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 96 km round trip from Zalău - roughly 2 h 04 in the saddle. On the way it passes Ciglean - Vârful Cigleanului 1, Cliț - Fața Chicerii and back through Ciglean - Vârful Cigleanului 1. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Zalău is the county seat of Sălaj, a city of around sixty thousand people sitting in a shallow valley where the Meseș hills fold down toward the Transylvanian plain. The stop sits just north of the Măgurii stream, on the edge of the town, which means you arrive through suburbs and allotments rather than through any grand gateway. That suits the county. Sălaj is not a place of famous passes; it is a place of rolling ridges, orchards, hay meadows and small roads that wander from one village to the next without much of a plan.
Read the complete Zalău - La Nord de Pârâul Măgurii write-up.
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Zalău - La Nord de Pârâul Măgurii is where the day begins. Next is Ciglean - Vârful Cigleanului 1.
Vârful Cigleanului is a hilltop above the Someș valley in Sălaj, in that mild, folded part of northwestern Romania where the land rises in wooded ridges toward the Meseș mountains. The name simply means the peak of the Ciglean, and like many hill labels in Transylvania it points to an old vantage point more than a famous summit. The ground is orchard and pasture on the lower slopes, oak and beech on the higher, and on a clear day the view runs along the river toward Jibou.
Read the complete Ciglean - Vârful Cigleanului 1 write-up.
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Ciglean - Vârful Cigleanului 1 comes up about 19 km into the recorded legs. Next is Cliț - Fața Chicerii.
Northern Sălaj is quiet country: low wooded hills, hay meadows, plum orchards and villages strung along the Someș river and its side valleys, with wooden churches and haystacks built around poles in the fields. Cliț is a small village near Băbeni, and the point named Fața Chicerii lies in the hills above it. Names in this list follow the pattern of the Romanian archaeological record, a village and then the local name of a hillside, and in this part of Sălaj many such points belong to the line of watchtowers and small forts of the Roman frontier of Dacia, which UNESCO recognised in 2024.
Read the complete Cliț - Fața Chicerii write-up.
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about 47 km into the recorded legs you reach Cliț - Fața Chicerii. Next is back through Ciglean - Vârful Cigleanului 1.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Ciglean - Vârful Cigleanului 1 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Ciglean - Vârful Cigleanului 1, late in the day. Next is Zalău - La Nord de Pârâul Măgurii.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Zalău - La Nord de Pârâul Măgurii write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Zalău - La Nord de Pârâul Măgurii. That is the ride.
Zalău - La Nord de Pârâul Măgurii → Ciglean - Vârful Cigleanului 1 is 19 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Ciglean - Vârful Cigleanului 1 → Cliț - Fața Chicerii is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cliț - Fața Chicerii → back through Ciglean - Vârful Cigleanului 1 is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Ciglean - Vârful Cigleanului 1 → Zalău - La Nord de Pârâul Măgurii is 19 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.