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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313 km from Buciumi to Buciumi, about 6 h 34 of riding. It goes by way of Ciglean - Vârful Cigleanului 2, Negreni - Poiana la Arbore, Cășeiu - Cetățele / Samvm Cășeiu -Samum and Dobricel - Vârful Lazului. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
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 is where the day begins. Next is Ciglean - Vârful Cigleanului 2.
The Roman province of Dacia had a northern frontier that ran along the hills of what is now Sălaj county, in north-western Romania, around the great fortress of Porolissum. Here the Limes was not a continuous wall but a network of watchtowers, small forts and earthworks set on hilltops with views over the valleys. Vârful Cigleanului, a hilltop near the village of Ciglean, close to Jibou, held one of these watchtowers, and the number in the name marks it as one of several in the area.
Read the complete Ciglean - Vârful Cigleanului 2 write-up.
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Ciglean - Vârful Cigleanului 2 comes up about 34 km into the recorded legs. Next is Negreni - Poiana la Arbore.
Somewhere in the hills of Sălaj county, between the villages of Lozna, Rus and Letca, a meadow called Poiana la Arbore, the clearing by the tree, marks one of the small Roman sites on the north-western frontier of Dacia. The name alone tells you what to expect: a glade, a ridge, perhaps a lone tree, and the faint traces of a watch post that once looked out over the Someş valley. The Frontiers of the Roman Empire listing in 2024 included many such places, and their value lies in the chain they form rather than in any single ruin.
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about 71 km into the recorded legs you reach Negreni - Poiana la Arbore. Next is Cășeiu - Cetățele / Samvm Cășeiu -Samum -.
On a terrace above the river Someș, near the village of Cășeiu, a few kilometres from Dej in northern Transylvania, the Romans built a fort they called Samum. It guarded the northern edge of their province of Dacia, which they conquered in the early second century after two hard wars against the Dacian king Decebalus. The fort controlled the valley and the routes into the province, and today its outline can still be traced in the fields, with low walls and earthworks where archaeologists have uncovered gates, towers and barracks. In 2024 the Dacian frontier was added to the UNESCO World Heritage list as part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire.
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Cășeiu - Cetățele / Samvm Cășeiu -Samum -, about halfway. Next is Dobricel - Vârful Lazului.
Spermezeu is the kind of place a road atlas barely notices: a commune of scattered villages in the hills of Bistrița-Năsăud, in northern Transylvania, between the upper Someș valley and the Țibleș mountains. The site of Dobricel, on the hilltop known as Vârful Lazului, is one of the many archaeological places recorded in the area, a high point above the valleys where traces of earlier inhabitants have been noted. There is not much to see without an archaeologist's eye, but the hilltop and the country around it are a good excuse for a ride through a region few foreigners ever visit.
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Dobricel - Vârful Lazului sits at 139 km, about halfway. Next is back through Cășeiu - Cetățele / Samvm Cășeiu -Samum -.
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back through Cășeiu - Cetățele / Samvm Cășeiu -Samum - comes up about 196 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Negreni - Poiana la Arbore.
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about 241 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Negreni - Poiana la Arbore. Next is back through Ciglean - Vârful Cigleanului 2.
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back through Ciglean - Vârful Cigleanului 2, late in the day. Next is Buciumi - Grădiște.
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The route ends here after 313 km.
Buciumi - Grădiște → Ciglean - Vârful Cigleanului 2 is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Ciglean - Vârful Cigleanului 2 → Negreni - Poiana la Arbore is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Negreni - Poiana la Arbore → Cășeiu - Cetățele / Samvm Cășeiu -Samum - is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cășeiu - Cetățele / Samvm Cășeiu -Samum - → Dobricel - Vârful Lazului is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Dobricel - Vârful Lazului → back through Cășeiu - Cetățele / Samvm Cășeiu -Samum - is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cășeiu - Cetățele / Samvm Cășeiu -Samum - → back through Negreni - Poiana la Arbore is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Negreni - Poiana la Arbore → back through Ciglean - Vârful Cigleanului 2 is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Ciglean - Vârful Cigleanului 2 → Buciumi - Grădiște is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.