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 269 km round trip from Gilău - roughly 5 h 19 in the saddle. On the way it passes Hurez - La Frasin 1, Cliț - Fața Chicerii and back through Hurez - La Frasin 1. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 950 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Gilău - Dealul Cetății is where the day begins. Next is Hurez - La Frasin 1.
This corner of Sălaj sits along the Roman frontier of Dacia, which makes it a more serious place than its gentle hills suggest. West of Zalău the Meseș mountains rise in a long wooded ridge, and through them runs a natural gate, the Meseș Pass, which the Romans fortified as part of their northern defences. The great site of Porolissum, with its fort, civil settlement and amphitheatre, stands on a ridge nearby, and the watchtowers and small works scattered across the hills belong to the same system.
Read the complete Hurez - La Frasin 1 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Hurez - La Frasin 1 comes up about 76 km into the recorded legs. Next is Cliț - Fața Chicerii.
Northern Sălaj is quiet country: low wooded hills, hay meadows, plum orchards and villages strung along the Someș river and its side valleys, with wooden churches and haystacks built around poles in the fields. Cliț is a small village near Băbeni, and the point named Fața Chicerii lies in the hills above it. Names in this list follow the pattern of the Romanian archaeological record, a village and then the local name of a hillside, and in this part of Sălaj many such points belong to the line of watchtowers and small forts of the Roman frontier of Dacia, which UNESCO recognised in 2024.
Read the complete Cliț - Fața Chicerii write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 135 km into the recorded legs you reach Cliț - Fața Chicerii. Next is back through Hurez - La Frasin 1.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hurez - La Frasin 1 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Hurez - La Frasin 1, late in the day. Next is Gilău - Dealul Cetății.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Gilău - Dealul Cetății write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Gilău - Dealul Cetății. That is the ride.
Gilău - Dealul Cetății → Hurez - La Frasin 1 is 76 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hurez - La Frasin 1 → Cliț - Fața Chicerii is 59 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cliț - Fața Chicerii → back through Hurez - La Frasin 1 is 59 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hurez - La Frasin 1 → Gilău - Dealul Cetății is 76 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.