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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405 km from Jibou to Jibou, about 8 h 29 of riding. On the way it passes Cormeniș - Râpa Malului 1, Chiuiești - Dealul Crucii, Sita - Vârful Sitii and Livezile - Poderei. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
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 Cormeniș - Râpa Malului 1.
The Someș river cuts through the low hills of north-western Transylvania in a series of wide loops, and at Cormeniș, a small village in Sălaj county, it passes below a bank where the Romans placed one of their watchtowers. This was the northern edge of the province of Dacia Porolissensis, the frontier facing the free Dacian tribes beyond, and a line of towers and small forts ran along the hills, linked by signals and patrols. The site at Râpa Malului, the riverbank cliff, is one of the many components of the Dacian frontier listed by UNESCO in 2024. As so often on the Dacian limes, there is little to see apart from a slight rise in a field, but standing up there with the river below, you can easily imagine a small garrison watching the valley.
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Cormeniș - Râpa Malului 1 comes up about 39 km into the recorded legs. Next is Chiuiești - Dealul Crucii.
North of Dej, the Someș river winds through a land of soft hills, orchards and scattered villages, and on the ridges above it the Romans once kept watch over the northern frontier of their province of Dacia. Chiuiești, a commune of small villages spread across the hills, is one of the places where archaeologists have identified the remains of watchtowers on high points along the frontier, including one on the hill known as Dealul Crucii, the Hill of the Cross. Little survives above ground beyond low mounds and traces in the grass, but the sites are included in the World Heritage inscription of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire in Dacia, added in 2024.
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about 95 km into the recorded legs you reach Chiuiești - Dealul Crucii. Next is Sita - Vârful Sitii.
On a hilltop near the village of Spermezeu, in the Someș hills of Bistrița-Năsăud county in northern Romania, a small watchtower once stood guard over the northern edge of the Roman Empire. When the emperor Trajan conquered Dacia in the early second century, the Romans built a frontier around their new province, the Dacian limes, a chain of forts, watchtowers and earthworks running along the Carpathians and through the hills. Vârful Sitii, the summit of Sita, was one of the observation points, chosen because from here soldiers could watch the valleys to the north and send signals to the forts behind them.
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Sita - Vârful Sitii, about halfway. Next is Livezile - Poderei.
Leave Bistriţa eastwards on the DN17 and within minutes you are in Livezile, a long village strung out along the valley of the Bistriţa river where the Transylvanian hills start to bunch up towards the Eastern Carpathians. Poderei is the name of a hillside here where the Romans kept watch over the northern edge of their province of Dacia, and the site is one of the many small components of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire listed in Romania in 2024. There is nothing to visit in the sense of ruins; what you get is the hill, the view up the valley and the knowledge that legionaries stared at the same ridges.
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Livezile - Poderei sits at 149 km, about halfway. Next is back through Sita - Vârful Sitii.
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back through Sita - Vârful Sitii comes up about 256 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Chiuiești - Dealul Crucii.
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about 305 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Chiuiești - Dealul Crucii. Next is back through Cormeniș - Râpa Malului 1.
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back through Cormeniș - Râpa Malului 1, late in the day. Next is Ciglean - Vârful Cigleanului 1.
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The route ends here after 405 km.
Ciglean - Vârful Cigleanului 1 → Cormeniș - Râpa Malului 1 is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cormeniș - Râpa Malului 1 → Chiuiești - Dealul Crucii is 56 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Chiuiești - Dealul Crucii → Sita - Vârful Sitii is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Sita - Vârful Sitii → Livezile - Poderei is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Livezile - Poderei → back through Sita - Vârful Sitii is 55 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Sita - Vârful Sitii → back through Chiuiești - Dealul Crucii is 49 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Chiuiești - Dealul Crucii → back through Cormeniș - Râpa Malului 1 is 60 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cormeniș - Râpa Malului 1 → Ciglean - Vârful Cigleanului 1 is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.