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 Poiana Blenchii it runs 209 km to Poiana Blenchii; allow about 4 h 12 of riding. It goes by way of Negreni - Dealul Hoancelor, Tihău - Dealul Cucului, Zalău - Deasupra Șesurilor Tâlhăroasei and back through Tihău - Dealul Cucului. The line favours views over speed.
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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Căpâlna - Hotroapă is where the day begins. Next is Negreni - Dealul Hoancelor.
A ridge called Dealul Hoancelor does not make it onto many maps, and the place is better understood from the landscape around it. This is the country of the Someș river in the north of Transylvania, between the Meseș mountains in the west and the hills of the Transylvanian plain to the east, and the valleys are broad, green and thickly farmed. The nearest places on our list are tiny villages, Lozna and Letca, and the closest town, Jibou, is about twenty kilometres away.
Read the complete Negreni - Dealul Hoancelor write-up.
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Negreni - Dealul Hoancelor comes up about 40 km into the recorded legs. Next is Tihău - Dealul Cucului.
Dealul Cucului means cuckoo hill, and the name fits the place: a low, wooded rise above the village of Tihău, close to the town of Jibou in the Someș valley of Sălaj county, where in spring the cuckoo's call echoes across the meadows. The point belongs to the network of archaeological sites along the Roman frontier of Dacia in the northwest of the province, near the confluence of the Almaș and Someș rivers, a strategic spot where valleys meet and roads cross. As with many of these sites, there may be little to see on the surface, but the location makes sense once you look at the map.
Read the complete Tihău - Dealul Cucului write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 71 km into the recorded legs you reach Tihău - Dealul Cucului. Next is Zalău - Deasupra Șesurilor Tâlhăroasei.
The Meseș mountains rise to the west of Zalău like a long green wall, and they formed the natural western boundary of Roman Dacia in this region. Along their crest and on the slopes above the plains, the Romans built a line of watchtowers, and the site above the fields with the evocative name of Șesurile Tâlhăroasei, roughly the robbers' flats, near the villages of Treznea and Aghireș, is one of them. It is part of the Dacian frontier on the World Heritage list. Up in the forest the remains are modest, but the position, high on a slope with a view over the valley, shows how the frontier used every advantage of the terrain.
Read the complete Zalău - Deasupra Șesurilor Tâlhăroasei write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Zalău - Deasupra Șesurilor Tâlhăroasei, about halfway. Next is back through Tihău - Dealul Cucului.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Tihău - Dealul Cucului write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Tihău - Dealul Cucului sits at 103 km, about halfway. Next is back through Negreni - Dealul Hoancelor.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Negreni - Dealul Hoancelor write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Negreni - Dealul Hoancelor comes up about 168 km into the recorded legs. 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.
Căpâlna - Hotroapă closes the day.
Căpâlna - Hotroapă → Negreni - Dealul Hoancelor is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Negreni - Dealul Hoancelor → Tihău - Dealul Cucului is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Tihău - Dealul Cucului → Zalău - Deasupra Șesurilor Tâlhăroasei is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Zalău - Deasupra Șesurilor Tâlhăroasei → back through Tihău - Dealul Cucului is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Tihău - Dealul Cucului → back through Negreni - Dealul Hoancelor is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Negreni - Dealul Hoancelor → Căpâlna - Hotroapă is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.