Morzine

Well there is one in Les Gets too because I’ve ridden it today:-)

Okay furrynuff ..

@emmodd – what a wooden one like a helter skelter ? I don’t remember that, just a tight series of mini-berms in that “practice area”

That particular spiral is def the one in Les Gets

Yep. Definitely not imagined it.

There is a wooden spiral around a tree in the woods at the bottom of te Les Gets bike park. There’s even video evidence of me riding it last year somewhere.

It’s just above a rope bridge which is much more scary to ride!

Rachel

Found the spiral today, and for everyone asking about about the weather, we’re in the middle of a thunderstorm right now!

All these posts and nobody has asked how much beer is in Robinsons this year? 8)

Out there 7th – 14th July

Yep. Definitely not imagined it.

How did I miss that ! That’s embarrassing.

More sunshine in Morzine – only issue is the Pleney not running!! It has been replaced by the service Gondola for the hotel at the top of Pleney with an uplift rate of 4-5 riders every 6 minutes!! This means nobody is doing the Pleney runs, and even so the queue is about 45 minutes. Les Gets still not too busy, and the tracks are running nicely!

Finished on a low though – bad jump in les gets ended with an OTB and a visit to Thonon hospital for a broken collar bone :-((

Gutted, how many days have you got left there?

How come they sent you to Thonon? Plenty of clinics in Les Gets and Morzine that can usually deal with that sort of thing

Everywhere closed on a Sunday. Ski patrol and paramedics all really good. Hurting like hell right now. Last day today anyway, so not missing too much. First time out here, and I was just getting comfy – oh, well!!

As an aside, my Heckler, as recommended by the STW massif was perfect, and the shimano deores were faultless.

Its somewhere we have looked at going…can you still enjoy it if you are the sort of rider that wears a XC helmet and only some knee pads (not because we are just too good, but because we dont ride really big stuff)?

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More sunshine in Morzine – only issue is the Pleney not running!! It has been replaced by the service Gondola for the hotel at the top of Pleney with an uplift rate of 4-5 riders every 6 minutes!! This means nobody is doing the Pleney runs, and even so the queue is about 45 minutes. Les Gets still not too busy, and the tracks are running nicely!

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Has the Pleney Lift re-opened yet? Flying out Thursday and hoping this is sorted for the PPDS!

ahsat – yes.

That’s my wife and I to a tee. And I have riden Les Gets a couple of years with a small boy on a LOCT bike seat as a passenger.

Ride to your ability, and push a little perhaps, and there’s a lot of fun to be had.

Smuttie- I’m back home now but from we heard before we left pleney should be open on Wednesday

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Smuttie- I’m back home now but from we heard before we left pleney should be open on Wednesday

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Cheers for the update

Cant wait now, only 3 days of work to get through!!

Weather is not looking good for the PPdS 🙁

aahhhh just across the valley in Verbier…awesome here and weather at present is tip top!
Did you go to Clinique Le Martin in Thonon? That is where Mr MC went when snapped knee he spent 5 days there whilst I stayed in Morzine….nightmare!

No, L’hospital Lehman A&E. In and out in 4 hrs

I was on a Gurney in the corridor next to a young French Stormtrooper on a backboard, with a neck brace and lots of blood. My collarbone felt a little insignificant next to him, poor lad :-((

Just picked up the van to take our bikes out. We leave at 3am tomorrow. Hopefully the bike shop pulls its finger out and sorts my wheel in the next couple of hours.

BTW, not impressed with the bike shop by the Pleney lift – just after your money, nothing else. One of our group asked about replacement bearings, and he literally laughed in our face. Would only sell whole headset. gave us a price, but wouldn’t take the bike until it was jet washed! (only barely dusty!). Back at our apartment, a phone call to a mate back home diagnosed the requirement for an extra spacer, as the top cap was touching the steerer. Shop guy didn’t even look at the headset.

The next day, another guy wanted to hire a SC Heckler. The same shop had them in – a beautiful line of sparkly Hecklers lined up. The one he was given though, was old, with a big gash on the stanchion of the fork, and a no name 2.1 tyre in hard compound on the front. The shock sagged to about 60% and he was only 10st.

Stay well clear!!

Another shop down on Rue de la Plagne couldn’t have been better though – bleeding a set of Avids and fitting troublesome new pads for €20!!

at least he was offered a heckler. My mate wanted one and they insisted he take a full on downhill bike, because the hecklers were only suitable for cross country????!

And I’m sure that DH bike was more expensive too! I really can’t tell you how rude they were in that shop. When he dropped the Heckler back, the guy insisted in looking at the soles of his shoes, because someone had left a footprint on his shop floor, and he wanted to find the culprit!!! It’s a bloody mountain bike shop FFS!!!

That shop isn’t any better in Winter either.

I booked a set of Volkl Tiger Shark 12’s for a couple of weeks two years ago (they were new model that season and I rang to confirm they had them) paid in advance to make sure etc.

When I arrived he tried to palm me off with some crappy Head intermediate things that looked a good few years old.

Tried to tell me they were an “equivalent model” to what I ordered !

Refused a refund and I ended up getting a friend who’s local to “have a word”

Proper rip off place. Wouldn’t go there again if they were giving stuff away.

Easy business though I guess, in it solely for the money. It’s a shame because imagine what these business could be like if they were as good as a decent LBS… Infact I wonder why more struggling LBSs don’t just move out there lol

We’re on the train about to head to France!

Bring on morzine!

Is that the British run shop opposite the Pleny ticket office? They were dead helpful at bashing my mech hanger back into shape (after I asked them in French). I tried to buy an SFN in French from and Englishman in Chatel the following year.

Safe travels weeksy, let us know how it goes.

OliverD , come out of the pleney lift, across the road towards town, 2 shops down.

The ones in town were much better.

Weather is not looking good for the PPdS

Really? Looks fine to me, at least for Saturday and Sunday.

http://www.snow-forecast.com/resorts/Morzine/6day/mid

Oh, and if you’re looking for a decent mechanic, the Scott dealership (diagonally opposite the petrol station) is excellent, if it’s the still the same Aussie bloke. Not cheap, but not silly money either, and they do a good job.

Shop wise, Drug Sport Vital and Torico were both excellent for us last year

http://www.toricomorzine.com/

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if it’s the still the same Aussie bloke. Not cheap, but not silly money either, and they do a good job.

He was there last year and he was super friendly

Latest injury update – broken collarbone requires surgery, 2 months off work. Also broken wrist – 1 month in plaster, so can’t drive :-((.

So 2 out of 5 of us have fractured wrists. What can you wear to protect from this? Also, would body armour with shoulder protection help stop a broken collarbone? Just on the off chance I am ever allowed back to the alps???

gotta take it easy out there mate. the smashing yourself to bits rate out there is alarming!

it’s not necessarily a body armour thing, more of a not falling off thing!!!

I agree!! My fall was on a pretty innocuous section. You have to concentrate 100% of the time!

The number of casualties we saw in Les Gets in particular was shocking, mainly on the jumps on the Chavannes run.

Heal up soon Dan.