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 383 km round trip from Ciceu-Giurgeşti - roughly 8 h 12 in the saddle. It goes by way of Dăbâceni - Coama Pietrar 1, Tihău - Dealul Cucului, Treznea-Coasta Ciungii 2 and Bologa - Grădiște. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
This part of the ride is 44 km of Tihău - Dealul Cucului → Treznea-Coasta Ciungii 2.
Above the valley of the Someș Mare in Bistrița-Năsăud county, the hill called Dealul Podului carries the faint remains of a Roman watch post, one of a string of small installations that kept an eye on the northern edge of the province of Dacia. Like many points on this frontier, inscribed as a World Heritage Site in 2024, it is less a monument than a viewpoint with a story, a place where soldiers once scanned the horizon for movement in the free lands to the north. Today the horizon holds forested ridges, orchards and villages strung along the river.
Read the complete Dumbrăveni - Dealul Podului 2 write-up.
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Dumbrăveni - Dealul Podului 2 is where the day begins. Next is Dăbâceni - Coama Pietrar 1.
The Someș is the river of northern Transylvania, gathering its waters in the mountains and winding west through a broad, green valley towards Hungary. Around Rus and Ileanda, in the northeast of Sălaj county, the valley narrows between wooded hills, and the villages cling to the slopes above the river. Dăbâceni and the ridge called Coama Pietrar lie in this landscape, one of many recorded archaeological sites in the area, and like most of them it is more about the setting than about visible remains.
Read the complete Dăbâceni - Coama Pietrar 1 write-up.
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Dăbâceni - Coama Pietrar 1 comes up about 52 km into the recorded legs. Next is Tihău - Dealul Cucului.
Dealul Cucului means cuckoo hill, and the name fits the place: a low, wooded rise above the village of Tihău, close to the town of Jibou in the Someș valley of Sălaj county, where in spring the cuckoo's call echoes across the meadows. The point belongs to the network of archaeological sites along the Roman frontier of Dacia in the northwest of the province, near the confluence of the Almaș and Someș rivers, a strategic spot where valleys meet and roads cross. As with many of these sites, there may be little to see on the surface, but the location makes sense once you look at the map.
Read the complete Tihău - Dealul Cucului write-up.
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about 94 km into the recorded legs you reach Tihău - Dealul Cucului. 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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Treznea-Coasta Ciungii 2, about halfway. Next is Bologa - Grădiște.
The village of Bologa lies in the valley of the Crișul Repede, on the main road between Cluj-Napoca and Oradea, where the river cuts through the hills between the Apuseni mountains and the Meseș. On a hill above the village, known locally as Grădiște, the Romans built the fort of Resculum, which guarded one of the main routes into the province of Dacia from the west. The fort was rebuilt several times, from earth and timber to stone, and archaeologists have uncovered its walls, gates and towers. It is part of the UNESCO listing of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire, Dacia. On another hill above the village stand the ruins of a medieval castle, which controlled the same valley in later centuries. Climbing to either site gives fine views over the valley and the surrounding hills.
Read the complete Bologa - Grădiște write-up.
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Bologa - Grădiște sits at 138 km, 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 comes up about 244 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Tihău - Dealul Cucului.
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Read the complete Tihău - Dealul Cucului write-up.
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about 288 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Tihău - Dealul Cucului. Next is back through Dăbâceni - Coama Pietrar 1.
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Read the complete Dăbâceni - Coama Pietrar 1 write-up.
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back through Dăbâceni - Coama Pietrar 1, late in the day. Next is Dumbrăveni - Dealul Podului 2.
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Read the complete Dumbrăveni - Dealul Podului 2 write-up.
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The route ends here after 383 km.
Dumbrăveni - Dealul Podului 2 → Dăbâceni - Coama Pietrar 1 is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Dăbâceni - Coama Pietrar 1 → Tihău - Dealul Cucului is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Tihău - Dealul Cucului → Treznea-Coasta Ciungii 2 is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Treznea-Coasta Ciungii 2 → Bologa - Grădiște is 53 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Bologa - Grădiște → back through Treznea-Coasta Ciungii 2 is 53 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Treznea-Coasta Ciungii 2 → back through Tihău - Dealul Cucului is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Tihău - Dealul Cucului → back through Dăbâceni - Coama Pietrar 1 is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Dăbâceni - Coama Pietrar 1 → Dumbrăveni - Dealul Podului 2 is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.