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 Gilău it runs 288 km to Gilău; allow about 5 h 35 of riding. It goes by way of Huta - Dealul Cozlii, Surduc - Deasupra Văii Hrăii and back through Huta - Dealul Cozlii. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 950 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
Gilău is a market village on the Someșul Mic, the first real settlement west of Cluj-Napoca on the road toward the Apuseni mountains, and the place name La Castel says it plainly: there was a fortification here, and there still is one, layered through the centuries. Under the later castle grounds, archaeologists found a Roman auxiliary fort guarding the valley route into Dacia from the west, and the medieval and early modern castle that followed sits on the same strategic ground. Rome, Hungarian nobles and later owners all made the same calculation about this spot.
Read the complete Gilău - La Castel write-up.
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Gilău - La Castel is where the day begins. Next is Huta - Dealul Cozlii.
Huta is the sort of name that appears in dozens of places in Romania, from the old word for a glassworks or a forge, and it hints at an older economy, when these hills supplied charcoal, timber and metal to the towns of Transylvania. This Huta lies in the rolling country between Ciucea and the Crasna valley, in the hills where Salaj county meets Cluj, and the Dealul Cozlii, the hill named in the label, is one of the many wooded ridges that fold across the horizon.
Read the complete Huta - Dealul Cozlii write-up.
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Huta - Dealul Cozlii comes up about 68 km into the recorded legs. Next is Surduc - Deasupra Văii Hrăii.
Surduc is a village in the Someș valley in Sălaj county, north-western Romania, where the river cuts a narrow path through hills on its way toward Baia Mare. Above the village, on a ridge overlooking the valley of the Hrăii stream, there are traces of a Roman watchtower, part of the frontier of the province of Dacia. The nearby villages of Tihău and Băbeni, and the town of Jibou, are all close by.
Read the complete Surduc - Deasupra Văii Hrăii write-up.
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about 141 km into the recorded legs you reach Surduc - Deasupra Văii Hrăii. Next is back through Huta - Dealul Cozlii.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Huta - Dealul Cozlii write-up.
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back through Huta - Dealul Cozlii, late in the day. Next is Gilău - La Castel.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Gilău - La Castel write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Gilău - La Castel. That is the ride.
Gilău - La Castel → Huta - Dealul Cozlii is 68 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Huta - Dealul Cozlii → Surduc - Deasupra Văii Hrăii is 73 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Surduc - Deasupra Văii Hrăii → back through Huta - Dealul Cozlii is 80 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Huta - Dealul Cozlii → Gilău - La Castel is 68 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.