I’ve been getting some fitness training tips recently from Helen who runs www.getmountainbiking.co.uk in Northamptonshire. While I can’t personally vouch for her bike skills coaching, if it’s anything like as good as her fitness coaching then you’ll get a lot out of it.
I’ve not only started running (something I’ve never quite ‘got’ before) but even went out in the rain this morning and enjoyed it. Thanks Helen for all the help and advice!
I’ve just been checking out Minx’s collection, and it’s looking good! http://www.minx-girl.com Have just put in an order to get me through the summer and the Sombrio Lotus shorts were top of the list. My La Nina’s did so well last year (in fact so well I don’t really have an excuse to get more..but a girl needs to have the latest) that I had to get these ultra cool looking shorts. These combined with the Sugoi liners (also from Minx) are my all time favourite (bottom half) bike wear. It was a hard choice as there’s some great stuff by Harlot and Sheebeest, but in the end Sombrio won out. The minx tech tee is looking pretty good too this year, although it’s got some pretty good competition from Harlot and Swobo, not to mention some pretty Terry tanks and tees.
I’m warning you all it’s a dangerous site to visit, but one that can’t be avoided. Nowhere else have I seen such a good and varied collection of girlie bike wear…Oh and while you’re on it check out the ‘Roadtrip’ non-bike wear from which I had to add in a couple of particularly good looking tees. The look has now been completed with the Oury grips in minx pink – to be added to my pretty pink bike.
Oh I can’t wait for this summer. I’m gonna be looking good 
http://www.minx-girl.com
I’ve never had a garden before so was quite excited about the small patch of earth I can use to plant things. I’ve put in some herbs and then sown seeds for two types of lettuce and some carrots. Hoping it’ll all go well, and if it works some of you lucky people coming out this summer might get home grown veggies!
Went for a run yesterday afternoon – the first time in about 8 years. Just thought it’d be a good way to help get fit for summer. I never really enjoyed running and remembered why – it hurt 
Still, for the first time ever I completed the run I set out to do and want to do it again and get faster. Just next time, not in the afternoon sun!
Got up early yesterday – had to catch a train to work! Although in this case, work involved searching out new trails to ride for our ‘swiss commuting’ day trips. Not a bad life. We headed down to Montreux to ride the train all the way up to the Rochers de Naye. It was a perfect blue sky day – the only trouble was that the train broke down just as we got there… bummer. We didn’t fancy waiting around for them to fix it, so headed up the Rhone valley to our other commuter town of Bex. The trains there were running just fine. We managed a few runs, finding some great riding on the way. I took a helmet cam of one of the runs which shall be up online tomorrow. It’s two minutes long – cut down from the hour long descent! Thats a lot of descending…! We’ll be heading back to Montreux later in the week once they’ve fixed it!
We’ve just lowered our prices for the first two weeks of the season.
From the 9th-16th June we’re running a special skills week with the renowned Jules Fincham delivering Trail Cycle Leader training. Not only can you still snap up a space, but you can get it for just €599 instead of €725!
Come out for the 16-23rd June and pay just €475 instead of €575. All usual services are included.
When we flew back to Morzine earlier this week the guy’s at the oversize bag check-in warned us that the maximum weight limits are soon to be lowered. At the moment each piece of luggage can weigh up to 32kgs, and these guys told us that next month it’s down to 23kgs. Our bike bags each weighed 24 and 25kgs.
Now, I can’t find anything about this on the Easyjet website (it still says up to 32kgs) but have found that it’s BAA (who run the airports) who are imposing this for health and safety reasons. And quite a few other carriers have updated their sites with dates for the change – Ryanair say from July and BA from the 30th September.
So take extra care when packing your bikes up and be prepared to put extras into your other baggage.
We’ve got together with Dirt magazine to offer this most cool of all cool prizes – a week at the mega avalanche in Alpe d’Huez.
You’ll stay with us in our town centre chalet on this holiday: flowmtb.com/mega
And Dirt will cover your entry fee…
Simple as that.
Hi people.
Our ex-demo VP-Free is finally for sale… £1750
It’s a 2006 model, size M
DHX 5.0 Coil shock
Travis Tripple Intrinsic Forks (203mm)
The bike has some new unused bits on it – namely:
chain, cassette, chainrings, saddle, grips, fork lowers (a warrenty replacement set)
It’s a solid freeride / dh bike that’s had about 30 days of use.
Frame alone costs about £1600 new.
photos are here:
…are now online at http://www.pleney.com/eindex.php?p=pdse. And the great news is that they’re the same as last year! Just €60 (about £40) for a six day pass! Roll on summer…..
