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 299 km round trip from Ileanda - roughly 6 h 06 in the saddle. On the way it passes Perișor - Vârful Colnicului, Lunca - La Bolovani and back through Perișor - Vârful Colnicului. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
East of Jibou the Someș river squeezes through a narrower valley, and around Ileanda the hills close in, wooded and steep, with villages tucked wherever there is room for a few houses and gardens. Glod is a tiny settlement in these hills, and Toaca Glodului is the local name of a height above it; toaca, by the way, is the wooden board struck to call monks to prayer, and hills with that name often have a commanding view. Like many points with this naming pattern in Sălaj, it is listed with the Roman frontier of Dacia, where watchtowers and small forts guarded the approaches to the province. On the ground you should expect little more than traces in a field or woodland, so come for the setting.
Read the complete Glod - Toaca Glodului 2 write-up.
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Glod - Toaca Glodului 2 is where the day begins. Next is Perișor - Vârful Colnicului.
The upper valley of the Zagra stream, in the hills of Bistrița-Năsăud county in northern Transylvania, is the sort of place that has produced poets. The village of Hordou, now named Coșbuc, birthplace of the poet George Coșbuc, lies not far away, near Năsăud, and Liviu Rebreanu, one of Romania's great novelists, was born in Târlișua, a little to the west. The hills around Perișor and Zagra, with the summit called Vârful Colnicului, are a landscape of meadows, beech woods and scattered farms that seems to have stepped out of their books.
Read the complete Perișor - Vârful Colnicului write-up.
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Perișor - Vârful Colnicului comes up about 73 km into the recorded legs. Next is Lunca - La Bolovani.
La Bolovani means at the boulders, which tells you most of what a local would have said about this spot on the hills near the village of Lunca, between Monor and Șieuț on the eastern edge of the Transylvanian basin. Archaeologists know it as one of the sites along the Roman frontier of Dacia, a small watch post on a ridge commanding views east towards the Călimani and Gurghiu mountains, beyond which lay lands Rome never controlled. In 2024 it joined the World Heritage listing of the Dacian limes, though in the field you will find a quiet hill, sheep and very few signs.
Read the complete Lunca - La Bolovani write-up.
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about 150 km into the recorded legs you reach Lunca - La Bolovani. Next is back through Perișor - Vârful Colnicului.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Perișor - Vârful Colnicului write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Perișor - Vârful Colnicului, late in the day. Next is Glod - Toaca Glodului 2.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Glod - Toaca Glodului 2 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Glod - Toaca Glodului 2. That is the ride.
Glod - Toaca Glodului 2 → Perișor - Vârful Colnicului is 73 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Perișor - Vârful Colnicului → Lunca - La Bolovani is 77 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Lunca - La Bolovani → back through Perișor - Vârful Colnicului is 74 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Perișor - Vârful Colnicului → Glod - Toaca Glodului 2 is 75 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.