The start of the 2009 UCI downhill mountain bike World Cup is just over two weeks away and the Dirt Fantasy League has been launched....
Dirt now has a Twitter thing and will be regularly Tweeting and Twatting about. If you click Dirt Twitter that should transport you to our...
Okay, finally here it is the Dirt Fantasy Downhill Competition. We’ve spent the last few months on the phone collating data, on the internet collating data,...
As you may have read in this month’s dirt magazine, Leamington Spa’s 4X is busier than ever. Billy Cheetham, with the assistance of the local...
Following the success of last year’s event, Chicksands will be hosting its second mini downhill race this Sunday 29 March. I’ve whacked a few details...
Title: Dr Name: Peat, Steve Nickname: Peaty Age: 35 PoB: England Team: Santa Cruz Syndicate 2008 World Cup overall: 4 Career highlights: 3 x World Cup Champion Favourite food: Fish & Chips Steve...
Name: Atherton, Gee Nickname: GeeMan Age: 24 PoB: England Team: Animal Commencal 2008 World Cup overall:3 Career highlights: 2008 World Champion Two words, “World Champion”. Not to mention Andorra, and the Red...
Name: Minnaar, Greg Nickname: Big Air Age: 28 PoB: Pietermaritzburg, South Africa Team: Santa Cruz Syndicate 2008 World Cup overall: 1 Career highlights: 3 x World Cup Champion, 1 x World...
We had an interesting box arrive yesterday, Jonesy almost ran into the office when he saw it sat on his desk! It turned out the mystery...
Yesterday we tripped on down to Oxford to visit K-Nine Industries. The DH001-S downhill bike is almost finished, with some pre-production models built up ready for...
We’ve just had this Press Release through from Shinny at K-Nine. We visited K-Nine yesterday and there will be a web article up later today...
Our Chilean contact Eduardo de Solminihac from Montenbaik.com has just sent news from the recent Pan-American Continental Championship race at the La Parva ski resort...
Martin Astley, Jim Walker & Co’s Product Manager, just sent over the following press release from his CEO Ian Wilson. It doesn’t really tell us...
French downhill rider Mickael Pascal takes the win in Vigo, Spain for the second round of the Maxxis Cup with Bernat Guardia Pascual in second...
The Saab Salomon Avalanche Trophy is probably one of the best tests of all round mountain bike abilities together with fitness, stamina, endurance and being...
T-shirt of the week. This weeks howies T-shirt of the Week is ‘Get Excited and Make Things’. Designed by Matt ‘Black Belt’ Jones. Don’t just keep calm and...
Pete from Hotlines just beamned me over the news that the Manitou Dorado is now available in the UK. Are you sitting down? No? Well sit...
First up, Jonny Boy, one of the Monmouth Massive Slacker Crew is off to Peru on Monday to do the first Megavalanche race. An adjustable...
When I saw this post it reminded me of the bike I built for a prince. No really, he is a Russian prince and...
John Sowerby sent me a story about “the most expensive – impractical bike we could build”, so here it is. “Well we have a big MTB...
I just read this on the bicycleretailer site. “Three Asian factories for Iron Horse Bicycle Company have filed an involuntary petition for bankruptcy against the bike...
We had a vists from crankbrothers today, you know, the 50-50 pedals people.And the big news was…they’re not actual brothers…but you probably know that already....