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 Năsăud it runs 231 km to Năsăud; allow about 5 h 07 of riding. On the way it passes Dobricel - Vârful Lazului, Chiuiești - Dealul Podului, Ileanda - La Căsoi and back through Chiuiești - Dealul Podului. The line favours views over speed.
The Someșul Mare valley around Năsăud was a frontier long before the Habsburgs made it one again. The Romans built watchtowers on the hills here to guard the northern edge of Dacia, and Salva - Dealul Dumbravă, the hill of the oak grove near the village of Salva, is one of the sites included in the UNESCO listing of the Dacian frontier in 2024. Sixteen centuries later, the Habsburg empire turned the region into a military border district, and the Năsăud border regiment, made up of local Romanian peasants, guarded the Carpathian passes in return for privileges and education.
Read the complete Salva - Dealul Dumbravă write-up.
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Salva - Dealul Dumbravă is where the day begins. Next is Dobricel - Vârful Lazului.
Spermezeu is the kind of place a road atlas barely notices: a commune of scattered villages in the hills of Bistrița-Năsăud, in northern Transylvania, between the upper Someș valley and the Țibleș mountains. The site of Dobricel, on the hilltop known as Vârful Lazului, is one of the many archaeological places recorded in the area, a high point above the valleys where traces of earlier inhabitants have been noted. There is not much to see without an archaeologist's eye, but the hilltop and the country around it are a good excuse for a ride through a region few foreigners ever visit.
Read the complete Dobricel - Vârful Lazului write-up.
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Dobricel - Vârful Lazului comes up about 32 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.
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about 71 km into the recorded legs you reach Chiuiești - Dealul Podului. Next is Ileanda - La Căsoi.
Ileanda is a village on the Someș, the big river of north-western Transylvania, at a point where the valley narrows between wooded hills on its way from Dej towards Jibou. The railway runs alongside the water, the road keeps company with both, and the hills on either side rise in long slopes of beech, hornbeam and pasture. La Căsoi is a local name for a spot among those hills; you will not find a monument here, just the landscape and whatever the season is doing to it.
Read the complete Ileanda - La Căsoi write-up.
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Ileanda - La Căsoi, about halfway. Next is back through Chiuiești - Dealul Podului.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Chiuiești - Dealul Podului write-up.
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back through Chiuiești - Dealul Podului sits at 107 km, about halfway. Next is back through Dobricel - Vârful Lazului.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Dobricel - Vârful Lazului write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Dobricel - Vârful Lazului comes up about 200 km into the recorded legs. Next is Salva - Dealul Dumbravă.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Salva - Dealul Dumbravă write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Salva - Dealul Dumbravă closes the day.
Salva - Dealul Dumbravă → Dobricel - Vârful Lazului is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Dobricel - Vârful Lazului → Chiuiești - Dealul Podului is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Chiuiești - Dealul Podului → Ileanda - La Căsoi is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Ileanda - La Căsoi → back through Chiuiești - Dealul Podului is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Chiuiești - Dealul Podului → back through Dobricel - Vârful Lazului is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Dobricel - Vârful Lazului → Salva - Dealul Dumbravă is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.