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 100 km to Câţcău; allow about 1 h 51 of riding. On the way it passes Dăbâceni - Coama Pietrar 1, Preluci - Piatra Prelucilor 1 and back through Dăbâceni - Coama Pietrar 1. 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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Muncel - Comorița is where the day begins. Next is Dăbâceni - Coama Pietrar 1.
The Someș is the river of northern Transylvania, gathering its waters in the mountains and winding west through a broad, green valley towards Hungary. Around Rus and Ileanda, in the northeast of Sălaj county, the valley narrows between wooded hills, and the villages cling to the slopes above the river. Dăbâceni and the ridge called Coama Pietrar lie in this landscape, one of many recorded archaeological sites in the area, and like most of them it is more about the setting than about visible remains.
Read the complete Dăbâceni - Coama Pietrar 1 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Dăbâceni - Coama Pietrar 1 comes up about 23 km into the recorded legs. Next is Preluci - Piatra Prelucilor 1.
Preluci is the sort of place that does not appear in guidebooks and does not seem to mind. The name on the stop points to a stone, a crag or outcrop above the village, and the ride starts and ends here, which gives you a good excuse to look at it properly before you go. The country around is the Sălaj hill belt where it nudges toward the Someș valley, a mix of oak and beech forest, pasture, and villages strung along small streams.
Read the complete Preluci - Piatra Prelucilor 1 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 50 km into the recorded legs you reach Preluci - Piatra Prelucilor 1. Next is back through Dăbâceni - Coama Pietrar 1.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Dăbâceni - Coama Pietrar 1 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Dăbâceni - Coama Pietrar 1, 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 → Dăbâceni - Coama Pietrar 1 is 23 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Dăbâceni - Coama Pietrar 1 → Preluci - Piatra Prelucilor 1 is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Preluci - Piatra Prelucilor 1 → back through Dăbâceni - Coama Pietrar 1 is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Dăbâceni - Coama Pietrar 1 → Muncel - Comorița is 23 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.