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 393 km round trip from Nimigea de Sus - roughly 8 h 19 in the saddle. The stops in between: Dumbrăveni - Dealul Podului 1, Glod - Toaca Glodului 1, Dumbrăveni - Vârful Runcului and Glod - Toaca Glodului 2. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
Salva lies where the Someșul Mare valley opens into a broad bowl in Bistrița-Năsăud county, with the Rodna mountains standing to the northeast and a ring of low wooded hills closer in. The town is a railway junction, a lorry stop on the road through the valley, and the kind of place that looks ordinary until you ask about its past.
Read the complete Salva - Modruț write-up.
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Salva - Modruț is where the day begins. Next is Dumbrăveni - Dealul Podului 1.
The northern edge of Roman Dacia was a long line of watchtowers, small forts and earthworks drawn across the hills of what is now northern Transylvania, and Dealul Podului, the bridge hill, near Dumbrăveni, was one of the points along it. Watchtowers here kept an eye on the valleys that led north from the province, toward the lands of the free Dacians and other peoples beyond the frontier, and their remains, now mostly low earthworks in the fields and forest, are part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire listing for Dacia, added by UNESCO in 2024.
Read the complete Dumbrăveni - Dealul Podului 1 write-up.
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Dumbrăveni - Dealul Podului 1 comes up about 49 km into the recorded legs. Next is Glod - Toaca Glodului 1.
Between Dej and Jibou the Someș river squeezes through a narrow, winding valley, with the railway, the road and the river taking turns to cross each other. On the hills above, near the village of Glod and the larger villages of Rus and Ileanda, the Romans kept a watch on the north-western edge of Dacia, and Toaca Glodului is one of their watchtower positions, among the components of UNESCO's Dacian frontier listing. Toaca is the name of the wooden board struck in Romanian monasteries to call the monks to prayer, and the hill may owe its name to its shape or to some long-forgotten story.
Read the complete Glod - Toaca Glodului 1 write-up.
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about 95 km into the recorded legs you reach Glod - Toaca Glodului 1. Next is Dumbrăveni - Vârful Runcului.
The countryside around Vârful Runcului is the landscape that two of Romania's best-loved writers came from, and it shows in their work. Liviu Rebreanu, born in the Năsăud area in 1885, set his novel Ion, about a peasant's hunger for land, in villages very like these, and the poet George Coșbuc grew up not far away in the valleys north of Năsăud. The hill itself, a rounded summit above the Someș valley, carries traces of the Roman watch system that once guarded the northern frontier of Dacia, part of the World Heritage listing since 2024, but its real charm is the view of the farmland Rebreanu wrote about.
Read the complete Dumbrăveni - Vârful Runcului write-up.
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Dumbrăveni - Vârful Runcului, about halfway. Next is Glod - Toaca Glodului 2.
East of Jibou the Someș river squeezes through a narrower valley, and around Ileanda the hills close in, wooded and steep, with villages tucked wherever there is room for a few houses and gardens. Glod is a tiny settlement in these hills, and Toaca Glodului is the local name of a height above it; toaca, by the way, is the wooden board struck to call monks to prayer, and hills with that name often have a commanding view. Like many points with this naming pattern in Sălaj, it is listed with the Roman frontier of Dacia, where watchtowers and small forts guarded the approaches to the province. On the ground you should expect little more than traces in a field or woodland, so come for the setting.
Read the complete Glod - Toaca Glodului 2 write-up.
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Glod - Toaca Glodului 2 sits at 140 km, about halfway. Next is back through Dumbrăveni - Vârful Runcului.
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Read the complete Dumbrăveni - Vârful Runcului write-up.
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back through Dumbrăveni - Vârful Runcului comes up about 247 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Glod - Toaca Glodului 1.
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Read the complete Glod - Toaca Glodului 1 write-up.
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about 297 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Glod - Toaca Glodului 1. Next is back through Dumbrăveni - Dealul Podului 1.
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Read the complete Dumbrăveni - Dealul Podului 1 write-up.
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back through Dumbrăveni - Dealul Podului 1, late in the day. Next is Salva - Modruț.
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Read the complete Salva - Modruț write-up.
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The route ends here after 393 km.
Salva - Modruț → Dumbrăveni - Dealul Podului 1 is 49 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Dumbrăveni - Dealul Podului 1 → Glod - Toaca Glodului 1 is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Glod - Toaca Glodului 1 → Dumbrăveni - Vârful Runcului is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Dumbrăveni - Vârful Runcului → Glod - Toaca Glodului 2 is 49 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Glod - Toaca Glodului 2 → back through Dumbrăveni - Vârful Runcului is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Dumbrăveni - Vârful Runcului → back through Glod - Toaca Glodului 1 is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Glod - Toaca Glodului 1 → back through Dumbrăveni - Dealul Podului 1 is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Dumbrăveni - Dealul Podului 1 → Salva - Modruț is 49 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.