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…..
I was a very lucky girl this weekend - a parcel of goodies arrived from Minx. Top of the list were the minx pink hope mono minis which look fantastic on my white heckler, finished off with some super cool oury grips and the charge ladies ladle saddle. One of the best looking girls saddles around, plus comfy and cheap! My bike now looks pretty much perfect And it didn’t end there, with my new Loeka pinstrips shorts, Maloja Minas freeride jersey (plus some super comfy Pearl Izumi liners, which luckily for everyone else weren’t on show) I looked pretty good too.
Once I get my mitts on the camera guy took over to Champery for the Swiss Freeride week I’ll get some photos of my bike up!
Girls get to minx stuff’s flying out at the moment.
Here’s a video from freecaster.tv of the first slopestyle comp in Avoriaz:
And here’s some photos of mine from the event.
it was a good event - shame about the rain beforehand, but hey ho. The boy Sam Pilgrim (GBR) won it in some style!
The flowmtb team took a break from Morzine yesterday to head to the pretty lakeside town of Annecy. A picnic by the lake was followed by a very competitive game of mini-golf, with Tom storming into the lead. Gordon managed a very respectable score too, given his right arm is in plaster following breaking his wrist on Sunday. The most important part of the day was the Annecy ice cream parlour with more flavours than you’ve dreamt of, followed, of course, by a canalside beer. My efforts to get everyone on a boat were thwarted by a vote to head to the bowl and watch the skaters and BMXers, then back into town for some drinks and lake caught fish.
A nice break all round and back to Morzine feeling like we’ve all had a holiday!
Here’s one of the many photos I’ve taken at this years Mega - check em all out here.
