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Suits me. Introduction to riding in the Alps for me.
Then the Mega! 😯 😀 (next year maybe 😉 )
So am I looking at winter weather clothes & a snow shovel or t-shirt and sun cream?
[url= http://uk.weather.com/weather/10day-FRXX0251:1:FR ]Forecast here[/url].
I'm thinking warmish clothing as the temperature will be noticably lower at the tops of the lifts.
Just thought I'd let you know that I'll be taking pictures for my friends company "Mountain Event Photography" - find them on facebook... so get your berms railed and jumps sent if you want a nice picture on the day.
As long as it's not a swamp-fest I'll be happy.
So, yesterday WAS a swamp fest. Friday was lovely though. It definitely rates as one of my wettest days on a bike but even so, the ride down from Avoriaz to Morzine was still fantastic.
Hi to slackalice too, bumped into him as deadkenny was fixing a puncture on the first trail of the day
Muddy again today, busted my rear mech off with mud 😯 think it was jammed went to pedal and bang twisted rear mech. That or it sustained damage in an earlier fall, tried single speeding but wasn't working for me.
So managed 11miles off road and 9 miles road and vtt back to get sorted, ready for tomorrow suspect its still going be a mud fest in places.
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Very muddy today but happy not to have to have ridden it in the rain yesterday.
Was just like Mountain Mayhem, with mountains!
I was fortunate to do the tour on Friday, however not so fortunate to have a branch flick into my spokes on Thursday resulting in head first into forest road. Result was a messy face and 4 stitches in the chin (performed by a very nice dr in the les gets medical centre. Took me a while to get my mojo back....
Saturday must have been carnage as well as today - at least today was blue skies all round.
On the way back yesterday I was listening to local radio and they were talking about how few riders bothered with riding on Saturday. I'm glad we did ride but being perfectly honest I couldn't have done much more than I did on Saturday (Lindarets -> Avoriaz -> Morzine and back) as I came off the chair lifts shivering despite wearing loads of layers. Everything on me was soaked.
So sorry for those who did saturday. We've been here 10 days now and sat was the worst weather we've seen. We did friday which was cold but good.
Wall to wall blue skies today...we're here until saturday (gloat).
Yeah there were some very muddy & haunted looks on Saturday.
We rode Sunday which good but damn muddy, plus everyone got round OK too - Result.
We've been here 10 days now and sat was the worst weather we've seen.
Funnily enough on Friday when we came down from Mossettes we thought the mud off the top was pretty bad. On Saturday when we got back to Lindarets the people coming down from Mossettes looked pretty clean compared to us so I guess it's all perspective.
Great place tho. Looking forward to going back.