Descend into darkness and defy gravity on the Black Hole Trail, Slovenia’s most extreme underground mountain biking adventure as we take it on for our Day 2 in Slovenia with Jono Jones,
Deep beneath Mount Peca lies a labyrinth of tunnels carved by miners — now transformed into a heart-pounding ride through pitch-black passages, echoing caverns, and dizzying drops. Every turn feels like a plunge into the unknown — raw, haunting, and electrifying.
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Be careful. Anybody down there? Oh my. What a big donkey. What a crazy mountain bike adventure, dude. Yeah, something different. So different. Hello, guys. Welcome back to the channel. Now, today is going to be super fun and exciting and very, very different. As you can see, this is a certain mining train, which means we’re going down a mine on our mountain bikes. Let’s get involved. O yeah, cool light, mate. Cool light. Oh, what have I got? Look at that. We can jump in the way and you can Yeah. Massive thanks exposure hooking a miner up. Stoked. Got your battle prep ready for the battle. Just toying with different angles. Torch doesn’t seem to work. Jono Jones, what are we doing today? Mining. Bit of mining. You’ve done it before though, aren’t you? Many time. I think this will be my ninth lap, actually. Yeah. Wow. Well, there we go. But the advantage we’ve got is the fact we’re putting some big old lights on there which I’ve never done before. Last time I just had a little head torch where the battery went. So, uh, let’s bring it on. As well or we go in up to otherwise if not. Look at that beast. So, due to health and safety, you need body armor. But because I forgot body armor, we got to wear a backpack. So, we’re backpack Barry today. Right in the oven outside. Going on in. Turn on the old light. They’re pretty bright, isn’t they? That is definitely cheating using this light. It’s a nice shadow that you’re creating. How much easier? Imagine if you whack your head. Yeah. Then I’ll whack you. No, you literally get whacked by me. Yeah, but then the ambulance would whack 100 miles. That was invested by our ancestors to actually dig this out. So, this is nothing natural. It’s all man-made. The third important thing, keep the safety distance. We spend another month in the next three years to concrete some sections. Bit of a track walk. Really slippy. Yeah. You don’t want to fall down there, right? It’s just watch your head when you come through here. something like this. So, the first section is going to be a little slick because we’ve brought the mud on our tires into that first bit, but then after that it should get a bit grippier. Right, here we are then. Just knowing how much grip there is. There’s actually way more grip than you think. How insane is it? your head. It’s weird, isn’t it? You definitely don’t want to go crazy. Yeah, there’s actually way more grip than when you walk it. It’s actually only going to get better. Yeah, boy. Yo. Yeah, good job. Good luck. Still falling. What’s your ride? Yeah. Boom. Boom. But you get used to it really the boys. Yeah. When I first My head’s real close to the top. Mine is. Yeah. It’s full of information. Whoa. That’s That’s pretty low. That’s sick, isn’t it? Right. That’s what we’ve just ridden. Yeah. Yeah, boy. Oh, yeah. I got to go for this one. It’s definitely hard going into it blind, isn’t it? That’s it. Let off. You feel good. Yeah. Yeah. It’s the techy bit. That’s it. Yeah, boy. Quality. Well done, mate. Jono’s fashion of peakless going to everyone now. Look. A look at that. We still wouldn’t want to fall right. Oh my ride with a difference. Mega. All right. Parker. All right. Walk in the next section. But if you go a straight line, you won’t be able to control the speed all the way until the bottom off. And let’s put a new one. There’s the old bat. Bloody steep. mad to think we’re riding down it in a minute. Boom. How does it end then? I will explain everything. I just And we ride here down. And do you see my light? Yeah. Where my light is, you’re literally safe. Okay. Because here up, it’s a long 15 m flat section. So, a super nice roll out. Okay. Now, this section, we need to do it differently. We need to do it one by one. Yeah, boy. Yeah, man. So, yeah. So, go on the go on the right hand side and then uh after that, just chill and then you’ll be fine cuz it’s all straight. So cool. There was one bit then you were so close with your head. Yeah, really sometimes. Boom. Look at this. You It don’t get old, does it? Give the fan base a little low down. What’s going on with you? Just sorry for the swearing, but cluster. Yeah. Going to look at the section. You see it’s pretty steep. So much so there’s a there’s a rope you use to climb back up. And once you’re in, you’re in. It’s where you got to go chill cuz your head’s pretty tight as you can see. And then we’re uh we’re down there into the righthander. And that’s that. What’s this called? The crack. Yeah. Look how tight it is. So, this section is known as the crack. It’s the most technical section here. You come in here, you got a horrible little shoot there where you got to watch your head. You then break where Jono is. And then you got another horrible shoot. Once you’re in, you’re in, man. Be careful there. And there we go. Mega. That is so steep and tech. So unnecessary. Oh my god, that’s so tight. Well, there we go. Only two people to do it in this little group. Well done, Big Dong. It’s actually quite small. There we are at the ladder. So, we’ve done the most techy section. We’re now walking to the ladder section where we’re going to rope our bikes down and nice and safe to the next bit. Putting the old sling around the old bike. You all right? Yeah. Perfect. What a system this is mate. Right ladder. What a crazy mountain bike adventure, dude. Yeah. Something different. So different. Boom. So cool. Right. Some more traversing to get to the next section. Done the steep section. We now got a bit more flowage with some techy bits. Let’s get it a bit. So sick. Well done on my dudes. Mhm. Let’s go and have a little look. Yeah. Keep in mind, if you want to write something down, do not look it up first. Well, there we go. That’s the end of the techie numbers. This was the last shoot. Look how steep that actually is. Insane. So, uh yeah, we’re now on our way out. This one out. The shadow is so bright. You don’t see in front of basically my light’s too bright. Yeah. Put it in this uh lowest setting, which is still insane. Bit of a ride out. Not yet. Here we are. We made it. I love them. Imagine forgetting the keys now. Nightmare on our way out. Boom. Cheers, mate. Good job. Well, there we go. That was very, very different. So, we ended up using the Exposure Sixpack 15 as a handlebar light and we used the Exposure Zenith4 as the helmet light. Thoroughly recommend. So, that was an awesome bit of trail. What do you reckon, Jono? Yeah. Good. Get the footage in that, do you reckon? I think so. Sick loan number to finish it off. Oh, he’s got low low there. Back where it all began. Boom. There we go. Back where it all started. What an amazing experience that was. Massive thanks to Annie and all the team. Hopefully you guys have enjoyed today’s video. If you have, be great if you give it a thumbs up. Be sick if you subscribe. And I’ll see you again in the next episode for some more action. Oy.
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Sick place to ride