A Quick Note Before Things Get Weird…
This is only a little post, but I feel I need to post this post before I post my next post. So far, things around here have been pretty MTB heavy. Just the way I like it. Love it, in […]
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Metabief: French Cups, French Cops & Road Gaps
Metabief – Mad name eh? Might sound like Zuckerberg’s at it again with his old foe Musk but it’s actually pronounced meh-ta-bee-eh and was the venue for the first French Cup of the year. They held the MTB World Champs […]
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Cormavalanche – Breaking, Entering and the Big Moustache
The folks over at Cormaranche like a bit of nifty branding and we were there last weekend for the first race of our Regional Downhill Cup in 2026, Cormavalanche! Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes is France’s third-largest region and stretches from the Swiss and […]
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Back to Britain and Rhyd-y-Felin
10 years living in France and last weekend was the time we’d finally head back to the UK and check out the GB race scene. The race – The first of the British National DH Series in 2026. The venue […]
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Salève: Seen It a Hundred Times… Finally Rode It
f you’ve ever driven from Geneva and skirted east on the A40 towards Chamonix, you’ve probably noticed the mountainous lump of rock, looming on the right-hand side of the motorway. You may even have double-taken at a bright yellow excavator […]
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SR Suntour Millau 2026 – Back in the Race Game
“Meeow”, I said again to a couple of my French mates. They looked at me blankly, wondering whether a screw had rattled loose and I was suddenly identifying as a cat. I elaborated… “Viaduc énorme,” enormous viaduct… “Pont grand,” big […]
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Pivot… Direction… Not the bike brand
As I put the finishing touches to ‘For the Love of Mountain Biking’, I gushed in the concluding chapter about the tantalising prospects for the upcoming season. A Finalé trip was booked and fast approaching, my internal wish list of bike-based […]
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