Off to Morzine in approx 10 hours!

[mk1fan]

A small group of friends, I and atom111 are off to Morzine for the week. We're setting off onthe 700mile drive at 3am Saturday and aiming to get there for mis afternoon.

Staying with Trail Alpline and will no doubt have photo's and fabulous tales to recant upon our return.

[atom111]

See you in a few hours mk1fan should be good on those trails weathers looking good but then it's perked up here too.

[neil_bolton]

Gits

[GHW]

I've just got back - now I'm totting up the prices for all the bits on the bike that have been hammered to death going up and down Pleney

Enjoy!!

[atom111]

I am sure mk1fan will be along with some other pictures

but here is my and mk1fan's bike at the top of a mountain



and here is mine


and here are both bikes before we stood them up again



and as it's a pistonheads forum here are the drive stats for the entire trip



and finally an injured party whose identity has to be masked and shouldn't be eating pringles!! I've been asked to add that this isn't mk1fan

Edited by atom111 on Sunday 2nd September 19:14

[mk1fan]

Injuries sustained -

[mk1fan]

Piccies of the trip.

Ready to go (the bikes not the girls):


Parking on the last day:


French National Downhill Course (easy bit):


The Road Gap on the 6SX:


The Cow:


Misty Mountain:


The Stiffee:


The Stiffee and the Five:


My Golden Brown front disc:

[theboymoon]

mk1fan said:

Piccies of the trip.


The Road Gap on the 6SX:

Cool pics - looks like you had a great trip

Here's one I took a couple of weeks ago of a local lad launching the gap!

[_daveR]

Thats the run down Chatel into the bike park isnt it?

I didnt go this year but a friend rode Champery and said it was the scariest thing he has ever been on!

[mk1fan]

Yes. The Paneramique is a bit more sedate!

[PhilLL]

haha that's the Vario Park in Chatel; went there last summer and had plenty of fun; still have a numb patch behind my knee from a particularly heavy stack

Some of the black runs looked just plain suicidal.

I love it out there, hopefully will be back in the spring (godparents have chalet in Chatel)

Anyone going out there should check out the 'Fantasticable'.. awesome

Edited by PhilLL on Tuesday 4th September 21:18

[atom111]

It was enjoyable watching Fantiscable but I personally have no intention of doing so not my thing, the bike park on the other hand yes please had a great time there, most if not all the black runs in the park we shut so couldn't take a look but the others were really good.

[threesixty]

Just got back on monday myself, missing it already.

So many new courses this year, found some excellent secret single track

atom111 said:

the bike park on the other hand yes please had a great time there, most if not all the black runs in the park we shut so couldn't take a look but the others were really good.

Some of those were closed almost all season, theres some really really messy sections that never dried out. The black runs are a huge stepup from the blues and greens, its one of the faillings of the bike park that theres no real intermediate tracks.

p.s your pic of the french cup course is acutally the blue track (french cup starts at the first set of flags and uses red signs)

[mk1fan]

Oops, there are three tracks there and I got a bit confused.

[_daveR]

Is the Tennis Court run still marked as closed? I think thats still the most daunting thing that Ive ridden out there!

The (old) french national track was superb (the one that descends into Les Lindarets?) so many huge rocks!

[mk1fan]

I don't know which one the Tennis Court run is so I can't tell you. Yeah the French National certaily was lairy. We came down the blue run and that was (following my off) outside my comfort zone.

Lindairet was a great place for lunch. Good looking waitress's. Good food. I will refuse to make any comment on the young woman who was incharge of the pony rides

[atom111]

You weren't refusing to comment when there, and it was genius of us to lower the umberella so the waitress had to bend down, but of course it was dropped for the shade honest

I really liked the downhill into Linderrwhateveritscalled but I was in the zone on the last day so everything was spot on.

[mk1fan]

What happens in France, Stays in France.

[atom111]

that's very true

[threesixty]

Tennis court run is properly closed.Barbed wire, Lots of signs mentioning fines and taking lift passes.

Also closed are russells backyard and supermorzine.