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Orange Alpine 160’s

gareth — Wed, 27 May 2009 15:37:29 +0000

The new bikes have arrived! They look unbelievably “bling”. I have been lucky enough to have this day in May for 8 years now. It’s one of the best bits of the job. This year we have a 16″ and an 18″ Orange Alpine 160.

I thought I’d pull the “prototype to this bike out of the garage and make some compare and contrast notes. Apart from the component differences there are a number of obvious frame differences.

The rear swing-arm is bigger and beefier (it looks stiffer) with more mud clearance than the old one.
The headangle is .75 degrees steeper than the old (it is 66.4 degrees according to my iphone)
The bottom bracket is 1.5cm higher
It has a maxle rear axle, should be stiffer.
Sexy new hydroformed? tubes and a frontend that is 1 or 2cm higher than the old bike.
It has more travel, they say 160 mm compared to 130 mm but who knows?

Ride Morzine .org

gareth — Tue, 05 May 2009 20:05:39 +0000

RideMorzine is back online – it has a new TLD of .org. Lets see what happens with it!
http://www.ridemorzine.org

Avoriaz Ski Randonee

gareth — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 20:31:11 +0000

The annual end of season ski randonee (ski mountaineering) race was held in Avoriaz yesterday. There are 4 courses (Elite, Grand, Petit, Mini), Francesca Eyre and I entered the Grand (1400m of ascent) and Lee and Sian entered the Petit (1000m of ascent).

The results were:

Francesca and Gareth 2hrs 7min (last year 2hrs 18min).

Lee and Sian 2hrs 3min (last year 2 hrs 11min), they’d have been 5minutes quicker if they had actually made it to the start line on time!

Full results can be found on the CAF Morzine website.

Lift opening dates for Morzine and Les Gets.

gareth — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 14:18:12 +0000

Les Gets (Chavannes and Mt Chery lift) will be opening a week early for mountain bikes on weekends only from May 30th until June 19th. And then from then on full time.

Goodness knows how, there is more than a normal amount of snow about at the moment!

Looks like the “main” lifts will be open June 26th until the August 30th. This came from the Chatel webpage.

Endlessride still has room at the in too.

Mountain Bike and Road Bike Events around Morzine 2009

gareth — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 22:49:21 +0000

Road Bike Events around Morzine, Summer 2009.

Cyclosportives

Cluses- Agy, 31/5 click here for more information

Time Megeve – Mt Blanc 14/6 click here for more information

Morzine – Montriond 21/6 click here for more information

La Grand Bo 28/6 click here for more information

Critérium Dauphiné Libéré June 7 to 14, route to be annouced, more information?

Le Tour de France, 22 July, passing through Cluses more information

Le Tour de France, 23 July, Annecy individual time trail more information

Morzine – Avoriaz hillclimb. This is held twice a summer. July 14th and the second Sunday morning of August.

Mountain Bike Events

Passportes du Soleil 27/28 June click here for more information FULL but still places left via endlessride

(Not that near to Morzine) Mega Avalanche 12/7 click here for info

Lift Opening Dates in Morzine and Les Gets

gareth — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 22:44:35 +0000

Provisional Lift opening dates for 2009 are:
June 6th – limited Morzine and Les Gets lifts open (Pleney every day, Chavannes weekend of 6/7 June and then every day from June 14)
June 27th – full area lifts open
Aug 30st – full area lifts close
Sept 6th – limited area Morzine and Les Gets lifts close

The bikes come out in Morzine

gareth — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 21:58:17 +0000

Carl, Sian and Andy (Biketreks) got the bikes out for a run around th Valley Verte yesterday, not mountain bikes mind you, the early season training machines.

You can see the left over snow, maybe a mountain bike would have been a better idea! Though looking at the depths of snow mountain biking could be an interesting game in June. Our holidays are starting as normal in June, though we hope to do some road biking then too.

A little ski tour

gareth — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 22:52:45 +0000

Ok so it’s not mountain biking yet, and it feels like a bit of a holiday!

Morzine Mountain Biking Photos

gareth — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 22:14:57 +0000

All my photos can be found here

http://www.flickr.com/people/endlessride/

Moutain Biking, Skiing, Ski touring, Snowshoeing and loads of the family too!

4,800 and counting

Staff Snowshoeing taster.

gareth — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 20:10:52 +0000

A snowshoe trip for staff from various ski companies around Morzine.

These photos are all courtesy of Emma Runciman.