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 Nimigea de Sus it runs 362 km to Nimigea de Sus; allow about 7 h 19 of riding. It goes by way of Chiuiești - Muncelul Chiuieștiului, Rogna - La Bontauă, Var - Dealul Tărăvăilor and Agrij - Coasta Lată. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
This part of the ride is 35 km of Var - Dealul Tărăvăilor → Agrij - Coasta Lată.
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 is where the day begins. Next is Chiuiești - Muncelul Chiuieștiului.
North of Dej, in the hills of Cluj county, the land rises into a rolling upland of pastures, orchards and beech woods, cut by small valleys and dotted with villages. Muncelul Chiuieștiului is one of the hilltops above the village of Chiuiești, and the name is listed among archaeological sites of the Roman frontier in Dacia, which in this region ran along the hills to protect the province from the free Dacians and other peoples to the north. What exactly stood on this hilltop is something to learn from the local signs rather than assume; much of the frontier here consisted of small watchtowers and earthworks that left only faint traces.
Read the complete Chiuiești - Muncelul Chiuieștiului write-up.
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Chiuiești - Muncelul Chiuieștiului comes up about 54 km into the recorded legs. Next is Rogna - La Bontauă.
Rogna is a scatter of farms in the hills of northern Sălaj, close to the Someș valley and the border with Maramureș, and La Bontauă is the name the locals give to a piece of high ground where a Roman frontier site has been recorded. The northern edge of Roman Dacia ran through these hills, and the Romans placed watchtowers and small forts on high points to keep an eye on the river valleys and the free Dacians to the north. Today there is little to see apart from the shape of the land, but the view over the rolling hills makes it easy to imagine a sentry looking out across the valley.
Read the complete Rogna - La Bontauă write-up.
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about 100 km into the recorded legs you reach Rogna - La Bontauă. Next is Var - Dealul Tărăvăilor.
Dealul Tărăvăilor is a hill above the village of Var, near Creaca and Jibou, in Sălaj county, north-western Romania, and like many hilltops in this part of the country, it held a Roman watchtower on the frontier of the province of Dacia. The Limes Porolissensis, as the northern frontier is known, was a system of towers, forts and earthworks guarding the roads leading to the great fortress of Porolissum, and the towers were placed on hills with views over the valleys, so that signals could pass quickly along the line.
Read the complete Var - Dealul Tărăvăilor write-up.
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Var - Dealul Tărăvăilor, about halfway. Next is Agrij - Coasta Lată.
The Meseș mountains are a modest ridge by Carpathian standards, but for the Romans they were a natural wall, and they built their frontier along it. The north-western edge of Dacia ran along these hills, with forts, watchtowers and walls guarding the passes from the plains of the Barbaricum beyond. Agrij - Coasta Lată, near the villages of Stârciu, Buciumi and Meseșenii de Jos, is one of the watchtower sites named in the World Heritage inscription of 2024. Nearby, at Buciumi, are the remains of a fort, and a little further north, at Moigrad, lies Porolissum, the largest Roman site in the region, with a reconstructed gate.
Read the complete Agrij - Coasta Lată write-up.
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Agrij - Coasta Lată sits at 140 km, about halfway. Next is back through Var - Dealul Tărăvăilor.
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Read the complete Var - Dealul Tărăvăilor write-up.
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back through Var - Dealul Tărăvăilor comes up about 223 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Rogna - La Bontauă.
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Read the complete Rogna - La Bontauă write-up.
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about 263 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Rogna - La Bontauă. Next is back through Chiuiești - Muncelul Chiuieștiului.
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Read the complete Chiuiești - Muncelul Chiuieștiului write-up.
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back through Chiuiești - Muncelul Chiuieștiului, late in the day. Next is Perișor - Vârful Colnicului.
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Read the complete Perișor - Vârful Colnicului write-up.
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The route ends here after 362 km.
Perișor - Vârful Colnicului → Chiuiești - Muncelul Chiuieștiului is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Chiuiești - Muncelul Chiuieștiului → Rogna - La Bontauă is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Rogna - La Bontauă → Var - Dealul Tărăvăilor is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Var - Dealul Tărăvăilor → Agrij - Coasta Lată is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Agrij - Coasta Lată → back through Var - Dealul Tărăvăilor is 48 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Var - Dealul Tărăvăilor → back through Rogna - La Bontauă is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Rogna - La Bontauă → back through Chiuiești - Muncelul Chiuieștiului is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Chiuiești - Muncelul Chiuieștiului → Perișor - Vârful Colnicului is 55 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.