Monthly Archives: October 2009 - Page 2

Videos

Rider I-Pods Steve Peat

We ask Steve Peat what sort of music does a World Champion listen to?The answer at the moment is that Old Skool Peaty is listening...

Rider I-Pods Steve Peat
Racing

661 MINI DOWNHILL RACE - Forest of Dean

Mini Downhill returns to the Forest for another 3 race Winter series, the first one on the 6th December with a completely new top section...

661 MINI DOWNHILL RACE - Forest of Dean
News

Life Cycles-Mike Hopkins hip section

Mike Hopkins got in touch and told us about his latest contribution to the LifeCycles film, an awesome hip jump in Fernie B.C. Have a read...

Life Cycles-Mike Hopkins hip section
News

Winter Digging-Pumptrack

Rob from Continental sent me this video of a secret pumptrack in Wales somewhere that himself, Matt Ingham, Rob Williams and Joe Howard did most...

Winter Digging-Pumptrack
News

Vote for your FMX Rider of the Decade

I love a bit of FMX, they just seem to keep pushing the boundaries of what can be done on an MX bike. Mpora is...

Vote for your FMX Rider of the Decade
News

Groovy Grannies Knit Beanies

You’ve got Albert to blame for this, because he spotted it. I’m not quite sure what he typed into Google but he found these Grannies...

Groovy Grannies Knit Beanies
News

Dirt Office Helmet Cam

I spotted this tiny Veho Muvi helmet camera at the CycleShow a while back and promptly got one ordered for an inspection. Steve at veho-uk.com...

Dirt Office Helmet Cam
News

JD Swanguen up in smoke

JD Swanguen has accepted a sanction for a doping violation at the US Nationals earlier this year for testing positive for Carboxy THC, a metabolite...

JD Swanguen up in smoke
News

Dirt Magazine covers 46 to 62

Okay, you lot did quite well naming the Dirt magazine cover stars from the first 45 issues, but can you name these next few? Issue 61...

Dirt Magazine covers 46 to 62
News

Bike components that look like animals

Have you ever noticed that some bike compontents look uncannily like animals? This might seem odd, but in the half light of the office this...

Bike components that look like animals
News

Fantasy League Final Results

Okay, sorry we’re a bit late with this. What happened was, well what it is is, what it was was, well you remember Shirley The...

Fantasy League Final Results
News

Chris Smith October Edit

Here’s the latest vid from Corsair’s Chris Smith, mixing it up with park, dirt, freeride and some funky handlebar mounted camera action. If you missed...

Chris Smith October Edit
News

Readers Rides

This weeks dose of bike porn comes fresh from the hallowed turf of Chicksands Bike Park. First up we have a slinky number called Rufus,...

Readers Rides
Videos

Foot Out Flat Out Trailer

Aaron Bartlett and Paul Roberts have been busy documenting the World Cup race season and I think the National race scene (but I might be...

Foot Out Flat Out Trailer
News

Dirt Magazine Covers 1 to 45

Little bit of Dirt Magazine history here for you; the front covers from the very first issue in January 1997 with Paul Roberts on the...

Dirt Magazine Covers 1 to 45
News

The Summum Arrives

The new Mondraker Summum is here. At 5 o’clock yesterday evening, a bike box arrived. It was a special bike box, containing one of this year’s...

The Summum Arrives
News

Friday Randoms

It’s Oscar Wildes birthday today, he is 155 years old, happy B-day Oscar. “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at...

Friday Randoms
News

Swobo partners with Shiner for U.K. Distribution

I don’t know much about Swobo but I used to check their website alot, they’ve got this thing called “How To Avoid The Bummer Life”...

Swobo partners with Shiner for U.K. Distribution
News

Bensink "Speed & Style Jam"

4x World Cup racer Joost Wichman and his mate Desmond Tessemaker (Tessemaker is Dutch for “Teasmade” he actually invented the hot beverage wake up machine…fact)...

Bensink "Speed & Style Jam"
News

Oh my Golly, Knolly gets named

The new Knolly finally gets christened with a real proper name…Podium. I was hoping for something like “The Good Golly Miss Molly” but you can’t have...

Oh my Golly, Knolly gets named
Racing

AirMaiden at Glentress

The sisters are doing it for themselves…Niamh Allum sent us a report on AirMaiden at Glentress which is the UK’s first ever women’s only freeride...

AirMaiden at Glentress
Features

Homemade Cable Cam Mark 2

Here we go with version 2 of my homemade cable cam. I’ve swapped the chain guide rollers for some 80mm diameter nylon pulleys, and upped the...

Homemade Cable Cam Mark 2
Fresh Produce

Exclusive:Saracen DH prototype pics

Spy shots of the Myst from the designers laptop in London. Okay the Saracen of the past may not have had the best of images and...

Exclusive:Saracen DH prototype pics
Downhill

Unofficial report Descent-gear No Clips at Moelfre

No race reports in ages then two in the same day of the same event…well that’s how we like to roll. This unofficial report is from...

Unofficial report Descent-gear No Clips at Moelfre
production