In recent Morzine news....

the Serma guys are busy with the digger on the Lindarets tracks. Currently they are reshaping berms on the blue track. I rode down today and it's a bit different up top with hugh piles of gravel everywhere, due to the building work going on in Avoriaz this summer. They have reshaped a fair few berms, put some small doubles in and smoothed things out a bit. They have also sorted some of the drainage issues on the red track under the Chaux Fleurie, installing a board walk over the major boggy section about 2/3 of the way down. I'm sure those that have ridden there before will know the section I'm talking about. I'm going to check out the tracks on Super Morzine tomorrow to see what condition they are in. It'll be interesting to see how they are running after they've been ridden in a bit. The Chatel crew have also been busy getting the Mountain Style course ready for the weekend. There are gonna be some big names throwing down, so get over there if you can to watch it.

Here's Mustache of the PPDS for those that missed it!

The week after

As some of you may know, the weekend was a busy one, so this week is feeling a bit quiet. We've done some brake bleeding and some gear set-ups but not a lot else. So, I've had the camera out to show you the sites - 

There were lots of injuries at the weekend, on Monday they had the chopper out.

Passportes Du Soleil - Round-up

Finally the weekend has finished! I'm sure a lot of us will be sighing a big sigh of relief. It's been a busy 3 days, with thousands of bikers passing through to take part in the Passportes du Soleil - the main biking event of the summer.

Trail Building Video

I said in an earlier post that Stew Monk from ReelfunMedia was filming us digging the other day. It's true, and he made a video to prove it. Enjoy!

Have a looksy here.

Trail Building on Super Morzine - Day 4

No one made it up yesterday, I guess the sunshine has been too tempting, so everyone has been out enjoying it on their bikes. Luckily the guys from Serma have to be there, they do get paid for it! Jean-Noel and Nico started work on Hattok, re-shaping the first few corners, here are some pictures:

Trail Building on Super Morzine - Day 3

A different week, but another day of digging. Yesterday was Lundi de Pentecote, that's Whit Monday to us English, so it was no work and all play up on the Pleney (it's open!). We met again at the usual time of 2pm today, this time at the bottom of the lift as we are over halfway on D.A. Trail.

Trail Building on Super Morzine - Day 2

Another good day up on Super Morzine today. Another good turn out of people. A couple less than yesterday but some new faces with fresh muscles. We promptly carried on from where we left of yesterday, continuing across the piste and into the next section of woods. We've left a couple of sections as we hope to get a mini digger in to the hard work (there is a lot of benching to do). More berms constructed, and a few jumps, one pretty interesting one! Got a few snaps today so you can see what we are doing. Stew Monk from Reelfunmedia was also up there to get a bit of footage of the action. Look out for it sometime this summer.

Irish, raking it in.

Trail Building on Super Morzine - Day 1

So, we went up for the first day of trail building today. After 3 of us scouted the tracks yesterday, 15 of us turned up today to do the hard work. It was a wet and horrible afternoon, but once we had got into the swing of things the time flew by. When you have 30 hands working in harmony, you get corners built quickly.

After about 3 hours of work, we had constructed 1 mammoth berm and about 4 others, cut in the track a bit more a the start to better define the line and cut back the trees to allow a better view. All in all a successful afternoon.

More again tomorrow. I'll be taking my camera as it'll be a bit drier.