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Derwent Edge Bridleway Maintenance

As some of you may be aware myself, Jeff and Shane are members of Ride the Peak. ‘What is Ride the Peak?’ I hear you say. “Ride the Peak is a group open to all with like-minded interests in maintaining and enhancing mountain biking in the Peak District” A couple of weeks ago now we went to [...]

New Year, New Bike

Okay so as most of you will of known i have been without a bike for the last couple of months. But last week i finally got hold of my new bike, It is a 08 Giant Glory with Fox 40’s up front and DHX 5 on the rear. I am very pleased with [...]

World Championships 08 – 3 GB Golds

Just finished watching the DH World Championships live on Freecaster, one word: DRAMA. Josh Bryceland won in Junior Men 7.5 ahead of Sam Dale. Rachel Atherton took the win in Elite Women, by 12 seconds ahead of Sabrina Jonnier of France! Then the mens, there had been a lot of talk about Fabien Barrel being very fast [...]

Upcoming: Bamford Mountain Bike Weekend 2008

The Bamford Mountain Bike Weekend is taking place in a very limited form this year (2008), there will only be the Bamford Clough Climb. (So it’s not really the Bamford Mountain Bike Weekend as previously, just the Clough Climb.) It will be on Saturday the 19th of July, which is the weekend after the Wharncliffe Weekender. [...]

DH World Cup Live Andorra

Check out www.mtbcut.tv now for live DH, in pretty good quality too. WOW Gee Atherton beat Sam Hill!, by 0.31sec. Rachel won the women’s DH, and Dan won the 4x apparently, so the Athertons are doing pretty well. If you missed it, it’ll probably be on www.mtbcut.tv later.