Dirt Euro trip day One - It's all about Preservation
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 multi-week celebrations. Rob Breakwell was Dirt’s team rider a couple of years ago and in a months time he is getting married to Sarah. The boys including Rowan Sorrell, Nicky Whiles, Shaun Bevan and the Monmouth locals Jonny Everett and best man Sam Jones have treated him to a forty foot coach with all the trimmings so to speak.
The bus leaves and Sram have sent some last minute spares. from Germany
The bus aims to get to Geneva in a day’s time and Dirt’s Jones will be bringing you an update on the proceedings. Ten days is a long time in an old school bus with ten blokes and a bag load of best Monmouthshire tea bags so Jones will be dumped off in Evian to catch up with 2011 Trek press camp before heading to Formula and then Marzocchi. From there he travels to Riviera Bike with James McKnight and finishes the trip with some interviews of the sports superstars Fabien Barel and Nicolas Vouilloz.
Quite where the bus will be by then is a bit of an unknown
Keep an eye on the sight for regular updates. Any questions you would like Jones to get to the bus or any other stop-off’s including the interviews with Barel and Vouilloz just let us know in the comments below!
Cheers!
Spare Monarch, couple cranks, pair of forks...let's go.
Ding Ding, all aboard, the Dazzler Express leaves town at midnight tonight.
The happy coach trippers about to depart.
Rob “Dazzler” Breakwell hopping onboard.
Is this a joke or serious ??!!
It doesn’t get any more serious Bob
can’t think of a better stag do, bikes, good company & good trails = super rad times!!!!
have a good’un!!!
Oh this is serious alright!
Best stag do I’ve ever heard of!
i was going to put in for the trip, but the mrs said no! ten days of bikes and beer? i hope my stag do’s anywhere near this good in april
where driving to the south of france tomorrow to do the mega will keep a look out for the love bus
What I would like to know is who was the lucky farqhuar that got steering duties? How about a 3 minute (cup of tea length) run down on one of the damn near heaven driving sozzlebus boy? Come on Jake-the-tea-boy- help us out!
I’ve got lots of photos of the ‘Departure of the Dazzler Express’!! It pulled off at about half-midnight with the beer flowing and the music blaring!! I tried to hide in the luggage compartment but they chucked me out because I was taking up valuable ‘beer and bikes’ space
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I can’t wait to see some photos!
On second thoughts, maybe it would be best that I didn’t…
Ha!
Sarah, yes probably best you don’t see too much of what goes on, but I’m sure they’ll all look after your husband to be!
Send me a departure photo if you want and I’ll add it here.
Hi Billy!
Obviously, I know how to send a photo…but for those people who may be interested in finding out how to do it, maybe you could just explain how it works (for them of course, not for me…)
;o)
well, for those people who don’t know, they can just email it to Billy at dirtmag dot co dot uk (but I know you knew that…)