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 Ileanda it runs 296 km to Ileanda; allow about 5 h 23 of riding. On the way it passes Zalău - Deasupra Șesurilor Tâlhăroasei, Gilău - La Castel and back through Zalău - Deasupra Șesurilor Tâlhăroasei. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 950 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Ileanda is a village on the Someș, the big river of north-western Transylvania, at a point where the valley narrows between wooded hills on its way from Dej towards Jibou. The railway runs alongside the water, the road keeps company with both, and the hills on either side rise in long slopes of beech, hornbeam and pasture. La Căsoi is a local name for a spot among those hills; you will not find a monument here, just the landscape and whatever the season is doing to it.
Read the complete Ileanda - La Căsoi write-up.
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Ileanda - La Căsoi is where the day begins. Next is Zalău - Deasupra Șesurilor Tâlhăroasei.
The Meseș mountains rise to the west of Zalău like a long green wall, and they formed the natural western boundary of Roman Dacia in this region. Along their crest and on the slopes above the plains, the Romans built a line of watchtowers, and the site above the fields with the evocative name of Șesurile Tâlhăroasei, roughly the robbers' flats, near the villages of Treznea and Aghireș, is one of them. It is part of the Dacian frontier on the World Heritage list. Up in the forest the remains are modest, but the position, high on a slope with a view over the valley, shows how the frontier used every advantage of the terrain.
Read the complete Zalău - Deasupra Șesurilor Tâlhăroasei write-up.
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Zalău - Deasupra Șesurilor Tâlhăroasei comes up about 68 km into the recorded legs. Next is Gilău - La Castel.
Gilău is a market village on the Someșul Mic, the first real settlement west of Cluj-Napoca on the road toward the Apuseni mountains, and the place name La Castel says it plainly: there was a fortification here, and there still is one, layered through the centuries. Under the later castle grounds, archaeologists found a Roman auxiliary fort guarding the valley route into Dacia from the west, and the medieval and early modern castle that followed sits on the same strategic ground. Rome, Hungarian nobles and later owners all made the same calculation about this spot.
Read the complete Gilău - La Castel write-up.
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about 147 km into the recorded legs you reach Gilău - La Castel. Next is back through Zalău - Deasupra Șesurilor Tâlhăroasei.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Zalău - Deasupra Șesurilor Tâlhăroasei write-up.
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back through Zalău - Deasupra Șesurilor Tâlhăroasei, late in the day. Next is Ileanda - La Căsoi.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Ileanda - La Căsoi write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Ileanda - La Căsoi. That is the ride.
Ileanda - La Căsoi → Zalău - Deasupra Șesurilor Tâlhăroasei is 68 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Zalău - Deasupra Șesurilor Tâlhăroasei → Gilău - La Castel is 79 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Gilău - La Castel → back through Zalău - Deasupra Șesurilor Tâlhăroasei is 77 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Zalău - Deasupra Șesurilor Tâlhăroasei → Ileanda - La Căsoi is 72 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.