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 292 km round trip from Poieni - roughly 6 h 17 in the saddle. The stops in between: Surduc - Deasupra Văii Hrăii, Dumbrăveni - Dealul Podului 2 and back through Surduc - Deasupra Văii Hrăii. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Beyond Ciucea the mountains of Apuseni begin to close in. The Vlădeasa massif, which rises to nearly eighteen hundred metres to the south, is the high point of the range and a place of bare ridges, beech forest and deep valleys, with a mountain lake and cabins for hikers. The road from Cluj to Oradea runs through the valley of the Crișul Repede below it, and the hills on either side are cut with side valleys where small villages cling to the slopes.
Read the complete Hurez - Cornul Vlașinului 1 & 2 write-up.
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Hurez - Cornul Vlașinului 1 & 2 is where the day begins. 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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Surduc - Deasupra Văii Hrăii comes up about 62 km into the recorded legs. Next is Dumbrăveni - Dealul Podului 2.
Above the valley of the Someș Mare in Bistrița-Năsăud county, the hill called Dealul Podului carries the faint remains of a Roman watch post, one of a string of small installations that kept an eye on the northern edge of the province of Dacia. Like many points on this frontier, inscribed as a World Heritage Site in 2024, it is less a monument than a viewpoint with a story, a place where soldiers once scanned the horizon for movement in the free lands to the north. Today the horizon holds forested ridges, orchards and villages strung along the river.
Read the complete Dumbrăveni - Dealul Podului 2 write-up.
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about 144 km into the recorded legs you reach Dumbrăveni - Dealul Podului 2. Next is back through Surduc - Deasupra Văii Hrăii.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Surduc - Deasupra Văii Hrăii write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Surduc - Deasupra Văii Hrăii, late in the day. Next is Hurez - Cornul Vlașinului 1 & 2.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hurez - Cornul Vlașinului 1 & 2 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Hurez - Cornul Vlașinului 1 & 2. That is the ride.
Hurez - Cornul Vlașinului 1 & 2 → Surduc - Deasupra Văii Hrăii is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Surduc - Deasupra Văii Hrăii → Dumbrăveni - Dealul Podului 2 is 82 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Dumbrăveni - Dealul Podului 2 → back through Surduc - Deasupra Văii Hrăii is 87 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Surduc - Deasupra Văii Hrăii → Hurez - Cornul Vlașinului 1 & 2 is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.