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 155 km round trip from Cizer - roughly 3 h 38 in the saddle. The stops in between: Agrij - Osoiul Ciontului 2, Românași - Largiana / Cetate and back through Agrij - Osoiul Ciontului 2. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Huta is a Romanian word for a glassworks or ironworks, and the name usually points to an old forest industry: a place where charcoal burners and glassblowers once worked in clearings in the beech woods. The village of this name lies in the hills between Ciucea, in Cluj county, and the villages of Cizer and Stârciu in the neighbouring county of Sălaj, in the broken country where the Meseș and Plopiș mountains meet.
Read the complete Huta - Salhiger write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Huta - Salhiger is where the day begins. Next is Agrij - Osoiul Ciontului 2.
The Meseș hills are a long, wooded ridge in northwestern Romania, and for the Romans they were the edge of the world. Beyond them lay the free Dacians and the peoples of the great plain; on this side lay the province of Dacia, conquered by Trajan in the early second century. The valley of the Agrij river, which runs along the southern side of the ridge in Sălaj county, is dotted with archaeological sites, and Osoiul Ciontului is one of many places in the area where traces of ancient settlement have been recorded. There may be little to see at the spot itself, but the landscape around it is rich in history and quiet beauty.
Read the complete Agrij - Osoiul Ciontului 2 write-up.
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Agrij - Osoiul Ciontului 2 comes up about 45 km into the recorded legs. Next is Românași - Largiana / Cetate.
At Românași, in the valley of the Agrij in Sălaj county, the outline of a Roman fort called Largiana can still be traced on a low rise above the village, its rectangle of ramparts and ditches softened by centuries of ploughing. It stood on the road that ran from Porolissum, the great frontier stronghold to the north, down towards Napoca, today's Cluj, and it housed an auxiliary unit guarding the approach to the Meseș mountains. Archaeologists have found inscriptions, coins and pottery here, and the site is part of the Dacian frontier listed by UNESCO in 2024.
Read the complete Românași - Largiana / Cetate write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 77 km into the recorded legs you reach Românași - Largiana / Cetate. Next is back through Agrij - Osoiul Ciontului 2.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Agrij - Osoiul Ciontului 2 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Agrij - Osoiul Ciontului 2, late in the day. Next is Huta - Salhiger.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Huta - Salhiger write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Huta - Salhiger. That is the ride.
Huta - Salhiger → Agrij - Osoiul Ciontului 2 is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Agrij - Osoiul Ciontului 2 → Românași - Largiana / Cetate is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Românași - Largiana / Cetate → back through Agrij - Osoiul Ciontului 2 is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Agrij - Osoiul Ciontului 2 → Huta - Salhiger is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.