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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198 km from Băbeni to Băbeni, about 4 h 40 of riding. On the way it passes Popeni - Dumbravă, Treznea-Coasta Ciungii 2, Vânători - Dealul Cocinilor and back through Treznea-Coasta Ciungii 2. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
31 km on Popeni - Dumbravă → Treznea-Coasta Ciungii 2.
Northern Sălaj is quiet country: low wooded hills, hay meadows, plum orchards and villages strung along the Someș river and its side valleys, with wooden churches and haystacks built around poles in the fields. Cliț is a small village near Băbeni, and the point named Fața Chicerii lies in the hills above it. Names in this list follow the pattern of the Romanian archaeological record, a village and then the local name of a hillside, and in this part of Sălaj many such points belong to the line of watchtowers and small forts of the Roman frontier of Dacia, which UNESCO recognised in 2024.
Read the complete Cliț - Fața Chicerii write-up.
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Cliț - Fața Chicerii is where the day begins. Next is Popeni - Dumbravă.
Think of the frontier of Roman Dacia not as a wall but as a net. In the hills of Sălaj, north of the town of Zalău, the Romans stretched a fine mesh of watchtowers, small forts and earthen barriers across the ridges, all centred on the great fortress of Porolissum, which controlled the most important pass from the province into the lands of the free Dacians. Popeni, a village near Jibou, sits near one of the outer strands of that net: at Dumbravă, a spot on the edge of a wood, the remains of a tower are part of the Dacian frontier on the World Heritage list. You will see a bump in the ground and a lot of grass, and that is all the more reason to use your imagination.
Read the complete Popeni - Dumbravă write-up.
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Popeni - Dumbravă comes up about 29 km into the recorded legs. Next is Treznea-Coasta Ciungii 2.
Treznea is a small village in the hills of Sălaj county, eleven kilometres east of Zalău, and its name carries a heavy weight in Romanian history. In September 1940, after northern Transylvania was transferred to Hungary by the Second Vienna Award, Hungarian troops entering the region killed scores of villagers here, Romanians and Jews, in one of the worst atrocities of that time. A memorial in the village remembers the victims. It is a sobering reminder that these quiet hills have seen terrible violence, and a short, respectful stop at the memorial is worth more than any viewpoint on the ride.
Read the complete Treznea-Coasta Ciungii 2 write-up.
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about 60 km into the recorded legs you reach Treznea-Coasta Ciungii 2. Next is Vânători - Dealul Cocinilor.
The hill of Dealul Cocinilor rises above the valley of the Crișul Repede near Ciucea, on the western edge of Cluj county, and it marks another point on the Roman frontier of Dacia, this time in the Meseș mountains, where the limes ran along the hills protecting the province of Dacia Porolissensis. The watchtowers here guarded the approaches from the west and north, and from the hilltop you can still see why: the valley below is a natural corridor, used by traders, armies and travellers for thousands of years.
Read the complete Vânători - Dealul Cocinilor write-up.
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Vânători - Dealul Cocinilor, about halfway. Next is back through Treznea-Coasta Ciungii 2.
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Read the complete Treznea-Coasta Ciungii 2 write-up.
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back through Treznea-Coasta Ciungii 2 sits at 104 km, about halfway. Next is back through Popeni - Dumbravă.
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Read the complete Popeni - Dumbravă write-up.
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back through Popeni - Dumbravă comes up about 168 km into the recorded legs. Next is Cliț - Fața Chicerii.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cliț - Fața Chicerii write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Cliț - Fața Chicerii closes the day.
Cliț - Fața Chicerii → Popeni - Dumbravă is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Popeni - Dumbravă → Treznea-Coasta Ciungii 2 is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Treznea-Coasta Ciungii 2 → Vânători - Dealul Cocinilor is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Vânători - Dealul Cocinilor → back through Treznea-Coasta Ciungii 2 is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Treznea-Coasta Ciungii 2 → back through Popeni - Dumbravă is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Popeni - Dumbravă → Cliț - Fața Chicerii is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.