Fresh Produce

    • DirtTV:RockShox Vivid Airshock

    • 24 June 2010 | 7

    • Dirt Magazine’s Steve Jones was down at Glyncorrwg the other day testing 2011 Sram goodies including the RockShox Vivid airshock. I know a lot of folk have already seen the Vivid at the Sea Otter shindig earlier in the year, but here’s a brief word with Sram European PR guy [...]

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    • Leatt DBX Comp Neck Brace

    • 23 June 2010 | 55

    • Leatt have just produced a mountainbike specific neck brace the DBX Comp which is based on the original GPX Club. The guys over at Hotlines have just sent one down to us to have a gander at. The DBX comes in two models the DBX Ride at £229.99 and the [...]

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    • DIRT EXCLUSIVE: SANTA CRUZ CARBON V10.4 TESTING IN LOUSA PORTUGAL

    • 10 May 2010 | 65

    • Dirt magazine has been given exclusive access to Santa Cruz’s testing session for their all–new Carbon V10.4 downhill frame. Steve Jones is our man on the ground, and here is what he had to tell us: Photos:Gary Perkin/SantaCruzBicycles. 6th May. Lousa, Portugal. 8.30am The entire Santa Cruz Syndicate team are [...]

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    • Dirt Office Bikes: Giant Glory 00

    • 14 April 2010 | 56

    • The postman dropped of a spangly Glory 00 yesterday. Expect a full review in Dirt Magazine soon. In the meantime here’s some photos of what nearly £4,000 quid gets you. Check the specs on the Giant site.

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    • New 2010 Double Sneak Peak

    • 9 April 2010 | 15

    • I’ve had a 2009 Transition Double for over six months now and I can tell you it’s an amazing machine. I’ve raced it downhill, taken over the jumps, been to the shops on it, even been on long hauls, so the thought of the awesomeness being increased by 27% for [...]

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    • DirtTV:Bike Test 2010 Specialized Enduro Pro

    • 8 April 2010 | 45

    • In a new series for DirtTV we will be testing a few of the bikes that feature in Dirt Magazine. First up Steve Jones tells us about the 2010 Specialized Enduro Pro, the full review can be found in Dirt 96. Have a watch and see what you think. More [...]

    • Exclusive:Greg Minnaar 5:10 shoe

    • 12 March 2010 | 52

    • It’s Friday and we got some special shoes in the office, some Minnaar 5:10 shoes with clips. Now 5:10 are famous for their flat pedal shoe with the stealth rubber soles so to bring out a clip in shoe is quite a suprise to us. As yet there is no [...]

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    • ASTRIX HAVOC DH. “It’s already been washed”

    • 8 March 2010 | 30

    • Following a test on one of their team bikes before Christmas we were keen to get the new Astrix in the magazine and Riding High Uk have just delivered the new 2010 Havoc over to the Dirt offices. It looks set to be a winner at a very good price. [...]

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    • Exclusive: 2011 Specialized SX

    • 4 March 2010 | 49

    • A slopestyle bike that’ll more than likely be getting treated to dh-chic, trail and sporadic jump use – and so much more than a do-it-all hardtail.

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    • Dirt Office Fresh Produce

    • 16 February 2010 | 20

    • The mob from Raleigh/Diamondback popped in the other day and dropped off a Sam Pilgrim Closure hardtail, which he won the recent Whitestyle event on. The first thing we noticed was the colour scheme, apparently Sam took a sander to his original brown frame and leaving bare metal stripes. The [...]

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    • CRC Custom Evil Faction

    • 3 February 2010 | 50

    • Just saw this cool bike over on the ChainReaction site it’s a peach and the good thing is they’ll build up a bike for you. If you read any sort of magazine associated with your chosen discipline of cycling, then you’re guaranteed to have come across the part where pro [...]

    • Drift x170 Helmet Camera

    • 4 December 2009 | 4

    • ActionCameras sent us the Drift X170 helmet camera to have a look at, I was busy trying to build a cable cam that week so I gave it to local tester Leaky Lewis to take it out for a spin. This stand-alone video unit costs about £200 and comes without [...]

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    • Dirt Office test bikes: Chumba F5

    • 27 November 2009 | 22

    • This is the bike that Duncan Riffle and Brad Benedict have been racing on the World Cup circuit this year. The Chumba F5 arrived at Dirt HQ today from www.progressive-bikes.co.uk and Jonesy will be out testing the beast for the magazine when he gets round to putting some pedals on [...]

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    • Scratch and Sniff Spank grips

    • 26 November 2009 | 4

    • If you have the “Smello-vision” application switched to the “on” position on your computer you will be experiencing a strong whiff of blue berry bubble gum right now. These Spank TuggJob grips just arrived at the office and I immediately wanted to eat them, chew them and start blowing bubbles, [...]

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    • Pro Atherton and Vanderham Series

    • 30 October 2009 | 4

    • Albert and Mark from Madison popped into the Dirt office yesterday with the Atherton Star Series and the Vanderham kit developed by PRO to Shimano’s tough MPAN QC testing procedure. Here’s a quick look at the products which should be in the shops in early November. First up we’ve got [...]

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    • Dirt Office Helmet Cam

    • 22 October 2009 | 10

    • I spotted this tiny Veho Muvi helmet camera at the CycleShow a while back and promptly got one ordered for an inspection. Steve at veho-uk.com had one sent out this morning. The size of it is remarkable, how do they make it so small? It is about the size of [...]

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    • DirtTV:Cesar Rojo Mondraker Summum Interview

    • 20 October 2009 | 12

    • On the day that the 2010 Mondraker Summum arrived at the Dirt HQ in Wales Steve Jones was in Barcelona, Spain near the Mondraker HQ to meet the Summum designer Cesar Rojo for a magazine feature. You might not know this but Mr Rojo is one talented individual, not only [...]

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    • Foot Out Flat Out Trailer

    • 19 October 2009 | 7

    • Aaron Bartlett and Paul Roberts have been busy documenting the World Cup race season and I think the National race scene (but I might be wrong) along with some dirt jumping, hooning around and some moto action. Looks good from the teasing-trailer-titilator. It’ll be available on DVD from November 23rd [...]

    • Exclusive:Saracen DH prototype pics

    • 14 October 2009 | 19

    • Spy shots of the Myst from the designers laptop in London. Okay the Saracen of the past may not have had the best of images and reputations but hopefully that looks set to change with the re-birth of the brand. We popped along after the CycleShow to the Saracen launch [...]

    • Dirt Office bits and pieces

    • 13 October 2009 | 15

    • A big box from Fox HQ in California turned up at the Dirt office today. Among some other bits was a set of the new Fox 831 4x, dirt jump forks. I remember seeing Jared Graves and Dan Atherton with a pair of these bad boys at the World Champs [...]

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    • Dirt Office Bikes

    • 6 October 2009 | 9

    • Xprezo Gamjam comes in for a test. The company name might get you thinking about Italian coffee, but Xprezo actually come from near Bromont, Quebec. We met them while we were at round 7 of the World Cup series in Canada and liked what we saw. The Gamjam is their [...]

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    • Dirt Office Bikes

    • 30 September 2009 | 10

    • Big Mikes NS Majesty bike build. Dirt Magazine editor Big Mike talks us through his jump bike build. NS BIKES MAJESTY BIKE BUILD We’d received this NS Bikes Majesty frame quite a while ago now, and finally we have completed the build…and she is amazing. It may seem shallow, but [...]

    • Dirt Office bikes

    • 29 September 2009 | 10

    • Scott Voltage YZ0.1 arrives at the Dirt Office. The couch potatoes at Dirt are getting into the trails, the latest single speed DJ bike to arrive for a blast is the Scott Voltage YZ0.1. Coincedentally just as the bike arrived Jones turned up in the old Caddy with some bales [...]

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