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 267 km round trip from Poiana Blenchii - roughly 5 h 24 in the saddle. On the way it passes Salva - Roata lui Todoran, Vătava - Cetățele and back through Salva - Roata lui Todoran. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Căpâlna sits in the Someș country northwest of Dej, in a landscape of long, rounded hills that the Transylvanian plateau does so well. Orchards, hayfields and small woods climb the slopes, villages sit where streams meet, and the horizon always seems to hold another soft ridge.
Read the complete Căpâlna - Hotroapă write-up.
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Căpâlna - Hotroapă is where the day begins. Next is Salva - Roata lui Todoran.
Salva is a railway village. Trains for the Maramureș line split off here from the route along the Someșul Mare, and the place has a slightly busy, crossroads feel for a commune of a little over four thousand people. The site called Roata lui Todoran, Todoran's wheel, sits right by the village in the Năsăud country of Bistrița-Năsăud, a region that marked the northern edge of Roman Dacia and later formed part of a Habsburg border regiment. Few places in Transylvania have been a frontier for quite so long.
Read the complete Salva - Roata lui Todoran write-up.
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Salva - Roata lui Todoran comes up about 64 km into the recorded legs. Next is Vătava - Cetățele.
For about a century and a half, the Roman province of Dacia was a wedge of empire pushed north of the Danube, and its eastern edge ran along the curve of the Carpathians through what is now central Romania. In 2024, UNESCO added the frontiers of the Roman Empire in Dacia to its list, a long chain of forts, watchtowers and earthworks. Vătava, in the upper Mureș valley, is one of the sites, with traces of a Roman fortification on a hill called Cetățele, the little fortresses. Not much is visible to the casual eye: earthworks, a few stones, the outline of a position chosen for its view along the valley.
Read the complete Vătava - Cetățele write-up.
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about 133 km into the recorded legs you reach Vătava - Cetățele. Next is back through Salva - Roata lui Todoran.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Salva - Roata lui Todoran write-up.
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back through Salva - Roata lui Todoran, late in the day. Next is Căpâlna - Hotroapă.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Căpâlna - Hotroapă write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Căpâlna - Hotroapă. That is the ride.
Căpâlna - Hotroapă → Salva - Roata lui Todoran is 64 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Salva - Roata lui Todoran → Vătava - Cetățele is 69 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Vătava - Cetățele → back through Salva - Roata lui Todoran is 69 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Salva - Roata lui Todoran → Căpâlna - Hotroapă is 64 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.