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MS";mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>FAQs</span></b></a><span lang=EN-US style='mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre style='text-align:center'><span lang=EN-US style='mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></pre><pre style='text-align:center'><a href="gallery.htm"><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>Guest's photos and Comments</span></b></a><span lang=EN-US style='mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></pre></td> <td width=764 valign=top style='width:573.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'> <h2 style='tab-stops:45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt'><span lang=DA style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS";mso-ansi-language:DA'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></h2> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; tab-stops:45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt'><b><span lang=DA style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS";mso-ansi-language:DA'>Summer 2011 is dead. Long live Summer 2012!<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; tab-stops:45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt'><span lang=DA style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS";mso-ansi-language:DA;mso-bidi-font-weight: bold'>We d love to offer a massive thanks to all the guests who made 2011 so much fun for us! We re now taking bookings for 2012 so give us a shout if the long autumn nights are making you feel gloomy... To match the temperatures we ve frozen our prices for the fourth consecutive year and as ever there s an early booking discount for any booking forms in before the end of December. See you soon!<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; tab-stops:45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt'><b><span lang=DA style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS";mso-ansi-language:DA'>BV Blog? It s a communication-fest!<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; tab-stops:45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt'><span lang=DA style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS";mso-ansi-language:DA;mso-bidi-font-weight: bold'>Not massively exciting but we have started a little <a href="http://bikevillage.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">blog</a>, which we promise to update much more often than this page ;-) At the moment it s full of joy as there s sod all snow so Sam s having possibly his best winter of riding in 11 years of being here! <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; tab-stops:45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt'><b><span lang=DA style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS";mso-ansi-language:DA'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; tab-stops:45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt'><b><span lang=DA style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS";mso-ansi-language:DA'>BikeVillage segment in riding DVD  Find !<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; tab-stops:45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt'><span lang=DA style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS";mso-ansi-language:DA;mso-bidi-font-weight: bold'>Fame at last! Mark Huskisson from Reset Films spent a week riding with Sam and Rich last summer and the beautiful HD results form a really good few mins (biased, us?) in his latest DVD release, Find. A trailer is up on<a href="http://vimeo.com/16634581" target="_blank"> Vimeo</a> and the DVD can be ordered from the <a href="http://www.resetfilms.co.uk/" target="_blank">Reset</a> site. If you d like to see how your favourite trails look on the big screen or get a taste for what we do if you ve never been out then order yourself a wee pressie!<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; tab-stops:45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt'><b><span lang=DA style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS";mso-ansi-language:DA'>BikeVillage page on Facebook.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='tab-stops:45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt'><span lang=DA style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS";mso-ansi-language:DA'>Oh yes, BV has gone all social-networky and set up a <a href="http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/pages/BikeVillagecouk-Bike-Village-mountain-bike-hols/116385261752272" target="_blank">BikeVillage Stalkbook page</a>. You can keep up with or latest goings on and post your favourite BV photos for us all to enjoy. Go wild!<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; tab-stops:45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt'><b><span lang=DA style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS";mso-ansi-language:DA'>More girl-friendly weeks for 2011.</span></b><span lang=DA style='mso-ansi-language: DA'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; tab-stops:45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt; font-weight:medium'><span lang=DA style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS"; mso-ansi-language:DA'>One of the best things about 2009 and 2010 were our 'female friendly' weeks. The idea is very simple  by designating one or two weeks a month 'female friendly' it is much easier for women to book in the knowledge that they wont be too outnumbered by the chaps. Everything else runs as per usual, there's just better chat at the dinner table ;-) The provisional girl-friendly weeks for 2011 are June 11-18th, July 16-23rd, July 30-Aug 6th, Aug 20-27th and Sep 10-17th.</span><span lang=DA style='mso-ansi-language:DA'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; tab-stops:45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt'><b><span lang=DA style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS";mso-ansi-language:DA'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; tab-stops:45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt'><b><span lang=DA style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS";mso-ansi-language:DA'>New back gate!</span></b><span lang=DA style='mso-ansi-language:DA'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; tab-stops:45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt; font-weight:medium'><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shapetype id="_x0000_t75" coordsize="21600,21600" o:spt="75" o:preferrelative="t" path="m@4@5l@4@11@9@11@9@5xe" filled="f" stroked="f"> <v:stroke joinstyle="miter"/> <v:formulas> <v:f eqn="if lineDrawn pixelLineWidth 0"/> <v:f eqn="sum @0 1 0"/> <v:f eqn="sum 0 0 @1"/> <v:f eqn="prod @2 1 2"/> <v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelWidth"/> <v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelHeight"/> <v:f eqn="sum @0 0 1"/> <v:f eqn="prod @6 1 2"/> <v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelWidth"/> <v:f eqn="sum @8 21600 0"/> <v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelHeight"/> <v:f eqn="sum @10 21600 0"/> </v:formulas> <v:path o:extrusionok="f" gradientshapeok="t" o:connecttype="rect"/> <o:lock v:ext="edit" aspectratio="t"/> </v:shapetype><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_2" o:spid="_x0000_s1041" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="Mountainbiking holidays in the French Alps, Les Arcs La Plagne, with BikeVillage" style='position:absolute;margin-left:313.25pt;margin-top:0;width:353.25pt; height:276pt;z-index:1;visibility:visible;mso-wrap-style:square; mso-wrap-distance-left:0;mso-wrap-distance-top:0;mso-wrap-distance-right:0; mso-wrap-distance-bottom:0;mso-position-horizontal:right; mso-position-horizontal-relative:text;mso-position-vertical:absolute; mso-position-vertical-relative:line' o:allowoverlap="f"> <v:imagedata src="../../../../../images/bike_frame_gates.jpg"/> <w:wrap type="square" anchory="line"/> </v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><img width=471 height=368 src="../../../../../images/bike_frame_gates.jpg" align=right alt="Mountainbiking holidays in the French Alps, Les Arcs La Plagne, with BikeVillage" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_2"><![endif]><span lang=DA style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS"; mso-ansi-language:DA'>Oh yeah, here's a shot of the gate into the back garden from the bottom of Mushroom Picker, Growbag and Pipeline. Featuring Lyndsey s old GT and the Cove Stiffee that Mungo snapped whilst guiding for us, the gate is a great way to finish a sweet ride! He has also equipped the BV workshop with a neat wee compressor, so tubeless faffing will be a doddle this year!</span><span lang=DA style='mso-ansi-language:DA'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; tab-stops:45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt'><b><span lang=DA style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS";mso-ansi-language:DA'>Hut Trips </span></b><span lang=DA style='mso-ansi-language:DA'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; tab-stops:45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt'><span lang=DA style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS";mso-ansi-language:DA'>Like the idea of setting off into the hills and just riding away? Stopping in a remote mountain refuge at 2000m, eating loads of cheese based food and emptying as many hip flasks as we can? Greeting an alpine sunrise from the mountaintop and then riding our socks off all day before finishing back at BikeVillage? Sounds pretty good to us too! We'll be trying to fit a few overnight hut trips into the summer so visit the <a href="http://www.bikevillage.co.uk/hut_trip.htm">hut trip</a> page if your fancy has been tickled.</span><span lang=EN-US style='mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt; tab-stops:45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt'><span lang=EN-US style='mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt; tab-stops:45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt'><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_6" o:spid="_x0000_s1040" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="the Magic Carpet rolls out before Steve on a very cold morning" style='position:absolute;margin-left:0;margin-top:0;width:390pt;height:296.25pt; z-index:2;visibility:visible;mso-wrap-style:square;mso-wrap-distance-left:91.5pt; mso-wrap-distance-top:0;mso-wrap-distance-right:91.5pt; mso-wrap-distance-bottom:0;mso-position-horizontal:left; mso-position-horizontal-relative:text;mso-position-vertical:absolute; mso-position-vertical-relative:line' o:allowoverlap="f"> <v:imagedata src="../../../../../images/magic_carpet_rolled_out....jpg"/> <w:wrap type="square" anchory="line"/> </v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><img width=520 height=395 src="../../../../../images/magic_carpet_rolled_out....jpg" align=left hspace=122 alt="the Magic Carpet rolls out before Steve on a very cold morning" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_6"><![endif]><span lang=EN-US style='mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><br clear=left style='mso-special-character: line-break'> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.25pt; tab-stops:45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt'><span lang=EN-US style='mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; tab-stops:45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS";mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>BikeVillage tops MBR's best 52 biking photos ever! </span></b><span lang=EN-US style='mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; tab-stops:45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS";mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>Not exactly super-recent but pretty enough so who cares?! With an MBR CD featuring the 'best 52 biking photos ever', we at BikeVillage are more than a smidge proud to say the 3 of them were taken with us on our trails! </span><span lang=EN-US style='mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;text-align:center;tab-stops:45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt'><a name="_x0000_i1026"></a><a name="_x0000_i10271"></a><span style='mso-no-proof: yes'><img border=0 width=750 height=188 id="_x0000_i1027" src="images/MBR-cd-photos.jpg"></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; tab-stops:45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS";mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>On the left is a nadgery wee traverse towards Sketchy Dismount, with Alliet and the north face of Bellecote (just) in the background. In the middle is a night ride up by Notre Dame des Vernettes, taken during a lights test. Finally, the shot on the right is a savagely cheeky climb beneath the Col d'Entreporte. It was taken in October, hence the beautiful colour of all the larch trees around the trail. With such fame coming our way, it's surely only a matter of time before we make it into the 'spotted' pages of Heat magazine ;-) </span><span lang=EN-US style='mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; tab-stops:45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt'><a name="_x0000_i10272"></a><span lang=EN-US style='mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; tab-stops:45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt'><span lang=EN-US style='mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:2;mso-yfti-lastrow:yes'> <td width=184 style='width:138.0pt;background:#FF6600;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; tab-stops:45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt'><span lang=EN-US style='mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td width=764 style='width:573.0pt;background:#FF6600;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;text-align:center;tab-stops:45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS";mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>e-mail us on </span><span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'><a href="mailto:info@bikevillage.co.uk"><span lang=EN-US style='mso-ansi-language: EN-US'>info@bikevillage.co.uk</span></a></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS";mso-ansi-language:EN-US'> or call on 0033 615 719 932</span><span lang=EN-US style='mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> </table> <p style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-bottom:12.25pt'><span lang=EN-US style='mso-ansi-language: EN-US'><script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js"> </script><script> _uacct = "UA-890061-1"; urchinTracker(); </script>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> </body> </html>