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 Ciceu-Giurgeşti it runs 225 km to Ciceu-Giurgeşti; allow about 4 h 39 of riding. The stops in between: Căpâlna - Hotroapă, Negreni - Dealul Hoancelor, Tihău - Dealul Cucului and back through Negreni - Dealul Hoancelor. The line favours views over speed.
The Năsăud country in northern Transylvania has a history that the rest of Europe barely noticed. In 1762 the Habsburg authorities set up a military frontier here, enrolling local Romanian peasants as border guards in return for land and privileges, and for nearly a century the villages of the region lived under a mix of farm work and army discipline. The result was a surprisingly literate, organised society, with schools and a strong sense of identity, which produced a number of poets and writers. The novelist Liviu Rebreanu was born in the nearby village of Târlișua, and the poet George Coșbuc grew up not far from here.
Read the complete Dumbrăveni - Dealul Sflederului 1 write-up.
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Dumbrăveni - Dealul Sflederului 1 is where the day begins. Next is Căpâlna - Hotroapă.
Căpâlna sits in the Someș country northwest of Dej, in a landscape of long, rounded hills that the Transylvanian plateau does so well. Orchards, hayfields and small woods climb the slopes, villages sit where streams meet, and the horizon always seems to hold another soft ridge.
Read the complete Căpâlna - Hotroapă write-up.
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Căpâlna - Hotroapă comes up about 41 km into the recorded legs. Next is Negreni - Dealul Hoancelor.
A ridge called Dealul Hoancelor does not make it onto many maps, and the place is better understood from the landscape around it. This is the country of the Someș river in the north of Transylvania, between the Meseș mountains in the west and the hills of the Transylvanian plain to the east, and the valleys are broad, green and thickly farmed. The nearest places on our list are tiny villages, Lozna and Letca, and the closest town, Jibou, is about twenty kilometres away.
Read the complete Negreni - Dealul Hoancelor write-up.
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about 82 km into the recorded legs you reach Negreni - Dealul Hoancelor. 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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Tihău - Dealul Cucului, about halfway. Next is back through Negreni - Dealul Hoancelor.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Negreni - Dealul Hoancelor write-up.
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back through Negreni - Dealul Hoancelor sits at 103 km, about halfway. Next is back through Căpâlna - Hotroapă.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Căpâlna - Hotroapă write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Căpâlna - Hotroapă comes up about 184 km into the recorded legs. Next is Dumbrăveni - Dealul Sflederului 1.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Dumbrăveni - Dealul Sflederului 1 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Dumbrăveni - Dealul Sflederului 1 closes the day.
Dumbrăveni - Dealul Sflederului 1 → Căpâlna - Hotroapă is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Căpâlna - Hotroapă → Negreni - Dealul Hoancelor is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Negreni - Dealul Hoancelor → Tihău - Dealul Cucului is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Tihău - Dealul Cucului → back through Negreni - Dealul Hoancelor is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Negreni - Dealul Hoancelor → back through Căpâlna - Hotroapă is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Căpâlna - Hotroapă → Dumbrăveni - Dealul Sflederului 1 is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.