but...first things first....
Missile and Weasel were the riders,
Start point: Bex Train station: 7:39
Distance: No idea...
Time: All day...
Ride Report
Missile brought a gun to a sword fight and weasel brought a club!!
...Needless to say, some things went better than others...
The Arsenal
The Gun: Santa Cruz Tall Boy from "last week"...
The Club: Iron Horse something or other from last century...
The Early Call
Weasel arrives at 06:10 - load the bikes...off
(He wanted to take the Honda Jazz but " ze german power vun ze day..."
The Train Ride #1
....missile still not understanding what Weasel was saying about the second stage....despite having all the information in form of an SMS (unread) from the previous night.
The NOT train Ride #2 (EPIC FAIL #1)
DOH: no train up to Bretaye....it leaves in an HOUR!!! Weasels information finally sinks in....
We got up an hour too early. Epic Fail. Weasel makes it known that he could have slept for one more hour. He says this numerous times. -1 Missile
20%
500 m @ 20% gradient at least - we arrive before the train....
Not to GPS
Somehow the electricity in Borex didnt make its way into the capacitor doohicky in my GPS.
Fortunately I have a (mostly) good memory - 0.5 missile
OTB On Film (EPIC Fail #2)
GoPro will reveal an epic fail of the Noob proportions....roots cause a spill which...causes Missiles "remote hydraulic actuated fork lockout" to 'Fail' leaving the fork in Locked mode...scheisse. -1 Missile
Intersport Diablerets (EPIC Win!!)
Unvelievably enough we managed to get a broken hydraulic hose, cut, refittted and re-bled by the 'one eyed mechanic' (I kid you not...) and we were sort of on our way....
One Eyed Mapper
We got a "tuyau" from the one eyed mechanic of some fun trails over in Villars..."Backside Bretaye"
as we were behing schedule we decided to adapt our itinerary to do the backside...
2 Ups - 2 Downs - Swiss Postal Service
Up Col du pillon twice by bus and down twice...."roots r us" was the name of the game. No OTB's. One bushwhack by Weasel.
Shouldnt that be 'tight'
Weasel finally notices that his wheel is completely 'désaxé' having ridden 150m vertical with the left hand side rear axle 'popped'....no comment....-0.5 Weasel
Backside Bretaye #1
Postal bus up to Col de La Croix...over to Bretaye and UPPPPP to Roc D'orsay.
Down the ski slope on Aigle side....(Epic fail Missile for not following the map = up about 50m) -0,5 missile
Backside Bretaye # 2 Dont fall left/right/forwards/backwards. (EPIC NEW TRAIL ALERT)
The remaining part of the ride was 'decouverte' thanks to "one eye" who had traced a perfect ride for us. For those without vertigo and with serious steepness capabilities the first part is for you. Weasel rode all but the most 'challenging' noting on one occaision that a 'gap jump' could be installed. +0.5 Weasel
Backside Bretaye # 3 Back To Nature (EPIC NEW TRAIL ALERT)
The rest of the ride was sweeet single track all the way down to Aigle with some of the most "ludique" trails in the area. Finished off woth a series of great singletrack switchbacks.
Call for the trail route!!!
Mordor Is Coming
We came out of the woods at Aigle and noticed the sky was no longer blue, but, black and bruised, coming our way and ready to spray us mightily....which it did 5 minutes from the car.....soaked!!!
Epic day - it was....so much so someone snored in the car on the way home !!!
