Cycle tour advice - Balkans
 

DH is an avid road cyclist. I am not. He is interested in joining a tour in Croatia, Solvenia, BH, or any combination. We are thinking he could go to EU before me, do his tour, and I will join him at the end. He wants a high end bike; cycling for most of a day, as opposed to 4 or 5 hours; and would enjoy a country tour, without seeing tourist sites - we will do that together later.
Does anyone have suggestions for this? Would he be better off to do a self-guided trip? The ones we have checked out do not have the optimum bicycle that he is looking for. He is not interested in a bike and barge type, just more a cycle with accommodations along the way.
We are going the last week of September for 3 weeks,

Solvenia?

Sorry dumb of me Slovenia.

I cycle over a lot of Europe but on the flat. There is a company called something like Europe Cycles. Have a search but they do high end and delivery of bikes. Not sure they reach the Balkans but they have a good rep.

Alternatively you need a pro-cyclist who offers training programmes. Slovenia has some pretty good skiing so they have a good pro-athlete culture which is where I might start.

https://www.cyclingslovenia.com/

https://sloveniacyclingholidays.com/

https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2...-italy-gorizia

The first two from a simple search, the last I remembered reading in the guardian a while ago.

There are similar sites to the first to for Croatia for instance.

Thank you…sorry for the typo

Thankyou hetismij2 for the links…..will show them to DH

I've used these guys https://www.headwater.com/list/by-co...ia/cycling.htm who are well organised but I doubt the bikes are what you would want, however, the roads may not be what you want either, I last walked in Slovenia about 5 years ago and the back roads had a pretty bad surface. It might be useful to email headwater to get a local point of view and chat about bikes. My friends who do this sort of thing always take their own shoes and pedals if that is any help

Bilboburgler; That is a good suggestion to bring your own pedals and shoes, and he would want his own seat too. I will give him this link to contact. Thankyou