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 Poieni it runs 242 km to Poieni; allow about 5 h 21 of riding. It goes by way of Buciumi - Pădurea Dosu, Frontiers of the Roman Empire - Dacia, Cliț - Fața Chicerii and back through Frontiers of the Roman Empire - Dacia. The line favours views over speed.
West of Cluj, the valley of the Crișul Repede cuts through the hills toward the Hungarian plain, and the main road between Transylvania and the west follows it. The village of Poieni and the hill of Râmbușoi lie in this valley, between Huedin and Ciucea, with the forested slopes of the Vlădeasa massif, part of the Apuseni mountains, rising to the south. In Roman times, the frontier of Dacia ran through the hills to the north, along the Meseș mountains, and this corridor was a natural route to watch; hilltop positions in the area formed part of the defensive network, and the larger fort at Bologa guarded the valley nearby.
Read the complete Poieni - Râmbușoi write-up.
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Poieni - Râmbușoi is where the day begins. Next is Buciumi - Pădurea Dosu.
Dosu forest lies above Buciumi, in the hills where Sălaj starts rising toward the Meseș range. It is a working woodland, not a showpiece: beech and oak, a few hornbeam, tracks cut by loggers, and a floor that smells strongly of leaf mould after rain. If you stop and kill the engine, the quiet is very complete. Wild boar and roe deer use these slopes, and the ground along the verges is often turned up by the former.
Read the complete Buciumi - Pădurea Dosu write-up.
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Buciumi - Pădurea Dosu comes up about 45 km into the recorded legs. Next is Frontiers of the Roman Empire - Dacia.
Above the town of Zalau, where the Meses mountains form a long, wooded ridge across northern Transylvania, the Roman Empire built one of its most remote defences. The mountains separated the province of Dacia from the free tribes to the north, and the ridge was fortified with a line of watchtowers and forts, the western part of what is now called the Frontiers of the Roman Empire in Dacia. The greatest of them was Porolissum, a garrison town and customs post on the Meses Gate, the pass through the ridge, near the village of Moigrad.
Read the complete Frontiers of the Roman Empire - Dacia write-up.
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about 87 km into the recorded legs you reach Frontiers of the Roman Empire - Dacia. 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, about halfway. Next is back through Frontiers of the Roman Empire - Dacia.
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Read the complete Frontiers of the Roman Empire - Dacia write-up.
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back through Frontiers of the Roman Empire - Dacia sits at 109 km, about halfway. Next is back through Buciumi - Pădurea Dosu.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Buciumi - Pădurea Dosu write-up.
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back through Buciumi - Pădurea Dosu comes up about 198 km into the recorded legs. Next is Poieni - Râmbușoi.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Poieni - Râmbușoi write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Poieni - Râmbușoi closes the day.
Poieni - Râmbușoi → Buciumi - Pădurea Dosu is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Buciumi - Pădurea Dosu → Frontiers of the Roman Empire - Dacia is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Frontiers of the Roman Empire - Dacia → Cliț - Fața Chicerii is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cliț - Fața Chicerii → back through Frontiers of the Roman Empire - Dacia is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Frontiers of the Roman Empire - Dacia → back through Buciumi - Pădurea Dosu is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Buciumi - Pădurea Dosu → Poieni - Râmbușoi is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.