French & Swiss Alps 2012

[Guest Omega Man]

Time to cut your losses and book your ticket for next year!!!!

That's happening in Feb bru. Money is in the bank ready to go. haha. We are leaving here 25 July. Get that date in your diary.

 

Hopefully staying at Nantegue. Maybe we can get like 20 saffa's there at one time. We can have a South African mega train down Chavannes. Call it the Gravy Train.

Edited September 21, 2012 by Omega Man

[Unclerico]

Duaneo please send me a mail with the plans so far

[Guest Omega Man]

Duaneo please send me a mail with the plans so far

Is your email address still paedobob@pornjunkies.com?

Edited September 21, 2012 by Omega Man

[Unclerico]

Is your email address still paedobob@pornjunkies.com?

haha thats exactly it

[Guest Omega Man]

Just a thought.

 

Would anyone be interested in doing the Mega next year?

 

Entries typically open in Jan and sell out in a week so if anyone is keen they'd need to start getting their ducks in a row quickly. The race is typically mid July. There's qualifying races held on the Friday with the main event on the Sunday.

 

EVERYONE GETS TO RACE!!!

 

No matter what your placing is in the qualifying heats you will have an opportunity to ride the course come Sunday. There are 3 mass start races as far as I know and your placing in the qualifying races determines which of the races you line up for and your seeding in them. So pin your quali and you could be lining up next to Dan Atherton on Sunday.

 

Even is you don't qualify for one of the mass start races you still get to ride down on the Sunday with a timing chip on your bike so your holiday won't be ruined by a mechanical or silly crash in the qualifying race. There might even be a call to hang back in the quali if you aren't into the carnage of a mass start dh race on ice with 499 other nutters.

 

Alp du Huez is about 160km from Morzine so you could combine a trip to Morzine and the mega all in one. In fact I'm sure many people do that already.

 

And the best part of the whole thing is that when someone asks you if you've done the epic you can say. No bru. I've done way more hardcore. I've done the Mega

Edited October 1, 2012 by Omega Man

[kingalton]

Will be swapping my bike for Skiiiis in December, off to Zermatt for a bit of fun in the snow, cant wait...

[patches]

Just a thought.

 

Would anyone be interested in doing the Mega next year?

 

Entries typically open in Jan and sell out in a week so if anyone is keen they'd need to start getting their ducks in a row quickly. The race is typically mid July. There's qualifying races held on the Friday with the main event on the Sunday.

 

EVERYONE GETS TO RACE!!!

 

No matter what your placing is in the qualifying heats you will have an opportunity to ride the course come Sunday. There are 3 mass start races as far as I know and your placing in the qualifying races determines which of the races you line up for and your seeding in them. So pin your quali and you could be lining up next to Dan Atherton on Sunday.

 

Even is you don't qualify for one of the mass start races you still get to ride down on the Sunday with a timing chip on your bike so your holiday won't be ruined by a mechanical or silly crash in the qualifying race. There might even be a call to hang back in the quali if you aren't into the carnage of a mass start dh race on ice with 499 other nutters.

 

Alp du Huez is about 160km from Morzine so you could combine a trip to Morzine and the mega all in one. In fact I'm sure many people do that already.

 

And the best part of the whole thing is that when someone asks you if you've done the epic you can say. No bru. I've done way more hardcore. I've done the Mega

 

haha! true bragging rights!

 

Man... I would love to make something like that happen!

 

I think a Morzine trip is definitely on the cards for next year. Whether I can squeeze Mega in too is a whole other story.

 

I wonder what the extra cost would be to get 2 bikes on the plane?

 

Or would you just take 1? If so... which one?

 

If I was confined to 1 I would go with the full DH bike because I know I'm not going to win Mega so may as well have a comfy-couch and something better suited to Morzine.

[Guest Omega Man]

 

I wonder what the extra cost would be to get 2 bikes on the plane?

 

Or would you just take 1? If so... which one?

 

If I was confined to 1 I would go with the full DH bike because I know I'm not going to win Mega so may as well have a comfy-couch and something better suited to Morzine.

You aren't gonna win so to take 2 bikes would just be sooooo much admin for very little benefit.

 

Plenty of guys do it on full dh rigs and my focus would be the dh trails anyway so my only mod would be a dropper. I think being based in Morzine could be the way forward and drive over to Alp du Huez for the Friday and Sunday for the racing. I've done very little investigating but after multiple beers with mates last night we decided that it IS A DONE DEAL!!! Of course that was alchohol fueled bravado.

[Unclerico]

You aren't gonna win so to take 2 bikes would just be sooooo much admin for very little benefit.

 

Plenty of guys do it on full dh rigs and my focus would be the dh trails anyway so my only mod would be a dropper. I think being based in Morzine could be the way forward and drive over to Alp du Huez for the Friday and Sunday for the racing. I've done very little investigating but after multiple beers with mates last night we decided that it IS A DONE DEAL!!! Of course that was alchohol fueled bravado.

how much extra would it be?

[Guest Omega Man]

how much extra would it be?

As far as i can make out it's 110euro entry fee plus of course the cost of getting there. The entry fee seems to include a lift pass for the area for the preceding week so there might be a call to be there for a week. Maybe 1 week Morzine 1 week Alp du Huez?

 

Just thinking out loud here. The track is 32km long. And the quali track is something like 14km long.

 

http://www.alpineelements.co.uk/mountain-biking-holidays/resort/alpe-d-huez.html

Edited October 1, 2012 by Omega Man

[Guest Omega Man]

Alpine Elements also have 2 hotels that they operate out of in Les Gets. The one is about 30m from the main Les Gets ski lift (Chavannes) Check out their Mega Avalanche package.

 

http://www.alpineelements.co.uk/mountain-biking-holidays/mega-avalanche.html

[Unclerico]

As far as i can make out it's 110euro entry fee plus of course the cost of getting there. The entry fee seems to include a lift pass for the area for the preceding week so there might be a call to be there for a week. Maybe 1 week Morzine 1 week Alp du Huez?

 

Just thinking out loud here. The track is 32km long. And the quali track is something like 14km long.

 

http://www.alpineele...lpe-d-huez.html

It sounds amazing

[Guest Omega Man]

Just an update on our departure date for 2013. It looks like we are leaving CT on the 4th of July. So we'll be arriving the weekend of the Chatel Mountain style. Which is fine by me cos I don't want to watch that. I know how k@k I am. I don't need those okes to make me feel suicidal.

[Super_mil]

FOR SALE

 

Maxxis High Roller DH tire. Dual Ply. 2.5. Super Tacky

Only used for 8 -10 days max, so basically like new .

 

Tire only! R300

 

 

 

[Guest Omega Man]

Little too hard on the brakes there fella. Haha.

[Guest Omega Man]

I was having coffee this morning when I tripped and spilt coffee on my laptop. My laptop must have short curcuited cos it booked my plane ticket for next year. Guess I'll have to go now. Damn.