After the frost cancelling the first round and the second one almost going the same way, wow what a difference this weekend, it was like spring had sprung. There was still evidence of winter weather when you got to the top of the hill where the snow was still lying at the start hut, but [...]
This weekend was to see the first round of the Alpine Bikes Winter Series but due to the weather, the frost that is, and not the huge amounts of snow that was still around a week ago, still piled high in the car park courtesy of the council. This year also saw Mike Marsden from [...]
Seems quite a few folk, have been flapping, all over the world about the true origins of anything “off road” on a bicycle which can point to the origins of the sports of BMX and MTB. Our good friend and old drinking buddy Bart De Jong over at FatBmx has the proof! I think he [...]
I first met Geoff back in the early nineties, he used to race downhill then; mounted on one of the first Foes Racing frames in the UK, he could pin it with the best of them. Then somehow he got all mixed up with this whole damn press circus thing, then he won a few [...]
We all know that the roots of downhill are steeped in BMX nostalgia and well their’s nothing more nostalgic than watching Stu Thomsen ride a Redline on any race track from back in the ’80′s. In fact Stu Thomsen had probably won more bicycle races, before he was 20, than the the likes of Lance [...]
