Dubbed by some as the ultimate downhill trip on the planet, Big Mountain Adventures’ Swiss Alpenrock DH trip is a 9-day romp in the Alp’s highest peaks.
Dirt Magazine’s Steve Jones is off on a Euro road trip and hitching a lift with The Dazzler Express. The bus leaves Monmouth at midnight tonight for a ten day European road trip with a whole bunch of trouble on board. Gone are ‘stag-nights’, we live in an era of [...]
So right about now I’m guessing everyone in the northern hemisphere is starting to get a little fed up with winter… The cold, short days and long nights. But recently here in Upside-Down-Land, we’ve had a little reminder that winter isn’t as far away as we would all like to [...]
Ooh la la. Number 9 already. Where do the weeks go I ask? Well I’ll tell you where this week went. Down the friggen toilet. At one point I thought there must have been a meteor strike somewhere on earth, or similar impact, forcing the world off it’s axis and [...]
Christmas in the UK has been wet and cold. Christmas in New Zealand has been hot and sunny. Jimmy Carling is over there having fun and sending us mid week reports. Here’s number 7 from downunder: Merry Christmas everybody, I trust everyone did the usual drink too much, eat too [...]
This is part two of our new weekly New Zealand blog feature by Jimmy Carling, “MidWeek Enzed”. As we in the UK are enduring rain, floods, collapsed bridges and more rain, NZ is enjoying sunshine, sunshine and sunshine. Check it out. Words:Jimmy Carling. Photos:Luke Sergent (I think) “So… Midweek Enzed [...]
Travel Guide: PYRENEES BIKEPARKS-VALLNORD Words:Rowan Sorrell Photos:Victor Lucas Mountainbiking in the Pyrenees has been the poorer cousin to mountainbiking in the Alps for some time. This could be set to change now with the World Cup races in Andorra raising the profile and firmly placing the Vallnord Bikepark on the [...]
Travel Guide: LAKE GARDA Words By Rowan Sorrell Photos by Victor Lucas I first stopped briefly in Lake Garda a few years ago, I drove along the lake between world cups with the ‘Scottish Contingent’ and scheduled in a couple of hours for an ice cream and swim before trucking [...]
Travel Guide: ITALY-LIVIGNO Photos:Victor Lucas Having hosted a World Cup downhill round and the World Championships you’d think there would be a bit of a buzz about Livigno. Truth is that it all went a little quiet after 2005, unlike Pila, Schladming or Fort William, there hadn’t been the same [...]
Travel Guide: PYRENEES BIKEPARKS-GRAND VALIRA Photos:Victor Lucas Mountainbiking in the Pyrenees has been the poorer cousin to mountainbiking in the Alps for some time. This could be set to change now with the World Cup races in Andorra raising the profile and firmly placing the Vallnord Bikepark on the map. [...]
Travel Guide: PYRENES BIKEPARKS-LA MOLINA Photos:Victor Lucas Mountainbiking in the Pyrenees has been the poorer cousin to mountainbiking in the Alps for some time. This could be set to change now with the World Cup races in Andorra raising the profile and firmly placing the Vallnord Bikepark on the map. [...]
Travel Guide: LES DEUX ALPES While Alp d’Huez and the Megavalanche have enjoyed unprecedented exposure over recent years, its neighbour on the other side of the valley slips under the radar here in the UK, with little recognition of the extensive bike park there. It is perhaps better known for [...]
Travel Guide: PILA Pila came to our attention in 2005 when they hosted a round of the downhill World Cup. The trail, designed by the former World Cup Champion Corrado Herin, was always going to be good. Things have moved on for the resort since that race, with the bike [...]
WINTERBERG Photos:Victor Lucas Winterberg is perhaps the best known of the German parks, and of the places we visited is the only one that I would call a true Bikepark – that is, the only one where freeride actually meant some nice feature packed trails rather than riding down a [...]
THE TRIP Photos:Victor Lucas Hitting the bike parks and trails in Germany you have two options, you’re either going to be trucking it out on a weekend break to one of the spots or you’re on a longer multi stop break. The three trails we visited were perfect for the [...]
Barry Mason the Europikey has been touring Europe this summer in a van hitting up various countries and riding spots. Today’s installment comes from Germany: Take it away Barry. Germany is one of those places that’s never really excited me, I’ve never before felt the need or want to go [...]
Way back at the start of the year I got an email from a bloke called Barry.Barry told me he was packing his downhill bike into a van and going on a Euro road trip this summer and would send some words and pics. I forgot all about Barry until [...]
James Stock is still road tripping round Europe. Here is his latest installment from Portugal. I’ve been away for a while now and am definitely in the groove of things over here, it’s a pretty relaxed scene but everyone is really keen to ride and all the races attract a [...]
Here’s a story from Phil Golston a Dirt reader about making do with what you’ve got on your doorstep. So we found a spot, we being the group of riders in the Portsmouth area known as the Portsmouth University Mountain Bike Club (plug over). It’s a great little spot, I [...]
I really have lost track of what day we are on with Seb Kemps Week of Wonder in New Zealand since there is so much going on down there. It’s Friday the 13th so I guess that’s day five? Here’s Seb with the lowdown. It just keeps on coming, said [...]
Okay this was a bit of an experiment. Jon the Designer travelled to Malaga, Spain for a weekend riding and testing bikes with SwitchBacks.com. I gave Jon a small, cheap pink camera called Pinky (left)with instructions to take as many photos as possible until the battery ran out (the battery [...]
Andrew of Italian Safaris had first mentioned this freeride first descent the day myself and my friend Gareth Rogers arrived in Livigno. He had been living there for four years and had been thinking that it would be awesome if someone could ride it since the first time he saw [...]
It’s weird where your thoughts can end up some days. There was one time last November, we were pushing bikes up the third highest mountain in England – Skiddaw in the Lake District. A mix of Lakes locals and ‘blow–ins’…Helen Gaskell, Tracy Moseley, Dave Armstrong, James Panton and some guy [...]
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