The SoulFibre Apartment is now open for business! Based in Bourg-Saint-Maurice, it is ideally placed for you to enjoy

• Mountain biking in Les Arcs & Tignes
• Glacier snowboarding at Tignes
• Kayaking, Canoeing or Rafting on the Isere
• Canyoning
• Via Ferrata
• Golf, Tennis, Swimming, Beach volleyball, Basketball

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i'm finally back on my bike again after spending 7 weeks with a wrist brace on because i might have a broken wrist

i decided to take the thing off as i'm not feeling pain as much in it now

so on sunday we went to hopeman skatepark with my bike and the 2 bmx's and i fianlly managed to land a couple of 180's. go me!

and ging was a proper laugh at the party on saturday, although he left early like an ammatuer and didn't stay all night like most of us....

perhaps he's just feeling his age at last.

The elusive ride down Ben Rinnes lured us back for another attempt to summit with our bikes, this was our third visit to the Ben. A cool sunny December day, light winds in the car park, the veiw of the summit showing clouds moving past at a fair pace but not as fast as previously. As we're getting changed in the van, Andy laughing at me starting the day with a slow punture before we even start to ascend. Bag packed with bike pump, some tools, water, apples, body armour and helmet and after a banana we start the climb. Over an hour and many profanities later we've done it - finally - we summited Ben Rinnes with our bikes. Now time for the good bit, the downhill. There are three sections to the hill, the first being from the summit to the first dip, steep and a little technical with man made staircases and the wind trying to blow you off the track sideways. After the dip the next section is faster with rough enough terrian to be glad of spending some of your hard earned on suspension. Again after a short bit of flat, good for a breather, the remainder of down hill which is fast, loose and rocky returns you to the car park. That was the plan anyway, but half way down the first section Andy gets a puncture then I puncture at the bottom of the same bit. Of course as usual we were not carrying any spare tubes with us.

Google are entering a team in the 24 Hours of Moab world-class race event on October 14th & 15th, 2006. There is a race limit of 450 teams from around the world. Self confessed amateurs, the Google team don't expect to win but they will be demo'ing Google Earth and other google products of interest to the Mountain Bike community. Check out the Google Earthlings team blog.

Edinburgh City Council have proposed a £13.5 Million development at Midlothian Snowsports Centre (aka Hillend Dry Ski Slope), Edinburgh. The development, which is contingent on gaining funding from the lottery and other sources, would see loads of new facilities including;

• the longest artificial ski bump run in the UK, along with a ski jump and landing area
• a toboggan track serviced by an upgraded chairlift
• an indoor ice climbing wall, complete with viewing gallery and curling rink
• an indoor skateboard and wheeled sport facility
• a series of graded mountain bike trails will be built as a year-round national training centre

People
UK

• Blood, Sweat and Gears

Organisations
World

• International Mountain Bicycling Association

UK

• International Mountain Bicycling Association UK

UK: Scotland

• Blairdam Forest MTB Trails Project
• Carron Vallery Development Group
• Central Scotland Wheelers