Bike Park in Dolni Morava in the Czech Republic is one of those places where you can have a great fun on a hardtail MTB bike. Several kilometers of routes, big berms and lots of tabletops. I liked it!
Introduction
I only got into downhill and dirt jumping last year. First, I was riding easy routes, such as Glacensis singletracks or singletracks near Strzelin, then more difficult ones, e.g. Milky Way on Czarna Góra, and at the end of the season, after riding A Line in Srebrna Góra, I decided it’s time to buy a fullface and protectors.
And so, since spring this year, wearing protectors, that give me courage, I have been riding even more difficult routes on my hardtail. Also those where I regret not having a full squish (e.g. enduro trails on Ślęża and Radunia or hiking trails in the Opawskie Mountains). I’m not a complete beginner anymore, but technically I still have a lot to learn.
In the next posts, I will share my impressions of the bike parks that I have visited. I am writing from my perspective, i.e. if you are more or less advanced, you may have different feelings sometimes.
I ride a Trek Roscoe 7 bike. It’s a trail hardtail with 2.8” wide tires that provide quite a lot of cushioning. Such a bike is much better on descents than an XC bike, so take that into account when I say that a trail is good for a hardtail ;)
Bike Park Dolní Morava
Bike Park Dolní Morava is located right on the border with Poland.
In addition to biking routes, the place offers many other attractions, incl. the Sky Walk, the world’s longest pedestrian suspension bridge and the bobsleigh track. It attracts a lot of tourists and even on Friday there were plenty of them. The upside, however, is that bikers have a separate queue to the lift and while ordinary tourists stood in the 200-meter long queue, there were never more than a few people in front of us.
There are 4 trails of varying difficulty in the bike park.
Green trail – Mlýnský trail
The longest (8 km) and very easy route. Smooth surface, sometimes small rollers and large berms. Actually, apart from the berms, nothing interesting.
Blue trail – Selský trail
Here, too, a smooth surface and large berms, but also a lot of small tabletops. I was most delighted with the berms. I am bad at riding on berms and when riding on Polish spots I overcome them very slowly and often brake on the berms, because even though I slowed down before, it seems to me that it is too fast and I will fall out. I didn’t have such an impression here. They are so profiled that I ran them smoothly without any problems.
I could also go to the air on a few tabletops, but unfortunately only on a few, because most of them have such a gentle takeoff that without good jumping skills, I was not able to lift my tires.
Red trail – Lesní trail
Here you can go to the air even without jumping skills, because if you ride up quickly enough, the tabletops will lift you themselves ;) They are already quite large here, and the surface, although mostly still smooth, is covered with stones in places. There is also a natural section of the roots in the middle. It would probably be more enjoyable on a full suspension bike, but on a hardtail it’s still fun :)
Black trail – Mamutí trail
The black trail partially runs together with the red trail and in one place it is divided into two variants – DH or AirLine. I rode only DH, as name suggests, on stones and roots.
First and second sections of Mamuti trail are not very difficult. The blue trail in the bike park in Kasina was definitely scarier ;) On Mamuti the biggest difficulties are on third section. The last section (Air) is full of huge jumps. Actually only tabletops, but so large and steep that I preferred to bypass some.
I had definitely the best time on the blue and red trails and I would love to come back to this bike park :)
Photos Bike Garden Service.
Update – June 2023
A year ago, due to the lack of my recordings, I posted here videos found on YouTube. Now I replaced them with mine, this year’s, already on full suspension bike. I liked my Trek, but quite often I rode it on routes where I felt that it would be more pleasant on a full squish bike, so this year I changed the bike.
This year, two new routes were also created in Dolni Morava:
Yellow trail – Selská AirLine
The trail is less than a kilometer long and is actually a variant of the blue line, i.e. the blue line leads to it and at the end you return to the blue one. Too bad it’s so short because it’s great! Tabletop after tabletop, and they are the perfect size for me. I would rate the difficulty level of the trail between blue and red.
On the recording, my first and unfortunately only ride so far.
Violet trail – Downhill
The difficulty level is black and I haven’t dared to go down it yet, because it starts with a 3-meter drop with no chicken line ;)
I don’t know the person in the video below, but I would love to ride like this one day because I can imagine how fun it must be!
Update – July 2024
The year 2024 brought more novelties to Dolni Morava. The purple trail – Downhill is now marked as black, and next to it another line was created – Enduro and now this one is purple. The name itself speaks of the nature of this trail, and in technical terms it is black, and even more black than the Mamutí trail in the DH version.
The yellow trail (Selská AirLine) has been expanded with another section, which also branches off the blue line. Like the first section, it is a great flow trail with perfect berms and jumps.
In addition, there have been some minor changes to the red trail, which is now called the Oakley trail, and to the Air version of the Mamutí trail.
Great that the bike park is expanding!
Thank you :)
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