Morzine 2005

It’s late July 2005 and The Hills Have Eyes monkeys [Adam, Alex, Anton, Brett, Charlie, Gary, Gaz, Nick, Olly, Rob, Stu] hit Morzine in the French Alps.

We ride bikes like nutters. We do over 200 miles, nearly all downhill, over the course of two weeks. We rail berms, fly off drops, ride see-saws, and rule the singletrack. We fall off a lot. We kneel at the altar of body armour. We kill several pairs of forks, a rear shock, countless tyres, gear cables, chains, brake pads and other myriad parts. We spend an obscene amount of money on replacements (Yes Brett, we mean you). We make silly BWAAAARRRRRP engine noises as we fly down the trails. We celebrate my birthday. We’re given free drinks by friendly bar staff. We fly from one mountain to the next on the Fantasticable. We think Anne-Caro is a vindictive cow to have come up with that track. We chat to old friends in the pub. We eat too much food. We take pictures. We throw each other in hedges. We have an awful lot of fun.

We come home. We are depressed. We are really looking forward to the next time.

Update: We take more photos.

Posted in Bike, Friends, Holiday, Photo on Tuesday, August 2nd, 2005

15 Responses to “Morzine 2005”

1. matt on August 2nd, 2005 at 11:13 pm

what;s the deal with the crazyassed PS cloning in that pic above!

;)

2. matt on August 2nd, 2005 at 11:14 pm

and HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

3. Simon on August 3rd, 2005 at 8:35 am

In your pics it looks like your racing on a track or something, and with start blocks. Did you win anything? Oh and how old are you now? you reached 30 yet? :-p

4. Olly on August 3rd, 2005 at 9:27 am

THAT’S NOT CLONING YOU NUMPTY! You’re right though, it looks gash ;-) Not sure if I can be arsed to re-do it though.

Some (most?) of them are race tracks, but there was no (official) racing, so we didn’t win anything. Anton is unofficial champion though.

Oh, and 27, thanks.

5. Owen on August 3rd, 2005 at 11:59 am

27? You are so young for one so grey.

Sounds (and looks) like you had an awesome time. Maybe next year, when I’m a marillionaire, I’ll come with you.

6. Simon on August 3rd, 2005 at 1:54 pm

What if your bikes muddy Owen?

7. Olly on August 3rd, 2005 at 6:50 pm

It was indeed rather fantabulous. How were the Maldives?

8. matt on August 3rd, 2005 at 11:52 pm

TWENTY SEVEN!!!.. i remember that age, like it was 2 years ago ;)

9. matt on August 3rd, 2005 at 11:54 pm

and.. MUST RESIST FUDGE PURCHASE.
wonder if Tesco do nice fudge. or any fudge

mmmmm
FUDGEFUDGEFUDGEFUDGE
FUDGEFUDGEFUDGEFUDGEFUDGE
FUDGE

FUDGE

FUDGEFUDGE

FUDGEFUDGEFUDGEFUDGE

arrghhh mmm FUDGE

10. Owen on August 4th, 2005 at 10:03 am

My bike is clean (and will remain so for the forseeable future due to no time to ride).

The Maldives rocked. I will be putting something about it on weon.co.uk soon but I am trying to sort out the backlog of photos on my PC first (I’m still trawling through the GP ones!)

BTW, the video for the Mint Royal video is awesome – I may have to buy the album when it comes out.

11. Matt 33 1/3 on August 8th, 2005 at 11:04 am