About DWR

Just in case you don’t know who we are then let us enlighten you…

Founded by Jon Beckett in 1996, Descent World Racing was one of the World’s first specialist downhill mountain bike websites. Today we are proud to still be one of the UK’s premiere mountain bike sites, unlike many of our competitor sites, we are independently run with a burning passion for mountain biking, which is exactly how we started last century!

Jon Beckett (Founder/Owner/Editor)
jon@descent-world.co.uk

Having raced BMX since 1979 and DH now for more years than he would like to admit, Jon was a little fed up with the lack of Scottish action in the mainstream mtb press, he then decided to start doing repos and results for the Scottish DH series. Since then descent-world has no doubt been one of the best places to get your dedicated gravity website fix.

After a recent injury, Jon has been rekindling his love of BMX racing in the 40+ Cruisers but still has a passion for 8″ of plush travel on board his 951…after taking a year out to heal, he’ll no doubt will be seen on a hill near you soon.

Doug Cook (Sub Editor/Products/Features)
doug@descent-world.co.uk

After spending most of his childhood years messing round on bikes on an off road Doug took to racing in the mid 90s when a XC racing career of very vague promise (ie. once finishing 4th in a Scottish Series race) gave way to a downhill career of glittering mediocrity when a year living in Vancouver North made him realise that the gravity side of things was much more conducive to a student lifestyle.

Doug stumbled into helping out with Descent-World after inadvertently finding himself hosting the “World Premiere” for the first DW film “True North” in Vancouver in 2002 and has done a bit of everything for the site since then.

Ian Linton (Sub Editor Race/Product)
ian@descent-world.co.uk

Ian has been an integral part of the descent-world family for many years, he’s now established as one of the best Photog’s in the UK. He can ride too and is often seen up high on the Mich with a pocket wizard taped to his bars.

A man of many talents, of course non that we have seen yet except for his photography. Ian is the man when it comes to race photos, you’ll see him at every race with his 1D cocked and ready…and then you can browse through them all at www.ianlinton.com.

Craig Henry – Long time SDA regular, based in Innerleithen, he loves riding the lastest and rarest machines he can get his hands on…from the sublime to the bizarre, you can bet Craig has cocked his leg over it so to speak! craig@descent-world.co.uk

Here’s how to contact us…

Postal Address & Contributions: Please contact jon@descent-world.co.uk for any postal enquiries. Contributions are always welcome, for more details please email.

All Enquires: 07977 432631 [Cell/SMS]

Please note also that we only report on the racing, we don’t actually run them…