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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371 km from Negrilești to Negrilești, about 6 h 52 of riding. On the way it passes Cliț - Fața Chicerii, Gilău - La Castel and back through Cliț - Fața Chicerii. 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.
Bram Stoker never came to Transylvania, but he sent Jonathan Harker through Bistrița, and the town still enjoys the connection. Dealul Muncelului, a hill above the village of Negrilești, sits west of Bistrița in the Someș valley, and from here the road east leads through the Saxon town to the Tihuța pass, the Borgo Pass of the novel, where Count Dracula's carriage is supposed to have met his English visitor. It is a fine excuse for a ride, even if the vampire is fiction and the real history more interesting.
Read the complete Negrilești - Dealul Muncelului write-up.
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Negrilești - Dealul Muncelului is where the day begins. Next is Cliț - Fața Chicerii.
Northern Sălaj is quiet country: low wooded hills, hay meadows, plum orchards and villages strung along the Someș river and its side valleys, with wooden churches and haystacks built around poles in the fields. Cliț is a small village near Băbeni, and the point named Fața Chicerii lies in the hills above it. Names in this list follow the pattern of the Romanian archaeological record, a village and then the local name of a hillside, and in this part of Sălaj many such points belong to the line of watchtowers and small forts of the Roman frontier of Dacia, which UNESCO recognised in 2024.
Read the complete Cliț - Fața Chicerii write-up.
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Cliț - Fața Chicerii comes up about 85 km into the recorded legs. Next is Gilău - La Castel.
Gilău is a market village on the Someșul Mic, the first real settlement west of Cluj-Napoca on the road toward the Apuseni mountains, and the place name La Castel says it plainly: there was a fortification here, and there still is one, layered through the centuries. Under the later castle grounds, archaeologists found a Roman auxiliary fort guarding the valley route into Dacia from the west, and the medieval and early modern castle that followed sits on the same strategic ground. Rome, Hungarian nobles and later owners all made the same calculation about this spot.
Read the complete Gilău - La Castel write-up.
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about 186 km into the recorded legs you reach Gilău - La Castel. Next is back through Cliț - Fața Chicerii.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cliț - Fața Chicerii write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Cliț - Fața Chicerii, late in the day. Next is Negrilești - Dealul Muncelului.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Negrilești - Dealul Muncelului write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Negrilești - Dealul Muncelului. That is the ride.
Negrilești - Dealul Muncelului → Cliț - Fața Chicerii is 85 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cliț - Fața Chicerii → Gilău - La Castel is 101 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Gilău - La Castel → back through Cliț - Fața Chicerii is 100 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Cliț - Fața Chicerii → Negrilești - Dealul Muncelului is 85 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.