Ride the Alps specializes in guided mountain bike holidays in the French and Swiss Alps

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Jamie, our guide, has more than 20 years of professional guiding experience

Winter alpine biking

With our new fleet of fat bikes we are now running winter biking holidays

We just spent a fantastic few days in the Aosta valley in Italy riding excellent singletrack with a new Ride the Alps trip in mind.
Mary, Monday July 19

We have another summer of Covid cancellations ahead of us but we're staying positive and keeping on pedaling.
Mary, Tuesday June 15

More trail building, exploring more local trails. Once again we're making the most of our 10km radius during France's third confinement.
Mary, Thursday April 29

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“Thank you to Jamie for great guiding and company. We all really enjoyed it, as he was able to cater for our different abilities. Also thanks for Mary’s help with organisation beforehand. We are really…
Sarah, Giles, Martin and Jake McBrinn, July 2020

“Great week, great company and genuinely the best riding I’ve ever done.”
Tony Mills, August 2020

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All made it safely down the infamous Dev ‘Abervi

All made it safely down the infamous Dev ‘Aberville yesterday. A huge 1,780m descent from Mt Bisanne to Alberville. Rough and tough in places and kids can verify a couple climbs unit too! One hard one from col forclaz and at start too. Kids did amazingly well- camiz smashing the techy sections 😀👍 but a few bits very well worn even had him walking a bit. Brilliant free bus service (with bike racks) back from Alberville to Beaufort and Col Saises is free too! #ridethealps (ps got actually real clients in august for Chamonix to Zermatt so at last some rest for the family !😀🤣)

Yesterday was a big alpine day ! With proper Itali

Yesterday was a big alpine day ! With proper Italian lunch at the wonderful Refugee Fallere. Then staying high to test out traverse route to the Lac Fallere and very varied 2,000m descent to valley floor. Some amazing sections and some a bit tough too! It wasn’t my birthday - so I got short straw to ride back up road to get the van back - so we could drive home🤣😉👍#ridethealps #aostaexplorer

Cheeky Birthday trip into Italy - day 1 exploring

Cheeky Birthday trip into Italy - day 1 exploring single tracks above Aosta and squeezed in a lap or two in the famous Pila bike park ! Mary on free ride trail thought the sticker on barrier sums up the last year of brexit n Covid perfectly ! I got a solo lap if the IXs world downhill track in- pretty amazing just to ride it knowing the top riders hitting it at speed! Great food and campsite round off the day ! #ridethealps #exploreAosta

Top kids day out on wheels today - Col de Saisies

Top kids day out on wheels today - Col de Saisies bike park a firm winner with flowing easy runs and no lift ques or fast bikers wizzing by. Then a quick drop at Colombux Pumptrack as coming home !

Took the Hardtail for a spin down Roux/Bemont this

Took the Hardtail for a spin down Roux/Bemont this morning as it’s better to climb on- however it’s motors down too! Clear and dry all way down - no trees at all! Well worth the effort to get there . It’s a classic trail and doesn’t get a lot of use as hard access and I think it one of best for it. Rocks and roots are embedded together on the hard sections so it’s weather proof😀👍 . The bridge at start could do with a bit of work on it thou!! #ridethealps #selwynbikes

Summer seams to have arrived with a bang ! So hot

Summer seams to have arrived with a bang ! So hot here last couple of days and set to continue. Hope the snow will melt on high passes - but no rush as not many clients this year either 😳 lots more family rides I think this summer too ! #makethebestofit #ridethealps

My Lockdown 3 project took the interest of a local

My Lockdown 3 project took the interest of a local Online magazine- have a read - Check out the article 'Lockdown Project Bike Build' in issue 65 of IMB https://www.imbikemag.com/issue65/?page=91

Found some local berms drops and jump trails in An

Found some local berms drops and jump trails in Annecy and a long natural single track traverse to lake side finish today . Locals there been busy building and riding - so huge gap jumps (which I did not do) and lots of smaller jumps that can be done ok, thou no pics of them as suppose to be resting my back ! Meant to be a nice single track day with Mary 😉😀👍as such a scorcher of aday ! #ridethealps #summerishereatlast

Dry trails on the Mole make for a happy Mary! Howe

Dry trails on the Mole make for a happy Mary! However the lifts in Les Gets open early tomorrow for weekend uplift riding and I’ve a second hand rebuilt Shox to test !! Bike bling #happyjamie #ridethealps

The uplift service today was open ! Once I made 70

The uplift service today was open ! Once I made 700m up on my own stream go a scary ride on back of James’s quad to top of Agent Orange ! A great local trail off back of Parion on st Gervais side of the hill! Descent was in rain as that’s the weather we’re having and was a proper gripped wet slippy roots and narrow edges to get down but fun more fun for it 😀👍🤣

Today I pedaled up the steepest road climb ever (o

Today I pedaled up the steepest road climb ever (over 20% in places) and pushed up even steeper double track to visit the highest Gin distillery in Europe !! The tiny shed behind James in last picture . He then treated me to the most scariest uplift on back of his quad so I could ride “Agent Orange “ back down to my van below St Gervais ! It was more terrifying trying to hold onto my bike and stay on 😳there where serval moments I thought me and the bike was off the back of quad!😮Then as weather broke and hail/rain and sleet came down on me just at highest point it was full on steep slippy narrow trails and wet roots on off chamber corners to get off the hill ! Great practice in the slop! #montblancgin #ridethealps

It’s been a weird year. But have worked on the

It’s been a weird year. But have worked on the positives and used time as best as possible . On biking front with LK1 limiting out riding to 1km we built trails super close to use in woods and made best use of the hour we had to exercise and ride bikes for fun . Here are some useful tips I learnt. 1. Air pressures - bigger tryes on bikes now- which I love the traction - can be draggy if too low. I now use a digital pressure gauge / take it with and test the tryes once you have a good pressure. Then make a note of it. Different riders with different weights and styles need slightly different pressures . So write it all down - (on wall in my workshop) once you have them dialed in . This made. A huge difference for me on the Epic enduro race and worked out a good pressure for up and down that worked. 2. Motivation mudguards for kids bike do help ! 3. My hardtail - water bottles with the new One Up pump and EDC tool inside it . A great bit of kit. Well worth the dosh and works well. Everything you need on the bike / spare tube/tools/pump/ all at a glace to know got it and not on your back . 4. My kids bikes have there one tube strapped permanently to there bikes . Then I’m not carrying it- always know there one to fit there bike - rather than stuffing my 29er tube into a 26” - which is possible btw! 5. Is Marys bike - with her tube and the towing device strapped on -basically can hook kids bike on and get them up hills. It’s like pedal assist for them and more training for us 😆 ! Lastly has a good chat with @singletrack_society_podcast last week about lots of stuff- old and new which will be coming on line soon in a podcast . @oneupcomponents

Lockdown project #3 finished - well needs more jum

Lockdown project #3 finished - well needs more jumps - but the new track is completed now so can get down easier . Only yesterday finished linking all the sections with a long cut travers but now very easy to ride it . No trees cut just a bit of earth moved and a few roots trimmed . Best tools was in my garage all along a 30 year old ice axe !! Just sharpen up the adz to get thru little roots and useful as a rake that can carry easy in backpack . A cheap hoe from local handyman store with handle shorten also works good. Hope everyone who finds it likes it 😀👍🚵🏻‍♀️🚵cheers jc and Cammie 😉

Today we rode the tour du mole off-road on sunny s

Today we rode the tour du mole off-road on sunny side and minor road on the northern side !! Amazing différents as trails perfect dry and dusty one side . Snow covered on the other! Previous couple of days have been in Chamonix at Ensa the school of mountains learning some ways of how French teach mountain safety as was keeping my mountain leaders award current and up to date. Not a bad place to go to school eh! #ridethealps

Been a good week for riding bike here and not so m

Been a good week for riding bike here and not so much time working 😀👍 on Tuesday climb the big Saleve with Mary and went a little further to explore the highest point and reward with fantastic views and a lovely traverse trail back. And did the pinball single track descent - plus another lap off the petit saleve to get another trail we missed before that turned out to be ace ! We took kids on a section of our Tour du Mole to taste the great tails there . Which they loved😀 But we spotted another track heading in oppersite direction. So today we went back and tried a totally new trail on back of Le Mole - which was totally awersome - not steep - but lovely flowy single track . And can either have a longer technical single climb or a short push to get to start of it ! Great to have time to explore it more / both of us amazed we’d not ridden it before !! #ridethealps #neverstopexploring