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Morzine: Enduro now is better than Downhill then
Benji takes a capable trail bike to Morzine trails that once dictated a DH machine and comes away impressed.
Les Gets: Knocking it out of the (bike) Park
Sanny goes up and out of the bike part in order to see the views and try the trails that few bother to see.
Ebikes in the mountains?
Mark looks at the logistics and benefits of taking (or renting) an ebike for the mountain trails, despite the abundance of chairlifts in the Portes de Soleil area.
Gravel to a Gun Fight
Sanny wouldn’t listen and took a gravel bike up the chairlift. Turns out, there’s a load of gravel (and hardtail and family)-friendly stuff just the other side of the lifts.
What is Soul?
Can bikes have ‘soul’? Can only steel bikes have soul? How about new bikes? Can you add to it, or does it drain away if not topped up? Chipps takes a deep dive into a completely invented topic to see what the truth is.
Flight Club
A few issues ago, Steve Aspinall was sailing through the air with ease and encouraging you to join him. Then it all came to a sudden stop. Now, he’s back, he’s more philosophical and he’s mostly fixed.
Riding Trousers
Riding pants? Riding trousers? Call them what you will, they’re a great way of keeping the brambles out and the pads up. Benji and crew check out a handful for you.
Wider, not wiser
Our endurance racing stalwart, Jason Miles comes out of self-imposed exile to discover that everyone got faster while he was away.
Through the Grinder
Our longest-running reviews section continues its slow erosion of test products for your benefit and entertainment.
Tall Bikes
Why would you make a bike harder to ride and to get on and off? ‘Just because’, seems the perfectly reasonable excuse cited by disciples of the Church of the Tall Bike.
Cragg Megadeth
Or, Creag Meagaidh, to give it its full name. Munro-bagger Sanny teams up with MunroBiker to tick another peak off their iSpy book of big Scottish mountains.
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Sanny being asked to fill all the gaps left by recent departures?
Looking forward to some GPXs of the routes you guys did in France.
@mtbfix Sanny often has epic Scottish features for us and was also free enough to head over to Les Gets for us. So far, there’s zero Sanny content in the October issue. 🙂
@mtbfix
You would think but no. It just so happened that I was able to go to France and my feature with Munrobiker was on the cards for several months. Hopefully, you will really enjoy the next issue.
@fatboyfat
The routes we did were fun. One was full on switchback heaven / hell, depending entirely upon whether you like endo hops or not. It was pretty mental and had a few fallen trees over the trail at the bottom so suspect there wont be a GPX for that but the rest should be there. I think Ben / Mark will have them as that kind of tech is too fancy for a map and compass boy like me.
Cheers
Sanny
When is this due to ship? Trying to figure out if it will arrive before I leave for Morzine at the weekend.
And can you tell us when it will be available to download as a pdf? I’ve been waiting eagerly for the PdS features for ages.
Should be delivered around the 11th August, with PDF available at the same time. Â
Bugger, I guess it will be ready to read when I get back.Â