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 Nimigea de Sus it runs 389 km to Nimigea de Sus; allow about 7 h 48 of riding. The stops in between: Dumbrăveni, Bârsău Mare - Cetate, Dumbrăveni - Dealul Sflederului 1 and Glod - Toaca Glodului 2. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
Salva is a railway village. Trains for the Maramureș line split off here from the route along the Someșul Mare, and the place has a slightly busy, crossroads feel for a commune of a little over four thousand people. The site called Roata lui Todoran, Todoran's wheel, sits right by the village in the Năsăud country of Bistrița-Năsăud, a region that marked the northern edge of Roman Dacia and later formed part of a Habsburg border regiment. Few places in Transylvania have been a frontier for quite so long.
Read the complete Salva - Roata lui Todoran write-up.
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Salva - Roata lui Todoran is where the day begins. Next is Dumbrăveni.
Dumbrăveni sits in the quiet hill country above the Someş Mare, where the river curves west towards Dej and the land folds into low ridges, orchards and small woods of oak and hornbeam. Like several places on these rides, it marks a point on the old northern edge of Roman Dacia, one of the scattered watchtower and earthwork sites listed in 2024 as part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire. Expect a hill and a view rather than masonry, and enjoy the feeling of being somewhere few travellers bother to stop.
Read the complete Dumbrăveni write-up.
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Dumbrăveni comes up about 48 km into the recorded legs. Next is Bârsău Mare - Cetate.
In the north of Transylvania, the Someș river winds through a valley of green hills, woods and villages with wooden churches and haystacks, and on a hilltop near the village of Bârsău Mare, the faint remains of a Roman fortification overlook the valley. This was part of the northern frontier of Roman Dacia, the province created after Trajan's conquest in the early second century, and it is one of the sites included in the Frontiers of the Roman Empire, Dacia, listed by UNESCO in 2024.
Read the complete Bârsău Mare - Cetate write-up.
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about 95 km into the recorded legs you reach Bârsău Mare - Cetate. Next is Dumbrăveni - Dealul Sflederului 1.
The Năsăud country in northern Transylvania has a history that the rest of Europe barely noticed. In 1762 the Habsburg authorities set up a military frontier here, enrolling local Romanian peasants as border guards in return for land and privileges, and for nearly a century the villages of the region lived under a mix of farm work and army discipline. The result was a surprisingly literate, organised society, with schools and a strong sense of identity, which produced a number of poets and writers. The novelist Liviu Rebreanu was born in the nearby village of Târlișua, and the poet George Coșbuc grew up not far from here.
Read the complete Dumbrăveni - Dealul Sflederului 1 write-up.
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Dumbrăveni - Dealul Sflederului 1, 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 - Dealul Sflederului 1.
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Read the complete Dumbrăveni - Dealul Sflederului 1 write-up.
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back through Dumbrăveni - Dealul Sflederului 1 comes up about 245 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Bârsău Mare - Cetate.
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Read the complete Bârsău Mare - Cetate write-up.
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about 291 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Bârsău Mare - Cetate. Next is back through Dumbrăveni.
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Read the complete Dumbrăveni write-up.
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back through Dumbrăveni, late in the day. Next is Salva - Roata lui Todoran.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Salva - Roata lui Todoran write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
The route ends here after 389 km.
Salva - Roata lui Todoran → Dumbrăveni is 48 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Dumbrăveni → Bârsău Mare - Cetate is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Bârsău Mare - Cetate → Dumbrăveni - Dealul Sflederului 1 is 48 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Dumbrăveni - Dealul Sflederului 1 → Glod - Toaca Glodului 2 is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Glod - Toaca Glodului 2 → back through Dumbrăveni - Dealul Sflederului 1 is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Dumbrăveni - Dealul Sflederului 1 → back through Bârsău Mare - Cetate is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Bârsău Mare - Cetate → back through Dumbrăveni is 49 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Dumbrăveni → Salva - Roata lui Todoran is 48 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.