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 Cizer it runs 410 km to Cizer; allow about 7 h 46 of riding. It goes by way of Gilău - Dealul Cetății, Roșia Montană Mining Landscape and back through Gilău - Dealul Cetății. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,150 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
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.
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Hurez - La Frasin 1 is where the day begins. Next is Gilău - Dealul Cetății.
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.
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Gilău - Dealul Cetății comes up about 87 km into the recorded legs. Next is Roșia Montană Mining Landscape.
Gold has been mined at Roșia Montană, in the Apuseni mountains of western Romania, for over two thousand years. The Romans, who called the place Alburnus Maior, dug an extensive network of galleries into the mountains to extract the gold, and some of these galleries survive, along with wax tablets found in the mines, recording contracts and daily life. In 2021, after years of controversy, the mining landscape of Roșia Montană was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Read the complete Roșia Montană Mining Landscape write-up.
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about 211 km into the recorded legs you reach Roșia Montană Mining Landscape. Next is back through 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 through Gilău - Dealul Cetății, late in the day. Next is 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 at Hurez - La Frasin 1. That is the ride.
Hurez - La Frasin 1 → Gilău - Dealul Cetății is 87 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Gilău - Dealul Cetății → Roșia Montană Mining Landscape is 124 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Roșia Montană Mining Landscape → back through Gilău - Dealul Cetății is 120 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Gilău - Dealul Cetății → Hurez - La Frasin 1 is 79 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.