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 Lozna to Lozna, about 7 h 37 of riding. It goes by way of Ciceu-Poieni - Podul Milcoaiei, Church of Saint Nicholas and back through Ciceu-Poieni - Podul Milcoaiei. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
The Someș river does most of the work here. Flowing west and then north out of Transylvania, it has carved a valley through the hills of Sălaj county, and near the villages of Lozna and Letca the slopes close in, wooded and steep, with small clearings and hay meadows. On the ridges above, the Romans built watchtowers to guard the northern edge of Dacia, and the remains near Valea Leșului and Țiclău are among the sites included in the UNESCO frontier listing. Today they are little more than grassy hollows and stone scatters, visited by archaeologists and the occasional curious walker.
Read the complete Valea Leșului - Țiclău write-up.
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Valea Leșului - Țiclău is where the day begins. Next is Ciceu-Poieni - Podul Milcoaiei.
Ciceu-Poieni is a tiny village in the hills north of the Someș, the kind of place that rarely appears on a map, and near it, at a spot called Podul Milcoaiei, the Romans placed a watchtower on the northern border of Dacia. It is part of the Dacian frontier on the World Heritage list, and today it is just a slight hump in the ground among fields and woods, but its position on the high ground gives a wide view over the valleys, which is exactly why it was chosen. The towers were placed so that each could see its neighbours and pass signals along the frontier with fire and smoke.
Read the complete Ciceu-Poieni - Podul Milcoaiei write-up.
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Ciceu-Poieni - Podul Milcoaiei comes up about 85 km into the recorded legs. Next is Church of Saint Nicholas.
Budești is one of the old villages of the Cosău valley in Maramureș, the far northern corner of Romania, where traditional life has survived longer than almost anywhere else in Europe. Its wooden church of St Nicholas, built in the seventeenth century, is a masterpiece of the local carpentry tradition: a dark timber body with a tall, steep shingled roof and a slender spire that seems to pierce the sky. Inside, the walls are covered with painted scenes from the Bible, and among the church's treasures is a coat of chain mail said to have belonged to Pintea the Brave, a legendary outlaw hero of the region. The church is one of eight in the UNESCO listing of the Wooden Churches of Maramureș.
Read the complete Church of Saint Nicholas write-up.
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about 187 km into the recorded legs you reach Church of Saint Nicholas. Next is back through Ciceu-Poieni - Podul Milcoaiei.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Ciceu-Poieni - Podul Milcoaiei write-up.
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back through Ciceu-Poieni - Podul Milcoaiei, late in the day. Next is Valea Leșului - Țiclău.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Valea Leșului - Țiclău write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Valea Leșului - Țiclău. That is the ride.
Valea Leșului - Țiclău → Ciceu-Poieni - Podul Milcoaiei is 85 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Ciceu-Poieni - Podul Milcoaiei → Church of Saint Nicholas is 102 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Church of Saint Nicholas → back through Ciceu-Poieni - Podul Milcoaiei is 103 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Ciceu-Poieni - Podul Milcoaiei → Valea Leșului - Țiclău is 85 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.