A couple of weeks ago I got a mysterious email from ‘Will Notsay’ from something called ‘Severed Alliance’. Turns out that the Alliance are protyping a range of slick, light and hi-tech street parts. Alongside the components they’ve got a completely revolutionary new tubing that promises to be 30% stronger than the double butted tubes we’re all running. Interesting. I’ve been sitting on these shots for a little bit but with the patents now sorted the Alliance have given us the nod to run ‘em. Read on…

Check out this neat little video from our friend Stu at MTBcut.tv of his boyos riding the awesome new Red Route at Fort William. Giraffe gets his best Sam Hill drift impression on and Joe Barnes tackles it on a Five. I feel a Fort road trip coming on!!

Cheers to Orange Bikes@twitter for the heads up!

For general arsing around riding in the UK it’s sensible to have a decent jacket, and Madison are hoping to plug the gap with a range of really well priced and specc’d options for you to choose from.

Round 3 of the NPSDH went down last weekend at Ft Bill with Ben Cathro and Manon Carpenter taking the top spots. Well done to Ben but holy shit - how good is Manon Carpenter? She’s not even an elite and she beat EVERY elite female and placed 178th overall beating a lot of chaps.

Read on for results…

Turns out Glastonbury wasn’t the only thing going on this weekend. Whilst half the universe were getting baked and listening to Neil Young, the BMX crowd were battling it out down at Cheddar at the EUC Champs.

Fastlane Dave and our boy Mono jetted down to eat chips, tart about and make an awesome vid of the racing. We love you Fastlane. Check it out…

Just got any email from the lovely people at Axo Europe/Spank shouting about they’re new superstar Kieren McAvoy. Despite only being in his 1st season of Elite 4X racing Kieren took the top British spot at the Euro 4X Champs -coming in 7th overall.

Read on for full results…

Our mate Olly is up at Fort Bill with the Ashton Diamonback crew and just fired over some gorgeous shots of today’s action.

Clickety clickety…

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A team summary of our friends at 2Stage Bikes from Maribor by resident video king Mono.

Just spent a very pleasant morning visiting the guys at Fli Distribution in Glossop, just up the road, for a feature in Issue 10.

Our mates over at 2Stage just sent this press release about their girl Jess Stone. It’s the Maxxis Cup Finale this weekend and shes got ‘er eye on the gold chain!

Goooooood luck Jess!