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 220 km round trip from Românaşi - roughly 4 h 31 in the saddle. It goes by way of Buciumi - Grădiște, Poieni - Horhiș, Gilău - Dealul Cetății and back through Poieni - Horhiș. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 950 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
Zalău is the county town of Sălaj, a modern small city of about sixty thousand people that grew fast in the communist period, and the countryside around it is far more interesting than the blocks of flats. Brusturi, a few kilometres off, sits in the hills that lead up toward the Meseş mountains, and the name on our list points to a Roman fort called Certiae, one of the line of military posts that kept watch on the northern edge of Dacia, along with a ruin the locals link with an old legend of robbers.
Read the complete Brusturi - Certiae / LaTâlhăroasei Ruine write-up.
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Brusturi - Certiae / LaTâlhăroasei Ruine is where the day begins. 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 comes up about 21 km into the recorded legs. Next is Poieni - Horhiș.
The Crisul Repede is the river that cuts through the Apuseni Mountains in north-western Romania, and it carries the main road and the railway between Cluj and Oradea along its valley. Poieni and Horhis lie on the hills just above this corridor, in the zone where the great bulk of the Apuseni gives way to lower, rolling farmland. Ciucea, down in the valley, is the nearest village of any size, and is known for a small castle that once belonged to Octavian Goga, a Romanian poet who briefly served as prime minister in the 1930s. He is buried there, and the house is now a museum.
Read the complete Poieni - Horhiș write-up.
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about 55 km into the recorded legs you reach Poieni - Horhiș. 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 Poieni - Horhiș.
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Read the complete Poieni - Horhiș write-up.
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back through Poieni - Horhiș sits at 142 km, about halfway. Next is back through Buciumi - Grădiște.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Buciumi - Grădiște write-up.
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back through Buciumi - Grădiște comes up about 199 km into the recorded legs. Next is Brusturi - Certiae / LaTâlhăroasei Ruine.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Brusturi - Certiae / LaTâlhăroasei Ruine write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Brusturi - Certiae / LaTâlhăroasei Ruine closes the day.
Brusturi - Certiae / LaTâlhăroasei Ruine → Buciumi - Grădiște is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Buciumi - Grădiște → Poieni - Horhiș is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Poieni - Horhiș → Gilău - Dealul Cetății is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Gilău - Dealul Cetății → back through Poieni - Horhiș is 55 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Poieni - Horhiș → back through Buciumi - Grădiște is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Buciumi - Grădiște → Brusturi - Certiae / LaTâlhăroasei Ruine is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.