A ride on the edge of the map

The last weekend of July I spent in Satu Mare and even if all weather forecasts announced rain, I brought my bike with me. Saturday it rained all day, but on Sunday the weather has stabilized, even the sun came out a few times. So I started a workout on the road. My training on the road turned into a muddy workout in length of about 50 km with 130 m total climb, done in less than 3 hours. A sort of ”Satu Mare version” of Prima Evadare.

Track registerd with Garmin Dakota 10. See the track on Connect.Garmin or download the GPX track.

As I said, I planned to go for a ride on the road, about 70 km, so I made a track in MapSource, and I downloaded it in my gps.

I started in Satu Mare – Lazuri – left towards Dorolt – right towards Atea, and from here I wanted to go towards Peles on DJ194B. Here started the unexpected. The road was full of mud, so I decided to go straight ahed, but without the hope to find some asphalt towards Peles. I found a road on grass, better then the road with mud, so I turned right on the less muddiest road, on the edge of the map, very close to the Hungarian border, until Peles next to Pelisor.

From Peles, the first km was great, a gravel road, continued on the grass with a few sections of mud. Good as long as it’s not sticky mud. Honestly I expected everything to be very sticky on so flat track. From Pelisor, a village full of gypsies, I continued to Bercu, then I turned right towards Noroieni Forest. As I entered the forest I found a “service road” to the right and I entered the forest, then I went on a muddy road in the Noroieni village where my offroad adventure ended. I came back on the road to Satu Mare, passing through Lazuri.
Although flat and with mud, it was a nice ride.