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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125 km from Stârciu to Stârciu, about 3 h 04 of riding. The stops in between: Hurez - Cornul Vlașinului 1 & 2, Românași - Largiana / Cetate and back through Hurez - Cornul Vlașinului 1 & 2. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Dosu forest lies above Buciumi, in the hills where Sălaj starts rising toward the Meseș range. It is a working woodland, not a showpiece: beech and oak, a few hornbeam, tracks cut by loggers, and a floor that smells strongly of leaf mould after rain. If you stop and kill the engine, the quiet is very complete. Wild boar and roe deer use these slopes, and the ground along the verges is often turned up by the former.
Read the complete Buciumi - Pădurea Dosu write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Buciumi - Pădurea Dosu is where the day begins. Next is Hurez - Cornul Vlașinului 1 & 2.
Beyond Ciucea the mountains of Apuseni begin to close in. The Vlădeasa massif, which rises to nearly eighteen hundred metres to the south, is the high point of the range and a place of bare ridges, beech forest and deep valleys, with a mountain lake and cabins for hikers. The road from Cluj to Oradea runs through the valley of the Crișul Repede below it, and the hills on either side are cut with side valleys where small villages cling to the slopes.
Read the complete Hurez - Cornul Vlașinului 1 & 2 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Hurez - Cornul Vlașinului 1 & 2 comes up about 28 km into the recorded legs. Next is Românași - Largiana / Cetate.
At Românași, in the valley of the Agrij in Sălaj county, the outline of a Roman fort called Largiana can still be traced on a low rise above the village, its rectangle of ramparts and ditches softened by centuries of ploughing. It stood on the road that ran from Porolissum, the great frontier stronghold to the north, down towards Napoca, today's Cluj, and it housed an auxiliary unit guarding the approach to the Meseș mountains. Archaeologists have found inscriptions, coins and pottery here, and the site is part of the Dacian frontier listed by UNESCO in 2024.
Read the complete Românași - Largiana / Cetate write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 63 km into the recorded legs you reach Românași - Largiana / Cetate. Next is back through Hurez - Cornul Vlașinului 1 & 2.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hurez - Cornul Vlașinului 1 & 2 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Hurez - Cornul Vlașinului 1 & 2, late in the day. Next is Buciumi - Pădurea Dosu.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Buciumi - Pădurea Dosu write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Buciumi - Pădurea Dosu. That is the ride.
Buciumi - Pădurea Dosu → Hurez - Cornul Vlașinului 1 & 2 is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hurez - Cornul Vlașinului 1 & 2 → Românași - Largiana / Cetate is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Românași - Largiana / Cetate → back through Hurez - Cornul Vlașinului 1 & 2 is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hurez - Cornul Vlașinului 1 & 2 → Buciumi - Pădurea Dosu is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.