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 250 km round trip from Spermezeu - roughly 5 h 19 in the saddle. The stops in between: Dumbrăveni - Dealul Podului 2, Bârsău Mare - Cetate, Surduc - Deasupra Văii Hrăii and back through Bârsău Mare - Cetate. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
On a hilltop near the village of Spermezeu, in the Someș hills of Bistrița-Năsăud county in northern Romania, a small watchtower once stood guard over the northern edge of the Roman Empire. When the emperor Trajan conquered Dacia in the early second century, the Romans built a frontier around their new province, the Dacian limes, a chain of forts, watchtowers and earthworks running along the Carpathians and through the hills. Vârful Sitii, the summit of Sita, was one of the observation points, chosen because from here soldiers could watch the valleys to the north and send signals to the forts behind them.
Read the complete Sita - Vârful Sitii write-up.
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Sita - Vârful Sitii is where the day begins. Next is Dumbrăveni - Dealul Podului 2.
Above the valley of the Someș Mare in Bistrița-Năsăud county, the hill called Dealul Podului carries the faint remains of a Roman watch post, one of a string of small installations that kept an eye on the northern edge of the province of Dacia. Like many points on this frontier, inscribed as a World Heritage Site in 2024, it is less a monument than a viewpoint with a story, a place where soldiers once scanned the horizon for movement in the free lands to the north. Today the horizon holds forested ridges, orchards and villages strung along the river.
Read the complete Dumbrăveni - Dealul Podului 2 write-up.
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Dumbrăveni - Dealul Podului 2 comes up about 38 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 78 km into the recorded legs you reach Bârsău Mare - Cetate. Next is Surduc - Deasupra Văii Hrăii.
Surduc is a village in the Someș valley in Sălaj county, north-western Romania, where the river cuts a narrow path through hills on its way toward Baia Mare. Above the village, on a ridge overlooking the valley of the Hrăii stream, there are traces of a Roman watchtower, part of the frontier of the province of Dacia. The nearby villages of Tihău and Băbeni, and the town of Jibou, are all close by.
Read the complete Surduc - Deasupra Văii Hrăii write-up.
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Surduc - Deasupra Văii Hrăii, about halfway. Next is back through Bârsău Mare - Cetate.
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Read the complete Bârsău Mare - Cetate write-up.
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back through Bârsău Mare - Cetate sits at 115 km, about halfway. Next is back through Dumbrăveni - Dealul Podului 2.
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Read the complete Dumbrăveni - Dealul Podului 2 write-up.
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back through Dumbrăveni - Dealul Podului 2 comes up about 212 km into the recorded legs. Next is Sita - Vârful Sitii.
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Read the complete Sita - Vârful Sitii write-up.
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Sita - Vârful Sitii closes the day.
Sita - Vârful Sitii → Dumbrăveni - Dealul Podului 2 is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Dumbrăveni - Dealul Podului 2 → Bârsău Mare - Cetate is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Bârsău Mare - Cetate → Surduc - Deasupra Văii Hrăii is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Surduc - Deasupra Văii Hrăii → back through Bârsău Mare - Cetate is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Bârsău Mare - Cetate → back through Dumbrăveni - Dealul Podului 2 is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Dumbrăveni - Dealul Podului 2 → Sita - Vârful Sitii is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.