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 Surduc it runs 406 km to Surduc; allow about 7 h 23 of riding. It goes by way of Zalău - Deasupra Șesurilor Tâlhăroasei, Vânători - Dealul Cocinilor, Gilău - Dealul Cetății and Turda - Potaissa / Dealul Cetății. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 950 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
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 is where the day begins. Next is Zalău - Deasupra Șesurilor Tâlhăroasei.
The Meseș mountains rise to the west of Zalău like a long green wall, and they formed the natural western boundary of Roman Dacia in this region. Along their crest and on the slopes above the plains, the Romans built a line of watchtowers, and the site above the fields with the evocative name of Șesurile Tâlhăroasei, roughly the robbers' flats, near the villages of Treznea and Aghireș, is one of them. It is part of the Dacian frontier on the World Heritage list. Up in the forest the remains are modest, but the position, high on a slope with a view over the valley, shows how the frontier used every advantage of the terrain.
Read the complete Zalău - Deasupra Șesurilor Tâlhăroasei write-up.
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Zalău - Deasupra Șesurilor Tâlhăroasei comes up about 36 km into the recorded legs. Next is Vânători - Dealul Cocinilor.
The hill of Dealul Cocinilor rises above the valley of the Crișul Repede near Ciucea, on the western edge of Cluj county, and it marks another point on the Roman frontier of Dacia, this time in the Meseș mountains, where the limes ran along the hills protecting the province of Dacia Porolissensis. The watchtowers here guarded the approaches from the west and north, and from the hilltop you can still see why: the valley below is a natural corridor, used by traders, armies and travellers for thousands of years.
Read the complete Vânători - Dealul Cocinilor write-up.
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about 75 km into the recorded legs you reach Vânători - Dealul Cocinilor. 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 Turda - Potaissa / Dealul Cetății.
Turda sits on salt. Under the town, the Salina Turda, an old salt mine, has been converted into an extraordinary underground amusement park, with a Ferris wheel, a lake with rowing boats and a mini-golf course more than a hundred metres below the surface, inside vast chambers carved out over centuries. Above ground, on the hill called Dealul Cetății, the Romans built the camp of the Fifth Macedonian Legion, which moved here in the late second century to guard the heart of the province of Dacia. The legionary fortress of Potaissa, with its walls, gates and headquarters building, has been excavated, and it counts as one component of UNESCO's inscription of the Dacian frontier.
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Turda - Potaissa / Dealul Cetății sits at 176 km, about halfway. Next is back through Gilău - Dealul Cetății.
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Read the complete Gilău - Dealul Cetății write-up.
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back through Gilău - Dealul Cetății comes up about 258 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Vânători - Dealul Cocinilor.
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about 326 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Vânători - Dealul Cocinilor. Next is back through Zalău - Deasupra Șesurilor Tâlhăroasei.
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Read the complete Zalău - Deasupra Șesurilor Tâlhăroasei write-up.
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back through Zalău - Deasupra Șesurilor Tâlhăroasei, late in the day. Next is Surduc - Deasupra Văii Hrăii.
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Read the complete Surduc - Deasupra Văii Hrăii write-up.
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The route ends here after 406 km.
Surduc - Deasupra Văii Hrăii → Zalău - Deasupra Șesurilor Tâlhăroasei is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Zalău - Deasupra Șesurilor Tâlhăroasei → Vânători - Dealul Cocinilor is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Vânători - Dealul Cocinilor → Gilău - Dealul Cetății is 65 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Gilău - Dealul Cetății → Turda - Potaissa / Dealul Cetății is 60 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Turda - Potaissa / Dealul Cetății → back through Gilău - Dealul Cetății is 58 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Gilău - Dealul Cetății → back through Vânători - Dealul Cocinilor is 68 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Vânători - Dealul Cocinilor → back through Zalău - Deasupra Șesurilor Tâlhăroasei is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Zalău - Deasupra Șesurilor Tâlhăroasei → Surduc - Deasupra Văii Hrăii is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.