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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286 km from Treznea to Treznea, about 6 h 07 of riding. On the way it passes Huta - Dealul Cozlii, Tihău - Dealul Cucului, Negreni - Dealul Hoancelor and back through Tihău - Dealul Cucului. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Treznea is a quiet village in the hills southeast of Zalău, the kind of place where the loudest sound is a cockerel or a tractor. Yet its name carries a heavy weight in Romanian memory. In September 1940, shortly after northern Transylvania was transferred to Hungary under the Second Vienna Award, Hungarian troops entering the area killed dozens of villagers here, Romanians and Jews, and burned houses. A memorial in the village commemorates the victims. It is a sombre reminder that the beautiful hills of Transylvania have seen terrible things.
Read the complete Treznea - Cărbunarea write-up.
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Treznea - Cărbunarea is where the day begins. Next is Huta - Dealul Cozlii.
Huta is the sort of name that appears in dozens of places in Romania, from the old word for a glassworks or a forge, and it hints at an older economy, when these hills supplied charcoal, timber and metal to the towns of Transylvania. This Huta lies in the rolling country between Ciucea and the Crasna valley, in the hills where Salaj county meets Cluj, and the Dealul Cozlii, the hill named in the label, is one of the many wooded ridges that fold across the horizon.
Read the complete Huta - Dealul Cozlii write-up.
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Huta - Dealul Cozlii comes up about 45 km into the recorded legs. Next is Tihău - Dealul Cucului.
Dealul Cucului means cuckoo hill, and the name fits the place: a low, wooded rise above the village of Tihău, close to the town of Jibou in the Someș valley of Sălaj county, where in spring the cuckoo's call echoes across the meadows. The point belongs to the network of archaeological sites along the Roman frontier of Dacia in the northwest of the province, near the confluence of the Almaș and Someș rivers, a strategic spot where valleys meet and roads cross. As with many of these sites, there may be little to see on the surface, but the location makes sense once you look at the map.
Read the complete Tihău - Dealul Cucului write-up.
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about 112 km into the recorded legs you reach Tihău - Dealul Cucului. Next is Negreni - Dealul Hoancelor.
A ridge called Dealul Hoancelor does not make it onto many maps, and the place is better understood from the landscape around it. This is the country of the Someș river in the north of Transylvania, between the Meseș mountains in the west and the hills of the Transylvanian plain to the east, and the valleys are broad, green and thickly farmed. The nearest places on our list are tiny villages, Lozna and Letca, and the closest town, Jibou, is about twenty kilometres away.
Read the complete Negreni - Dealul Hoancelor write-up.
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Negreni - Dealul Hoancelor, about halfway. Next is back through Tihău - Dealul Cucului.
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Read the complete Tihău - Dealul Cucului write-up.
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back through Tihău - Dealul Cucului sits at 138 km, about halfway. Next is back through Huta - Dealul Cozlii.
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Read the complete Huta - Dealul Cozlii write-up.
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back through Huta - Dealul Cozlii comes up about 242 km into the recorded legs. Next is Treznea - Cărbunarea.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Treznea - Cărbunarea write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Treznea - Cărbunarea closes the day.
Treznea - Cărbunarea → Huta - Dealul Cozlii is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Huta - Dealul Cozlii → Tihău - Dealul Cucului is 67 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Tihău - Dealul Cucului → Negreni - Dealul Hoancelor is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Negreni - Dealul Hoancelor → back through Tihău - Dealul Cucului is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Tihău - Dealul Cucului → back through Huta - Dealul Cozlii is 68 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Huta - Dealul Cozlii → Treznea - Cărbunarea is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.