Staff Blogs

    • 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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    • 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. [...]

    • 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

    • Testing

    • 28 August 2009 | 0

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

    • Time Lapse coffee machine

    • 11 August 2009 | 0

    • I love messing around with video stuff and rumaging in skips. Last week I rummaged in a skip and found this perfectly good coffee machine. The I bought some telescope tracking device from Ebay. Big Mike said the telescope thing just looked like the coffee machine from the skip. I [...]

    • Motorised spinning helmet camera

    • 20 July 2009 | 2

    • Just experimenting with wanging a motor on the pat pending DirtTV spinning lawnmower of death cam. Stay tuned for video footage.

    • Mondial du VTT

    • 25 June 2009 | 0

    • Sunn took me to the Mondial du VTT at the weekend for their 2010 range launch party. After a mammoth travelling day on Thursday, I arrived at Les Deux Alpes. Bed came around pretty quickly that night and Friday arrived with a lot of anticipation to see the new 2010 [...]

    • Im off to France this weekend

    • 17 June 2009 | 0

    • As per usual for me, I’ve left it till the last minute to get all my stuff together. I’m flying to Geneva from Bristol tomorrow morning (too early!), for the Mondial du VTT and Sunn bikes press camp in Les Deux Alpes this weekend. My washings all coming out with [...]

    • Final day at Dirt

    • 8 May 2009 | 0

    • Today is my last day at Dirt I have helped build up a bike, I have been to Bristol taking photos I met some interesting people, I never knew how much riding there is there! I helped out Victor Lucas set up some photographs, I have also uploaded news stories [...]

    • 5th day at Dirt

    • 1 May 2009 | 0

    • On my 5th day at Dirt I researched some Friday randoms to go on the Dirt website, I also went out on a bike ride to test out the new settings on the front forks on my new DMR Trailstar. This weekend I will be out shredding the Forest Of [...]

    • 4th Day at Dirt

    • 30 April 2009 | 0

    • Today I helped put together a Transition Double bike from America, with the help of Jake Ireland the new Dirt mechanic/ technical advisor/ hot beverage creator. We started off with a frame and a box of parts and we finished with a bike, this was all filmed this using time-lapse [...]

    • Hello I am new here

    • 28 April 2009 | 0

    • Hello my name is Ben I am 15 and doing my work experience here. As you can see I am sat at Steve Jones’s really messy desk Stay Tuned for an interview with famous photographer Victor Lucas that I did this morning as my first assignment

    • Reaction Downhill Moelfre – Videos and some waffle

    • 15 April 2009 | 0

    • Finally back in the office. What a weekend. Big thanks to Mike and all the crew for running one of the best organised events I’ve ever been to. We arrived on Thursday afternoon and within 30 seconds of getting on the farm, we were well and truly stuck in a [...]

    • Moelfre Caravan Holiday – Part Deux

    • 8 April 2009 | 0

    • After the Caravan Video Tour, we’ve done a fair bit of cleaning and polishing, and come out with the finished product…….. We’re leaving tomorrow, so did a lot of packing up today. We’ve got the legendary Dirt easy-up, a vast array of bikes, and some more than questionable clothing! Here’s [...]

    • Moelfre Caravan Holiday – Reaction Downhill

    • 17 March 2009 | 0

    • As the Reaction Downhill event at Moelfre this year is over 4 days, I thought that a tent wouldn’t be the best idea, so where could I stay?! I couldn’t book a hotel, the tent would be far too cold and wet, but I know, a caravan would be ideal! [...]

    • Helmet Cam and Velcro

    • 17 March 2009 | 1

    • I stuck a load of velcro to a springy bike last Sunday and rode to my local woods. More angles next weekend. More Mountain Biking >> This was filmed with a Pov camera which has a screen on the recorder unit so lets you monitor and line up the bullet [...]

    • Firestarter forks

    • 11 March 2009 | 0

    • Dirt have got a Facebook thing. A guy called Seb asked a question on there about the band the Prodigy and RockShox Judy Upgrade kit from a feature waaaaaay back in Dirt issue 03 from May/June 1997. In true Dirt style we said “…more on that later” and never did. [...]

    • Local Roadtrips – Newport Skatepark

    • 11 March 2009 | 0

    • Last night I packed up the wagon and headed on down to Skate Extreme in Newport. The massive 40 minute car journey makes it a truly local roadtrip…. Courtesy of my rubbish camera and a friends rubbish reaction time! Some BMXers hitting the park up with some sick lines After [...]

    • Slopestyle’s Birthday

    • 10 March 2009 | 0

    • Every now and then the time comes for our office bikes to be updated, and over the last week or so, the Intense 6.6 Slopestyle has had it’s turn. The bike has had Fox 36 forks on it since it was new, and after having these Rockshox Lyric 2 Step [...]

    • Back to School

    • 9 March 2009 | 0

    • After a long discussion with Billy last week about his new camera dolly (mk3), it came out that I could actually use a welder. I made this frame for my GCSE design technology project (I was only 16 at the time), and it’s one of the only things I’ve done [...]

    • Hope Direct Shifter Mounts

    • 2 March 2009 | 0

    • We’ve just had these samples sent through from Hope. Its their answer to the Avid Matchmaker, and means you can mount your shifter directly to your brake. They fit all of Hope’s new Tech brakes. It’s ideal as the brakes are made to fit inboard of the shifters, and these [...]

    • Update on the cotic Soul

    • 23 February 2009 | 0

    • I’ve been using the Cotic a fair bit since it’s build just over a couple of weeks ago and I’m loving the hardtail ride again. It’s a no nonsense play bike the way it’s set up and it has been the perfect tool for razzing around in the woods. I’m [...]

    • Healthy desk

    • 13 February 2009 | 0

    • To fight the winter lurgy, I’ve armed myself with healthy stuff There’s enough vitamin C and healthy gubbins on that desk to sustain a small American town for a week.

    • IT’S FRIDAY

    • 30 January 2009 | 0

    • Billy asked me to put something up ’cause it is Friday…so I did. Get surfing (butthole).

    • German rap

    • 29 January 2009 | 0

    • Greggers the Dirt designer just sent me this.

    • special effects

    • 20 January 2009 | 0

    • I found this web site the other day. Have a click and a play it’s kinda wierd.