I nuked the forum.

Not that you’d notice.

Forums are done anyway. Too many hacktards.

Dirt Fantasy League update

Come on bitches! I think my folks did pretty well this weekend too. I don’t like to bet on Jesus, but what can you do.

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World Cup Season Begins

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A sport the British are actually decent at? It’s only a matter of time.

The racing season begins with the usual suspects and a few new faces. We were all surprised not to see Mark Horacek making an appearance after good pre-season form utilizing his shuttle taxi.

There’s a Chocolatefoot league on Dirt’s Dirt Fantasy League – a URL that sounds much more exciting than it is – http://dirtfantasyleague.com if you’ve not joined already.

Password is “Kraken” for entry.

It’s good to see the footage getting another step up in the quality stakes this season, judging by the various websites covering the events alongside Freecaster. Rob “Murray Walker with Swearing” Warner is still in the booth, with Alex Rankin cutting together a few clips.

Good combo I reckon.

Any predictions? I think there will be some racing and some crashes.

Lights Out

Sharp night riding footage from these Euro dudes. Check the rest of their Vimeo archive for a lot of endo turns on the edges of cliffs.

Munich Lupine from Big Col on Vimeo.

A Band of Horses

Trek Scratch Build

Trek Scratch - first build

It’s taken almost 4 months of fighting with UPS to get my Scratch frame back so I can build it up to ride. Just in time for me to slam into the floor and separate a shoulder just when I was really getting into the groove on my hardtail.

The Session 88 has been a ton of fun to ride this year, and a carpark spin suggested the Scratch would be a solid compliment to fulfil the all mountain full suspension duties where the hardtail is too much of a handful.

I just wish the iPhone camera wasn’t quite so shit.

Trek Session 88

Trek Session 88 build

Now you can be biking ALL the time, with the bike-o-chair

Bike bits chair

I would ride this

Found

Here’s a stunning teaser for Find, a biking film by Resetfilms which brings British weather and understated style to the lifestyle format of Roam or The Collective without the jump stunt flips or snakes going into snakeholes. Thank fuck.

I emailed them to see if they’ll do a digital download version. Who buys DVDs these days?

This is the followup to Home, the other video I’ve also not seen:

Ride then slide.

A short edit from some fun trails on Harper Mountain, just outside Kamloops, BC. via Jon and his GoPro camera obscura.

Harper Mountain from Jon Hadfield on Vimeo.

Various riders, jolly good times. Especially the sundown slide down the gravel pit just outside town. This is super steep, but totally rideable. You just lean back, and let it roll. We witnessed a Brett Tippie masterclass – he gapped about 30ft down it at warp speed and carved his way to the bottom.

Then we carved our more standard lines. The darker lines are the slow folks. One of those is mine.

Kamloops Gravel Pit

Lines at Kamloops Gravel Pit

The following day we were back at Harper after a few laps of Rio, in time to catch some golden laps of the mountain.

Sundown on Harper Mountain

What? Where?

Champery. It’s all downhill from here.


From Dirt TV.

Watch the video. Note he gets blitzed by the rider in front he’s supposed to be head camming, who’s probably not Greg Minaar. Then look at how many places you’d grab a fistful of those 200mm rotors, or flip yourself into the trees.

Then add a metre of rain.

Then race it.

You lose.

RaceLace

RaceLace Pants

Functional and sexy. RaceLace freeride wear is coming.