More details to follow.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXhQYfBYdZc

If you are interested it would be best to email me via www.endlessride.com – if you make a comment here I won’t be informed!

We have

1. 2010 Orange Alpine 160 18″, 2150 euros SOLD
2. 2010 Orange Alpine 160 16″, 2300 euros SOLD
3. 2009 Orange Blood 17″, 1800 euros
4. 2007 Orange 5 16″, 1600 euros

There is a currency converter on the right.

1. 2010 Orange Alpine 160 18″, 2150 eurosSOLD

Click on the slide-show above and you’ll go through to our Flickr site, here you’ll find full res pictures if you need them.

The spec is as supplied from Orange save a few minor changes.

http://www.orangebikes.co.uk/bikes/2010/alpine-160/

This bike is slightly cheaper than the 16″ becuase it has a pair of 2009 forks fitted.

The saddle, seatpost and back tire are unused (we take these bits off
to save them from scuffing) the front tire is slightly used, nothing
else has been changed. They really weren’t used much this season,
normally we end up changing bushings , BB bearings and wheel bearings
but they are all still tight.

Have a close look at the pictures, we protect the fames with heli-tape
and they end up virtually unmarked.

We’d box them up in the original boxes and post them for 80 euros.

2. 2010 Orange Alpine 160 16″, 2300 euros SOLD

Please note the fork pictured has been swopped for the fork on the 18″, the fork for sale now with this bike is the Van R, 2009

http://www.orangebikes.co.uk/bikes/2010/alpine-160/

Feel free to ask questions!

3. 2009 Orange Blood 17″, 1800 euros

This  was bought as a frame last year, it has a mismatch of of bits and pieces on it to make it into a complete bike (some new).  The frame is hardly used and is virtually blemish free, the parts are mostly in good condition but I can’t vouch for them all 100%

http://www.orangebikes.co.uk/bikes/2009/blood/

4. Orange 5 Pro, 16″, 2007, 1600 euros

Details on application.

The invite follows

“Bonjour à tous,

Yohann Vachette, de Bike Solution, vient mardi et mercredi prochains (16 et 17 juin) pour commencer les travaux de la piste verte.

C’est Jardiflore qui fournit la pelle mécanique.

Si vous souhaitez apporter votre concours à cette réalisation, et aider Yohann dans le suivi des travaux (piquetage, élagage si nécessaire, petits travaux manuels, finitions…), vous êtes les bienvenus et Yohann accepte avec plaisir un peu d’aide.

Merci et à +

Bruno (OT Morzine)

If you want to help out contact Bruno or drop us a line at endlessride, we’ll push you in the right direction.

gps file route-1

All the other pictures from this route are here.

Thankfully the weather was good so I was able to abandon the family on a couple of the days and go for a ride with all of them. Carl was guiding and this is what he showed us.

Roman Bridges (Ponti Romani), 27km, 40/60 singletrack/otherstuff

This was super convenient as it virtually left from the campsite, it involved a complete mix of the riding and terrain found in the area and included a singletrack perched above the sea and sandy beaches. This is fairly close to riding heaven for me.

Guy’s GPS log of the circuit is here

Caprazoppa, 8km, 70/30

This starts off with a hot grunt out of town to the hilltop west of Finale, here there is a church and a café (if it’s open), we managed to upset the café owner, when we arrived at 1220 the café was closed, we decided to make use of the tables and chairs to stuff down a couple of Mule Bars and take in the scenery, the owner then turned up and let us know that he wasn’t too impressed. A shame as we had wanted to give him some of our cash!

From there it is pretty much 100% singletrack back down to the valley bottom, some of this was just a little hairy for this early in the season!

La Briga, 6km, 50/50

After pizza’s and salad in town we road climbed up to Manie, we caught up with a couple of Americans on hire bikes out for a gentle ride, I only saw the back side of a silver haired guy riding in flipflops, a dropped back and rode with his wife which I could just about manage, considering that her son is Geoff Banks this means she is pretty much old enough to be my Mum, ouch. Anyway, the descent was pretty much all smooth singletrack followed by a few hundred metres of cobbled path to finish in the town. Brilliant.

So all in all a brilliant few days, makes me think about endlessride doing some mtb trips down there after the Morzine mountain bike season is over. It’ll have to be in late September or October and will obviously involve a hotel and some local guides, though it looks like the hunting season would impact on this.

The GPX file for the second day

More pictures here.

You can buy the Blu Bike guide from the local shops and the local 1:25,000 map  “Alp cartoguide 2″.