Anyone been? A work colleague has just come back from a walking holiday in the Kranjska Gora area & said there were loads of offroad bikers around.
Is it worth a visit?

Yes.

Yes to which Q Dave? 🙂

Both

Here’s a taster…

http://www.slovenianretreats.com/documents/singletrack_slovenia.pdf

Get yourself a singlespeed.

The Single Speed European Championships are being held in Slovenia in 2016.

If the mob of Slovenians at the SSEC this year are any guide, you’ll have a ball. They were busy extolling the beauties of their country for mtbs.

I had the best weeks riding ever with Ride Slovenia. It was all mountain/enduro riding (well basically being shuttled to a start off point, climbing a flippin long way, descending and climbing and descending and doing what mountain bikes are for etc).
See this thread http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/great-week-with-rideslovenia.

Its a brill place.

Been to both Bovec and Lake Bohinj(x2)
Hired a bike, bought a map and went exploring 😆

Lovely country and people. Food may not be to everyone’s taste(lots of moaning in my hotels)but I adopt the attitude of if it’s the local produce it’s all good versus needing UK menus! Pull up at a roadside cafe have a beer, food and off you go again. Food portions at some cafés can be huge 😆

Hi, we are going to Slovenia in a couple of weeks and want to do some MTB. We arent taking our bikes as the missus for some reason wants to do non-biking related activities such as hiking and sightseeing…
Ive been looking around for decent hire places and struggling – cant find anywhere that has good full-sus all-mountain bikes.
Any tips – trekster, what did you hire and where from? We are going to Bohinj.
Cheers

No full sus bike when I was there. The area isn’t geared up for mtb as we know it. There are lots of routes which are tourist type routes using forest tracks, farm track and road taking you to all the local sightseeing spots. There are a few sports hire places for kayaking, white water rafting and paragliding that also do bikes which were basic v-brake hard tails. The maps are not very good compared to our OS ones. I just went exploring and ended up hiking a fair bit.

If you get the cable car to the top of the ????? mountain there are some good walks and cafés.
Swimming in the Lake is good. Nudist beaches on far side 😉
The best cafe/food is the cafe near the end of the road up by the camp site, past the hostel. Kayaking can be had from the hostel and there is a climbing area near there. Another good cafe is in the village over the bridge, tends to have local farmers and loggers drive up in their tractors for a couple of beers and pizza. Lasko dark on draught there 😀
Very quiet place but with lots to do. Probably won’t be many other Brits there.
Hotel food tends to be local produce, don’t expect too much from it. We enjoyed it but did here some grumbling from other Brits, fish, chips and mushy peas are not on the menu!!

We stayed in the hotel on the corner by the Lake twice: http://www.bohinj.si/alpinum/jezero/hotel_jezero_en.html Try learning some of the words for coffee, please, thanks etc, makes a huge difference to service. We were the first Scots to have been there apparently, reception staff chatted for ages. Most people in the area speak very good English.

http://www.slovenia.info/?naravne_znamenitosti_jame=449

Mountain top snack!

Cafe over the bridge cake stop….

Bike..

Swim..

wow thanks for all the info! Looks great.

Anyone been?

Driven through it. Planned to stop, but we were out of time. 🙁

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A work colleague has just come back from a walking holiday in the Kranjska Gora area & said there were loads of offroad bikers around.

I can believe it. It’s stunning.

Is it worth a visit?

It’s in my top five places to go back to with the bike. 😀

http://www.kranjska-gora.si/Activities/Cycling

A work colleague has just come back from a walking holiday in the Kranjska Gora area & said there were loads of offroad bikers around.
I can believe it. It’s stunning.

The ‘Trippin’ boys just released their latest episode for EpicTV filmed in Slovenia and the the time they spent with Ride Slovenia.

http://www.epictv.com/media/podcast/slovenian-singletrack-loose-rocky-and-fast-%7C-trippin-worldwide-inc-ep-2/600307?b=1