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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253 km from Zalău to Zalău, about 5 h 26 of riding. The stops in between: Hurez - La Frasin 1, Bologa - Măgura Bologii, Gilău - Dealul Cetății and back through Bologa - Măgura Bologii. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 950 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
Zalau is the sort of Romanian city that few foreigners visit, a county capital of some sixty thousand people at the foot of the Mes mountains, with communist-era apartment blocks, a pleasant old centre and a surprisingly rich past. The point called Stana La Balize lies in the hills about five kilometres away, on the edge of the town. Stana means a sheepfold, a summer shepherd's camp, and the word tells you what these slopes were used for: pasture. As part of the group of sites on the Roman frontier of Dacia Porolissensis, it likely marks a watchtower or a related feature on the ridge above Zalau.
Read the complete Stâna - La Balize write-up.
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Stâna - La Balize is where the day begins. Next is Hurez - La Frasin 1.
This corner of Sălaj sits along the Roman frontier of Dacia, which makes it a more serious place than its gentle hills suggest. West of Zalău the Meseș mountains rise in a long wooded ridge, and through them runs a natural gate, the Meseș Pass, which the Romans fortified as part of their northern defences. The great site of Porolissum, with its fort, civil settlement and amphitheatre, stands on a ridge nearby, and the watchtowers and small works scattered across the hills belong to the same system.
Read the complete Hurez - La Frasin 1 write-up.
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Hurez - La Frasin 1 comes up about 33 km into the recorded legs. Next is Bologa - Măgura Bologii.
Bologa is a village in the valley of the Crișul Repede, the swift river that flows west from the hills of Cluj county towards Oradea and the Hungarian plain. On the hill above it, known as Măgura Bologii, lie the remains of a castle that once guarded the valley, and in the fields nearby are the traces of a Roman fort, built to protect the north western edge of the province of Dacia. The fort, known in antiquity as Resculum, is part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire, Dacia, listed by UNESCO in 2024, a line of forts, watchtowers and walls that ran along the edge of the Roman province from the second to the third century.
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about 66 km into the recorded legs you reach Bologa - Măgura Bologii. Next is Gilău - Dealul Cetății.
Gilau sits where the flat plain of the Somesul Mic river meets the first hills of the Apuseni mountains, about fifteen kilometres west of Cluj-Napoca, in Transylvania, and the hill called Dealul Cetatii, which simply means Fortress Hill, rises almost on the edge of the town, about a kilometre away. The town has nearly eight thousand people, and from the road you can see the high, forested ridges of the Apuseni to the west.
Read the complete Gilău - Dealul Cetății write-up.
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Gilău - Dealul Cetății, about halfway. Next is back through Bologa - Măgura Bologii.
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Read the complete Bologa - Măgura Bologii write-up.
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back through Bologa - Măgura Bologii sits at 143 km, about halfway. Next is back through Hurez - La Frasin 1.
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Read the complete Hurez - La Frasin 1 write-up.
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back through Hurez - La Frasin 1 comes up about 219 km into the recorded legs. Next is Stâna - La Balize.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Stâna - La Balize write-up.
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Stâna - La Balize closes the day.
Stâna - La Balize → Hurez - La Frasin 1 is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hurez - La Frasin 1 → Bologa - Măgura Bologii is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Bologa - Măgura Bologii → Gilău - Dealul Cetății is 58 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Gilău - Dealul Cetății → back through Bologa - Măgura Bologii is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Bologa - Măgura Bologii → back through Hurez - La Frasin 1 is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hurez - La Frasin 1 → Stâna - La Balize is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.