Big brothers moving to Australia and has kitted himself with an Orange Singlespeed- what ever next a 29 er !
What ever you do - do not bring a singlespeed on our Mountain Bike Holidays ! There are too many big mountains and i dont want to see peoples knees exploding everywhere
Un très beau parcours sportif de 100 Km à travers l’Oisans, réservé aux bikers bien entraînés ! Départ des 2 Alpes, arrivée à Bourg d’Oisans, en traversant l’Alpe d’Huez et de nombreux villages et stations de l’Oisans. Le parcours est technique et roulant, même en cas de pluie. L’itinéraire est principalement composé de superbes descentes de type “single tracks” et de pistes en terre. Cette épreuve attribuera des points UCI (classe XCM E1) et des points pour la Coupe de France FFC 2008.
You will take the same route as for the 2006 World Championships!
A beautiful sporting route of 100 Km through Oisans, reserved for well-trained bikers! Starting in Les 2 Alpes, finishing in Bourg d’Oisans, passing through Alpe d’Huez and many other villages and resorts in Oisans. The route is technical and fast, even in the rain. The itinerary is mainly composed of fantastic “single track” downhills and mud tracks. This event will allocate UCI points (Cl: XCM E1) and points for the FFC 2008 French Cup.
Event open to all (over 19). Medical certificate required for non licence-holders.
Town centre accommodation available
Alpe d’Huez have just announced their first VTT Cycling Festival. For more information visit the bike-oisans website.
The dates are the 22-23rd August 2009
In a quite week here at Ride Oisans I went off on the hunt for some new trails over at St Christophe en Oisans. All started well with a fantastic rocky switchback decent through the scattering of houses. I got to the valley floor - started riding a long for 200 metres and came across a waterfall - with no way passed. Only one thing for it and that was to turn back and hike back up :-(.
The next section I came to was some more great switchbacks and rocky descent - this time there was only one hike a bike section . The rest of the trail back to Bourg d”Oisans I know - but it included a fantastic descent down to Venosc from Les Deux Alpes (when the lifts are open) and then a blast back to our base in Bourg d’Oisans
We are now taking bookings for these two events in 2009
The Megavalanche takes place from the 6th to 12 th July up at Alpe d’Huez. For this event Ride Oisans have a luxury catered chalet. The accommodation is for 1 week and includes a days reconnaissance of the Mega Race track (with private uplift back to Oz en Oisans) and private uplifts back to Oz en Oisans on Qualifying and Race day.
The Mountain of Hell takes place on the 17th -19th July (the weekend after the Mega) over at Les Deux Alpes - Less than 20 km away from Alpe d’Huez - We have secured a luxury catered chalet for this event as well for 1 week. For those of you that have not ridden at Les Deux Alpes or the Mountain of Hell then this is a real must while you are in the area. Again the accommodation is for one week ending on Monday 20th July
The prices for each individual holidays are 550 GBP (Approx 700 Euros) or a combined price of 900 GBP (appox 1150 Euros)
Both chalets will include breakfast, afternoon cake evening meal, and as much beer and wine as you can drink - plus loads of free local knowledge as we live here and ride the trails as part of our mountain bike holidays! )
For videos of 2008 events please click on one of these links
ALSO - for anyone who joins us on our Megavalance / Mountain of Hell holidays we will give you a spanking 10 percent off in 2010 (excludes megavalanche and mountain of hell week but does also include our Skiing and Boarding weekends)
We have teamed up with Singletrack Magazine and are now offering all their subscribers 10 percent off all our holidays (excluding holidays in July). So if you fancy riding the legendary 84 switchbacks of Oulles the descent of the Col Du Galibier , the Megavalanche trail, or one of a dozen other fantastic trails then ride with Ride Oisans.
On a perfect autumn day in the Oisans the challenge was to find the mountain bike trail down the Col du Galibier - think Tour de France. A plan was hatched -
Well I did it the descent was fantastic - super fast , rocky. The climb well that was great to but you can check that out at the road blog.
The organisers have just announced the dates for the 2009 Megavalanche they are the 6th -12th July 2009. Entries will be taken for the event from 12th January. We will also have a chalet in Alpe d’Huez again so contact us at info@rideoisans.com for more information or check out the Ride Oisans website.
Course de VTT de descente, ouverte à tous, pendant 3 jours (une journée de reconnaissance le 17 juillet et 2 jours de course les 18 & 19 juillet), réunissant amateurs et professionnels dont le but principal est de se dépasser dans un pur esprit freeride et convivial.
Ils seront 400 pilotes au maximum à prendre le départ de ce véritable derby de VTT depuis le glacier des 2 Alpes, soit 2500 mètres de dénivelé négatif ou près de 25 kilomètres.
Pour Mountain of Hell le chalet de Les Deux Alpes
The dates for the 2009 Mountain of Hell have been released - 17th-19th July 2009 - and we are going to have Mountain of Hell catered chalet accommodation up in Les Deux Alpes for the event - and also have our house in Bourg d’Oisans available. If you have done the Megavalanche then you need to step your game up and do the Mountain of Hell. Link the 2 together and so the Mountain of Hell and Megavalanche double combo.
Not heard about the Mountain of Hell then check out our video of the qualifying event from 2008
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