Guest Blogs

  • "Halo BDS Rd1 Combe Syd final photo dump."

    • Halo BDS Rd1 Combe Syd final photo dump.

    • 16 April 2012 | 0

    • Some more photos of things going on at the race, reckon some helmet cam and pro footage should crop up later in the week as the track side was crawling with cameras.

  • "Tavistock Chip Shop Race report 2012"

    • Tavistock Chip Shop Race report 2012

    • 29 February 2012 | 7

    • Hardtail aficionado Ace Woodley popped dow to Tavistock way for a race at Chip Shop. Did he get battered? Was he a-salt-ed? Did he win-egar? Read on and find out.

  • "Only a day left at Dirt Mag!"

    • Only a day left at Dirt Mag!

    • 16 November 2011 | 0

    • Spent a lot of time doing research on riders that were featured in some of the first magazine issues… Looked into the recent news story about Missy Giove ‘escaping’ prison sentence – pretty nuts! The guys showing off their new promotional guff from DMR Steve Jones after a tester on [...]

  • "Day 3 at DirtMag"

    • Day 3 at DirtMag

    • 15 November 2011 | 0

    • The day started off with my form tutor popping in for a quick visit.. Went well, I don’t think she expects any bad reports from my work experience! Although the messy office was probably noted down – i better get cracking on with the organisation around here! Burgled office! Dad [...]

  • "Day 2 at Dirt HQ"

    • Day 2 at Dirt HQ

    • 15 November 2011 | 0

    • After a long morning in the office, a well earned coffee was needed.. Or a herbal tea in Billy’s case! A game of ‘What’s in the bag?’ took place in Cafe Nero, after Chief Rose strolled in with his ingredients for a new recipe for porridge in his classic Waitrose [...]

  • "I’m the new tea lady"

    • I’m the new tea lady

    • 14 November 2011 | 0

    • Hi I’m Beth Jones, i’m 16 at Monmouth Comprehensive School doing a blog throughout this week on my work experience here at the Dirt office. I’ll be doing various jobs, specifically making tea!

  • "South West Champs on the 1.04"

    • South West Champs on the 1.04

    • 19 August 2011 | 3

    • Bit late,  real world stuff has got in my way,  but if you are free and in the Tavistock area over the weekend then nip over to Gawton for the South West DH champs

  • "No Fuss DH Enduro part 2 (my race day)"

    • No Fuss DH Enduro part 2 (my race day)

    • 31 July 2011 | 8

    • Yes part 2 my race day.  Think you all know the score on the www.nofussevents.co.ukDH Enduro on the Fort William world cup track,  6 hours to cram in a sprint start for your bike,  ride uphill a few miles,  chop in at the big wall-ride then bag as many runs [...]

  • "Downhill Enduro prep-time."

    • Downhill Enduro prep-time.

    • 23 July 2011 | 2

    •  Saturday July 23rd is the 4th www.nofussevents.co.uk  Downhill Enduro on the Fort William world cup track.  And as ever i have signed up for it again.  Maybe it wont rain this year. Anyway,  after doing there MacAvalanche a few months ago i have changed a few things round to suit [...]

  • "Atomic MacAvalanche"

    • Atomic MacAvalanche

    • 23 April 2011 | 2

    • Yes the www.nofussevents.co.uk MacAvalanche is nearly here.  I tweeked my mountain racer today and under cover of the royal wedding i will run to Scotland  (midge net..must find the midge net first !) I reckon the best way to test anything out is to race it,  my first race back [...]

    • Friday Bonus: Some more CoreBike

    • 4 February 2011 | 3

    • Iain “Ace” Woodley from HTN blogged up some extra bonus material from the CoreBike Show. You might have seen some bits already but Ace has found some other bits and bobs too. Where to begin,  I could spend two days there taking snaps,  there is just too much shiny stuff [...]

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    • RHUK Kick it off, HT Champs prize fund.

    • 23 August 2010 | 0

    • So there we are, we have the venue,  we now have some prizes, we need some racers now ! On my way up to Grimsby i made a big detour to vist www.ridinghighuk.com this was handy as a big lorry full of stuff was also going there.  In return for prizes i [...]

    • Unofficial Hardtail Champs, Gawton dirt 1.04 track.

    • 10 August 2010 | 27

    • Oh yes, back again, late season this year,  down at Gawton on the Super-Tavi track,  aka the dirt 1.04 on Sunday 12th September 2010. So the deal then,  Hardtail is not a proper race class here in the UK,  officially we dont exist, there is no BC/UCI Hardtail race class, [...]

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    • MacAvalanche 2011 Glencoe mountain.

    • 27 July 2010 | 0

    • Just got back from the Fort William DH enduro,  and very late last night or was it early this morning Frazer from www.nofussevents.co.uk sprung this beauty on us. The rough deal then.  No fuss events and Glencoe mountain have got together and come up with this. The MacAvalanche, aimed for [...]

    • Work Experience Week

    • 23 July 2010 | 2

    • Weeks don’t come more eventful than this one (for me anyway). Through relentlessly harassing Mike, I managed to blag a week of dream work experience. So, what happened? Well first day, I got my popularity up instantly by bringing in one of my mum’s famous coffee/chocolate cakes, and it dropped [...]

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    • My first day at work

    • 19 July 2010 | 2

    • Hello my name is Ali (I’m not Jake The Tea Boy by the way) and I’m making very weak tea at Dirt magazine today for work experience. more text here.

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