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 118 km round trip from Nimigea de Sus - roughly 2 h 51 in the saddle. It goes by way of Dobricel - Vârful Lazului, Dumbrăveni - Dealul Podului 2 and back through Dobricel - Vârful Lazului. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
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.
Read the complete Zagra - Dealul Lupului write-up.
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Zagra - Dealul Lupului is where the day begins. Next is Dobricel - Vârful Lazului.
Spermezeu is the kind of place a road atlas barely notices: a commune of scattered villages in the hills of Bistrița-Năsăud, in northern Transylvania, between the upper Someș valley and the Țibleș mountains. The site of Dobricel, on the hilltop known as Vârful Lazului, is one of the many archaeological places recorded in the area, a high point above the valleys where traces of earlier inhabitants have been noted. There is not much to see without an archaeologist's eye, but the hilltop and the country around it are a good excuse for a ride through a region few foreigners ever visit.
Read the complete Dobricel - Vârful Lazului write-up.
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Dobricel - Vârful Lazului comes up about 28 km into the recorded legs. 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.
Read the complete Dumbrăveni - Dealul Podului 2 write-up.
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about 58 km into the recorded legs you reach Dumbrăveni - Dealul Podului 2. Next is back through Dobricel - Vârful Lazului.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Dobricel - Vârful Lazului write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Dobricel - Vârful Lazului, late in the day. Next is Zagra - Dealul Lupului.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Zagra - Dealul Lupului write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Zagra - Dealul Lupului. That is the ride.
Zagra - Dealul Lupului → Dobricel - Vârful Lazului is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Dobricel - Vârful Lazului → Dumbrăveni - Dealul Podului 2 is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Dumbrăveni - Dealul Podului 2 → back through Dobricel - Vârful Lazului is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Dobricel - Vârful Lazului → Zagra - Dealul Lupului is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.