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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257 km from Lozna to Lozna, about 5 h 21 of riding. The stops in between: Căpâlna - Hotroapă, Dumbrăveni - Dealul Sflederului 1, Perișor - Vârful Colnicului and back through Dumbrăveni - Dealul Sflederului 1. The line favours views over speed.
A ridge called Dealul Hoancelor does not make it onto many maps, and the place is better understood from the landscape around it. This is the country of the Someș river in the north of Transylvania, between the Meseș mountains in the west and the hills of the Transylvanian plain to the east, and the valleys are broad, green and thickly farmed. The nearest places on our list are tiny villages, Lozna and Letca, and the closest town, Jibou, is about twenty kilometres away.
Read the complete Negreni - Dealul Hoancelor write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Negreni - Dealul Hoancelor is where the day begins. Next is Căpâlna - Hotroapă.
Căpâlna sits in the Someș country northwest of Dej, in a landscape of long, rounded hills that the Transylvanian plateau does so well. Orchards, hayfields and small woods climb the slopes, villages sit where streams meet, and the horizon always seems to hold another soft ridge.
Read the complete Căpâlna - Hotroapă write-up.
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Căpâlna - Hotroapă comes up about 40 km into the recorded legs. Next is Dumbrăveni - Dealul Sflederului 1.
The Năsăud country in northern Transylvania has a history that the rest of Europe barely noticed. In 1762 the Habsburg authorities set up a military frontier here, enrolling local Romanian peasants as border guards in return for land and privileges, and for nearly a century the villages of the region lived under a mix of farm work and army discipline. The result was a surprisingly literate, organised society, with schools and a strong sense of identity, which produced a number of poets and writers. The novelist Liviu Rebreanu was born in the nearby village of Târlișua, and the poet George Coșbuc grew up not far from here.
Read the complete Dumbrăveni - Dealul Sflederului 1 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 81 km into the recorded legs you reach Dumbrăveni - Dealul Sflederului 1. Next is Perișor - Vârful Colnicului.
The upper valley of the Zagra stream, in the hills of Bistrița-Năsăud county in northern Transylvania, is the sort of place that has produced poets. The village of Hordou, now named Coșbuc, birthplace of the poet George Coșbuc, lies not far away, near Năsăud, and Liviu Rebreanu, one of Romania's great novelists, was born in Târlișua, a little to the west. The hills around Perișor and Zagra, with the summit called Vârful Colnicului, are a landscape of meadows, beech woods and scattered farms that seems to have stepped out of their books.
Read the complete Perișor - Vârful Colnicului write-up.
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Perișor - Vârful Colnicului, about halfway. Next is back through Dumbrăveni - Dealul Sflederului 1.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Dumbrăveni - Dealul Sflederului 1 write-up.
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back through Dumbrăveni - Dealul Sflederului 1 sits at 102 km, about halfway. Next is back through Căpâlna - Hotroapă.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Căpâlna - Hotroapă write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Căpâlna - Hotroapă comes up about 215 km into the recorded legs. Next is Negreni - Dealul Hoancelor.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Negreni - Dealul Hoancelor write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Negreni - Dealul Hoancelor closes the day.
Negreni - Dealul Hoancelor → Căpâlna - Hotroapă is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Căpâlna - Hotroapă → Dumbrăveni - Dealul Sflederului 1 is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Dumbrăveni - Dealul Sflederului 1 → Perișor - Vârful Colnicului is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Perișor - Vârful Colnicului → back through Dumbrăveni - Dealul Sflederului 1 is 48 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Dumbrăveni - Dealul Sflederului 1 → back through Căpâlna - Hotroapă is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Căpâlna - Hotroapă → Negreni - Dealul Hoancelor is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.