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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From Bistriţa it runs 193 km to Bistriţa; allow about 4 h 22 of riding. It goes by way of Șintereag - Dealul Oului, Dobricel - Vârful Lazului, Chiuiești - Dealul Podului and back through Dobricel - Vârful Lazului. The line favours views over speed.
Bram Stoker sent Jonathan Harker to Bistritz, and the town of Bistrița, just a few kilometres from here, has never quite escaped the vampire. In the novel, Harker spends a night at the Golden Krone hotel before setting off towards the Borgo Pass and Count Dracula's castle, and today the town has a hotel of that name and the pass a hotel built to look like a castle. The real history is more interesting. Bistrița was one of the seven Saxon cities that gave Transylvania its German name, Siebenbürgen, a rich trading town with a big Gothic church, arcaded merchants' houses and a ring of walls, much of which has been lost.
Read the complete Budacu de Jos - Dealul Cetății 1 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Budacu de Jos - Dealul Cetății 1 is where the day begins. Next is Șintereag - Dealul Oului.
Egg Hill, Dealul Oului, is a gentle rise near the village of Șintereag in Bistrița-Năsăud, and the Romans used it as a watch post on the north-eastern frontier of Dacia. Like the other sites in this area, it is part of the frontier listed by UNESCO in 2024, and like many of them, it is more a place to imagine than to see: a low hill, a few traces in the ground, a wide view over the valley of the Șieu and the hills toward Bistrița. Șintereag, a village of a few thousand, lies close by, with Șieu-Odorhei and Cociu as neighbours.
Read the complete Șintereag - Dealul Oului write-up.
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Șintereag - Dealul Oului comes up about 27 km into the recorded legs. 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.
Read the complete Dobricel - Vârful Lazului write-up.
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about 56 km into the recorded legs you reach Dobricel - Vârful Lazului. Next is Chiuiești - Dealul Podului.
The hills above the Someș valley northeast of Dej roll away in long green waves, and the commune of Chiuiești sprawls across them in a scatter of hamlets, each tucked into its own fold of land. Dealul Podului, the Hill of the Bridge, is one of the ridges where traces of a Roman watchtower have been found, part of the chain of observation points that guarded the northern frontier of Dacia. The frontier was not a wall but a network of forts, towers and roads, and the Romans placed their towers where they could see far across the valleys and signal to one another. The site is one of the components of the World Heritage site of the Dacian frontier, although on the ground you will see little more than the shape of the hill and perhaps a low mound.
Read the complete Chiuiești - Dealul Podului write-up.
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Chiuiești - Dealul Podului, about halfway. Next is back through Dobricel - Vârful Lazului.
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Read the complete Dobricel - Vârful Lazului write-up.
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back through Dobricel - Vârful Lazului sits at 105 km, about halfway. Next is back through Șintereag - Dealul Oului.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Șintereag - Dealul Oului write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Șintereag - Dealul Oului comes up about 167 km into the recorded legs. Next is Budacu de Jos - Dealul Cetății 1.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Budacu de Jos - Dealul Cetății 1 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Budacu de Jos - Dealul Cetății 1 closes the day.
Budacu de Jos - Dealul Cetății 1 → Șintereag - Dealul Oului is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Șintereag - Dealul Oului → Dobricel - Vârful Lazului is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Dobricel - Vârful Lazului → Chiuiești - Dealul Podului is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Chiuiești - Dealul Podului → back through Dobricel - Vârful Lazului is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Dobricel - Vârful Lazului → back through Șintereag - Dealul Oului is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Șintereag - Dealul Oului → Budacu de Jos - Dealul Cetății 1 is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.