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Nicolai Ion ST

Frightening attention to detail makes this company almost an exception in mountainbike terms. Carl Nicolai is definitely one of a kind. Featuring proven four–bar platform...

Nicolai Ion ST
Dirt 100

Santa Cruz V10

World Cup championship bikes rarely come out of the box, but they do with Santa Cruz. After a diverse international series in terms of tracks...

Santa Cruz V10
Dirt 100

Commencal DH VIP

Alone in Andorra, the company made sofamous by the Athertons, Cedric Gracia and Anne Caroline Chausson they also have what is arguably the best design...

Commencal DH VIP
Dirt 100

Foes DH MONO

Foes have a unique and powerful card to play with the Curnutt shock, but it’s much more than that. As a hand made work of art...

Foes DH MONO
Features

Rider I-pods Rachel Atherton

What are your top five tunes of the moment? Animal Commencal World Cup rider Rachel Atherton tells us her quintessential quintet. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnWhO7l5bqA ”The honey roll”- never heard...

Rider I-pods Rachel Atherton
News

Scottish Premier of FOFO and MADE

2009 saw another tight season of racing on all 4 corners of the globe and both Callum Swift and Aaron ‘Mono’ Bartlett were trackside to...

Scottish Premier of FOFO and MADE
News

£19million National Indoor BMX Centre

You might have read about this else where but I’ve just found it in my inbox. Sounds like good news for the BMX race crew,...

£19million National Indoor BMX Centre
Videos

La Bresse wins UCI best DH event for 2009

Every year, the UCI awards trophies for the best World Cup events in the three MTB disciplines: XCO, DHI and 4X. This year La Bresse was...

La Bresse wins UCI best DH event for 2009
Racing

houseMARTIN Mountain bike Tours

Anka and Sven Martin (you know the World Cup riding, photographing, adventuring duo) have put together a guided mountain bike trip taking in the...

houseMARTIN Mountain bike Tours
News

Do Not ride at Still Woods until further notice

It’s not the end for riding at Still Woods in Bristol, but here is the latest news from Martin Astley: Bristol Uni, who own the land...

Do Not ride at Still Woods until further notice
News

Winter Digging Pt2 Rio de Janeiro.

Part two escapes the muddy quagmire of these shores and jets off to the City of Petrópolis in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Jony Anderson sent us...

Winter Digging Pt2 Rio de Janeiro.
News

Winter Digging pt1 Barry KNows Best

Part one is a “Please don’t ride here until it’s dry” notice from our SouthEast correspondant Rodeo Rod Fountain about some Surrey Hills trails. Rodeo Rod...

Winter Digging pt1 Barry KNows Best
News

Oggy's got a brand new bike:Update

James Brown once sang similar lyrics about his dad and a bag. But Martin “Oggy” Ogden is singing it about his new Haro Slopestyle machine,...

Oggy's got a brand new bike:Update
Videos

Finale Ligure Superenduro video

Finale Ligure was the setting for the last round of the Superenduro series last weekend with nearly three hundred riders converging on the Italian Riviera...

Finale Ligure Superenduro video
News

Matt Simmonds Training days

Why not try and make yourself faster this Winter? There are a fair few downhill training courses around these days, but one you might not have...

Matt Simmonds Training days
Videos

Mpora Monday Medley

Apologies for slow start to the day, a rat had chewed through the Dirt website pipe which sent noughts and ones spraying all over the...

Mpora Monday Medley
News

Troy Brosnan Joins The Monster Energy-Specialized For 2010

Troy Brosnan son of Hollywood actor and James Bond star Pierce Brosnan has just signed up to partner Brendan Fairclough and Sam Hill for 2010. Dirt...

Troy Brosnan Joins The Monster Energy-Specialized For 2010
News

MADE World Premiere

You’ve watched the teaser now attend the premiere of MADE. After a long hard season of filming and racing Birmingham will host the most epic Premier/party...

MADE World Premiere
News

Fairclough to stay with Monster Energy-Specialized for 2010

Just got this hot 2010 team news beamed in. Brendan is coming off his best season to date, where he was on the World Cup podium...

Fairclough to stay with Monster Energy-Specialized for 2010
News

NWD 10 Welsh Premier

If any of you are trick or treating around the Mid Wales area this weekend then Summit Cycles are showing the Welsh premier of New...

NWD 10 Welsh Premier
News

Friday Randoms

This was going to be a bumper Friday Randoms Halloween special but as usual I got sidetracked and couldn’t find too many pumpkin related things....

Friday Randoms
News

Say No to Curling and Yes to Pumptracks

Chris Ball just sent this info over about funding for a pumptrack in Cardona, Peebles. It  looks like it’s a direct shootout between the pumper...

Say No to Curling and Yes to Pumptracks
Fresh Produce

Pro Atherton and Vanderham Series

Albert and Mark from Madison popped into the Dirt office yesterday with the Atherton Star Series and the Vanderham kit developed by PRO to Shimano’s...

Pro Atherton and Vanderham Series
News

B1KE Junior Development at Aston Hill

Talking about HalfTerm, there are still places left on the Aston Hill Junior DeVo course tomorrow. So if you’re on holiday and at a loose end...

B1KE Junior Development at Aston Hill
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