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 327 km round trip from Săcuieu - roughly 6 h 08 in the saddle. It goes by way of Mirșid - Dealul Mare 1, Căpâlna - Hotroapă and back through Mirșid - Dealul Mare 1. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 800 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Bologa - Măgura Bologii is where the day begins. Next is Mirșid - Dealul Mare 1.
Mirsid is the kind of village you pass on the way somewhere else, until you notice that it sits at the foot of the greatest Roman frontier in Transylvania. The ridge of the Meses mountains rises behind it in a long, dark line of beech and oak, and the Romans built a series of watchtowers along the crest, looking north across the border into the lands of the free Dacians. The name Dealul Mare, Big Hill, with the number one attached, suggests the first in a sequence of those lookout points, and in a few of them you can still make out the square footprint of a tower in the grass.
Read the complete Mirșid - Dealul Mare 1 write-up.
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Mirșid - Dealul Mare 1 comes up about 80 km into the recorded legs. Next is Căpâlna - Hotroapă.
Căpâlna sits in the Someș country northwest of Dej, in a landscape of long, rounded hills that the Transylvanian plateau does so well. Orchards, hayfields and small woods climb the slopes, villages sit where streams meet, and the horizon always seems to hold another soft ridge.
Read the complete Căpâlna - Hotroapă write-up.
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about 163 km into the recorded legs you reach Căpâlna - Hotroapă. Next is back through Mirșid - Dealul Mare 1.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Mirșid - Dealul Mare 1 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Mirșid - Dealul Mare 1, late in the day. Next is Bologa - Măgura Bologii.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Bologa - Măgura Bologii write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Bologa - Măgura Bologii. That is the ride.
Bologa - Măgura Bologii → Mirșid - Dealul Mare 1 is 80 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Mirșid - Dealul Mare 1 → Căpâlna - Hotroapă is 83 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Căpâlna - Hotroapă → back through Mirșid - Dealul Mare 1 is 83 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Mirșid - Dealul Mare 1 → Bologa - Măgura Bologii is 81 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.