Author: Nebojsa Maric

Few words why Enduro Round Trip Adventure is Best Seller

Since the end 2016 we had only few groups of Enduro Experts who came not to ride as much as to train hard.

All our other guests were either intermediate or beginners in Hard Enduro. So, it came that people were mostly coming for good time and to have a pleasure from riding in nature. Lots of our precious guests wanted to pop in traditional life in mountain households who haven’t changed almost nothing in their lives for a long time.

Some asked us to stay for a day there, saying that they hadn’t felt like that for a long time. As we started this Enduro Tours thing by targeting mostly Hard Enduro and Extreme Enduro audience, hence the tour plan was such – we were accommodated at one place and every day we had both – start and finish there.

Then, we decided to establish new Enduro offer – Round Trip Enduro Adventure, which would include all that was missing in usual Hard Tour. That means specific feeling from Adventure of Exploring new places on first place. Second, accommodation is arranged at different place every night with different people hosting us in their households.

The tour we offer now is 350 km long and route goes over 2 most beautiful mountains in Serbia – Tara and Zlatibor. In order to attract more riders and promote our beautiful and hospitable country, we made a lot alternative sections for different skill levels but all of them follow the main route’s direction. That’s why this offer is suitable for both beginners and advanced Enduro riders.

As a result, we got an adventurous Enduro riding event, which will be one of your “life rides”. Places that you dreamed to visit, feeling of freedom that you’ve probably forgotten lately in your life because of work and worries, all that now is arranged in endless sequence of long mountain ridges, untouched forests, lakes, little rivers, hidden monasteries, trails, view points sceneries…

I think now, that this trip is perfect combination of adventure and technical riding and probably that’s the reason why it has become best seller recently.

See you there 🙂

Enduro Tours in Romania vs Enduro Tours in Serbia Part 3

Part 3

Well, yes, there are differences between riding Enduro in Romania and Serbia. But, no matter how hard I tried to evaluate and sort them out, the fact still stays the same. Definitely, Enduro in Romania is like one big Enduro party, or even more – like one big Enduro Circus 🙂 That’s like renting a scooter or having a massage in Thailand –  you can find it on every turn 🙂

No doubt you’ll find a lot of good companies as well as “gold diggers” who’ll try to make use of Romania Enduro Tours Glory. Usually those riders who come for the first time with no significant knowledge and experience will just consider some things as normal and self-evident. Like using simple tires with flat tire issue very often, riding beaten tracks, no proper teaching etc.

However, those who carry make their services better every year and enjoy their job.

From one hand, we don’t have any serious competition here, just because we made this to be our main job. But as we are only 400 km from Sibiu (yes, that’s true) and in every single tour negotiation riders compare us with offers from Romania Enduro companies, it comes that we must correspond to services offered there and try to be a slightly better and of course, cheaper.

For example, it’s already not enough to offer 2016 and 2017 bikes for most of young clients. Just because most of them ride exactly that MY at home. Or, just want to try new models like happened in 2018 with those TPI’s.

And we purchased 7 new KTM EXC TPI’s because of that and because we just know that we will grow. Partly because we encountered that it’s much more interesting for newcomer to learn something like student – like of road riding exercises spending on it every day just 1 hour of systematic Enduro training, we established Enduro School. That allows rookie to feel himself more confident, he’ll be able to face a lot of situations that surely occurs if you want to ride real Enduro and spread the riding geography. No to mention that by teaching him in Enduro School, we minimize possibility of injury and bike damage, which in turn makes rider more relaxed and enjoying on bike.

End of part 3

Sector Enduro sunny rides from 2018 :)

This video is compilation from October and November 2018. We had guests From Sweden, France, Russia and Spain. Tours hard and lite Enduro, 3 & 4 days. All tours were held on Tara mountain on EXC 450, 300, 350, HUsaberg 350 and TPI 300 & 250.

Just cool video from last ride 2018

This ride was on November 2018. Actually, this is second part of Enduro Round Trip Adventure route tracing and checking. I’m sure that this track deserves to be most exciting and adventurous one so far. It consists of semi-hard sections, lots of panoramic and scenery places, rivers, mountain ridges and everything that makes Enduro riding so attractive 🙂

Perfect offer for intermediate riders and unforgettable ride of life 🙂

Enduro in Romania vs Enduro in Serbia Part 2

Part 2

So, in the Part 1 I was trying to be clever “Enduro bloger” with some topics on Riding Enduro in Romania vs Riding it in Serbia 🙂

Choice of Enduro Tours companies in Romania is actually huge. However, main locations are around Arad and Sibiu, which are 80% of all destinations. Arad is nice Romanian city and Enduro riding goes in the mountains with altitude up to 650 m which is not too high.

Now, argument in favor of Romania – Sibiu has an international airport and that fact instantly solves one of the subjects in negotiation process with riders – how long it takes to get to accommodation and arrival beer? As for the flights prices they vary and sometimes are quite low. But not all season.

And here we get to one of subjects which could be actually considered as our advantage. And that subject is season duration. Snow on Tara and Zlatibor melts down at the end of February, mostly even earlier, and temperatures get high enough for riding at the same time.

Riding Enduro in Romania is strongly tied with rains and snow, which are issue quite often. Snow comes to Transilvania Alps (Sibiu companies) in mid-October and sometimes even earlier while the Enduro riding in Serbia goes until the end of November and even in December.

That’s because we are southern and our mountains are not as huge and humid as Carphatian, but still are high quite enough – up to 1600m, which is perfect for Enduro trails.

End of Part 2.

Next will be about what influence to service quality has the fact that we are new and we have the Romania Enduro Tours companies as neighbors  🙂

Enduro in Romania vs Enduro in Serbia Part 1

I was just thinking about our advantages and limitations comparing to Romania Enduro tours companies and generally riding Enduro in Romania. Actually, I think about that all the time 🙂

I carefully watch over the lot of Enduro Tours companies in Romania, Bulgaria and Greece by following them on Facebook, Instagram, visiting their web pages etc.

And what I’ve noticed…

Main conclusion is that Romania sells Enduro services by the key word – Romania 🙂 because they’ve been operating on that market since ‘90s… Some of the companies still have the photos in their galleries with very old bikes… That’s of course serious argument. And the main one.

Second is Sibiu and that’s the killer argument. Sibiu is just amazing old city with everything you might need besides Enduro in Romania..

Our guests have never complained about the night life and of course, they all liked it, but at the first sight by surfing through Google and watching what offers Sibiu and what can you expect from Tara, we lose that round 🙂 Not to forget the fact that the easiest way to come to ride with buddies sometimes is to take your wife with you 🙂 And the easiest way to make your wife happy while you’re off for riding and spending money on it, is to arrange her shopping. Sibiu +100, Tara -100 🙂 Yes, this advantage can cause spending more money at after-ride time which makes this kind of relatively expensive entertainment even more expensive 🙂

Now we spread our riding geography to nearby Zlatibor mountain which has far more nightlife and places for riders wife 🙂

Third fact considers the Enduro riding geography in Romania, which is just huge of course. From one hand, no doubt that’s advantage. From the other, riding domain in Enduro terms, usually covers the surface with diameter of about 20-25 km max if you ride it from one place every day.

So, the size here doesn’t matter 🙂 These bikes are some kind of sport equipment and stuff for entertainment not transport vehicles for touring or traveling.

Yes, you might think that Round Trip Enduro tours demand a huge and wild territory, but again, we face the fact that for good and interesting riding you can’t do more than 80-100 km per day, with, for example, 4 day tour. Moreover the good tracks are traced the way they should be accessible by 4×4 and not to far from inhabited places…

So, this “size advantage” is questionable because you can’t cover more then 70-100 km of hard Enduro tracks a day. That’s area within a radius of 15 km from your accommodation.

End of part 1. Next part continues exciting tale of Serbia Enduro rising and revenge 🙂

 

KTM TPI 2019 arrival at Sector Enduro

Ten days ago the load of 4 new KTM EXC TPI bikes arrived. To say that I was happy is to say nothing 🙂

It took some time to unpack them from wooden cage, mount front wheel and fender, change muffler, head light, hand protection.

Then the “first time” start process with all those interfaces, pump checking and other things that I didn’t know nothing about 🙂

About 5 hours for completing 4 bikes and one hour more to load and wrap them on a trailer. Then 200km to our base.

Few things more for first ride and photos (of course) – changing the front sprocket and air filter adaptor. Both came in kit.

First ride on them and first ride this season as well. Slippery and snowy but sunny with lot of friends of ATV.

We ordered all the protection necessary for 2019 season and now the next load of 3 bikes is about to arrive.

The next stage of bike preparing will be filmed and we’ll keep you informed.

 

 

Happy faces from 2018

Freezing and snowy February makes me stay at home and do some things like planning, calculating, exploring new Enduro tracks and places on Google Earth, negotiating on new accommodations..

Searching through my galleries I selected few shots with happy faces and just look at them 🙂 That’s how happiness looks like!

As for the news, new EXC TPI bikes are about to arrive, protection equipment list is ready, booking process goes well so far 🙂

See you!

 

2019 To Do list

Was thinking about writing something useful and clever, but nothing came 🙂

And I decided that I’ll fix the “2019 To Do” list here, without preparations, just like that and come back to it at some CP 🙂

So, here it is:

  • finally confess that THIS is my real MISSION and NO WAY BACK
  • spend twice more time working on it
  • purchase and prepare 6 NEW 2019 bikes till the end of the March 2019
  • purchase new bigger van
  • spend at least 100 moto hours only on exploring new tracks on our new Enduro destination – mountain Zlatibor
  • shoot a megamovie from our Round Trip adventures scheduled for 2019
  • Shoot megamovie from our Hard Tours in May
  • Implement booking system here
  • Start with Road Trip tours on BMWs

On the one hand this could not be considered as a one and only job, but could as Mission and Dream Job, and on the other, it just takes so much time that I’ll be forced to do better marketing and spread the nubmer of services that are “moto” and that are “adventure”.

So wish me luck, and stay tuned, not just because all this is so interesting, but more because it could be pretty useful for those who are still in doubt about something and think that they won’t have enough dedication and strength.

You can’t even imagine how far from perfect I was when I first dreamed about it 🙂

Just a few photos to make your day.

 

100% Action by expert group guided by Dusan Blagojevic (video)

Just a few minutes of pure action captured by our Pro guide Dusan Blagojevic. We all know that camera can’t show you how steep are downhills or uphills, neither how fast you ride those narrow forest trails. But you can watch all that nature and listen to beautiful sound of engine 🙂

Enjoy!

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