Want to ride your bike in the biggest Mountain Biking area in the world? 2.0

[Guest Omega Man]

This one?

Yerp!

 

believe me. you won't give that thing a 2nd look when we are there. The real trails are 6 000 000 0000 times better.

[hayleyearth]

 

Yerp!

 

believe me. you won't give that thing a 2nd look when we are there. The real trails are 6 000 000 0000 times better.

 

Unless it is for some evening action...

[NicoBoshoff]

I'll need to borrow someone's bmx. No ways my wagon wheels will make it around that thing.

[hayleyearth]

So how well can you guys read / speak / understand French?

 

I started yesterday with a couple of things (I knew NOTHING of French), but now I find myself wanting to put German words in the places if I dont know the French one. A bit of a problem there.

[NicoBoshoff]

So how well can you guys read / speak / understand French?

 

I started yesterday with a couple of things (I knew NOTHING of French), but now I find myself wanting to put German words in the places if I dont know the French one. A bit of a problem there.

 

I am planning on just yelling at them in German if they give me k@k. Worked a charm in the 40's.

[Guest Omega Man]

So how well can you guys read / speak / understand French?

 

I started yesterday with a couple of things (I knew NOTHING of French), but now I find myself wanting to put German words in the places if I dont know the French one. A bit of a problem there.

You don't need to know anything. Most of the good shops, airport shuttles, chalets and bars are British owned anyway. You'll easily be able to tell them apart. The British shops open at 9. The French ones open at 11 and close at 1 for a 2 hour lunch which ends at 4.30.

 

The French owned restaurants close for lunch?????????????????????

 

Merci - Thank You

Bonjour - Good Morning

Bonsoir - Good evening

Frites - Fries

Demi - Small beer

 

That's it.

 

And my personal favorite

An Coule - Erm. It's a derogatory term describing. erm. a specific type of intercourse. Screaming it from a lift is sure to invoke at least a little laughter.

 

As luck would have it Beer is a universal word.

 

Oh Oh. One more.

 

Ge ne pah les pah Francaise. Afrique du Sud. Pah le voh Anglaise?

 

I can't speak French. (point at self) South Africa. Do you speak English?

 

At which point the guy will respond in a thick English accent that he speaks English just fine.

Edited April 23, 2014 by Omega Man

[Guest Omega Man]

Seriously tho.

 

It's not like Paris where the locals are downright rude. (Apparently. I've never been)

 

Id say 60-70% of the people you will encounter working in the shops, restaurants etc etc are British. The only job that seems to be reserved exclusively for French people are the lifties. And a simple Merci puts a smile on their faces. The lifties in Chatel seem to be into hard rock and they jam that out at full volume all day long.

 

Even the local French people try to speak a little English as they know full well we pay for their existence. In 2012 we encountered one particularly rude bike shop owner in Les Gets. Needless to say we never bought a thing from them. In 2013 the shop was boarded up. Go Figure!

[DR ◣◢]

Merci - not to be pronounced the same as mercy.

[Super_mil]

Everything you need to know.

 

http://youtu.be/x1sQkEfAdfY

[Guest Omega Man]

Some Pleney digging happening today. That's a LOOOTTTTT Steeper than it looks.

 

Edited April 25, 2014 by Omega Man

[Bazinga]

So finally got myself a Morzine frame. For the moment I've just transferred components from my Cotic Bfe so still needs upgrades but it's good to go

[Guest Omega Man]

So finally got myself a Morzine frame. For the moment I've just transferred components from my Cotic Bfe so still needs upgrades but it's good to go

That'll work.

 

Nico is taking a Spec 29er Stumpjumper. He's but on a slightly burlier fork on the front and has Avid Codes doing the stopping.

 

After watching him pull away from me in all the wide open stuff at Jonkers yesterday I'm thinking VERY seriously about taking a Spec Enduro 29er. The Ali version. I'll put my hope 4 pots with 203 rotors on just cos I don't trust any other brakes in the Alps. I can think of nothing funnier than busting a fat (for me) whip in front of the wanna be poms on Zore.

 

Braking bumps? What braking bumps?

[Pieter1]

 

You don't need to know anything. Most of the good shops, airport shuttles, chalets and bars are British owned anyway. You'll easily be able to tell them apart. The British shops open at 9. The French ones open at 11 and close at 1 for a 2 hour lunch which ends at 4.30.

 

The French owned restaurants close for lunch?????????????????????

 

Merci - Thank You

Bonjour - Good Morning

Bonsoir - Good evening

Frites - Fries

Demi - Small beer

 

That's it.

 

And my personal favorite

An Coule - Erm. It's a derogatory term describing. erm. a specific type of intercourse. Screaming it from a lift is sure to invoke at least a little laughter.

 

As luck would have it Beer is a universal word.

 

Oh Oh. One more.

 

Ge ne pah les pah Francaise. Afrique du Sud. Pah le voh Anglaise?

 

I can't speak French. (point at self) South Africa. Do you speak English?

 

At which point the guy will respond in a thick English accent that he speaks English just fine.

Sorry guy! Edited April 28, 2014 by Pieter1

[Guest Omega Man]

Thanks man.

 

Just wanna keep this one all about the riding

Edited April 28, 2014 by Omega Man

[Guest Omega Man]

The Blue Line at Zore is kind of like G Spot.

 

Except it's 3km long

With a Ski Lift

And It's at the top of an Alp

And there's a great little spot to get a beer at the end of the trail.

 

This is the G Spot this morning. Karl will be one of the guys leading the trip. And busting out like this.

 

Edited April 28, 2014 by Omega Man

[Guest Omega Man]

Simple Minds to potentially play Morzine. For those that will be out there then.

 

 

http://morzinesourcemagazine.com/simple-minds-play-morzine/