Tuesday here in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. I’m heading up to the World Cup track in a bit so here’s a quick weather report and schedule. Pietermaritzburg,...
We’ve had a shed load of entries for our Fantasy Downhill competition. Check below for teams A to H. If yours isn’t there then beam...
We’ve spent the last few months on the phone collating data, on the internet collating data, assessing rider value and liasing with the best programmers...
Double World Champion Rachel Atherton will miss the first World Cup in Pietermaritzburg with her shoulder still not healed from that nasty training accident in...
Name: Blenkinsop, Sam Nickname: Blinky Age: 21 PoB: New Zealand Team: YetiFox Shox Factory Race Team World Cup Overall 2008: 5 Career highlights: Winning 2008 Schladming World Cup. Favourite food: Mum’s Lasagne Sam’s...
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....
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,...
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...
I know I ain’t been on here for a while, I apologise, I’ll try to do a few more of these entries. Anyway, recently I was...
Our web monkey is away today in the big smoke of London, but we thought you might like to get a look at the new–look...
Win a Ltd. Edition ‘Team Atherton’ Commencal Supreme DH framekit (sorry not the complete bike as shown) and a pair of team race jerseys. Hop over...
The Commencal Supreme DH bike ridden by Gee, Dan and Rachel Atherton is the most successful race bike of the 2008 downhill season. Is it? Well of course...
A COMPARISON BETWEEN GEE ATHERTON’S PRO BIKE AND THE PRODUCTION MODEL Words Steve Jones Photos Victor Lucas The Commencal Supreme DH bike ridden by Gee, Dan and Rachel Atherton is...
Brothers Dan (left) and Gee (right) tend to a clearly shocked Rachel Atherton on the roadside. The car/truck (Photos: Sven Martin). Really bad news here for Rachel...
News just in from Albert at Madison. ‘After Gee and Rach’s outstanding double win at last summer’s World Championships in Val di Sole Italy, Commencal set...
Name? Nico Vink. Age? 25. Where do you live? Sint–Niklaas, Belgium. Where do you ride? At home there is no DH riding so I just ride trails and motorcross. My local...
We thought we’d ask a few of the stars what they want for Christmas, here’s what they said: Cedric Gracia wants “Mere Noel” which I’m guessing...
There’s a lot of good stuff over on Mpora, here’s a quick Wednesday selection. First up is this Joey Schusler Promo (I haven’t heard of him...
Rachel Atherton has won the prestigious BBC Midlands Sportswoman of the Year award. Her acceptance speech was 3 minutes 26 seconds long which Atherton said...
By Richard Cunynghame In the current issue of Dirt is a wonderful article written by yours truly from the recent Red Bull Rampage. It was one...
Its all been about RockShox BoXXers recently, so it’s time to throw a little love in the Fox direction, here’s news of their limited edition...
We’re going to be spoilt for choice this Christmas for mountain bike dvd’s. There seems to be quite a few up for grabs. One that you...
