Just back from the bike show and we’ve got plenty to chew over. Met some great people there (hello if you were one of them!). Just a shame we had to be stuck inside over such a lovely weekend.
Oh well - we’ll be making up for it in the coming weeks - take a look at the map below to see where we’re planing on going! It’s gonna be a busy couple of weeks!
We’re just back from a weekend of riding down in sunny Eyne in the Pyrenees. A fantastic time was had by all.
Arriving on friday evening to the sounds of oohs and aahs as we saw the beautiful house, it only got better when food arrived. Once again Francoise looked after us very well! Four courses of home cooked dishes made with local ingredients, plus plenty of wine and we were all off for an early night.
We possibly ate a little too much at breakfast as we all wanted to try (the roughly 20 different varietes) of homemade jam (favourites included elderflower, blackberry and fig), the eggs, cheese, and homemade breakfast cake!
The riding didn’t let us down, fantastic singletrack, vartying between nice and flowy and steep technical descents. Plus of course an enormous picnic lunch shared on the hillside. We ended at some thermal baths to relax our muscles before the train ride home (and second lunch), and short, but fun off-road ride back from the train station to beers in the sun at the local bar!
Two further days of riding and eating and we’re back home tired and wishing we could have stayed a little longer 
Photos and video will be up shortly.
Ryanair are flying to Perpignan airport for free on the weekends that our Perfect Pyrenees trips run this Autumn. The flight back is only 15 quid as well (or just £1 and no tax for the last weekend!).
How bloody good is that!
There’s obviously taxes to deal with and extra fees for bringing your bike etc. But you can’t complain about the initial price.
There’s plenty of stuff on web forums from both lovers and haters of Morzine. As we’re running a business here, we have a vested interest in the future of mountain biking in Morzine. We’re trying to encourage the tourist office & town hall to improve things for mountain bikers. It seems that they’re willing to listen to us outsiders, so whist the irons hot and all that…
I’ve created this here survey:
http://www.surveygizmo.com/s/62902/morzine-mountain-bike-trail-user-survey
I’d be most grateful if you’ve got 5 minutes to spare to let us know your thoughts.
Feel free to comment on this post as well, but the survey might have more influence and has some room for ranting!
Nice one
Guy
It’s easy to forget just how great your local trails are when you ride them regularly. Today I headed up the hill and rode some of the trails I rode pretty much every week last year, and have ridden only once so far this summer. I’d forgotten just how much fun they were! It also helped having a friend along who hadn’t ridden them before, pointing out the amazing views and fun trails.
It’s great re-discovering some of the Morzine mountain biking I’ve neglected this season
Once again we’ll be selling off our Santa Cruz hire fleet come September. If you are interested in grabbing a top of the range bike at a bargain price then here’s what we’ve got:
1 * Small Heckler, Blue, 1500 euros (from last year)
2 * Medium Hecklers, White, 2000 euros each (this years)
1 * Large Heckler, White, 2000 euros (this years)
1 * Medium VP-Free, Black, 1650 euros (last years)
1 * Small VP-Free, Green, 1750 euros (last years)
1 * Large Bullit, 1750 euros (last years)
Bikes all come with a 1 year frame warranty from Jungle (the UK importers)
For more details, specs and photos, please get in touch! mail me on guy@flowmtb.com
Nicole Cooke claimed Great Britain’s first gold medal in Beijing with an impressive victory in the women’s road race, taking Britain’s 200th Olympic gold.
The 25-year-old from Wales came out on top in a sprint finish, coming home in a time of three hours, 32 minutes and 24 seconds.
The 126km race featured two laps of a 23.8km circuit before concluding on the Great Wall of China, and was hampered by bad weather, maybe all that training in British conditions helped her win out!
Cooke had been helped out by Team GB colleagues Emma Pooley and Sharon Laws. Pooley played a vital pace-making role and eventually finished in 23rd while Laws came home 35th having spent a large part of the race at the front of the peloton. A pretty impressive show from the Brit girls.
The dirtgirls 2008 trip is now over, with everyone heading home yesterday. The final few days saw us riding a challenging ridgeline descent (with various spectacular tumbles); pushing our limits on the downhill courses; and lots of giggling at video footage of ourselves riding, falling and getting cross with ourselves. Champery very kindly put on a fete du vin for the final night so we spent the evening trying lots of different local wines before finally stumbling back for dinner.
At the awards (with prizes of twin six tees and sombrio gloves kindly donated by Minx) everyone was a winner. And me more than anyone as the girls gave me a fantastic birthday cake (the final day was also my birthday) which we all shared before heading to Mitchells for drinks.
A great week of riding with a brilliant group of girls, bring on the next dirtgirls trip!
We’ve had three days of riding and everyone’s tired, sore and ready for a well-earned rest day! So far we’ve done forest singletrack to Val d’Illiez, downhill trails in Morgins, Croset and Chatel, and plenty of other great Swiss trails.
Bikes have been battered, and so has one of our girls, forced into rest by ligament damage on her thumb during a fall on the Croset DH course. The rest of us have battled on, and we saw grins aplenty on the Morgins singletrack and DH course today! And even happier faces when we stopped for a glass of wine at the end of the day at the gorgeous sur cou bar, just above Champery, surrounded by stunning mountain views.
I still can’t decide whether to join the spa trip, the via ferrata trip or the riding group tomorrow……
A group of very lucky ladies are heading out for the dirtgirls trip this weekend. The sun’s shining, the trails are in great condition and I;m looking forward to a week of riding my bike every day! But to top it all off, not only did minx offer a discount on pre-trip buys she sent over a parcel bulging with giveaways. If I wasn’t so nice I’d be keeping my mouth shut and keeping it all for me…..
