I'm going over to Morzine for a few days after the Marmotte and need to hire a bike as I'm already flying with my roadie for the Marmotte.
Any recommendations/experiences/tips?
Doesn't need to be DH - regular trail bike will be fine.
There was a thread recently and the verdict seemed to be that they were all knackered and to try not to.
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no choice I'm afraid. No space to carry two bikes.
I'll do another search...
Very expensive (think £200+ a week), and tend to be knackered. Ive hired out there twice, and the ones i had were rideable, but ive seen others that were pretty much trashed.
Whatever you do, dont get one from the shop that is by the bottom of the Pleney lift.
May be some new set up's out there by now though, i havent been for a couple of years.
it's only for a couple of days really, so price isn't a massive deal but the main thing is, as you say, getting a non-sloppy bike.
There's a few shops that hire out bikes in Morzine, I can't recommend one, the only bike I hired was a DH Scott from the bottom of Pleney for a day. It was OK, it worked. They're going to be low-mid range hard tails and cheaper (read heafty) FS. for a couple of days it'll be fine. Be prepared to tweak gears, oh and take a couple of tubes and a pump...
Brakes are round the wrong way. repeat this as a mantra to yourself constantly
Theres an english staffed/owned? shop lower down (away from the pleney lift) in Morzine I hired a £1900 Giant Reign X1 (was that or a 100mm Trance) ago the other summer. Nothing wrong with it in terms of maintenence, they'd even put 185mm rotors on (the stock bike came with 180/160). Was a little more expensive than other shops and had to give back by 6pm (was only one day)
Also hired from another shop, also lower down in Morzine (not as low as the other shop), that had Lapierres, had a Spicy 316 for a day, a little less than the reign and could return by 7pm. Nothing wrong with that either
Both were fine, though it was early in the season, so perhaps hadn't had the hammer yet?
Also, both bikes had their brakes the UK way round 🙂
(I think the lapierre shop had some in euro way round too though)
Can't remember what either shop is called though
[i]Theres an english staffed shop lower down (away from the pleney lift) in Morzine
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That one was 'dertmtb', and AFAIK have closed down now.
cheers all. I may have found a cunning way to get my own bike over there...
Ms AD hired a small full susser (cant remember the model or brand) and was then given a medium. Way too big and the shop would have been happy for her to ride off on it. Had to wait another day to get a small, then it turned out to have a stuck down shock.
As above, expensive and not going to be as well maintained as your own. You could try Zero G in Chamonix instead if you're passing that way (or want to go there to ride some better trails 😉 ).
Or maybe we were just unlucky...
DHL it over there?
We hire bikes. and will have a brand new fleet of top notch bikes this summer. Dert is closed, and has been for a while. There may well be a new shop opening this summer though...
[url= http://www.flowmtb.com ]flowmtb.com[/url]
very interested flowmtbguy 8)
do you have an email addy I can send you some questions re. availability and prices etc? Or should I just go through the website...
ygm flowmtbguy 8)
It's taken a while - but this new shop I spoke of - it's here: http://www.toricomorzine.com/
Couple years ago the guys at the Chalet had a rental and it wasn't great I certainly wouldn't have fancied chucking it down the hill.
If you do hire one make sure you give it a check over before you go out on it and you'd be ok, normal stuff make sure bolts are tight and that there is no play in headset and wheels and life in the brake pads.