Mountain Bike Alps

The French & Italian Alps offer an extensive network of Mountain Bike trails and a ski lift system to help bikers cover many miles of terrain

Mountain Bike Alps

The French and Italian Alps offer some of the best Mountain biking in Europe and is suited to all abilities.

The use of bike lifts open up miles and miles of man-made and natural fire road and singletrack terrain for Downhill Mountain Biking enthusiasts, Cross Country buffs and beginners cutting their teeth.

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Each resort has well cut trails which are easily marked for navigating your way around the most stunning alpine scenery or fast tracking the World Cup Downhill tracks which have expert and beginner mountain biking to suit all abilities.

Beginners and Inters
To spend a week mountain biking the Alps will do wonders to your progression and simply have you grinning from ear to ear whilst you see vast improvements in your style and abilities. A multitude of trails of varying difficulty will also allow beginners to work their way up, little by little; and at the end of the week be satisfied that they have mastered the most impressive and addictive terrain that one man and his bike are ever likely to experience!

Downhill
Whether you are a hardened DH nut or a beginner getting to grips with riding some of the best terrain the World, our holidays will suit you perfectly. All DH courses - even the World Cup runs have "chicken runs" down the side of particularly technical sections, jumps and tricky bits! Downhill courses can run 2 or 4 across, so you can race your mates down courses with berms, banks and rollovers. Courses range in length from 1 km to 7 km down hill. We can provide a full suspension bike to hire which is fully tuned and set up for the terrain we ride: Some of the best terrain for mountain biking in the Alps See Downhill Mountain Biking for more information.

Mountain Bike Holidays Morzine

Morzine in the northern French Alps offers over 1000 kms of singletrack and fireroad trails spanning 12 resorts in France and Switzerland. Located just 1 hour from Geneva, the area has 29 bike lifs including Gondolas and Chairlifs to whisk bikers up to the top and help riders cover many miles of scenic terrain. The resort is suited to all abilities and has the famous Avalanche Cup Downhill courses which feature man-made humps, bumps, banks, drops and jumps - each with chicken runs for beginner riders. See Mountain Biking Morzine for more

Mountain Bike Holidays Les Gets

Les Gets is part of Morzine and is one of the leading destinations for mountain bike holidays in France. Like Morzine it offers over 1000kms of trails and is home to some of the best XC and Downhill courses in Europe. Les Gets is a pretty village with lots of shopping, bars and an unrivalled variety of bike facilities. A perfect destination for family activity holidays for a variety of mountain sports.

Mountain Bike Holidays Chamonix

Chamonix is the undisputed king of mountain adventure, and the jewel of the Alps! The resort is shadowed by the majesty of Mont Blanc - Europe's highest mountain, and is home to so much interesting mountain history.

This resort is ideal for Freeride Mountain Biking of all levels and specialises in singletrack and spectacular scenery. The resort is teaming in bars and cafes and interesting tourist attractions which will suit all tastes and the non sporty types too.See Mountain Biking Chamonix for more

Mountain Bike Holidays Tignes

Tignes offers the most variety of all our resorts, mainly because it offers summer skiing and motorised adventure like 4x4 driving and quad bike rides. Tignes is the best resort in Europe for summer skiing whcih takes place on the Grande Motte Glacier from June to September.

The biking in Tignes is excellent and the resort offers man-made and natural Downhill, Freeride, and Enduro tracks. The resort has some spectacular biking and excellent bike parks, serviced by a multitude of bike lifts. See Mountain biking Tignes for more information

Mountain Bike Holidays Garda

Lake Garda is Italy's largest mass of inland water. It is surrounded in stunning mountains and offers sun, beaches, gentle waters which are ideal for watersports and some excellent biking.

There is only one gondola lift for bikers but all our hotels offer professional bike guiding with minibus or Landrover uplifts. See Mountain Biking Garda for more