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 Câţcău it runs 324 km to Câţcău; allow about 6 h 04 of riding. The stops in between: Brebi - Dealul Mare 3, Bologa - Măgura Bologii and back through Brebi - Dealul Mare 3. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 800 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
On the hills between the valley of the Someș and the Meseș mountains, in the north-west of Transylvania, the ground rises in gentle ridges, and this is the highest point in a small stretch of country near the villages of Vad, Gâlgău and Poiana Blenchii. The label is Muncel, meaning little hill, and Comorița, which carries the sense of a small treasure, and both names tell you about the country: low, open, rounded hills, used for generations as pasture and orchard land. A lot of local folklore has treasure buried in hills like this, and many an old shepherd has a tale of a hoard or a lost mine.
Read the complete Muncel - Comorița write-up.
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Muncel - Comorița is where the day begins. Next is Brebi - Dealul Mare 3.
Most people who know the Roman Empire think of Hadrian's Wall or the Rhine, but there was also a Roman frontier in the hills of north-western Transylvania, and this is part of it. The province of Dacia Porolissensis was guarded by a line of forts and wooden watchtowers on ridge tops, and the great fort and customs station at Porolissum, at Moigrad, was its centre. UNESCO added the Dacia Porolissensis frontier to its listing of Roman frontiers in 2024. Brebi lies close to Porolissum, and the ridge called Dealul Mare gives a sense of why the Romans chose these hills: wide views over the valleys and the approaches from the north.
Read the complete Brebi - Dealul Mare 3 write-up.
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Brebi - Dealul Mare 3 comes up about 83 km into the recorded legs. 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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about 163 km into the recorded legs you reach Bologa - Măgura Bologii. Next is back through Brebi - Dealul Mare 3.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Brebi - Dealul Mare 3 write-up.
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back through Brebi - Dealul Mare 3, late in the day. Next is Muncel - Comorița.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Muncel - Comorița write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Muncel - Comorița. That is the ride.
Muncel - Comorița → Brebi - Dealul Mare 3 is 83 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Brebi - Dealul Mare 3 → Bologa - Măgura Bologii is 80 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Bologa - Măgura Bologii → back through Brebi - Dealul Mare 3 is 79 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Brebi - Dealul Mare 3 → Muncel - Comorița is 83 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.