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 Mirşid it runs 400 km to Mirşid; allow about 8 h 43 of riding. The stops in between: Bologa - Măgura Bologii, Roșia Montană Mining Landscape and back through Bologa - Măgura Bologii. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,150 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
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 Bologa - Măgura Bologii.
Bologa is a village in the valley of the Crișul Repede, the swift river that flows west from the hills of Cluj county towards Oradea and the Hungarian plain. On the hill above it, known as Măgura Bologii, lie the remains of a castle that once guarded the valley, and in the fields nearby are the traces of a Roman fort, built to protect the north western edge of the province of Dacia. The fort, known in antiquity as Resculum, is part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire, Dacia, listed by UNESCO in 2024, a line of forts, watchtowers and walls that ran along the edge of the Roman province from the second to the third century.
Read the complete Bologa - Măgura Bologii write-up.
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Bologa - Măgura Bologii comes up about 81 km into the recorded legs. Next is Roșia Montană Mining Landscape.
Gold has been mined at Roșia Montană, in the Apuseni mountains of western Romania, for over two thousand years. The Romans, who called the place Alburnus Maior, dug an extensive network of galleries into the mountains to extract the gold, and some of these galleries survive, along with wax tablets found in the mines, recording contracts and daily life. In 2021, after years of controversy, the mining landscape of Roșia Montană was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Read the complete Roșia Montană Mining Landscape write-up.
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about 200 km into the recorded legs you reach Roșia Montană Mining Landscape. Next is back through Bologa - Măgura Bologii.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Bologa - Măgura Bologii write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Bologa - Măgura Bologii, late in the day. Next is Mirșid - Dealul Mare 1.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Mirșid - Dealul Mare 1 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Mirșid - Dealul Mare 1. That is the ride.
Mirșid - Dealul Mare 1 → Bologa - Măgura Bologii is 81 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Bologa - Măgura Bologii → Roșia Montană Mining Landscape is 119 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Roșia Montană Mining Landscape → back through Bologa - Măgura Bologii is 119 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Bologa - Măgura Bologii → Mirșid - Dealul Mare 1 is 81 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.