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 264 km round trip from Mirşid - roughly 5 h 33 in the saddle. On the way it passes Agrij - Osoiul Ciontului 2, Vânători - Dealul Cocinilor, Gilău - Dealul Cetății and back through Vânători - Dealul Cocinilor. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 950 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
Most people who know the Roman Empire think of Hadrian's Wall or the Rhine, but there was also a Roman frontier in the hills of north-western Transylvania, and this is part of it. The province of Dacia Porolissensis was guarded by a line of forts and wooden watchtowers on ridge tops, and the great fort and customs station at Porolissum, at Moigrad, was its centre. UNESCO added the Dacia Porolissensis frontier to its listing of Roman frontiers in 2024. Brebi lies close to Porolissum, and the ridge called Dealul Mare gives a sense of why the Romans chose these hills: wide views over the valleys and the approaches from the north.
Read the complete Brebi - Dealul Mare 3 write-up.
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Brebi - Dealul Mare 3 is where the day begins. Next is Agrij - Osoiul Ciontului 2.
The Meseș hills are a long, wooded ridge in northwestern Romania, and for the Romans they were the edge of the world. Beyond them lay the free Dacians and the peoples of the great plain; on this side lay the province of Dacia, conquered by Trajan in the early second century. The valley of the Agrij river, which runs along the southern side of the ridge in Sălaj county, is dotted with archaeological sites, and Osoiul Ciontului is one of many places in the area where traces of ancient settlement have been recorded. There may be little to see at the spot itself, but the landscape around it is rich in history and quiet beauty.
Read the complete Agrij - Osoiul Ciontului 2 write-up.
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Agrij - Osoiul Ciontului 2 comes up about 26 km into the recorded legs. Next is Vânători - Dealul Cocinilor.
The hill of Dealul Cocinilor rises above the valley of the Crișul Repede near Ciucea, on the western edge of Cluj county, and it marks another point on the Roman frontier of Dacia, this time in the Meseș mountains, where the limes ran along the hills protecting the province of Dacia Porolissensis. The watchtowers here guarded the approaches from the west and north, and from the hilltop you can still see why: the valley below is a natural corridor, used by traders, armies and travellers for thousands of years.
Read the complete Vânători - Dealul Cocinilor write-up.
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about 65 km into the recorded legs you reach Vânători - Dealul Cocinilor. Next is Gilău - Dealul Cetății.
Gilau sits where the flat plain of the Somesul Mic river meets the first hills of the Apuseni mountains, about fifteen kilometres west of Cluj-Napoca, in Transylvania, and the hill called Dealul Cetatii, which simply means Fortress Hill, rises almost on the edge of the town, about a kilometre away. The town has nearly eight thousand people, and from the road you can see the high, forested ridges of the Apuseni to the west.
Read the complete Gilău - Dealul Cetății write-up.
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Gilău - Dealul Cetății, about halfway. Next is back through Vânători - Dealul Cocinilor.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Vânători - Dealul Cocinilor write-up.
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back through Vânători - Dealul Cocinilor sits at 144 km, about halfway. Next is back through Agrij - Osoiul Ciontului 2.
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Read the complete Agrij - Osoiul Ciontului 2 write-up.
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back through Agrij - Osoiul Ciontului 2 comes up about 237 km into the recorded legs. Next is Brebi - Dealul Mare 3.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Brebi - Dealul Mare 3 write-up.
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Brebi - Dealul Mare 3 closes the day.
Brebi - Dealul Mare 3 → Agrij - Osoiul Ciontului 2 is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Agrij - Osoiul Ciontului 2 → Vânători - Dealul Cocinilor is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Vânători - Dealul Cocinilor → Gilău - Dealul Cetății is 65 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Gilău - Dealul Cetății → back through Vânători - Dealul Cocinilor is 68 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Vânători - Dealul Cocinilor → back through Agrij - Osoiul Ciontului 2 is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Agrij - Osoiul Ciontului 2 → Brebi - Dealul Mare 3 is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.