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 278 km round trip from Jibou - roughly 5 h 24 in the saddle. The stops in between: Cășeiu - Cetățele / Samvm Cășeiu -Samum, Sărățel - Cetate 1 and back through Cășeiu - Cetățele / Samvm Cășeiu -Samum. 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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Ciglean - Vârful Cigleanului 1 is where the day begins. Next is Cășeiu - Cetățele / Samvm Cășeiu -Samum -.
On a terrace above the river Someș, near the village of Cășeiu, a few kilometres from Dej in northern Transylvania, the Romans built a fort they called Samum. It guarded the northern edge of their province of Dacia, which they conquered in the early second century after two hard wars against the Dacian king Decebalus. The fort controlled the valley and the routes into the province, and today its outline can still be traced in the fields, with low walls and earthworks where archaeologists have uncovered gates, towers and barracks. In 2024 the Dacian frontier was added to the UNESCO World Heritage list as part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire.
Read the complete Cășeiu - Cetățele / Samvm Cășeiu -Samum - write-up.
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Cășeiu - Cetățele / Samvm Cășeiu -Samum - comes up about 73 km into the recorded legs. Next is Sărățel - Cetate 1.
The name Sărățel means the little salty place, and this corner of Bistrița-Năsăud has salt underground: springs of brine rise here and there in the hills, and for centuries people used them for cooking, curing meat and treating animals. Salt was one of the reasons the Romans wanted Dacia, along with gold, and on a hill near the village they placed a fort, Cetate, meaning the citadel, at the north-eastern corner of their province. Behind it lay the valley of the Șieu and the road towards the interior; in front, the hills where the free Dacians lived. The site is now part of the Roman frontier of Dacia on the World Heritage list, though, like most of these places, it is visible mainly as an outline of banks and ditches.
Read the complete Sărățel - Cetate 1 write-up.
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about 139 km into the recorded legs you reach Sărățel - Cetate 1. Next is back through Cășeiu - Cetățele / Samvm Cășeiu -Samum -.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cășeiu - Cetățele / Samvm Cășeiu -Samum - write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Cășeiu - Cetățele / Samvm Cășeiu -Samum -, late in the day. 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.
Back at Ciglean - Vârful Cigleanului 1. That is the ride.
Ciglean - Vârful Cigleanului 1 → Cășeiu - Cetățele / Samvm Cășeiu -Samum - is 73 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cășeiu - Cetățele / Samvm Cășeiu -Samum - → Sărățel - Cetate 1 is 66 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Sărățel - Cetate 1 → back through Cășeiu - Cetățele / Samvm Cășeiu -Samum - is 63 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cășeiu - Cetățele / Samvm Cășeiu -Samum - → Ciglean - Vârful Cigleanului 1 is 76 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.