bike and body set up for Morzine

surreyxc

off to Morzine soon, and just given some thought to bike set up and kit.

Any pointers. Knee pads, flats, spd or not, 2.1 or beefy tryes, flats or risers etc.

My current fs xc bike and gear has all served me very well in Wales, okay so the Alps are bigger, but I am guessing I could get away with what I have, and not use this as an excuse to be buying loads of kit.

P.s anywhere requiring 6ft drop-offs, canyons, walls, big air is not my bag.

nicklouse

and the bike is a what?

most of it depends on you and your riding.

I would not change a thing other than possibly the bike. but then I prefer the no XC bits.

Anonymous

If you're going to Morzine to do XC riding, you'll e fine as is.
However, If you're going to be hitting DH tracks, then do it properly and rent a DH bike when you're there, and armour up good and proper.
Why go on a DH holiday, and do a half-arsed job of it?

bluechair84

so you know what it feels like to have a bumhole like a vintage golf bag?


That would be my guess...

Anonymous

I thought he said "village" golfbag. Either way, It's funny as fark, but makes very little sense

Steve_F

I'd certainly be sticking fatter tyres on if you're using the lifts. You'll be doing some pedalling but mostly you won't notice a big heavy tyre.

I went with 2.5 dual ply minions. 2.35s would probably be perfect but the dual ply would be a good idea. Downhill innertubes might be a plan too. Makes a very heavy wheel set up but for the amount of descending you'll do a set up that doesn't puncture easily will be very welcome.

SPDs or flats - whatever you ride with now. If it's SPDs but not hugely confident on them stick a set of flats in.

I'd recommend body armour. You will come off doing that amount of riding so you don't want to spoil the rest of the holiday.

Whatever you do, make sure you've got spares for what you can't easily pick up, ie mech hangers. Anything else be prepared to pay for it. One of the guys I was riding with had to buy a new wheel at one point. It was probably double the price of what he would have paid online but it was that or stop riding.