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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223 km from Spermezeu to Spermezeu, about 4 h 55 of riding. On the way it passes Dumbrăveni - Dealul Podului 1, Gâlgău - Valea Strâmturei, Lozna - Curmăturița 1 and back through Gâlgău - Valea Strâmturei. The line favours views over speed.
The hills of northern Transylvania, in Bistrita-Nasaud county, are quieter than the better-known Saxon towns further south, a country of wooded ridges, narrow valleys and farming villages where hay is still cut by hand and stacked on wooden poles. The Perisor to Paltinis label sits in this landscape, about four kilometres from the village of Spermezeu and not far from Zagra, in the foothills below the Rodna mountains.
Read the complete Perișor - Păltiniș write-up.
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Perișor - Păltiniș is where the day begins. Next is Dumbrăveni - Dealul Podului 1.
The northern edge of Roman Dacia was a long line of watchtowers, small forts and earthworks drawn across the hills of what is now northern Transylvania, and Dealul Podului, the bridge hill, near Dumbrăveni, was one of the points along it. Watchtowers here kept an eye on the valleys that led north from the province, toward the lands of the free Dacians and other peoples beyond the frontier, and their remains, now mostly low earthworks in the fields and forest, are part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire listing for Dacia, added by UNESCO in 2024.
Read the complete Dumbrăveni - Dealul Podului 1 write-up.
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Dumbrăveni - Dealul Podului 1 comes up about 38 km into the recorded legs. Next is Gâlgău - Valea Strâmturei.
Strâmtură means a narrowing, and the name fits. Just outside Gâlgău, a small Sălaj village on the Someș, the valley pinches between wooded slopes, and the Roman frontier made use of exactly such pinch points to control movement along the river. The site listed as Valea Strâmturei belongs to that northern Dacian line, and like most of its neighbours it is earthwork and setting rather than standing masonry. You come for the geography and the sense of a border that ran through these quiet hills nearly two thousand years ago.
Read the complete Gâlgău - Valea Strâmturei write-up.
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about 78 km into the recorded legs you reach Gâlgău - Valea Strâmturei. Next is Lozna - Curmăturița 1.
Lozna is a village in the northern hills of Sălaj county, close to the Someș river, a place of small farms, orchards and wooden houses, and Curmăturița is a saddle in the hills above it, where a Roman watchtower is thought to have stood. The northern frontier of Roman Dacia ran through this area, following ridges and river valleys, and small towers and forts were placed to watch over the approaches. Today there is little to see, but the view from the saddle, over the rolling hills and the Someș valley, is lovely, and it explains why the Romans chose the spot.
Read the complete Lozna - Curmăturița 1 write-up.
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Lozna - Curmăturița 1, about halfway. Next is back through Gâlgău - Valea Strâmturei.
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Read the complete Gâlgău - Valea Strâmturei write-up.
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back through Gâlgău - Valea Strâmturei sits at 102 km, about halfway. Next is back through Dumbrăveni - Dealul Podului 1.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Dumbrăveni - Dealul Podului 1 write-up.
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back through Dumbrăveni - Dealul Podului 1 comes up about 186 km into the recorded legs. Next is Perișor - Păltiniș.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Perișor - Păltiniș write-up.
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Perișor - Păltiniș closes the day.
Perișor - Păltiniș → Dumbrăveni - Dealul Podului 1 is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Dumbrăveni - Dealul Podului 1 → Gâlgău - Valea Strâmturei is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Gâlgău - Valea Strâmturei → Lozna - Curmăturița 1 is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Lozna - Curmăturița 1 → back through Gâlgău - Valea Strâmturei is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Gâlgău - Valea Strâmturei → back through Dumbrăveni - Dealul Podului 1 is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Dumbrăveni - Dealul Podului 1 → Perișor - Păltiniș is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.