Bike trip: Prachatice – Plesovice

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  • Length: ~47 km
  • Duration: ~6 hrs
  • Type: mix of everything haha … road, gravel, single trail
  • Difficulty: medium
  • Transport: train on both start/end points

Start at Prachatice train station and follow red tourist route to the top of Libin. In the forest red route becomes single trail and there are unrideable parts. Sometimes it is possible to go around steep or rocky part of the red route by going to the sides.

From the top of Libin follow blue tourist route to Chroboly. This is mostly single trail – sometimes easy sometimes pretty technical. Rock formations along the route.

From Chroboly there is a short segment on the road. Then take another red tourist road and another climb to Ktiš. This time the climb is on gravel roads mostly.

From Ktis there is another tourist route possible – green. The issue is is goes partly through military area. The area is open on weekends and it is possible to use marked routes there, but … the gravel roads there are completely unmaintained, muddy so I don’t recommend to go there. We left it very quickly, because it was not a ride anymore. So use the road to Chvalšiny and enjoy the gas station in the middle of main square there :)

Then the rest of the route are climbs and downhills while keeping somewhat the same altitude contour line around Kleť. You can end anywhere on train station there – Český Krumlov, Zlatá Koruna, Plešovice (I recommend the pub/restaurant right next to the train stop) or even go further.

Route at mapy.cz or GPX download.

Bike trip: Petříkov – Velešín

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  • Length: ~35 km
  • Duration: ~3 hrs (no rush, but just one short stop on the other hand)
  • Type: mostly double track / gravel roads
  • Difficulty: easy
  • Transport: train on both start/end points

There are only two single trail segments and the only – downhill from a hill top above Olešnice down to Hrádek (this is the only one requiring a technical skill) and between Hamr and the road to Besednice.

Route at mapy.cz or GPX download.

1st “Great bike ride” in Budweis

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The very first “Velka Budejovicka Cyklojizda” happened yesterday. I was surprised how many people were attending even when it was first time. Stylish outfits, kids, fixes, unicycles, high wheelers … you name it. It was praticularly nice to be able to cross the traffic lights on reds as this was the way I (and everybody else too) was riding in Zurich for last two months. Just one way to work was a few times on the sidewalk, couple of one way streets in wrong direction, sometimes on tram rails, going on red and maybe much more.