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 278 km round trip from Tihău - roughly 5 h 39 in the saddle. It goes by way of Dumbrăveni - Măgura, Budacu de Jos - Dealul Cetății 1 and back through Dumbrăveni - Măgura. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
The Someș river makes its way through the hills of north-western Romania between Cluj and Baia Mare, and near the small town of Jibou, in Sălaj county, it passes through a narrow valley guarded on its slopes by the remains of a Roman fort. The site, known locally as Grădiște, which simply means old fort, lies above the village of Tihău, close to Surduc and Gâlgău Almașului.
Read the complete Tihău - Grădiște write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Tihău - Grădiște is where the day begins. Next is Dumbrăveni - Măgura.
In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, a fortress on a hill above the Someș valley near Ciceu belonged not to the rulers of Transylvania but to the princes of Moldavia, on the far side of the Carpathians. Stephen the Great received the castle of Ciceu and its estates as compensation from the Hungarian king, and the Moldavian princes held it for decades, a curious enclave in the middle of Transylvania. The castle was later destroyed, and only ruins remain on the hill above Ciceu-Corabia, but the story gives a sense of how fluid borders and loyalties were in this part of Europe.
Read the complete Dumbrăveni - Măgura write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Dumbrăveni - Măgura comes up about 75 km into the recorded legs. Next is Budacu de Jos - Dealul Cetății 1.
Bram Stoker sent Jonathan Harker to Bistritz, and the town of Bistrița, just a few kilometres from here, has never quite escaped the vampire. In the novel, Harker spends a night at the Golden Krone hotel before setting off towards the Borgo Pass and Count Dracula's castle, and today the town has a hotel of that name and the pass a hotel built to look like a castle. The real history is more interesting. Bistrița was one of the seven Saxon cities that gave Transylvania its German name, Siebenbürgen, a rich trading town with a big Gothic church, arcaded merchants' houses and a ring of walls, much of which has been lost.
Read the complete Budacu de Jos - Dealul Cetății 1 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 136 km into the recorded legs you reach Budacu de Jos - Dealul Cetății 1. Next is back through Dumbrăveni - Măgura.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Dumbrăveni - Măgura write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Dumbrăveni - Măgura, late in the day. Next is Tihău - Grădiște.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Tihău - Grădiște write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Tihău - Grădiște. That is the ride.
Tihău - Grădiște → Dumbrăveni - Măgura is 75 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Dumbrăveni - Măgura → Budacu de Jos - Dealul Cetății 1 is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Budacu de Jos - Dealul Cetății 1 → back through Dumbrăveni - Măgura is 67 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Dumbrăveni - Măgura → Tihău - Grădiște is 75 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.