We are two riders looking for one or two more to join us on a round trip from Germany, to Romania and Ukraine via Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, and Serbia. Return to via Slovakia and Czech Republic.

We will start early, on May 19th.

Preferably backroads, and gravel (not enduro), some mountain trails, etc. We love riding, but we don't want to miss out on great sights to see on the way.

The route through Romania will be along the Carpathian mountains towards the border crossing to Ukraine (the place where you have to transit through Moldova). In Ukraine it is small roads (probably a lot of gravel) to Crimea, through Odessa. When we have had our "we made it to Swallow's Nest s", we will return along the coast of the Sea Of Azov, backroads heading into the Carpathian mountains in Ukraine, ride some mountain trails and then head to Lviv. After that, we're returning via Slovakia and Czech, where we will celebrate the end of a great ride in Prague.

Best guess is a total of 7-8000 km, where the first legs and last legs will be long as they are mostly German highways.

Though we like to ride on gravel, the majority of kilometers will be on some sort of paved roads.

Work and family says 3 weeks at the most, so there's distances to be covered. There's always the option of riding main roads if we need to move faster. And nothing has been set in stone, so plans will most likely change as we move.

Normally we get up and are on the road at about 9am (depending on the previous evening/night). Then ride until 6pm-ish (sometimes earlier if there's some cool stuff to see, sometimes later if we're in the middle of nowhere). We make a lot of stops during the day, so a 60/40 moving/stopping time ratio is realistic. We prefer B&B, hostels, cheap hotels, or similar. So when we find a place to stay the night, the routine previously has been getting a shower, get something to eat, drink, and another , and whatever nightlife the place had to offer.

To get some distance covered the first day (night), we are taking the autozug from Hambug, Germany to Austria. That way we will cover the German Autobahns, drink and drive legally, move while we sleep and dream about the ride ahead of us. From there, we'll see what happens.

The current route plan looks roughly like this:


You could join either the entire trip or part of it.

Have a great 2013!

Jesper