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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355 km from Săcuieu to Săcuieu, about 7 h 16 of riding. It goes by way of Agrij - Coasta Lată, Var - Dealul Tărăvăilor, Buciumi - Groapa Mare and Prodănești - Pe Șanț. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 800 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
This part of the ride is 52 km of Bologa - Măgura Bologii → 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 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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Agrij - Coasta Lată comes up about 52 km into the recorded legs. Next is Var - Dealul Tărăvăilor.
Dealul Tărăvăilor is a hill above the village of Var, near Creaca and Jibou, in Sălaj county, north-western Romania, and like many hilltops in this part of the country, it held a Roman watchtower on the frontier of the province of Dacia. The Limes Porolissensis, as the northern frontier is known, was a system of towers, forts and earthworks guarding the roads leading to the great fortress of Porolissum, and the towers were placed on hills with views over the valleys, so that signals could pass quickly along the line.
Read the complete Var - Dealul Tărăvăilor write-up.
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about 87 km into the recorded legs you reach Var - Dealul Tărăvăilor. Next is Buciumi - Groapa Mare.
At Buciumi the Romans built a proper fort, not just a tower. It was an auxiliary fort on the frontier of Dacia Porolissensis, a rectangle of earth and stone walls with corner towers and gates, big enough to house a unit of a few hundred men, and it stood on a spur overlooking the approaches from the north. Excavations in the twentieth century found barracks, a headquarters building and a bathhouse. The fort was part of the chain of installations along the Mes ridge, and in 2024 it was recognised by UNESCO as one of the sites of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire in Romania.
Read the complete Buciumi - Groapa Mare write-up.
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Buciumi - Groapa Mare, about halfway. Next is Prodănești - Pe Șanț.
"Pe Șanț" means on the ditch, and in Romanian hill country that word is nearly always a clue. A șanț is an earthwork, a trench or rampart, and the countryside of Sălaj holds many of them, from Roman-era frontier lines to medieval and prehistoric defences.
Read the complete Prodănești - Pe Șanț write-up.
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Prodănești - Pe Șanț sits at 138 km, about halfway. Next is back through Buciumi - Groapa Mare.
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Read the complete Buciumi - Groapa Mare write-up.
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back through Buciumi - Groapa Mare comes up about 216 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Var - Dealul Tărăvăilor.
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Read the complete Var - Dealul Tărăvăilor write-up.
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about 264 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Var - Dealul Tărăvăilor. Next is back through Agrij - Coasta Lată.
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Read the complete Agrij - Coasta Lată write-up.
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back through Agrij - Coasta Lată, 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 355 km.
Bologa - Măgura Bologii → Agrij - Coasta Lată is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Agrij - Coasta Lată → Var - Dealul Tărăvăilor is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Var - Dealul Tărăvăilor → Buciumi - Groapa Mare is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Buciumi - Groapa Mare → Prodănești - Pe Șanț is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Prodănești - Pe Șanț → back through Buciumi - Groapa Mare is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Buciumi - Groapa Mare → back through Var - Dealul Tărăvăilor is 48 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Var - Dealul Tărăvăilor → back through Agrij - Coasta Lată is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Agrij - Coasta Lată → Bologa - Măgura Bologii is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.