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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220 km from Jibou to Jibou, about 4 h 29 of riding. On the way it passes Preluci - Piatra Prelucilor 1, Gâlgău - Valea Strâmturei, Dumbrăveni - Dealul Podului 1 and back through Gâlgău - Valea Strâmturei. The line favours views over speed.
Vârful Cigleanului is a hilltop above the Someș valley in Sălaj, in that mild, folded part of northwestern Romania where the land rises in wooded ridges toward the Meseș mountains. The name simply means the peak of the Ciglean, and like many hill labels in Transylvania it points to an old vantage point more than a famous summit. The ground is orchard and pasture on the lower slopes, oak and beech on the higher, and on a clear day the view runs along the river toward Jibou.
Read the complete Ciglean - Vârful Cigleanului 1 write-up.
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Ciglean - Vârful Cigleanului 1 is where the day begins. Next is Preluci - Piatra Prelucilor 1.
Preluci is the sort of place that does not appear in guidebooks and does not seem to mind. The name on the stop points to a stone, a crag or outcrop above the village, and the ride starts and ends here, which gives you a good excuse to look at it properly before you go. The country around is the Sălaj hill belt where it nudges toward the Someș valley, a mix of oak and beech forest, pasture, and villages strung along small streams.
Read the complete Preluci - Piatra Prelucilor 1 write-up.
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Preluci - Piatra Prelucilor 1 comes up about 29 km into the recorded legs. Next is Gâlgău - Valea Strâmturei.
Strâmtură means a narrowing, and the name fits. Just outside Gâlgău, a small Sălaj village on the Someș, the valley pinches between wooded slopes, and the Roman frontier made use of exactly such pinch points to control movement along the river. The site listed as Valea Strâmturei belongs to that northern Dacian line, and like most of its neighbours it is earthwork and setting rather than standing masonry. You come for the geography and the sense of a border that ran through these quiet hills nearly two thousand years ago.
Read the complete Gâlgău - Valea Strâmturei write-up.
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about 70 km into the recorded legs you reach Gâlgău - Valea Strâmturei. Next is Dumbrăveni - Dealul Podului 1.
The northern edge of Roman Dacia was a long line of watchtowers, small forts and earthworks drawn across the hills of what is now northern Transylvania, and Dealul Podului, the bridge hill, near Dumbrăveni, was one of the points along it. Watchtowers here kept an eye on the valleys that led north from the province, toward the lands of the free Dacians and other peoples beyond the frontier, and their remains, now mostly low earthworks in the fields and forest, are part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire listing for Dacia, added by UNESCO in 2024.
Read the complete Dumbrăveni - Dealul Podului 1 write-up.
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Dumbrăveni - Dealul Podului 1, about halfway. Next is back through Gâlgău - Valea Strâmturei.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Gâlgău - Valea Strâmturei write-up.
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back through Gâlgău - Valea Strâmturei sits at 107 km, about halfway. Next is back through Preluci - Piatra Prelucilor 1.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Preluci - Piatra Prelucilor 1 write-up.
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back through Preluci - Piatra Prelucilor 1 comes up about 191 km into the recorded legs. Next is Ciglean - Vârful Cigleanului 1.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Ciglean - Vârful Cigleanului 1 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Ciglean - Vârful Cigleanului 1 closes the day.
Ciglean - Vârful Cigleanului 1 → Preluci - Piatra Prelucilor 1 is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Preluci - Piatra Prelucilor 1 → Gâlgău - Valea Strâmturei is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Gâlgău - Valea Strâmturei → Dumbrăveni - Dealul Podului 1 is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Dumbrăveni - Dealul Podului 1 → back through Gâlgău - Valea Strâmturei is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Gâlgău - Valea Strâmturei → back through Preluci - Piatra Prelucilor 1 is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Preluci - Piatra Prelucilor 1 → Ciglean - Vârful Cigleanului 1 is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.