Monthly Archives: January 2013

Fresh Produce

Top Five: Trail Mud Tyres - Specialized Storm

Every day this week we'll be featuring one of our favourite mud trail tyres, and today it's the turn of the root and rock loving...

Top Five: Trail Mud Tyres - Specialized Storm
Videos

12 MONTHS 12 STORIES: EP1-1 month 2 seasons

Episode one of this new monthly feature is a tale of two seasons. Deep snow and bright sunshine. Cannondale Enduro star Jerome Clementz gets out...

12 MONTHS 12 STORIES: EP1-1 month 2 seasons
News

Ruaridh Cunningham and Jess Stone sign with Unior Tools for 2013

Ruaridh Cunningham joins Jess Stone on the Slovenian Unior Tools Team for 2013. Jess, who rode for the team last year, will be joined...

Ruaridh Cunningham and Jess Stone sign with Unior Tools for 2013
Videos

Kirt Voreis and friends at Retallack

We've seen Retallack pop-up in various edits over the last year or so - those guys are seriously pushing the summer side of things...

Kirt Voreis and friends at Retallack
Videos

Trail riding in the Dolomites

Some stunning scenery in this Dolomite trail riding video. It’s got a 1980s cinema trailer voice over too! Google GCSE Geography lesson. The Dolomites are here....

Trail riding in the Dolomites
Dirt 100

2013 Dirt 100: SHIMANO XTR TRAIL SPD

SHIMANO XTR TRAIL SPD The tiny surface area that full-on crosscountry style SPD pedals provide may be the lightest possible solution for a clip-in pedal, but...

2013 Dirt 100: SHIMANO XTR TRAIL SPD
News

Sheffield Adventure Film Festival: Bike Films

The Sheffield Adventure Film Festival takes place on 1-3rd March and will feature 80 of the World’s best adventure, travel and extreme sports films. That...

Sheffield Adventure Film Festival: Bike Films
Videos

DMR Pump Track Challenge, London Bike Show 2013

  Highlights from the DMR Pumptrack Challenge at the London Bike Show. Read Manon Carpenter’s well tidy  blog from the Bike Show here.

DMR Pump Track Challenge, London Bike Show 2013
Videos

Bernard Kerr: Pivot M4X

Bernard Kerr gets rowdy on the do-it-all Pivot M4X bike and recaps his 2012 WC season.

Bernard Kerr: Pivot M4X
Videos

Winter Snowy Dual

As part of the ongoing ThisiSheffield winter dual series we met up last Tuesday at Farmer Jacks dual track. Peaty has spent the day clearing...

Winter Snowy Dual
News

Wyn Masters is back and racing World Cups!

No bull, Wyn Masters is back and will be riding for Bulls-Bikes at this years UCI World Cup races. Good news, peoples favourite Wyn Masters has...

Wyn Masters is back and racing World Cups!
Videos

FastFokus: Demo Reel

There’s some awesome riding going on in this great FastFokus demo reel that also includes some extreme close up meat shots, the obligatory cloud time...

FastFokus: Demo Reel
Dirt 100

2013 Dirt 100: Shimano DX SPD

SHIMANO DX SPD Probably the pedal with the most downhill podium visits in recent times is the DX from Shimano and it’s almost a classic design...

2013 Dirt 100: Shimano DX SPD
Videos

Master Class with Fabien Barel: Braking

“Everyday people talk about suspension setting, to know how to jump or to ride fast but the braking performance is a key point to your...

Master Class with Fabien Barel: Braking
Videos

Greenhouse Pumptrack Race 2013

Horticulturally inspired pumptrack shenanigans from Swizterland!   Good to see Brendog mixing it up with the 4x riders. We need more indoor pumptracks I reckon. Year round...

Greenhouse Pumptrack Race 2013
News

One Industries Mini Enduro Haldon 10th Feb

First there was Downhill, then came Mini-Downhill, then there was Apolis and we had Mini-Apolis then there was Enduro and sure as eggs are eggs...

One Industries Mini Enduro Haldon 10th Feb
News

Steve Peat ate my hamster. (Minnaar and Bryceland involved too.)

Or was it a ferret? Our source couldn’t confirm, the situation was awkward so he made his excuses and left. One fact he did ascertain was...

Steve Peat ate my hamster. (Minnaar and Bryceland involved too.)
Dirt 100

2013 Dirt 100: DMR Vault

DMR have a knack of coming up with products that gain cult status, the Trailstar frame and V8/V12 pedals being the finest examples, and we...

2013 Dirt 100: DMR Vault
Hardware

Core Bike Show 2013

Daytripping to the industry only CORE show, 15hours nonstop, 350 miles and too much coffee.

Core Bike Show 2013
News

FMB World Tour season opener: Leogang White Style

I reckon Wales could have hosted a Whitestyley event last week, we seemed to have enough snow knocking around! The real deal, the White Style in...

FMB World Tour season opener: Leogang White Style
Technical & Maintenance

How to service your Hope Pro 2 rear hub

The ever helpful folk at Hope have produced some insightful “How to…” video tutorials to assist you in servicing your Hope products. This one guides you...

How to service your Hope Pro 2 rear hub
Videos

Matt Hunter - Tour de Mont Blanc

4 days, 174km, 3 countries and a lap of France’s highest mountain ridden by one of the Worlds best free riders have all the makings...

Matt Hunter - Tour de Mont Blanc
Fresh Produce

BTR Ranger

BTR first appeared on the Dirt webber back in 2011, when we featured their super slack DH hardtail, the Belter, in our homemade bikes article....

BTR Ranger
News

Flats Vs Clips: Help collect the evidence

The benefits and drawbacks of flats and clipped pedals are a much discussed issue within mountain biking. The Centre for Sports Engineering Research at Sheffield...

Flats Vs Clips: Help collect the evidence
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