Why this ride
From Spermezeu it runs 207 km to Spermezeu; allow about 4 h 47 of riding. The stops in between: Salva - Roata lui Todoran, Livezile - Poderei, Lunca - La Bolovani and back through Livezile - Poderei. The line favours views over speed.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Dobricel - Rângoița and Lunca - La Bolovani
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 207 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 4 h 47
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
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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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Dobricel - Rângoița
North of the Someș river, in the rolling hills of Transylvania, the Romans built a different kind of frontier. The Limes Porolissensis was a line of forts and watchtowers running along the crest of the Meseș mountains and the hills beyond, which guarded the northern edge of the province of Dacia against the free Dacians and the peoples to the north. The section of the Dacia frontier on the World Heritage list, inscribed in 2024, includes many of these small posts, each set on a hilltop with a view for miles. Dobricel and Rângoița are two of those place names, hills in a countryside of villages, orchards and hay meadows, where a ruined stone tower would stand among sheep.
Read the complete Dobricel - Rângoița write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Dobricel - Rângoița is where the day begins. Next is Salva - Roata lui Todoran.
2. Salva - Roata lui Todoran
Salva is a railway village. Trains for the Maramureș line split off here from the route along the Someșul Mare, and the place has a slightly busy, crossroads feel for a commune of a little over four thousand people. The site called Roata lui Todoran, Todoran's wheel, sits right by the village in the Năsăud country of Bistrița-Năsăud, a region that marked the northern edge of Roman Dacia and later formed part of a Habsburg border regiment. Few places in Transylvania have been a frontier for quite so long.
Read the complete Salva - Roata lui Todoran write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Salva - Roata lui Todoran comes up about 30 km into the recorded legs. Next is Livezile - Poderei.
3. 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.
Read the complete Livezile - Poderei write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 62 km into the recorded legs you reach Livezile - Poderei. Next is Lunca - La Bolovani.
4. Lunca - La Bolovani
La Bolovani means at the boulders, which tells you most of what a local would have said about this spot on the hills near the village of Lunca, between Monor and Șieuț on the eastern edge of the Transylvanian basin. Archaeologists know it as one of the sites along the Roman frontier of Dacia, a small watch post on a ridge commanding views east towards the Călimani and Gurghiu mountains, beyond which lay lands Rome never controlled. In 2024 it joined the World Heritage listing of the Dacian limes, though in the field you will find a quiet hill, sheep and very few signs.
Read the complete Lunca - La Bolovani write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Lunca - La Bolovani, about halfway. Next is back through Livezile - Poderei.
5. back through Livezile - Poderei
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Livezile - Poderei write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
back through Livezile - Poderei sits at 111 km, about halfway. Next is back through Salva - Roata lui Todoran.
6. back through Salva - Roata lui Todoran
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Salva - Roata lui Todoran write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Salva - Roata lui Todoran comes up about 177 km into the recorded legs. Next is Dobricel - Rângoița.
7. Dobricel - Rângoița
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Dobricel - Rângoița write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Dobricel - Rângoița closes the day.
Leg by leg
Dobricel - Rângoița to Salva - Roata lui Todoran
Dobricel - Rângoița → Salva - Roata lui Todoran is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Salva - Roata lui Todoran to Livezile - Poderei
Salva - Roata lui Todoran → Livezile - Poderei is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Livezile - Poderei to Lunca - La Bolovani
Livezile - Poderei → Lunca - La Bolovani is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Lunca - La Bolovani to back through Livezile - Poderei
Lunca - La Bolovani → back through Livezile - Poderei is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Livezile - Poderei to back through Salva - Roata lui Todoran
back through Livezile - Poderei → back through Salva - Roata lui Todoran is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Salva - Roata lui Todoran to Dobricel - Rângoița
back through Salva - Roata lui Todoran → Dobricel - Rângoița is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.