I found one of Europe’s best hidden MTB festivals in Slovenia 🇸🇮 — Ljubljana MTB Weekend with insane big air, a night pumptrack race, and my first FMB slopestyle in 9 years! This event blew my mind — pure mountain bike energy, unreal trails, and a crowd that loves two wheels.

After 9 years away from the FMB slopestyle circuit, I finally dropped in again… and it felt unreal! 😱 Massive jumps, perfect dirt, and a crowd that went wild for every trick. The local riders here are insanely talented — this festival deserves way more recognition in the global MTB community.

If you love slopestyle, pumptrack, freeride, or just the vibe of grassroots mountain bike events, you’ve got to check this one out. Slovenia is seriously becoming a hidden gem for mountain biking — world-class trails, epic terrain, and the friendliest riders I’ve ever met.

🎥 Watch till the end for some big air, whip offs and behind-the-scenes from the festival grounds!
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[Music] Welcome to Slovenia, everyone. We’re here at Bike Park Ljubljana. It’s super sick. We’re here for the Ljubljana MTV weekend bike festival. It’s Friday. I arrived this morning and I’ve already been treated to some amazing laps with some epic locals. Uh here’s my favorite lap from there. It’s like a flowy jump track called Banana Trails. That’s it. Oh, it’s the right. Oh. Oh, couple dark. Oh, no. And there from Nick. Yeah, boys. That is so good. But yeah, love Slovenia so far. Everyone’s super friendly. And look, as you can see behind me, we’ve got a big air competition tomorrow. Hopefully a bit of SMB. It’s like a mini crank work Slovenia style. But right now, it’s pump track qualifying. It’s just dumped with rain. We’ve had thunder and lightning, so the track is treacherous to say the least, all on slick tires. So, it’s going to be pretty funny. It’s going to be interesting. I thought, why not race? I’m going to try and do every event here and have a good time here in Slovenia. So, let’s go down and give pump track a go. Heat. Heat. [Music] Well, there we go. Third place I ended up. I think I couldn’t have hoped for much better than that. These boys were super fast. Good job, boys. And cheers. Good racing. Good day for the team. Good day for the team. More fun coming tomorrow. [Music] So, I’ve just arrived in Slovenia to Ljubljana for the bike festival this weekend, but we had to swing by first of all the T campers factory. They’re a partner of our AON Racing team. I’ve been spending the last week in one of these amazing campers in Leger, riding bikes every day and uh sleeping in it, and it’s really cool to come see how they take just a plain old Peugeot van. It goes through the whole factory and then comes out the other side as one of these amazing campers. It’s like a incredible facility. It looks more like they should be making airplanes or rockets or something in here. Like it’s perfectly clean, super high-tech, and the quality of everything is incredible. It’s really cool to see. Great start to my uh Slovenia trip as well. And uh it’s FnB day. We’ve had a pretty cool morning already. Was super sick to go see how everything’s made there. Now we’re here for some action-packed FMB some boys are throwing down. And then later we got the big line. Oh, here comes someone. Nice. Just two jumps. Pretty basic course, but looks super fun. And then yeah, later this evening we’ve got the big line down there. It’s going to be a good day. [Applause] Yeah. Oh. Woohoo. Oh, no way. [Music] [Applause] Make back. [Applause] [Applause] [Music] Oh no. [Music] [Applause] position. Okay. Well, that was good fun. The level is definitely way higher than the last contest I did. So, I don’t actually know where I ended up, but I’m happy enough with my run. Got a flip whip clean and hike to swap bikes. Now, back onto the Sega for some big air. Excited for some big air. Yes, always. Have fun, guys. See you down there. Yeah, boys. Here we go. Another one. That was actually Hey, not too bad. That’s actually a super sick jump. Quite scary to do a first run in front of all these people, but Oh, what an awesome show. People loving it out there. [Music] [Applause] [Music] All right. Superman train. Yes, dog. So deep with both. Right, that worked. The boys are stoked. We’re going for a flip train. Yeah, boys. Let’s get it. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] bikes all muddy. End of the day. What a sick event. The big air was awesome. ended up winning best trick actually with I’m not sure either a Superman or the flip can at the end there. But yeah, awesome to ride with all those guys. Was super fun. Epic to be doing my first contest again for a while. Uh yeah, it felt good to be back out there. Maybe some more coming in the future. But just in general, what an amazing weekend. Slovenia, what an awesome country. Thank you for having me. Ljana MTV Weekend. Super sick event. If you’re ever near, definitely recommend coming by and I want to come back here. kind of makes me want to make a festival in the UK with some big jumps, some slope style, some pump track or something cool. What do you guys think? Would you come if I made a festival? Maybe we’ll try and do that over the next couple years. Let me know what you’d want to see there. Big jumps, maybe like a kind of dark fest line or big air comp or FMB dual slam. Let me know in the comments below and maybe we’ll make it happen one day. Let’s see. Thanks everyone for watching. We’ll see you on the next one. Cheers.

23 Comments

  1. I look at my feed and am always like "Oh shit Sam got a new vid out" And I get a big grin …. so am like why do I like Sam's vids so much man ? 🤔You know what it is? It's that you ALWAYS have "just stoked to be on my bike vibe" building jumps, hitting major comps, or just chillin on some local trails with local bro's, always that "just happy to be on my bike vibe" … RESPECT cuz

  2. ah Sam you are a true champion to MTB. Always stoked, and making it fun. Not bad for an oldie either. Defo be nice to see a Festival in the uk. I could possibly have a crack at Dual and pump track as long as there was a daft ol blokes class. 🤟

  3. Dude you are a huge innovator in the MTB world, a festival set up by you in ANY country would be rad AZ faaaark man… do it do it ‼️🎶
    Cheers to you 🤟✨

  4. hey bro, love the vids and watching you smash the scene. Just one request, could you look into the lense and not at yourself in the lcd? just a pet peeve of mine, or like casey neistat always did for just that reason, wear sunglasses.
    🤙

  5. Always loving Sam's vids, but sheesh that music on this one is especially awful, we want to hear you and you bike Sam, maybe just turn the mixing down.
    Always love your work and thankyou

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