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 301 km round trip from Băbeni - roughly 5 h 46 in the saddle. It goes by way of Negrilești - Dealul Muncelului, Domnești and back through Negrilești - Dealul Muncelului. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Preluci is the sort of place that does not appear in guidebooks and does not seem to mind. The name on the stop points to a stone, a crag or outcrop above the village, and the ride starts and ends here, which gives you a good excuse to look at it properly before you go. The country around is the Sălaj hill belt where it nudges toward the Someș valley, a mix of oak and beech forest, pasture, and villages strung along small streams.
Read the complete Preluci - Piatra Prelucilor 1 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Preluci - Piatra Prelucilor 1 is where the day begins. Next is Negrilești - Dealul Muncelului.
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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Negrilești - Dealul Muncelului comes up about 85 km into the recorded legs. Next is Domnești.
Domnești sits in the hills just south of Bistrița, the old Saxon town in northeastern Transylvania, and like several places in this region it marks a point on the Roman frontier of Dacia, where watchtowers once looked out from the ridgetops over the province's edge. Nothing dramatic remains here, but the location is perfect for exploring a corner of Romania that mixes Roman, Saxon, Hungarian and Romanian history in a single valley.
Read the complete Domnești write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 151 km into the recorded legs you reach Domnești. Next is back through Negrilești - Dealul Muncelului.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Negrilești - Dealul Muncelului write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Negrilești - Dealul Muncelului, late in the day. Next is Preluci - Piatra Prelucilor 1.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Preluci - Piatra Prelucilor 1 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Preluci - Piatra Prelucilor 1. That is the ride.
Preluci - Piatra Prelucilor 1 → Negrilești - Dealul Muncelului is 85 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Negrilești - Dealul Muncelului → Domnești is 66 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Domnești → back through Negrilești - Dealul Muncelului is 66 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Negrilești - Dealul Muncelului → Preluci - Piatra Prelucilor 1 is 85 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.