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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374 km from Meseşenii de Jos to Meseşenii de Jos, about 7 h 52 of riding. On the way it passes Tihău - Dealul Cucului, Dăbâceni - Coama Pietrar 1, Dumbrăveni - Dealul Podului 2 and Zagra - Dealul Lupului. The line favours views over speed.
Treznea is a small village that appears in Romanian history books for a bad reason. In August 1940, the Second Vienna Award, imposed by Germany and Italy, handed northern Transylvania to Hungary, and in the weeks that followed, Hungarian troops entered the area. On 9 September, in Treznea and the neighbouring village of Ip, dozens of Romanian civilians were killed in reprisals, and a memorial in Treznea recalls them. The territory returned to Romania in 1944, but the memory of those years still shapes local life.
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Treznea-Vârful Obârșiei is where the day begins. 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.
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Tihău - Dealul Cucului comes up about 44 km into the recorded legs. Next is Dăbâceni - Coama Pietrar 1.
The Someș is the river of northern Transylvania, gathering its waters in the mountains and winding west through a broad, green valley towards Hungary. Around Rus and Ileanda, in the northeast of Sălaj county, the valley narrows between wooded hills, and the villages cling to the slopes above the river. Dăbâceni and the ridge called Coama Pietrar lie in this landscape, one of many recorded archaeological sites in the area, and like most of them it is more about the setting than about visible remains.
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about 86 km into the recorded legs you reach Dăbâceni - Coama Pietrar 1. 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.
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Dumbrăveni - Dealul Podului 2, about halfway. Next is Zagra - Dealul Lupului.
Zagra is the last farming village before the land begins to climb in earnest toward the Rodna mountains, the highest range in the Eastern Carpathians north of the Prislop pass. Pietrosul Rodnei, at about 2,300 metres, is the summit, and the whole massif is protected as a national park and biosphere reserve, with glacial lakes, rocky ridges and alpine meadows that stay snowy into June. From the Dealul Lupului, the Wolf Hill, you look across a patchwork of hayfields toward those peaks, which look closer than they are.
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Zagra - Dealul Lupului sits at 138 km, about halfway. Next is back through Dumbrăveni - Dealul Podului 2.
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back through Dumbrăveni - Dealul Podului 2 comes up about 233 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Dăbâceni - Coama Pietrar 1.
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about 287 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Dăbâceni - Coama Pietrar 1. Next is back through Tihău - Dealul Cucului.
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back through Tihău - Dealul Cucului, late in the day. Next is Treznea-Vârful Obârșiei.
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The route ends here after 374 km.
Treznea-Vârful Obârșiei → Tihău - Dealul Cucului is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Tihău - Dealul Cucului → Dăbâceni - Coama Pietrar 1 is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Dăbâceni - Coama Pietrar 1 → Dumbrăveni - Dealul Podului 2 is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Dumbrăveni - Dealul Podului 2 → Zagra - Dealul Lupului is 48 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Zagra - Dealul Lupului → back through Dumbrăveni - Dealul Podului 2 is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Dumbrăveni - Dealul Podului 2 → back through Dăbâceni - Coama Pietrar 1 is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Dăbâceni - Coama Pietrar 1 → back through Tihău - Dealul Cucului is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Tihău - Dealul Cucului → Treznea-Vârful Obârșiei is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.