I’m having real trouble booking 7 large enduro bikes for the Friday and Saturday of this year’s ppds. We opted for the hire instead of taking our bikes, is this a mistake!!??

The towns Morzine/Les Gets/Chatel are more downhill and freeride orientated and the bike shops and hire reflect that. Plus with it being the busiest weekend of the year, then yeah you made a mistake, I would start looking at taking your own bikes.

Urrrm thanks, we’ve gone and booked flights now…OK appreciate the steer, we haven’t thought this through properly

http://www.toricomorzine.com/bikehire/mtb-mach-6/

http://www.fbfreeride.com/index.php?option=com_virtuemart&view=category&virtuemart_category_id=3&Itemid=122&lang=en

You can likely still take bikes even with flights booked. Usually have to pay extra though, unless the allowance lets you shove in all your clothes with the bike and it comes in under the weight limit. And of course you’ll need a bag or something to put them in, and bike bags aren’t cheap 😉

Anyway, with hire bikes out there, make sure they set up the brakes for UK customer as they’ll be backwards otherwise.

There’s loads of bike options. Its really not just downhill. It is a busy weekend though. We’ve had some nice enduro bikes from torico before.

Also worth trying alpine sports
We’ve had good service from them over the past three years.

Thanks all appreciate the input. We binned the flying option because of the logistic nightmare of seven of us! Looks like two of us will be in a big car and seven bikes, mostly pulled apart!!

Maybes put something in the classifieds asking if there is anyone from here driving down with room in their van? Ive got a mate driving mine down,.and all my clobber! Nice easy hand luggage only hop from gatwick for me…

Cheers jaffe, that’s a notion I hadn’t considered, thing is there’s a load of trust needed there… I’ll put it to the boys.

Oh yeah, good point…

‘Wanted. Someone with a van to give a lift to five shiney expensive mountain bikes’

If you’re going to load 5 nice expensive bikes into the back, then I could borrow a van 😉

OP, there is a lot of bike hire options in Les Gets and Morzine (inc AM/enduro bikes) but trying to get 7 bikes for PPdS weekend was always going to be a stretch especially as its quite late now.

Anyhow IMO driving is best for bike safety and you can take more kit. Enjoy the road trip

Phone around hire shops further afield maybe?
They won’t all be busy given the lifts aren’t all open, and you may well find for 7 decent bikes someone will offer a collect/delivery service.