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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303 km from Mirşid to Mirşid, about 6 h 15 of riding. The stops in between: Agrij - Coasta Lată, Poieni - Cornu Sonului, Gilău - Dealul Cetății and back through Poieni - Cornu Sonului. 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.
39 km on Mirșid - Dealul Mare 1 → Agrij - Coasta Lată.
Mirsid is the kind of village you pass on the way somewhere else, until you notice that it sits at the foot of the greatest Roman frontier in Transylvania. The ridge of the Meses mountains rises behind it in a long, dark line of beech and oak, and the Romans built a series of watchtowers along the crest, looking north across the border into the lands of the free Dacians. The name Dealul Mare, Big Hill, with the number one attached, suggests the first in a sequence of those lookout points, and in a few of them you can still make out the square footprint of a tower in the grass.
Read the complete Mirșid - Dealul Mare 1 write-up.
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Mirșid - Dealul Mare 1 is where the day begins. Next is Agrij - Coasta Lată.
The Meseș mountains are a modest ridge by Carpathian standards, but for the Romans they were a natural wall, and they built their frontier along it. The north-western edge of Dacia ran along these hills, with forts, watchtowers and walls guarding the passes from the plains of the Barbaricum beyond. Agrij - Coasta Lată, near the villages of Stârciu, Buciumi and Meseșenii de Jos, is one of the watchtower sites named in the World Heritage inscription of 2024. Nearby, at Buciumi, are the remains of a fort, and a little further north, at Moigrad, lies Porolissum, the largest Roman site in the region, with a reconstructed gate.
Read the complete Agrij - Coasta Lată write-up.
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Agrij - Coasta Lată comes up about 39 km into the recorded legs. Next is Poieni - Cornu Sonului.
Poieni, which means clearings or glades in Romanian, is a small village in the hills of Cluj county, on the edge of the Apuseni mountains, and the point called Cornu Sonului lies a few kilometres from it. The landscape is that of western Transylvania as it begins to climb: rolling green hills, patches of beech and oak forest, meadows and farms with steep tiled roofs. To the east and south the land rises toward the great limestone country of the Apuseni, with its caves, gorges and high pastures, while to the west the road drops toward Oradea and the Hungarian border.
Read the complete Poieni - Cornu Sonului write-up.
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about 96 km into the recorded legs you reach Poieni - Cornu Sonului. 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, about halfway. Next is back through Poieni - Cornu Sonului.
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Read the complete Poieni - Cornu Sonului write-up.
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back through Poieni - Cornu Sonului sits at 140 km, about halfway. Next is back through Agrij - Coasta Lată.
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Read the complete Agrij - Coasta Lată write-up.
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back through Agrij - Coasta Lată comes up about 266 km into the recorded legs. Next is Mirșid - Dealul Mare 1.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Mirșid - Dealul Mare 1 write-up.
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Mirșid - Dealul Mare 1 closes the day.
Mirșid - Dealul Mare 1 → Agrij - Coasta Lată is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Agrij - Coasta Lată → Poieni - Cornu Sonului is 57 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Poieni - Cornu Sonului → Gilău - Dealul Cetății is 55 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Gilău - Dealul Cetății → back through Poieni - Cornu Sonului is 58 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Poieni - Cornu Sonului → back through Agrij - Coasta Lată is 57 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Agrij - Coasta Lată → Mirșid - Dealul Mare 1 is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.