Blidinje BIKE Festival 2024.
The Blidinje Bike Festival is a unique cycling experience that is organized during the weekend in the month of July in the Blidinje Nature Park. In 2024, we will see the 6th edition of this festival, and this year the organizers raised the event a couple of levels higher! Therefore, it is not surprising that the interest in participation is the highest so far.
In 2024, the Blidinje BIKE Festival enters the calendar of the International Cycling Federation and becomes a UCI event of the high UCI Class 1 category. Also, as part of the Blidinje BIKE Festival in 2024, we will watch the Balkan Championship, where athletes from 12 countries of the Balkan Federation will fight for the title of Balkan Champion.
GENERALNI POKROVITELJ DOGAĐAJA: Continental Tires
SREBRENI SPONZOR: HT Eronet
BRONČANI SPONZOR: Škoda Apolo
POKROVITELJI: Hercegovačko-neretvanska županija; Županija Zapadnohercegovačka, Hercegbosanska županija; Municipality of Posušje; Sportski savez Grada Mostara, Turistička zajednica HNŽ/K
SPONZORI: Fortuna Tours; Hajdučke Vrleti Blidinje; Visit Blidinje; Shift Brand Design – Mostar; Capriolo SC Mostar; Park prirode Blidinje; Satelit TBM; Satelit+
And indeed, one of the best things about any sport or passion (OK, obsession) is sharing time with a multitude of like-minded individuals. When it comes to the cycling community, of course, the network is strong and alive.
And while social media means we can be connected to fellow bike-mads half a world away at any time of the day or night, there's nothing better than getting out into nature and socializing in real life.
With this in mind, we continue with the organization of the biggest and best cycling festival in Bosnia and Herzegovina – Blidinje BIKE Festival. From recreational rides for the whole family, educational workshops, races for the youngest bikers, as well as professional races at the end of the day (UCI Class 1 race + Balkan Championship), the latest equipment to dream bikes, all the way to late-night parties, there is something for everyone here , both for beginners and experienced drivers. The only problem you will have is deciding which marathon route to choose and how many of your colleagues to take with you...
For three days in July/July, MTB bikers from all over the region come together for a weekend event full of bike races, cool events, fun, laughter and feasting in nature and local cuisine.
If you are a lover of life on two wheels, fun events and good times with the team, Blidinje Bike Festival is something you have to do!
These are 3 days you simply cannot miss! For more information, visit the official website www.bbf.ba kako biste saznali sve što trebate znati o Blidinje BIKE Festivalu.
Registracije na UCI C1 XCM Herzegovina možete napraviti HERE.
Registracije na biciklijadu “Stazom ‘Ajduka” možete napraviti HERE.
Organizer
Cycling Club Mostar was founded in 2011 as a non-partisan, non-governmental, non-profit association of citizens founded with the aim of promoting, developing and improving cycling sports in the area of Mostar and the entire Herzegovina-Neretva County/Canton.
The goal of BK Hercegovac is to contribute to:
- development and improvement of cycling sport;
- development and improvement of mutual relations of its members in the spirit of sportsmanship and tolerance.
In achieving its goals, the Association performs the following activities:
- advocates:
- for the promotion and popularization of cycling;
- participates in cycling events in Bosnia and Herzegovina and abroad;
- organizes and implements sports and other actions and activities with the content of cycling sports,
- represents the common interests of the members of the Association before city, county, state and sports bodies and organizations;
- connects and approaches organizations of a similar orientation in the country and abroad;
- provides assistance to its members in traffic, sports and technical education.
The association for the promotion of cycling "Hercegovina bicycling" was created as a result of the need to promote cycling in Herzegovina in a comprehensive way, with the desire to gather around it all relevant cycling employees and cycling clubs in order to jointly try to brand Herzegovina as a region desirable for cycling, and which would ultimately contribute to the popularization and massification of cycling, but also to the creation of preconditions for the development of cycle tourism, which in recent years in Europe, but also in the world, is increasingly expanding and becoming an important tourist branch.
Association HerzegovinaBike was founded on February 8, 2013. and gathers members of cycling clubs from Herzegovina. Since its foundation, the association, together with the ministries of resources (Tourism, Culture and Sports), has been actively promoting cycling as cycling tourism first, and then as sport, recreation and a way of life. So far, we have presented a number of projects of active cycling as a sport and recreation, of which we would like to highlight: Bicycle caravans of friendship "Mostar - Vukovar" which gathered over 1,000 cyclists from all over Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as Croatia, International bicycle road races "Hercegovina Classic", International multi-day the "Blidinje BIKE Festival" event, which gathers thousands of cyclists and tourists from several countries through a three-day organization, and she was also the holder of the project to mark the European Car-Free Day and organized several cycling events in urban areas. Association "Hercegovina Bicikl" gathers cycling clubs from the areas of Mostar, Široki Brijeg, Posušje, Grud, Drinovac, Ljubuški, Čapljina, Neum, Trebinje, Ravno, Stolac, Jablanica and Rama.
The association for the promotion of cycling "Hercegovina bicycling" together with REDAH participates in several projects related to the sports and tourism promotion of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and independently implements the project "By bike through Herzegovina", which passed the competition of the Federal Ministry of Environment and Tourism and the Firmaprojekt fund of the established from USAID and SIDA organizations. The association is also an active partner in the revitalization project of the Austro-Hungarian narrow-gauge railway, popularly called Ćiro, a project that has received worldwide positive attention and has been covered by many foreign media, and which connected Mostar and Dubrovnik via a bicycle route. Also, together with the West Herzegovina County Office for EU Integration, we implement and actively participate in the implementation of the "CYCLING RURAL" project, which aims to promote rural tourism through bicycle paths and cycle tourism offers. Furthermore, for several years now, the association, in cooperation with the Bicycle Association of Bosnia and Herzegovina and tourist associations, has been implementing a training project for cycle tourism guides, and together with the Regional Development Agency of Herzegovina "REDAH" has been implementing the "Bike Friendly" project in which we educate motels, restaurants and inns about cycle tourism. cyclists as guests and we assign them BikeFriendly tags.
Venue
Blidinje Nature Park is one of the most beautiful natural areas in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and is located only an hour and a half drive from the Adriatic coast. It covers an area of 358 km 2 at the foot of the Čvrsnica and Vrana mountains. Due to its unique geomorphological features, rich flora and fauna, and beautiful untouched nature, it is the perfect place to escape from the stress of everyday life.
Whether you are looking for a place to relax in the fresh mountain air, an opportunity to learn about the rich history and cultural heritage of this area, or you are adventurous - Blidinje Nature Park is the ideal place for you.
SIGHTS
Blidinje Nature Park is located in Bosnia & Herzegovina; in the area of the high mountains of the central Dinarides, and includes the area of the Čvrsnica and Vrana mountain massifs, and covers an area of 358 km2. Administratively, it is part of three Herzegovina counties and five different municipalities. Because of its geomorphological features, the wealth of plant and animal life, and the beautiful and untouched nature, on March 24, 1995. this area was declared a nature park. About 1,500 different plant species have been recorded in this unique area so far, of which more than 200 are endemic, relict and subendemic. Blidinje Nature Park is also known as the largest habitat of the endemic white-barked munika pine.
The "VisitBlidinje" association was created as a result of mutual cooperation and the common idea of uniting all actors of the tourist offer & local producers into one platform that deals primarily with the promotion and marketing of our beautiful Blidinje Nature Park, and then offers all the contents & activities that you can experience and experience in this unique area.
Through cooperation with JP Nature Park Blidinje, and then with all business entities, potential partners, mountaineering societies and other individuals and associations with healthy interests and intentions for the welfare of Blidinje Nature Park above all, which operate in this area, our goal is to raise its credibility , offer and status to an enviable level.
Find more information about Blidinje Nature Park on the website Visit Blidinje (link).
