If the bike's more than a year or so old and/or has been out in the rain a bit, it might be worth giving the changer and deraillieur a really good clean and changing the cable and the cable housing.Alternatively, just get into the habit of shouting "MESSIEURS, PREPAREZ VOS BRAQUETS" before any upward hills arrive, to get your child to change gear in advance.
Back on topic, 3 hombres from this forum setting out for Porte de soleil tmmrw morning Fuck yeah, updates if we can get wifi!
interesting..... looks like i need to up my game....
Hidden trail off to the right (looking downhill) of the Super-Morzine - like a pimped up Innerleithen.
a mate has been to pra loup a couple of times for the masters dh world champs and said it was loads of fun.
Getting the flow back and burning off numerous big-rig full-faced up punters on my AM bike.
Quote from: Fultonius on July 16, 2011, 11:40:41 pmGetting the flow back and burning off numerous big-rig full-faced up punters on my AM bike. On 2nd read that sounds a bit arsey - what I was meaning was I was surprised how many folk there were out there totally over-biked and under-skilled!
The one at super morxine I did may or may not be the same one - I'll try and describe