Jérôme Clementz – end of season bash with good friends in Queyras, southern France
Last autumn, former enduro racer Jérôme Clementz asked his friends Pauline Dieffenthaler, Hugo Pigeon and Damien Oton to join him on an exciting singletrack adventure in the Queyras region in the south of France, with local guide Cyril Ac’h showing them around this stunning area! The aim and purpose of this trip was to ride as many trails as possible, enjoy the breath-taking views and spend some quality time with good friends while leaving behind the stresses of day-to-day life.
During this trip, Jerome and his troupe also helped local riders maintain the trails – a project backed by the local council of Guillestrois-Queyras. Needless to say, all user groups have an influence on our trails and it’s crucial that we all do our fair share of maintenance work to make mountain biking sustainable – there’s no way around it if we want to keep using our trails in the long run! And remember, enjoy and respect the trails!
Words: Julian Schwede Photos: various
About the Author
Julian Schwede
Juli is used to dealing with big rigs. Besides working on his bike, he also tinkered and worked on buses after completing his training as a vehicle mechatronics engineer. Since the development of large-scale electric motors was too slow for him, he went on to study technical business administration while building carbon fibre tables on the side. Though his DJ bike is welded from thick aluminium tubes, his full-susser is made of carbon and it's already taken him to the top of numerous summits. Apart from biking, he likes climbing via ferratas or vertically on the wall. Nowadays, his personal bike gets ridden less as he tests the bikes that get sent to us, pushing them to their limits to see what they're capable of. In addition to bike reviews, Juli also takes care of the daily news and thinks of himself as the Daily Planet reporter Clark Kent.
