great stuff Marc, see you sometime for a pomp ride out your way. Nice post On 28 Feb 2007, at 16:09, Marc Fox wrote:
> Quite surprised to see Verbier in there but bring back some > cracking memories. There is a picutre of one of the Dirt riders > flying over a road gap on an old tram embankment which is just > plain big. This was first attempted by Lee Collis in 2004 by > accident. The run in is long and fast and just before you get to > the road gap you drop down the side to the road. Lee was running a > bit behind the main pack and must have been caning it to catch up, > I'm not sure if he knew where to stop or just couldn't headed > stright toward the road gap. We were on the road and heard the > clatter 30ft up. Lee managed to save it on the edge by hitting > some shrubbery or trees I guess and was left holding his two tonne > 7 Plus dangling over the edge. In the process branding himself > with his red hot brake rotor!! > > One of the best holidays I have had and thanks to Lee for > entertainemnt and your pix here: > > http://www.team-chr.co.uk/gallery/verb04 > > Maybe I'll go again sometime soon with my big bike......(dream). > Would be good to go with some of the chaps on here. > > Anyway I spending far too much time thinking about riding and not > enough actually doing it as you can probably guess. > > marc > > > > > > ___________________________________________________________ > New Yahoo! Mail is the ultimate force in competitive emailing. Find > out more at the Yahoo! Mail Championships. Plus: play games and win > prizes. > http://uk.rd.yahoo.com/evt=44106/*http://mail.yahoo.net/uk > _______________________________________________ > mtbne-l mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.hexten.net/mailman/listinfo/mtbne-l > _______________________________________________ mtbne-l mailing list [email protected] http://www.hexten.net/mailman/listinfo/mtbne-l
