic comes up about 26 km into the recorded legs. Next is Agrij - Coasta Lată.
The Meseș mountains are a modest ridge by Carpathian standards, but for the Romans they were a natural wall, and they built their frontier along it. The north-western edge of Dacia ran along these hills, with forts, watchtowers and walls guarding the passes from the plains of the Barbaricum beyond. Agrij - Coasta Lată, near the villages of Stârciu, Buciumi and Meseșenii de Jos, is one of the watchtower sites named in the World Heritage inscription of 2024. Nearby, at Buciumi, are the remains of a fort, and a little further north, at Moigrad, lies Porolissum, the largest Roman site in the region, with a reconstructed gate.
Read the complete Agrij - Coasta Lată write-up.
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about 48 km into the recorded legs you reach Agrij - Coasta Lată. Next is Românași - Largiana / Cetate.
At Românași, in the valley of the Agrij in Sălaj county, the outline of a Roman fort called Largiana can still be traced on a low rise above the village, its rectangle of ramparts and ditches softened by centuries of ploughing. It stood on the road that ran from Porolissum, the great frontier stronghold to the north, down towards Napoca, today's Cluj, and it housed an auxiliary unit guarding the approach to the Meseș mountains. Archaeologists have found inscriptions, coins and pottery here, and the site is part of the Dacian frontier listed by UNESCO in 2024.
Read the complete Românași - Largiana / Cetate write-up.
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Românași - Largiana / Cetate, about halfway. Next is Buciumi - Grădiște.
Buciumi has a Roman fort, and a proper one. On a low hill above the village, the outline of a rectangular auxiliary fort has been excavated, with walls, gates and the foundations of the buildings inside, laid out to the standard Roman pattern with the headquarters in the middle and barracks to either side. It was one of the forts guarding the road and the passes of the Meseş mountains, a few kilometres from the larger fortress and town at Porolissum, and it held a unit of auxiliary troops, soldiers recruited from the provinces rather than citizen legionaries.
Read the complete Buciumi - Grădiște write-up.
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Buciumi - Grădiște sits at 71 km, about halfway. Next is back through Românași - Largiana / Cetate.
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Read the complete Românași - Largiana / Cetate write-up.
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back through Românași - Largiana / Cetate comes up about 122 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Agrij - Coasta Lată.
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Read the complete Agrij - Coasta Lată write-up.
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about 143 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Agrij - Coasta Lată. Next is back through Hurez - Poic.
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Read the complete Hurez - Poic write-up.
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back through Hurez - Poic, late in the day. Next is Bologa - Măgura Bologii.
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Read the complete Bologa - Măgura Bologii write-up.
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The route ends here after 203 km.
Bologa - Măgura Bologii → Hurez - Poic is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hurez - Poic → Agrij - Coasta Lată is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Agrij - Coasta Lată → Românași - Largiana / Cetate is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Românași - Largiana / Cetate → Buciumi - Grădiște is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Buciumi - Grădiște → back through Românași - Largiana / Cetate is 23 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Românași - Largiana / Cetate → back through Agrij - Coasta Lată is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Agrij - Coasta Lată → back through Hurez - Poic is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hurez - Poic → Bologa - Măgura Bologii is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.