3 days - 530KM - Bulgaria off road - Borovets to the Rhodopes mountains

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Re: 3 days - 530KM - Bulgaria off road - Borovets to the Rhodopes mountains

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What awesome hassle free riding.

Even the hedgehog looks happy to see you!

I really need to get my shit together and get over there soon.
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Re: 3 days - 530KM - Bulgaria off road - Borovets to the Rhodopes mountains

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Part 4 of our 3 mountains #dirtbike #adventure to the Rhodope mountains of #Bulgaria from Borovets and the Rila mountains.

what goes up, must come down. an epic descent with some tough enduro thrown in....after which we stumbled upon some lunch in what we thought was an abandoned town. Great reception and meatballs, with some heavy rock music thrown in

Part 5 coming soon... yes there is more

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Re: 3 days - 530KM - Bulgaria off road - Borovets to the Rhodopes mountains

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Part 5 of our trip to the Rhodope mountains. Starting the day before in Samokov, via Borovets, Velingrad and on towards Tirgrad. What an amazing location, what a stupendous ride.

Adventure bike-friendly area, but with no adventure bikes, !!

This was just as small part of day 2's ride. The second part of the day after lunch... yes it just got silly stunning. !! Tough ole day, but this part was mainly adv bike friendly, what place, reminded me a little of the Theth in Albania, but there where only a few Bulgarian tourists!



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Re: 3 days - 530KM - Bulgaria off road - Borovets to the Rhodopes mountains

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Fantastic stuff Dave, I'm so jealous :D

I'm really going to have to get on the trails out there at some point. Keep up the good work 8-)

Mike.
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Re: 3 days - 530KM - Bulgaria off road - Borovets to the Rhodopes mountains

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Part 6 .....

Part 6 of our trip to the Rhodope mountains. Starting the day before in Samokov, via Borovets, Velingrad and on towards Tirgrad. What an amazing location, what a stupendous ride.

Adventure bike-friendly area, but with no adventure bikes, !!

This was just as a small part of day 2's ride starts over halfway through the day after some serious deep wooded enduro ( see other vids in the playlist) after we bumped into a local enduro rider.
Emiliqn. Top rider on a lovely KTM.

We climbed to the Wolf view? least I think that's what its called... Bloody sketchy view point. amazing though :)

sorry the camera was off for the up bit.

Then.... only down. Me a slow rider at best and nowhere near as fit as the locals, I was well and truly goosed after the mega day we'd had, thinking to myself that it should be an easy ride back to the Hotel Trigrad where we had been based.

Nooo, let's have some crazier single track in the woods lol.

Few bike issues in the woods and a fly infestation, but only on my left grip? we traversed the mountainside back to civilization.

Ready for some serious food and a well-earned beer /rakia/vodka lol

Cheers to our guides and George for probably the best days riding ever !

Hope you guys like :)

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Re: 3 days - 530KM - Bulgaria off road - Borovets to the Rhodopes mountains

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Here it is... the one you've all been waiting for... the last one...



Part 7 of our trip to the Rhodope mountains. Starting the 2 days earlier in Samokov, riding via Borovets, Velingrad and on towards Tirgrad. What an amazing location, what a stupendous ride. 420 km later it was time to start the wet ride home.

A hard ride for me, nothing felt right on me or the bike, but we did it, the sun shone briefly on our way home.. then the heavens opened again of course.
Cheers to our guides and George for probably the best days riding ever !
Are we stoppin for a brew !

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHnqi2JsFoNCV6ktRGEOVXQ/playlists

Braaaaaaaaaaaaaappppppppp :)
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