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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A 193 km round trip from Negrilești - roughly 3 h 49 in the saddle. On the way it passes Cășeiu - Cetățele / Samvm Cășeiu -Samum, Glod - Toaca Glodului 2, Surduc - Deasupra Văii Hrăii and back through Glod - Toaca Glodului 2. 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 Cășeiu - Cetățele / Samvm Cășeiu -Samum -.
On a terrace above the river Someș, near the village of Cășeiu, a few kilometres from Dej in northern Transylvania, the Romans built a fort they called Samum. It guarded the northern edge of their province of Dacia, which they conquered in the early second century after two hard wars against the Dacian king Decebalus. The fort controlled the valley and the routes into the province, and today its outline can still be traced in the fields, with low walls and earthworks where archaeologists have uncovered gates, towers and barracks. In 2024 the Dacian frontier was added to the UNESCO World Heritage list as part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire.
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Cășeiu - Cetățele / Samvm Cășeiu -Samum - comes up about 32 km into the recorded legs. Next is Glod - Toaca Glodului 2.
East of Jibou the Someș river squeezes through a narrower valley, and around Ileanda the hills close in, wooded and steep, with villages tucked wherever there is room for a few houses and gardens. Glod is a tiny settlement in these hills, and Toaca Glodului is the local name of a height above it; toaca, by the way, is the wooden board struck to call monks to prayer, and hills with that name often have a commanding view. Like many points with this naming pattern in Sălaj, it is listed with the Roman frontier of Dacia, where watchtowers and small forts guarded the approaches to the province. On the ground you should expect little more than traces in a field or woodland, so come for the setting.
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about 55 km into the recorded legs you reach Glod - Toaca Glodului 2. Next is Surduc - Deasupra Văii Hrăii.
Surduc is a village in the Someș valley in Sălaj county, north-western Romania, where the river cuts a narrow path through hills on its way toward Baia Mare. Above the village, on a ridge overlooking the valley of the Hrăii stream, there are traces of a Roman watchtower, part of the frontier of the province of Dacia. The nearby villages of Tihău and Băbeni, and the town of Jibou, are all close by.
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Surduc - Deasupra Văii Hrăii, about halfway. Next is back through Glod - Toaca Glodului 2.
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Read the complete Glod - Toaca Glodului 2 write-up.
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back through Glod - Toaca Glodului 2 sits at 109 km, about halfway. Next is back through Cășeiu - Cetățele / Samvm Cășeiu -Samum -.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
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back through Cășeiu - Cetățele / Samvm Cășeiu -Samum - comes up about 162 km into the recorded legs. Next is Negrilești - Dealul Muncelului.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Negrilești - Dealul Muncelului write-up.
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Negrilești - Dealul Muncelului closes the day.
Negrilești - Dealul Muncelului → Cășeiu - Cetățele / Samvm Cășeiu -Samum - is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cășeiu - Cetățele / Samvm Cășeiu -Samum - → Glod - Toaca Glodului 2 is 23 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Glod - Toaca Glodului 2 → Surduc - Deasupra Văii Hrăii is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Surduc - Deasupra Văii Hrăii → back through Glod - Toaca Glodului 2 is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Glod - Toaca Glodului 2 → back through Cășeiu - Cetățele / Samvm Cășeiu -Samum - is 23 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cășeiu - Cetățele / Samvm Cășeiu -Samum - → Negrilești - Dealul Muncelului is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.