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Meltdown is the 2020 MTB yearbook by Misspent Summers
10/04/2021
The latest yearbook by Misspent Summers brings together the best photography, reporting and comment from the year in mountain biking. It packages everything into a
tea & biscuits — a very british mountain bike film
10/04/2021
That’s it then. Kettle’s boiled. Pot’s full. Tea’s brewed. Our film collaboration with Tommy C (Caldwell Visuals), Tea & Biscuits, is finally online in its
The Hardest of all Hardtails, just with a bit more Barrrrrp
09/04/2021
The darkest winter nights have been encouraging the darkest of thoughts. The “slog“ of lapping heavy going British trails, brought on a new anger and
Test quiz
Nice to meet you, to meet you… Welcome to our extremely geeky and really-rather-difficult weekly mountain bike quiz. You’ll find questions about racing, riding, tech
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Scraps: Friday Expedition
Our weekly dose of escapism and adventure
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LOVE DIRT
THE NEW MARIN ALPINE TRAIL CARBON: HANDS ON FUN
A mystery deskbound cartoonist is watching a video of the new Marin Alpine Trail being ridden while doodling some scenery/terrain/obstacles and feeding those into the
Threads
Threads – Clothes for you.
Ink Shack: Store
Store – Books
Dave n John’s Book Barginz
Mountain bike books, mags, zines, calendars and more at rock bottom price, Dave.
Print is the core of our business. It is our greatest passion.
Find out why we believe in print on our books page.
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We make mountain bike clothing because:
The boring business bit: Expanding our product line is a way of supplementing the work we do in recording the history of mountain biking in our books.
The blushing grateful bit: It allows our supporters to help spread our message — knowing people like you wear our clothing is the ultimate compliment, thank you.
The main reason: Because making stuff is quite a lot of fun and it’s our hobby as well as our work and we have some fantastic designers and thinkers in our team.
We would never make a second-rate product: all our merchandise is of high quality and it will make you look dazzlingly great.
There is nothing quite like a good cup of tea and a top-notch biscuit — brewed properly and served deliciously. Before piling into a rutty, muddy, chaotic mountain bike track. But don’t be fooled, this is a film that lets the riding take centre stage.
We’ve teamed up with Tommy C to bring you this wild, raw action filmed in a classic British handheld, gritty manner. Some of mountain biking’s biggest names and most underrated shredders will tear corners to pieces, boost jumps, slash through muck and mud and let it all out for the camera.
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CORE TEAM:
FOUNDER-DIRECTOR: James McKnight
CO-DIRECTOR: Ben Winder
CO-DIRECTOR: Mike Rose
CO-DIRECTOR: Victor Lucas
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Chris Jones
DOOD OF DOODLES: Jon Gregory
REGULARS:
Morgane Charre: Research
Harriet Jones: Management
Sven Martin: Photography
Boris Beyer: Photography
Sebastian Schieck: Photography
John Parkin: Legendary
FRIENDS:
Ric McLaughlin, Paul Aston, Lauren Jenkins, Tom Caldwell, Chris Kilmurray, Kerstin Kauffmann, Chris Jackson, Pedro Ballin, Alan
