CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Gâlgău it runs 214 km to Gâlgău; allow about 5 h 08 of riding. It goes by way of Dumbrăveni - Dealul Podului 1, Perișor - Păltiniș, Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci and back through Perișor - Păltiniș. The line favours views over speed.
Strâmtură means a narrowing, and the name fits. Just outside Gâlgău, a small Sălaj village on the Someș, the valley pinches between wooded slopes, and the Roman frontier made use of exactly such pinch points to control movement along the river. The site listed as Valea Strâmturei belongs to that northern Dacian line, and like most of its neighbours it is earthwork and setting rather than standing masonry. You come for the geography and the sense of a border that ran through these quiet hills nearly two thousand years ago.
Read the complete Gâlgău - Valea Strâmturei write-up.
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Gâlgău - Valea Strâmturei is where the day begins. Next is Dumbrăveni - Dealul Podului 1.
The northern edge of Roman Dacia was a long line of watchtowers, small forts and earthworks drawn across the hills of what is now northern Transylvania, and Dealul Podului, the bridge hill, near Dumbrăveni, was one of the points along it. Watchtowers here kept an eye on the valleys that led north from the province, toward the lands of the free Dacians and other peoples beyond the frontier, and their remains, now mostly low earthworks in the fields and forest, are part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire listing for Dacia, added by UNESCO in 2024.
Read the complete Dumbrăveni - Dealul Podului 1 write-up.
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Dumbrăveni - Dealul Podului 1 comes up 28 km in. Next is Perișor - Păltiniș.
The hills of northern Transylvania, in Bistrita-Nasaud county, are quieter than the better-known Saxon towns further south, a country of wooded ridges, narrow valleys and farming villages where hay is still cut by hand and stacked on wooden poles. The Perisor to Paltinis label sits in this landscape, about four kilometres from the village of Spermezeu and not far from Zagra, in the foothills below the Rodna mountains.
Read the complete Perișor - Păltiniș write-up.
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55 km in you reach Perișor - Păltiniș. Next is Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci.
The Țibleș massif rises like a dark green wall between Maramureș and the Bistrița country of northern Romania, an old volcanic range topped by the Țibleș peak at around eighteen hundred metres. On its southern flanks, above the village of Groșii Țibleșului, lie the forests of Preluci, part of the Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe that UNESCO has protected as one sprawling, multi-country site. These are woods left largely to themselves, where old beeches grow huge, fall, rot and feed the next generation without a forester in sight.
Read the complete Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci write-up.
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Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci, about halfway. Next is back through Perișor - Păltiniș.
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Read the complete Perișor - Păltiniș write-up.
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back through Perișor - Păltiniș sits at 111 km, about halfway. Next is back through Dumbrăveni - Dealul Podului 1.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Dumbrăveni - Dealul Podului 1 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Dumbrăveni - Dealul Podului 1 comes up 138 km in. Next is Gâlgău - Valea Strâmturei.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Gâlgău - Valea Strâmturei write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Gâlgău - Valea Strâmturei closes the day.
Gâlgău - Valea Strâmturei → Dumbrăveni - Dealul Podului 1 is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Dumbrăveni - Dealul Podului 1 → Perișor - Păltiniș is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Perișor - Păltiniș → Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci → back through Perișor - Păltiniș is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Perișor - Păltiniș → back through Dumbrăveni - Dealul Podului 1 is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Dumbrăveni - Dealul Podului 1 → Gâlgău - Valea Strâmturei is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.