It’s all about the roost, if you can find it that is.

This is a big one. What is it and where can you get hero dirt for starters? Do you need to ride UK bike parks?

If you’re a newcomer by all means go and sample the delights of such places. Do it on a hardtail, get yourself a bun and a latte. Increasingly though, riders are looking for something different. This involves natural challenges with custom corners, awkward off cambers, a fair splash of root, liberal amount of rock and a freethinking measure of danger. More than anything it’s the search for loose, dry, wide expanses of dirt, a place to slide and hold, to fully choke up the lens.

Narrow gauge surfacing with lumps in? Not if we can help it, everyone wants to go stone free these days. A place where the bike will slide underneath you, will glide organic arcs that flow in sync with the landscape. We’re bringing up a generation of riders content with hitting downslopes all day long but who become quickly and painfully out of depth on natural terrain.

It’s not only a British mindset, we are seeing riders across Europe inspired by what they have seen at the Enduro World Series or World Cup Downhill. Increasingly becoming hung up with historic switchbacks, crude bulldozed berms or achingly slow switchbacks. They thirst for unrefined, untreated, macrobiotic. Yes you should be riding dirt.