Profiles of rides with Bigfoot MBC on their stay with Ride Oisans
Day1 – Les Deux Alpes – Venosc – Bourg d’Oisans [photos]
Day 2 – Alpette – Alpe d’Huez – Col du Sarenne – Huez – Alpe d’Huez – Villard Reculas – Bourg d’Oisans [photos]
Day 3 – Alpe d’Huez Megavalanche Qualifier and Race Course [photos]
Day 4 – Rest Day [photos]
Day 5 – Oulles – Bourg d’Oisans – Alpe d’Huez – Villard Reculas – Bourg d’Oisans [photos]
Day 6 – Les Deux Alpes [photos]
Today 3 of the bigfooters tackled the top section of the Megavalanche trail (which can be accessed throughout July and August) while the other two hired some of our bikes and climbed the mythical Alpe d’Huez 21 road bends. We met in Alpe d’Huez at the main chairlift where the bike park is and a few of them did some of the drops and jumps. After lunch (and general fettling , brakes , broken rear mech hanger etc) we traversed a round the mountain and picked up the Megavalanche qualifier and then finally the bottom part of the Megavalanche race course (still with avalanche trophy taped out). We finished with a cross country ride back to our base in Bourg d’Oisans.
Day 2 of the bigfoot mtb club week saw us tumble down the side of Alpe d’Huez all the way back to Bourg d’Oisans with 2000m of vertical descent on our lift assisted day. The day included technical rocky singletrack,th epurpose built downhill run, 2 natural rocky singletrack switchback trails, 1 fast flowing singletrack trail and finally my favourite trail from Villard Reculas down to Bourg d’Oisans – a superfast switchback singletrack wooded trail.
Please visit our website to see the 2009 Mountain of Hell Video downhill race in Les Deux Alpes. This year we had Dirt Magazine staying with us racing and photographing the event. Is the Mountain of Hell the new Megavalanche ? [click here for the video]
Mountain of Hell 2009 start Les Deux Alpes
Here are a load of photos from this years Megavalanche 2009. Contact us about our Megavalanche accommodation for 2010 here
Been busy here so forgot to add this
One of our guests James stayed with us at the begining of May and bet us 20 Euros he could wheelie up to the first bend of Alpe d’Huez. I took him up on the bet – he failed but it was a good attempt- we videod his attempt……
You can now download the 2009 entry form from our website. We are also offering accommodation in our chalet for the event on both a week long stay and also a long weekend stay. Joining us will be 4 chaps from Dirt Magazine in the UK.
For those of you that don’t know the Mountain of Hell – then it is held the weekend after the Megavalanche in Alpe d’Huez just across the valley in Les Deux Alpes and like the Megavalanche it starts high up on the glacier and tumbles down 30 KM of downhill to Venosc.
Will be dusting down the Commencal this week and taking it for a ride on the lower trails above Bourg d’Oisans. Will need to get some serious riding in between now and when our first summer guests arrive in May
Have just turned up! - there is nothing better than a shiny new bike just out of the box. If you want to hire one for this summer or want more information visit our Mountain Bike Hire Alpe d’Huez and Bourg d’Oisans page.
Lucien a member of our summer team is hanging out in Melbourne for the winter – and he has just sent us some pictures of his new BMX -
As Lucien says ” Don’t you just love it? Got it for $50, that’s £23! Ebay rules! Perfect for cruising the Melbourne streets, everything is completely seized and non of the bearings have any grease in them whatsoever, but hey, its got character! And it means I have a bike whilst dad still has to wait for his to be shipped across the ocean!“
Apparantly he has already mastered the very dangerous “kerb hop” . Is there no stopping this man ? Experience this and other awsome trail moves with us at the Megavalanche , Mountain of Hell or singletrack weeks
