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Cycling around Bale: routes and choosing a bike

Gravel rides of 9.8 and 21.3 km start in Bale. Their lengths and proportions of asphalt differ, so choose your bike to suit the surface.

The shorter route towards St Michael

Route 231, Skrivena baština, starts and finishes in Bale. Of its 9.8 km, 8.8 km are gravel and one kilometre is asphalt. Allow around an hour and a half. Although this is the shorter option, almost the entire ride is off asphalt, making it suitable for a trekking, mountain or electric bike equipped for that surface.

A longer loop through Krmed

Route 251, Okusi Mediterana, runs from Bale through Krmed and Lokva back to Bale. The 21.3 km route includes 15.5 km of gravel and 5.8 km of asphalt. Allow an hour and a half to two hours. The climb towards St Michael comes early in the ride, followed by a mixture of villages and forest tracks.

Small loose stones call for care on this route, especially in rain. Mountain, trekking and electric bikes with tyres suited to gravel are appropriate for this loop too. Stay on open tracks and avoid shortcuts across private land. On sections shared with cars, expect traffic rather than assuming the road will be empty.

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