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 270 km round trip from Cristeștii Ciceului - roughly 5 h 26 in the saddle. The stops in between: Cormeniș - Râpa Malului 1, Agrij - Osoiul Ciontului 2 and back through Cormeniș - Râpa Malului 1. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
A Roman cavalry regiment kept its horses near the village of Ilișua, in the hills of northern Transylvania, for most of the time the province of Dacia existed. The fort, which modern archaeologists link with the ancient name Arcobara, was a large stone camp on the northern frontier, and its remains have been excavated over the years. It is part of the frontier of Roman Dacia listed by UNESCO in 2024. Today the site is a field with low walls and grassy mounds, and the neighbouring villages of Uriu, Cristeștii Ciceului and Braniștea go about their business around it.
Read the complete Ilișua - Arcobara / Vicinal write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Ilișua - Arcobara / Vicinal is where the day begins. Next is Cormeniș - Râpa Malului 1.
The Someș river cuts through the low hills of north-western Transylvania in a series of wide loops, and at Cormeniș, a small village in Sălaj county, it passes below a bank where the Romans placed one of their watchtowers. This was the northern edge of the province of Dacia Porolissensis, the frontier facing the free Dacian tribes beyond, and a line of towers and small forts ran along the hills, linked by signals and patrols. The site at Râpa Malului, the riverbank cliff, is one of the many components of the Dacian frontier listed by UNESCO in 2024. As so often on the Dacian limes, there is little to see apart from a slight rise in a field, but standing up there with the river below, you can easily imagine a small garrison watching the valley.
Read the complete Cormeniș - Râpa Malului 1 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Cormeniș - Râpa Malului 1 comes up about 67 km into the recorded legs. 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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 135 km into the recorded legs you reach Agrij - Osoiul Ciontului 2. Next is back through Cormeniș - Râpa Malului 1.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cormeniș - Râpa Malului 1 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Cormeniș - Râpa Malului 1, late in the day. Next is Ilișua - Arcobara / Vicinal.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Ilișua - Arcobara / Vicinal write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Ilișua - Arcobara / Vicinal. That is the ride.
Ilișua - Arcobara / Vicinal → Cormeniș - Râpa Malului 1 is 67 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cormeniș - Râpa Malului 1 → Agrij - Osoiul Ciontului 2 is 68 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Agrij - Osoiul Ciontului 2 → back through Cormeniș - Râpa Malului 1 is 68 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cormeniș - Râpa Malului 1 → Ilișua - Arcobara / Vicinal is 67 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.