Dirt Quake 3

It was as ever awesome fun. Massive thanks to everybody who made it happen and sorted my race entry out when I likely didn't follow the instructions properly... 

photos by Lennard Schuurmans aka BubbleVisor

photos by Richard Higgy Pop Higgins

Not long now...

Great film

Dirt Quake II by Iron Bird from SIDEBURN on Vimeo.

Digging the Dirt

Nice write up about Dirt Quake II and pics at W&W Cycles.

Dirt Quake heroes

All my excuses for not riding are invalid. Dan rode to Dirt Quake II from Berlin on a Mille wearing knobblies. What a great look. He then raced without crashing - something I signally failed to achieve. Ouch.

Gary, Ben and all the rest of the Sideburn collective put on a great day.

I'm sure they'll be pics aplenty in the coming months, not least from Tom who didn't seem to stop all day.

Dirt Quake redux

Those who were not there regretted it. Now for the first tim ever those Sideburn guys are doing a sequel.

Gioco Sporco

Via Sideburn, some more photos from Marco Cremascoli's personal stash here. He shot Dirt Quake for Riders Magazine a classy Italian title. My campaign to rehabilitate the Acid Worm continues...

Digging in the Dirt

It would be pretty damn difficult to capture what Dirt Quake was, but Dan and Hayley's hard work does... love it!
This is Dirt Quake! from SIDEBURN on Vimeo.

rubbing is parading

Some action shots from FlatTel's flickr set, there's plenty more in his stream

clean machine

Dirt Quake heroes

Ekins approved

Having gone surprisingly well at a practice session for Dirt Quake it's time for some serious rubber. Armed with a couple of Taiwan's finest tyre levers and some elbow grease I managed to get the old tyres off, and even more incredibly I got the new trials tyres on with just a smattering of swears. Bloody hard work though. Took a quick spin across town to my folks for a test ride, the handling is hilarious - it manages to both resist turning and then plunge into turns like Ollie Reed falling off the wagon. Very strange. Looks just the part for jumping across a barbed wire frontier into Switzerland now.