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 227 km round trip from Nimigea de Sus - roughly 5 h 00 in the saddle. It goes by way of Dobricel - Rângoița, Chiuiești - Dealul Podului, Ileanda - La Căsoi and back through Chiuiești - Dealul Podului. The line favours views over speed.
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 Dobricel - Rângoița.
North of the Someș river, in the rolling hills of Transylvania, the Romans built a different kind of frontier. The Limes Porolissensis was a line of forts and watchtowers running along the crest of the Meseș mountains and the hills beyond, which guarded the northern edge of the province of Dacia against the free Dacians and the peoples to the north. The section of the Dacia frontier on the World Heritage list, inscribed in 2024, includes many of these small posts, each set on a hilltop with a view for miles. Dobricel and Rângoița are two of those place names, hills in a countryside of villages, orchards and hay meadows, where a ruined stone tower would stand among sheep.
Read the complete Dobricel - Rângoița write-up.
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Dobricel - Rângoița comes up about 30 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 69 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 102 km, about halfway. Next is back through Dobricel - Rângoița.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Dobricel - Rângoița write-up.
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back through Dobricel - Rângoița comes up about 198 km into the recorded legs. 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.
Salva - Roata lui Todoran closes the day.
Salva - Roata lui Todoran → Dobricel - Rângoița is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Dobricel - Rângoița → 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 - Rângoița is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Dobricel - Rângoița → Salva - Roata lui Todoran is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.