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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From Spermezeu it runs 100 km to Spermezeu; allow about 2 h 12 of riding. On the way it passes Zagra - Dealul Lupului, Șintereag - Dealul Oului and back through Zagra - Dealul Lupului. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Spermezeu is the kind of place a road atlas barely notices: a commune of scattered villages in the hills of Bistrița-Năsăud, in northern Transylvania, between the upper Someș valley and the Țibleș mountains. The site of Dobricel, on the hilltop known as Vârful Lazului, is one of the many archaeological places recorded in the area, a high point above the valleys where traces of earlier inhabitants have been noted. There is not much to see without an archaeologist's eye, but the hilltop and the country around it are a good excuse for a ride through a region few foreigners ever visit.
Read the complete Dobricel - Vârful Lazului write-up.
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Dobricel - Vârful Lazului is where the day begins. Next is Zagra - Dealul Lupului.
Zagra is the last farming village before the land begins to climb in earnest toward the Rodna mountains, the highest range in the Eastern Carpathians north of the Prislop pass. Pietrosul Rodnei, at about 2,300 metres, is the summit, and the whole massif is protected as a national park and biosphere reserve, with glacial lakes, rocky ridges and alpine meadows that stay snowy into June. From the Dealul Lupului, the Wolf Hill, you look across a patchwork of hayfields toward those peaks, which look closer than they are.
Read the complete Zagra - Dealul Lupului write-up.
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Zagra - Dealul Lupului comes up about 28 km into the recorded legs. Next is Șintereag - Dealul Oului.
Egg Hill, Dealul Oului, is a gentle rise near the village of Șintereag in Bistrița-Năsăud, and the Romans used it as a watch post on the north-eastern frontier of Dacia. Like the other sites in this area, it is part of the frontier listed by UNESCO in 2024, and like many of them, it is more a place to imagine than to see: a low hill, a few traces in the ground, a wide view over the valley of the Șieu and the hills toward Bistrița. Șintereag, a village of a few thousand, lies close by, with Șieu-Odorhei and Cociu as neighbours.
Read the complete Șintereag - Dealul Oului write-up.
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about 50 km into the recorded legs you reach Șintereag - Dealul Oului. Next is back through Zagra - Dealul Lupului.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Zagra - Dealul Lupului write-up.
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back through Zagra - Dealul Lupului, late in the day. Next is Dobricel - Vârful Lazului.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Dobricel - Vârful Lazului write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Dobricel - Vârful Lazului. That is the ride.
Dobricel - Vârful Lazului → Zagra - Dealul Lupului is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Zagra - Dealul Lupului → Șintereag - Dealul Oului is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Șintereag - Dealul Oului → back through Zagra - Dealul Lupului is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Zagra - Dealul Lupului → Dobricel - Vârful Lazului is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.