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 Ciucea it runs 287 km to Ciucea; allow about 6 h 06 of riding. It goes by way of 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.
Ciucea is the first place to know before you ride into Hurez, because the road from Cluj to Oradea passes through it and the poet Octavian Goga lived and died there. Goga, one of the voices of Transylvanian Romanian nationalism, served briefly as prime minister in 1937 and 1938, and the castle at Ciucea, where he spent his later years, is now a memorial museum. It sits in a small park above the road, with a view of the green hills of the Apuseni mountains, and Goga's grave is nearby.
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Hurez - Poic 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.
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Surduc - Deasupra Văii Hrăii comes up about 59 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 141 km into the recorded legs you reach Dumbrăveni - Dealul Podului 2. Next is back through Surduc - Deasupra Văii Hrăii.
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Read the complete Surduc - Deasupra Văii Hrăii write-up.
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back through Surduc - Deasupra Văii Hrăii, late in the day. Next is Hurez - Poic.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hurez - Poic write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Hurez - Poic. That is the ride.
Hurez - Poic → Surduc - Deasupra Văii Hrăii is 59 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 - Poic is 59 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.