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 263 km round trip from Lozna - roughly 5 h 13 in the saddle. On the way it passes Gâlgău - Casa Popii, Dumbrăveni - Vârful Runcului, Perisor - Corobana and back through Dumbrăveni - Vârful Runcului. 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 Gâlgău - Casa Popii.
The Someș river winds through northern Transylvania in a broad valley between rolling hills, and near Gâlgău and Poiana Blenchii, it forms a natural corridor between the Transylvanian plateau and the northwest. In Roman times, this valley marked the northern edge of the province of Dacia, and the frontier ran along the hills above it, with watchtowers and small forts. Casa Popii, the priest's house, near Gâlgău, is one of the sites of that frontier listed by UNESCO in 2024: probably a watchtower position on a ridge overlooking the valley. As with many of these sites, there is little to see above ground, but the views over the valley and the hills explain its purpose.
Read the complete Gâlgău - Casa Popii write-up.
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Gâlgău - Casa Popii comes up about 34 km into the recorded legs. Next is Dumbrăveni - Vârful Runcului.
The countryside around Vârful Runcului is the landscape that two of Romania's best-loved writers came from, and it shows in their work. Liviu Rebreanu, born in the Năsăud area in 1885, set his novel Ion, about a peasant's hunger for land, in villages very like these, and the poet George Coșbuc grew up not far away in the valleys north of Năsăud. The hill itself, a rounded summit above the Someș valley, carries traces of the Roman watch system that once guarded the northern frontier of Dacia, part of the World Heritage listing since 2024, but its real charm is the view of the farmland Rebreanu wrote about.
Read the complete Dumbrăveni - Vârful Runcului write-up.
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about 85 km into the recorded legs you reach Dumbrăveni - Vârful Runcului. Next is Perisor - Corobana.
Țara Năsăudului, the Land of Năsăud, is a hilly corner of Bistrița-Năsăud county in northern Romania, and it has a strong sense of its own identity. In the eighteenth century the Habsburgs organised the villages here into a military frontier district, with a Romanian border regiment that defended the empire's eastern edge in return for freedom from serfdom. The people of the area were proud of that status, and the schools and institutions founded with the regiment's funds helped create a remarkable tradition of learning. Two of Romania's best-loved writers grew up nearby: the poet George Coșbuc, born in the village that now bears his name, and the novelist Liviu Rebreanu, whose books describe the lives of Transylvanian peasants.
Read the complete Perisor - Corobana write-up.
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Perisor - Corobana, about halfway. Next is back through Dumbrăveni - Vârful Runcului.
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Read the complete Dumbrăveni - Vârful Runcului write-up.
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back through Dumbrăveni - Vârful Runcului sits at 102 km, about halfway. Next is back through Gâlgău - Casa Popii.
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Read the complete Gâlgău - Casa Popii write-up.
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back through Gâlgău - Casa Popii comes up about 224 km into the recorded legs. Next is Valea Leșului - Țiclău.
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Read the complete Valea Leșului - Țiclău write-up.
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Valea Leșului - Țiclău closes the day.
Valea Leșului - Țiclău → Gâlgău - Casa Popii is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Gâlgău - Casa Popii → Dumbrăveni - Vârful Runcului is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Dumbrăveni - Vârful Runcului → Perisor - Corobana is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Perisor - Corobana → back through Dumbrăveni - Vârful Runcului is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Dumbrăveni - Vârful Runcului → back through Gâlgău - Casa Popii is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Gâlgău - Casa Popii → Valea Leșului - Țiclău is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.