[tlr]

A few pics of a long weekend in Chamonix and Verbier. Rather mixed weather but great trails.

One broken leg and one broken collar bone out of 14 people. Fortunately both the same person......



More here http://s534.photobucket.com/albums/ee345/TLR99/biking/MTB%20Verbier%202010/?start=all

[cofe]

Looks rubbish.

[Dolly]

Looks rubbish.

 

[Norton Sharley]

Can we assume it wasn't you who bust themselves?  Presumably that's you at the back?

[cofe]

Presumably that's you at the back?

 

[tlr]

?  Presumably that's you at the back?

Why? Do you want to borrow the outfit, I reckon it'd fit you. And no it wasn't me that bust up; it was the group doctor.

[fatkid2000]

And no it wasn't me that bust up; it was the group doctor.

Was FD with you!!!

[fatdoc]

not the wife tlr??

hope not 

[tlr]

No, not the Mrs. It was a lads trip, and one of the boys fell off in the Verbier Bike Park in the rain.

The bike park was bloody steep, and lethal in the rain. You boys might have enjoyed it but I prefered the more natural trails.

[fatdoc]

gay
 

hope he's OK though..

[nash1]

...and here's the vid from the trip, TLR does his cunning hairpin trick in the middle of the vid. Isn't he clever!!

I think the title should be something like "14 old muppets wobble down some Alps"

[Norton Sharley]

Good work gents.  Nice to see some good skills combined with good crashes and not taking it all too seriously 

We really ought to get a ukb cham bike trip sorted next year?

[SA Chris]

Will probably be in the PdS at some point, but could nip over.

[Dolly]

That's a great video.
The trails look awesome as well. I'd love to go there - just think I'm too crap on a bike and would probably hurt myself/fall of the edge of an alp

[cofe]

it is an ace vid. some of the trails look menthol, and taken at menthol speeds. nutters.

[Dolly]

What's the music BTW ?

[Adam Lincoln]

What's the music BTW ?

Silversun Pickups - Lazy eye

[fatdoc]

nice,

is that reflective of the area... i.e: no climbing?

( thinkin how big  a bike I'd take, 9 speed 170mm single crown vs. 150mm 18speed). I'm a gent who prefers the *bigger* bike.

I'm shit at that slow ubber techy stuff...so would be keen to have a go, esp if there's some belting fast stuff & jumpy bits on the lower slopes.

[nash1]

That's pretty reflective yeah. We went with Mountain Bike Verbier and said we didn't want any uphill and they delivered. We were there last year as well. Can really recommend them, good lads, great food and great guiding tailored to your needs. Cracking stuff...

I'd take a 170mm over a 150mm if you have the choice. Most of us had 160's. Last year we were mostly on 140's and pretty much all of us upgraded.

[Dolly]

What's the music BTW ?

Silversun Pickups - Lazy eye

OK cheers. Had a quick listen to some of their other stuff on Spotify and it doesn't sound as good as that track - will carry on digging though.

[Norton Sharley]

nice,

is that reflective of the area... i.e: no climbing?

( thinkin how big  a bike I'd take, 9 speed 170mm single crown vs. 150mm 18speed). I'm a gent who prefers the *bigger* bike.

I'm shit at that slow ubber techy stuff...so would be keen to have a go, esp if there's some belting fast stuff & jumpy bits on the lower slopes.

Depends what you want to do eh?  If you want uplift you take a bigger bike and do uplift.  If you take a smaller lighter bike and do some climbing you get to the areas you wouldn't get to with a big bike.  Some trails you can do both, you're just going to go faster on a dh bike.  (Iron) horses for courses init? 

Me, I prefer to be away from the crowds and for that you need a bit of local knowledge, an AM rig and some body armour 

[tlr]

nice,

is that reflective of the area... i.e: no climbing?

( thinkin how big  a bike I'd take, 9 speed 170mm single crown vs. 150mm 18speed). I'm a gent who prefers the *bigger* bike.

I'm shit at that slow ubber techy stuff...so would be keen to have a go, esp if there's some belting fast stuff & jumpy bits on the lower slopes.

I'd say 150mm rather than 170mm 9 speed. whilst we were all on 160mm, they were all long travel XC/AM or some other fabricated catergory rather than the junior DH bike that I suspect you have....

I think that Nash is forgetting the fair amount of very technical horizontal riding that we did - I am glad I wasn't on my Bullitt.

As Norton said, pay your money take your choice, but for what we did I'd rather have gone down to 140mm than up to a 170mm bike.

[fatdoc]

fair play... AM rig seems better, horizontal means pedalling. If  a bullitt was too big a bike then an SX would be way too big!

another potential holiday I'll strive for over the winter, great video.. thanks.

[Yossarian]

That looks like it was a really fun trip!  Nice to see an alternative to the usual Morzine style DH / A&E style stuff...

Verbier always sounded like a great place.

Anyone planning any weekend missions down to Spain early next year?

[SA Chris]

Would love to get down to Basque region to do some riding with my mate Doug, but hard to justify flying down for just a weekend.