2014 Riding Season begins- A tale of singles

Servoz, Haute Savoie, Rhone Alps, France.

Dry, dusty, sunny, flowers blooming & one fast trail.

We headed to Servoz today with our downhill bikes. I'm single, not only in the girlfriend sense, but in the bike front too. This does give one simple option of riding when I want and only on my downhill bike. I'm getting a Nukeproof Mega 275 AM at the end of the month, but more on that later.

It was a lovely spring morning as we set off up the Servoz locals downhill track. Andy had ridden his newly built enduro/all mountain/xc/mountain bike yesterday and was keen to get up to speed on his downhill bike today. Though he is supposed to have a single love in his life, Maddy his wife, he's collecting up more bikes this summer, along with snowboards form the winter...

I dropped in to ride the top section,

"How was it?" Andy asked.

"Great to be out on the bike, but awful riding skills" I replied, "I was a passenger down there trying to remember how to do it".

A little session started on the jumps trying to remember again how to 'send it'. We were both beginning to get the hang of riding again. The big smiles were coming out.

Me, not on a log ride near the lovely blue lake

Andy dropping in

Cutting through the logs

We headed down through sections of roots & rocks where we skipped about all over the place, got some speed through some sublime flat dusty corners and hit some steep slopes near streams in full flow from the higher up melting snowpack.

It was only one trail, but we had great fun on the many different features the trail brings. Not a bad way to start April!

And my plans for the summer? I'm going to be working in Beaufort (about an hour from Cham) as a mountain bike guide for Trail Addiction. I'm getting a lovely top of the range Nukeproof for a superb price, plus some Shimano goodies. The trails should be world class, and I'll be helping out with the Trans Savoie again before going off for my International Mountain Leader Summer Assessment in September.

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