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 133 km round trip from Nimigea de Sus - roughly 3 h 12 in the saddle. On the way it passes Ciceu-Poieni - Fața Carpenului 3, Chiuiești - Dealul Podului and back through Ciceu-Poieni - Fața Carpenului 3. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Perișor lies in the hills north of Năsăud, in the county of Bistrița-Năsăud, and Vârful Zgăului is the hilltop to which the label points. Zagra and Spermezeu are the nearest villages, while the great wall of the Rodna Mountains stands to the east, the highest part of the northern Eastern Carpathians, with peaks over two thousand metres and glacial lakes among the crags. The Rodna range is a national park and a biosphere reserve, home to chamois, marmots, brown bears and a rich alpine flora. On a clear day the sharp, pale line of the ridge can be seen from many of the hills around.
Read the complete Perișor - Vârful Zgăului write-up.
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Perișor - Vârful Zgăului is where the day begins. Next is Ciceu-Poieni - Fața Carpenului 3.
Ciceu-Poieni is a scattered village in the hills of Bistrița-Năsăud county, with the ruins of Ciceu fortress somewhere in the story. The stronghold stood on a hilltop here, and in the fifteenth century Hungary's King Matthias Corvinus granted it, along with Cetatea de Baltă, to the Moldavian prince Stephen the Great, which tied this remote corner of Transylvania to Moldavia's fortunes for decades. Today little remains but crumbling walls and a good view, but the history gives the hills a certain weight.
Read the complete Ciceu-Poieni - Fața Carpenului 3 write-up.
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Ciceu-Poieni - Fața Carpenului 3 comes up about 25 km into the recorded legs. Next is Chiuiești - Dealul Podului.
The hills above the Someș valley northeast of Dej roll away in long green waves, and the commune of Chiuiești sprawls across them in a scatter of hamlets, each tucked into its own fold of land. Dealul Podului, the Hill of the Bridge, is one of the ridges where traces of a Roman watchtower have been found, part of the chain of observation points that guarded the northern frontier of Dacia. The frontier was not a wall but a network of forts, towers and roads, and the Romans placed their towers where they could see far across the valleys and signal to one another. The site is one of the components of the World Heritage site of the Dacian frontier, although on the ground you will see little more than the shape of the hill and perhaps a low mound.
Read the complete Chiuiești - Dealul Podului write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 65 km into the recorded legs you reach Chiuiești - Dealul Podului. Next is back through Ciceu-Poieni - Fața Carpenului 3.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Ciceu-Poieni - Fața Carpenului 3 write-up.
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back through Ciceu-Poieni - Fața Carpenului 3, late in the day. Next is Perișor - Vârful Zgăului.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Perișor - Vârful Zgăului write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Perișor - Vârful Zgăului. That is the ride.
Perișor - Vârful Zgăului → Ciceu-Poieni - Fața Carpenului 3 is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Ciceu-Poieni - Fața Carpenului 3 → Chiuiești - Dealul Podului is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Chiuiești - Dealul Podului → back through Ciceu-Poieni - Fața Carpenului 3 is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Ciceu-Poieni - Fața Carpenului 3 → Perișor - Vârful Zgăului is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.