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 Zalău it runs 281 km to Zalău; allow about 5 h 42 of riding. The stops in between: Buciumi - Pădurea Dosu, Poieni - Râmbușoi, Gilău - Dealul Cetății and back through Poieni - Râmbușoi. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 950 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
Above the town of Zalau, where the Meses mountains form a long, wooded ridge across northern Transylvania, the Roman Empire built one of its most remote defences. The mountains separated the province of Dacia from the free tribes to the north, and the ridge was fortified with a line of watchtowers and forts, the western part of what is now called the Frontiers of the Roman Empire in Dacia. The greatest of them was Porolissum, a garrison town and customs post on the Meses Gate, the pass through the ridge, near the village of Moigrad.
Read the complete Frontiers of the Roman Empire - Dacia write-up.
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Frontiers of the Roman Empire - Dacia is where the day begins. Next is Buciumi - Pădurea Dosu.
Dosu forest lies above Buciumi, in the hills where Sălaj starts rising toward the Meseș range. It is a working woodland, not a showpiece: beech and oak, a few hornbeam, tracks cut by loggers, and a floor that smells strongly of leaf mould after rain. If you stop and kill the engine, the quiet is very complete. Wild boar and roe deer use these slopes, and the ground along the verges is often turned up by the former.
Read the complete Buciumi - Pădurea Dosu write-up.
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Buciumi - Pădurea Dosu comes up about 42 km into the recorded legs. Next is Poieni - Râmbușoi.
West of Cluj, the valley of the Crișul Repede cuts through the hills toward the Hungarian plain, and the main road between Transylvania and the west follows it. The village of Poieni and the hill of Râmbușoi lie in this valley, between Huedin and Ciucea, with the forested slopes of the Vlădeasa massif, part of the Apuseni mountains, rising to the south. In Roman times, the frontier of Dacia ran through the hills to the north, along the Meseș mountains, and this corridor was a natural route to watch; hilltop positions in the area formed part of the defensive network, and the larger fort at Bologa guarded the valley nearby.
Read the complete Poieni - Râmbușoi write-up.
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about 86 km into the recorded legs you reach Poieni - Râmbușoi. Next is Gilău - Dealul Cetății.
Gilau sits where the flat plain of the Somesul Mic river meets the first hills of the Apuseni mountains, about fifteen kilometres west of Cluj-Napoca, in Transylvania, and the hill called Dealul Cetatii, which simply means Fortress Hill, rises almost on the edge of the town, about a kilometre away. The town has nearly eight thousand people, and from the road you can see the high, forested ridges of the Apuseni to the west.
Read the complete Gilău - Dealul Cetății write-up.
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Gilău - Dealul Cetății, about halfway. Next is back through Poieni - Râmbușoi.
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Read the complete Poieni - Râmbușoi write-up.
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back through Poieni - Râmbușoi sits at 140 km, about halfway. Next is back through Buciumi - Pădurea Dosu.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Buciumi - Pădurea Dosu write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Buciumi - Pădurea Dosu comes up about 239 km into the recorded legs. Next is Frontiers of the Roman Empire - Dacia.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Frontiers of the Roman Empire - Dacia write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Frontiers of the Roman Empire - Dacia closes the day.
Frontiers of the Roman Empire - Dacia → Buciumi - Pădurea Dosu is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Buciumi - Pădurea Dosu → Poieni - Râmbușoi is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Poieni - Râmbușoi → Gilău - Dealul Cetății is 53 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Gilău - Dealul Cetății → back through Poieni - Râmbușoi is 56 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Poieni - Râmbușoi → back through Buciumi - Pădurea Dosu is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Buciumi - Pădurea Dosu → Frontiers of the Roman Empire - Dacia is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.