The early Pivot Phoenix downhill bike was heavy and slightly unbalanced. The new carbon version is lighter and beautifully crafted but you still need to take care with the build as we found out when ...

After Friday’s show of horrendous weather at Vallnord World Champs, you’d have been forgiven for thinking this was going to be anything but a dry race. Conditions were brutal, the course unforgivingly ...

Aaron Gwin – Chainless – How did he do it? Instinct rather than theory enabled Gwin to win Leogang, but as Steve Jones finds out ‘feeling’ can often be an unreliable creature. The world cup downhill ...

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2015 is looking promising for World Cup downhill but in a valley in North Wales Dan Atherton has decided to see just how far the downhill race envelope can be pushed. After three years of working on ...

On a suburban street in Bristol there’s something brewing and it’s not just the tea. A guy called Joe has a simple philosophy based on two things. A passion for riding bikes and the ability to make ...

Could this be the DH bike to watch?

From Dirt Issue 153. FMD (Follow My Dream) Racing – or at least its core members Tony and Jo Seagrave, their daughter Tahnée and son Kaos – is a setup I have been aware of for quite some years now. As ...

A tough, wide rimmed wheelset aimed at the enduro racer - and with a great price tag ...

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British photographer Laurence Crossman-Emms is basing himself in the mountain bike ‘Mecca’ of Whistler for the 2015 summer season. He’s working on a feature series for Dirt called ‘Up in the Park’, ...