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.
Reading history stays on this device. My road watch requires a separate selection; opening it does not subscribe this ride.
Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
A 168 km round trip from Gilău - roughly 2 h 29 in the saddle. On the way it passes Turda - Potaissa / Dealul Cetății, Războieni - Cetate - Grajduri CAP and back through Turda - Potaissa / Dealul Cetății. 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 Turda - Potaissa / Dealul Cetății.
Turda sits on salt. Under the town, the Salina Turda, an old salt mine, has been converted into an extraordinary underground amusement park, with a Ferris wheel, a lake with rowing boats and a mini-golf course more than a hundred metres below the surface, inside vast chambers carved out over centuries. Above ground, on the hill called Dealul Cetății, the Romans built the camp of the Fifth Macedonian Legion, which moved here in the late second century to guard the heart of the province of Dacia. The legionary fortress of Potaissa, with its walls, gates and headquarters building, has been excavated, and it counts as one component of UNESCO's inscription of the Dacian frontier.
Read the complete Turda - Potaissa / Dealul Cetății write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Turda - Potaissa / Dealul Cetății comes up about 57 km into the recorded legs. Next is Războieni - Cetate - Grajduri CAP.
In the Mureș valley near Ocna Mureș, the village of Războieni-Cetate takes the second half of its name, cetate, fortress, from the Roman fort that once stood here, guarding the road and the river in central Dacia. The fort was a base for a cavalry unit, and its remains, close to the farm buildings of the communist era collective, the CAP, whose stables give the site its odd label, are part of the World Heritage listing of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire, Dacia. Little is visible above ground, but the outline of the fort can be traced in the fields.
Read the complete Războieni - Cetate - Grajduri CAP write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 86 km into the recorded legs you reach Războieni - Cetate - Grajduri CAP. Next is back through Turda - Potaissa / Dealul Cetății.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Turda - Potaissa / Dealul Cetății write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Turda - Potaissa / Dealul Cetății, 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 → Turda - Potaissa / Dealul Cetății is 57 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Turda - Potaissa / Dealul Cetății → Războieni - Cetate - Grajduri CAP is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Războieni - Cetate - Grajduri CAP → back through Turda - Potaissa / Dealul Cetății is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Turda - Potaissa / Dealul Cetății → Gilău - Dealul Cetății is 57 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.