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We’d been quietly hoping for the best, but we needn’t have bothered. Thomas had spent the two-week wait for his MRI looking forward and throwing himself into a melange of physio work, ice, elevation and hitting the gym to work […]

You’ve no doubt already seen the bonkers footage from the UCI Downhill World Cup in Les Gets last weekend. Heck, even Emmanuel Macron reposted the aerial footage of Max Alran’s win and the final surge. It was a fantastic week […]

The phone buzzed. Thomas calling. “Hiya,” I said. “You OK?” “Not really,” he replied. My insides did a little lurch. Please be a bike problem, I willed. “I jumped off a side hit and got a bit out of shape […]

After the previous weekend’s next-level European comp, we were back to French Nationals at Puy Saint Vincent. It’s just up the road from the Les Orres, so many of the riders went straight from one to the other. The field […]

The middle weekend of our three-weekend back-to-backer took us to Les Orres for the IXS European Downhill Cup. This wasn’t just another race. It was the highest level Thomas can race at his age. This is effectively the highest level […]

We travelled to Col de Rousset on the first weekend in July for stop number three of the Auvergne Rhone Alpes Regional Cup. Racing went on pause for a couple of weekends before that while Thomas sat his Brevet exams […]

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 […]

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 […]