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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218 km from Negrilești to Negrilești, about 4 h 26 of riding. It goes by way of Guga - Vârful Țâglii, Rogna - La Bontauă, Tihău - Grădiște and back through Rogna - La Bontauă. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Ciceu-Poieni is a scattered village in the hills of Bistrița-Năsăud county, with the ruins of Ciceu fortress somewhere in the story. The stronghold stood on a hilltop here, and in the fifteenth century Hungary's King Matthias Corvinus granted it, along with Cetatea de Baltă, to the Moldavian prince Stephen the Great, which tied this remote corner of Transylvania to Moldavia's fortunes for decades. Today little remains but crumbling walls and a good view, but the history gives the hills a certain weight.
Read the complete Ciceu-Poieni - Fața Carpenului 3 write-up.
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Ciceu-Poieni - Fața Carpenului 3 is where the day begins. Next is Guga - Vârful Țâglii.
Rugășești, Vad and Poiana Blenchii are the kind of villages most people drive past on the way to somewhere else, and that is precisely the charm of the hills that rise between them. The point marked as Guga, Vârful Țâglii, lies on this rolling country north of the Someș, roughly a dozen kilometres from Dej, in the band of land where Rome drew the northern edge of Dacia. A summit called Țâglii is the sort of place where a watchtower would have looked out across the Someș corridor toward the free tribes beyond, and the archaeological lists record a frontier site here.
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Guga - Vârful Țâglii comes up about 47 km into the recorded legs. Next is Rogna - La Bontauă.
Rogna is a scatter of farms in the hills of northern Sălaj, close to the Someș valley and the border with Maramureș, and La Bontauă is the name the locals give to a piece of high ground where a Roman frontier site has been recorded. The northern edge of Roman Dacia ran through these hills, and the Romans placed watchtowers and small forts on high points to keep an eye on the river valleys and the free Dacians to the north. Today there is little to see apart from the shape of the land, but the view over the rolling hills makes it easy to imagine a sentry looking out across the valley.
Read the complete Rogna - La Bontauă write-up.
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about 77 km into the recorded legs you reach Rogna - La Bontauă. Next is Tihău - Grădiște.
The Someș river makes its way through the hills of north-western Romania between Cluj and Baia Mare, and near the small town of Jibou, in Sălaj county, it passes through a narrow valley guarded on its slopes by the remains of a Roman fort. The site, known locally as Grădiște, which simply means old fort, lies above the village of Tihău, close to Surduc and Gâlgău Almașului.
Read the complete Tihău - Grădiște write-up.
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Tihău - Grădiște, about halfway. Next is back through Rogna - La Bontauă.
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Read the complete Rogna - La Bontauă write-up.
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back through Rogna - La Bontauă sits at 111 km, about halfway. Next is back through Guga - Vârful Țâglii.
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Read the complete Guga - Vârful Țâglii write-up.
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back through Guga - Vârful Țâglii comes up about 170 km into the recorded legs. Next is Ciceu-Poieni - Fața Carpenului 3.
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Read the complete Ciceu-Poieni - Fața Carpenului 3 write-up.
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Ciceu-Poieni - Fața Carpenului 3 closes the day.
Ciceu-Poieni - Fața Carpenului 3 → Guga - Vârful Țâglii is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Guga - Vârful Țâglii → Rogna - La Bontauă is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Rogna - La Bontauă → Tihău - Grădiște is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Tihău - Grădiște → back through Rogna - La Bontauă is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Rogna - La Bontauă → back through Guga - Vârful Țâglii is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Guga - Vârful Țâglii → Ciceu-Poieni - Fața Carpenului 3 is 48 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.