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    • 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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    • EXCLUSIVE: ALL–NEW INTENSE M9 FRO

    • 30 July 2010 | 0

    • Just as we were about to leave the office for the day and we get this, the all–new intense M9 EVO. It has been in development for the last two years and now here it finally is, Intense’s new flagship DH bike…read it and weep. Moderator’s Note: Guys, we’ve had [...]

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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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    • How Races should be. MIJ Taff Buggy Rd2

    • 23 April 2010 | 17

    • A race report by Jake The Tea Boy. MIJ Events Rd2, Taff Buggy Race Report. I think firstly I need to apologise for the lack of my photography in this report, which was mainly because the weekend was so much fun, the camera didn’t leave it’s bag… An early start [...]

    • Knights of Niche.

    • 19 April 2010 | 3

    • What ho downhillers,  i think i may have cabin fever and due to the fact that north lincs is flatter than holland i have mostly been riding other bikes.  The side effect of riding 6 miles to town across the fields is i will get fitter,  that in turn will [...]

    • Why i Joined the AA (broken Toyota)

    • 2 March 2010 | 2

    • How does this relate to bikes then ? how do you get to your races ? you drive in your cars and vans, this is a shameless plug for the AA as they bailed me out big time and i am really really happy that i joined years ago, and [...]

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    • A day at the races, Kustom bikes, Coombe Syd.

    • 26 February 2010 | 0

    • Kustom Bikes winter series Rd 3  Coombe Syd country park (between Taunton/Williton in Somerset) Words and Pics:Ace Woodley Well racing in snow ! new one for me,  never done that before,  made things more interesting. So Coombe Syd, an old NPS venue last used for that back in 2004,  not up [...]

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    • Snow time it’s Race Time

    • 22 February 2010 | 0

    • First proper race of the year and things are a tad extreme ! Ben Deakin attacking the track thats hiding under the several inchs of snow, at Coombe Syd country park for the Kustom Bikes winter series.   Well as you can see things are under fluffy white snow,  a thin [...]

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    • Ben Walker Champery news

    • 15 February 2010 | 14

    • Dirt blogger and Champery track builder Ben Walker just fired over some photos. Whistler might be having problems with lack of snow for the Olympics but Champery still has tonnes. Hopefully all that will be well and truly gone on the 25th July for World Cup round 4. As soon [...]

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    • Sam Pilgrim wins Leogang WhiteStyle 2010

    • 2 February 2010 | 2

    • Do they still call Sam Pilgrim Leopard Head? If they do it might be time to rename him SnowLeopard Head. Maybe not. Whatever, the boy Pilgrim has won the 2010 WhiteStyle comp. I think it’s time DirtTV caught up with this guy. Anyway, here’s the full story: More than 2,000 [...]

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    • The Secret Cookie Race.

    • 19 January 2010 | 7

    • Facebook mates race thing here with a hidden agenda, more on that later. So a secret race then, new one for me, it works like this, you get an invite, only 30 go out, if you come in the top 12 sussers or top 7 HT you can get invited [...]

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    • Frozen Beard by Ben Walker

    • 17 January 2010 | 9

    • Anyone been wondering where American/Swiss/French track builder and Dirt blogger Ben Walker has been the last couple of months? Well it looks like he’s just been enjoying himself in the snow. Hopefully Ben will give us some inside news on the Champery World Cup track soon. Check out the below: [...]

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    • Snow joke been sick in the head.

    • 16 January 2010 | 2

    • He’s back, Ace Woodley who is one of our Dirt bloggers and a hardtail fanatic, returns to the internet. Read on: Been very quite for a while, hardly ridden a bike for months now, but a new year and a new start and new things to try out. So the [...]

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    • Winter Digging in Whistler

    • 27 November 2009 | 2

    • Dirt Whistler blogger Adam Billinghurst has been busy winter building over in Canada, here’s his latest update. 92 days, 650 laps, over 1 million vertical feet of descending, summer was good in the Whistler Bike Park. Before terrible winter arrived I worked with wood wizard Dave Fortier for WORCA ( [...]

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    • MIDWEEK ENZED – PART ONE

    • 19 November 2009 | 9

    • This was supposed to go up yesterday, hence the “midweek” in the title, but Billy’s off foraging in the woods and I’ve been busy commissioning videos for the coming year (check back for more on this, you’re going to love it!). Anyway, it’s come that time of year when a [...]

    • Homemade Cable Cam Mark 2

    • 14 October 2009 | 3

    • Here we go with version 2 of my homemade cable cam. I’ve swapped the chain guide rollers for some 80mm diameter nylon pulleys, and upped the battery power to 12volts in an effort to make her go faster. It’s also primed to have the pan and tilt servos mounted soon. [...]

    • Random stuff (fit birds from Moto GP)

    • 8 October 2009 | 8

    • Yep a tester, dirtmag is now dirtmountainbike and the blog system has changed.  Bit like being back at school now, as i have to submit my homework for marking and if the teacher (Billy) likes it then it gets published. So unless Billy is Gay i am trying out some [...]

    • i know its a long shot…..but has anyone got an old Bus?!

    • 28 September 2009 | 2

    • Right I know its a stupidly long shot, but you never know the power of the Dirt Blog! I need a bus. Like an old minibus coach type thing preferably. Its for a roadtrip next year, and a general race wagon. If anyones got anything, or knows anywhere with something, [...]

    • Cable Cam Project

    • 28 September 2009 | 6

    • I decided to build a cable cam. Not the type that you swing on, but a cheapy version that the camera just sits on. Got some 3mm steel wire. 50m for £30 The went to the model shop and bought a radio control two servers and a speed controller and [...]

    • lets see if this works shall we?!

    • 24 September 2009 | 4

    • I might be in my prime, and very mechanically minded, but this whole new webber thing is pretty confusing! I hope this post works! Peace and Love to all…. J-dawg

    • Mind Games,skill and ability. The Bet is in default !

    • 19 September 2009 | 0

    • Yep the bet for £75 went into Default at 10.30am today, Shane decided that breaking his legs/arms was on the cards so he called default The plan with “project bender” was for Shane to prepare himself to do the Unofficial hardtail champs next year, i was going to drop in [...]

    • Preparations

    • 17 September 2009 | 0

    • In preparation for next year’s downhill World Cup in Champery, I built a new trail from the tram down to the beginning of the race track. In October we will be rebuilding the rest of the track. I am out the door to go test the new trail but I [...]

    • Project “Bender” the prelude (some kind of monster)

    • 16 September 2009 | 0

    • How the hell do i start this one off ? Ok project “bender” will make sense when you look closely at the photos, first thing Shane said was he would bend the frame. this will be an ongoing blog project. However today at work Shane (aka the evil munchkin) decided [...]

    • Shiny Things 2010 product is on it’s way !

    • 9 September 2009 | 1

    • First off i should be doing this over on www.hardtailnation.co.uk but this new server wont let me on the admin site, seems to work over here, the joy of a new PC (not mine) and a new server (again not mine) so learning how to work this as well. Anyway [...]

    • Testing

    • 28 August 2009 | 0

    • Sat in Sydney Travel lodge, Saturday morning, raining outside…trying to get blumin computer to work