Monthly Archives: March 2009 - Page 2

News

The Ultimate 2009 World Cup Rider Guide

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....

The Ultimate 2009 World Cup Rider Guide
News

Dirt twits have Twitter

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...

Dirt twits have Twitter
Racing

Dirt Fantasy Downhill Competition

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,...

Dirt Fantasy Downhill Competition
Racing

Leamington Spa 4X

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...

Leamington Spa 4X
Racing

Chicksands Mini DH

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...

Chicksands Mini DH
Downhill

Dr Steve Peat

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...

Dr Steve Peat
Downhill

Gee Atherton

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...

Gee Atherton
Downhill

Sam Hill

Name: Hill, Sam Nickname: HillTop Age: 24 PoB: Australia Team: Monster Energy/Specialized/Mad Catz 2008 World Cup overall:2 Career highlights: 2 x World Champion, World Cup Champion 2007 Specialized are back in downhill,...

Sam Hill
Downhill

Greg Minnaar

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...

Greg Minnaar
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The New Cane Creek Double Barrel

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...

The New Cane Creek Double Barrel
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K-Nine Industries Global Exclusive

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...

K-Nine Industries Global Exclusive
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K-Nine Angle Reducer Cup Kit

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...

K-Nine Angle Reducer Cup Kit
Racing

Pan-American Continental Championship news

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...

Pan-American Continental Championship news
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Iron Horse: Latest from Jim Walker

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...

Iron Horse: Latest from Jim Walker
Racing

Pascal Wins Maxxis Cup Round 2 Vigo

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...

Pascal Wins Maxxis Cup Round 2 Vigo
Racing

SAAB SALOMON AVALANCHE TROPHY 2009

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...

SAAB SALOMON AVALANCHE TROPHY 2009
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howies tee of the week

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...

howies tee of the week
Magazine

Dirt 86

NSFW content below.

Dirt 86
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Manitou Dorado arrives in the UK

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...

Manitou Dorado arrives in the UK
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Friday Randoms

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...

Friday Randoms
Features

Mini DH bike for a Russian Prince

When I saw this post it reminded me of the bike I built for a prince. No really, he is a Russian prince and...

Mini DH bike for a Russian Prince
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Most expensive kids bike ever?

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...

Most expensive kids bike ever?
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Bankrupt Iron Horse Owes $5 million

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...

Bankrupt Iron Horse Owes $5 million
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CrankBrothers visit dirt HQ

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....

CrankBrothers visit dirt HQ
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