Dylan Warren brings us a report from the first round of 2013′s Australian National Championships held on 31st March… John Morton, Australian Mountainboard O.G has an amazing piece of land in south Gippsland, Victoria. He first bought his property in Loch about 10+ years ago, Since that day he has slowly building and working on what is today’s only Mountainboard
Round 1 of the UK Series 13, was the first comp of the year (that’s why they called it Round 1), was the first ever woodland downhill comp, and coincided with the best weather of the year so far. Let’s find out what everyone thought about it… Dale’s First Comp “It was fair to say I’ve never been more excited
James Wanklyn tells us all about Ironside’s Foam Pit Launch and Opening Party with pictures from Andy Rolfe, Zeemon Erhardt and Ollie Lewis: Winter has finally drawn to a close, and that means the opening of Ironside’s M.B.C for the year, and the grand unveiling of the Foamula One pit. The week before was spent in snow, building kickers
Round One of the UK Downhill Series is on Saturday 6th April and will be the first of some damn exciting events from the ATBA-UK this year. Breaking from the norm & screaming like a crazy goat, this first round features a super tasty freeride-style course through awesome woodland in Queen Elizabeth Country Park in Hampshire… Prep for the course
I used to do a lot of exploring, along with other Explorers, but it’s been a few years since I properly went looking for somewhere new to ride. So, with a few days off, and the weather on my side, I decided to go up to Cheshire, then into Wales and onto Shropshire to ride a few places I’d never
A freeride photo diary! The Rem crew & friends needed an early-January freeride fix. Lo, they headed to Tring Park for a full day’s shredical radness… With the recent shitty weather we needed a spot that would still be running and ‘Wiggy’ had it in droves, with long descents through mixed woodland, slidey muddy paths, mega leaf drifts, stump jumps and so
The Ironside family doesn’t need much of a reason to throw a good party, however on the last weekend of October they had three very good ones; Halloween and both Lynne Robinson and Rachel La Roche’s 21st Birthdays. With the traditional season closing game of P.I.G the scene was set for another orange party weekend.
On 29th September ’12, a surprisingly sunny saturday, the first ever Game of XBP was held at Ride the Hill in Surrey. This was the debut for a new format of competition which, although massively popular in other sports (PIG, SKATE etc) and commonly used when messing around with your friends, had never really been used in a full competition format.
After delays due to bad weather, and with more looming on the horizon, Round 4 went down at Haredown in one day. Let’s find out what happened… Who are you and which comp did you host? We’re Karen and Les, and we held round four (originally round three but the weather caused chaos again!) at Haredown.
Defiant end of the session, lots of new faces to ride even more jibnidge but the same civilised break for afternoon tea. ‘It simply wouldn’t be have been Knockhill MBC to have done anything else’ Once again the whole centre was divided into 4 zones. Riders then sessioned each zone for about 45 minutes-ish or till everyone had enough (whichever came first). Papers
On the weekend of the 18th & 19th August 2012, popular mountainboard centre Bugs Boarding in Gloucestershire hosted their version of a new type of event that’s been popping up recently combining fun, progressive & generally sick riding, with evening partying & live music forwardslash raving it up n’ ting. Bugs’ version was Party in the Park; So what happened? Well, the centre was
James Wanklyn tells us about hot weather, pool parties and competing in the European Mountain Board Challenge in Serbia After a five hour flight, stopping off in rainy Switzerland, we arrived in Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It was around 8 o clock in the evening on Thursday but it was still about 30 degrees, very different from the weather
It was the ATBA-UK International Series. It was at Hales Superbole. Let’s find out what happened from the head honcho himself. Who are you and which comp did you host? I am Mark Hale owner of Hale’s board and bike park, I hosted round 3 of the ATBA-UK International Series. How did the BoarderX racing go? The BX was insane
After rain stopped play the first time around, the rescheduled Round 2 at Out To Grass turned into a fun progressive session with riders pulling surprise wins and all kinds of trickasticness. Time for our second chat with the centre manager to find out what went on. Who are you and which comp did you host? Ian Johnson, owner of
Camp Bestival is best known for being one of the best family festivals, set in the picturesque grounds of Lulworth Castle in Dorset. In the middle of this festival is the giant Freesports Park, to which some of greatest names in mountainboarding were invited. After passing warnings signs for tanks crossing and random gun fire, James Wanklyn, Ben Tweedie and
As the dulcet tones of hard punk rock floated across the valleys of Cheshire and mixed with the click-click-click sound of mountainboarders strapping into their boards, Junemanji, a different kind of mountainboarding event got underway at Hales Superbole. So what made it different? Well, it included a punk rock festival which had bands playing pretty much non stop for three days,
Like ‘Go skateboarding Day’, ‘World Snowboarding Day’, & world everything-else day, mountainboarding too has it’s own ‘official’ get-involved day when you are meant to spend the day doing it, shouting about it, & generally showing the world how great it is. So for the last three years, the third weekend in June cometh World Mountainboard Day or WorldMTBDay (not to
Here is the first installment of Remolition covering 2012′s ATBA-UK Boardercross & Freestyle competitions. Find out what happened through the eyes of the host, the riders, spectators and documentors… Round One: Saturday 19th & Sunday 20th May: The Centre Manager’s summary! Who are you and which comp did you host? I’m Raph La Roche, and I kicked off the season with
Rem’s latest contributor Connor Tyson brings us words & pictures from RTH’s Birthday Big Weekend at XBP Priory in Surrey, with a vid by WCproductions… The weekend of the 21st – 22nd April 2012 was the second annual Ride The Hill BIG Weekend, and what a weekend it was! The weather was not looking good for the weekend. Rain was
Skully brings us the story of a visit to Doncaster, with some sick photos to boot… It was the first Saturday in March and we’d had a good few days of sunshine. A couple of days earlier, a woman at work (in a strong Yorkshire accent) said to me “Doesn’t feel like February weather” to which I replied “I know,
Roger Swannell reports on an epic downhill challenge for 7 eager road-riders that took place in The Lake Disrict in November ’11… The boards: three nosnos, two trampas, one mbs, and one no-tramp. “Why do you want to climb Mount Everest?”, asked the reporter. “Because it’s there”, retorted Mallory, way back in the early ‘20′s. The idea of the ‘challenge’,
At the end of August, the final round of 2011′s International series took place at Ironsides Court Farm MBC. Jasper & Lucy headed along & here tells us how the plan changed from spectating to entering! Down a narrow road, through a farm yard, along a track and past a field; then you see Ironsides. And I think ‘Damn, that
Cambione reports from south-central France and the Psycho-Ride series (held on 20th+21st August 2011)… Here are some pictures of this second edition of Psycho-Ride on the tracks of the Super Lioran Station. A round of the mountainboard championships of France, held under a beautiful sunny sky allowing riders to experience this beautiful region of Cantal… On Saturday morning the riders
It’s been a while since there has been a downhill event in the UK. The last one was in 2005 up in bonnie Scotland. With a lack of big mountains, ski resorts and differing tastes amongst Britain’s mountainboarders, downhill comps aren’t the easiest things to organise, but the ATBAUK came close last year. However, through a mixture of confusion over who owned
The continuing UK-based International Championship Series rolled into rainy Out To Grass Mountainboard Centre in mid-July. Eveey Ruth tells us what it was like… I’m not gonna lie, we all knew the week prior Round 3 that the weekend was going to be a bit of a hit or miss situation; with weather reports telling us there would be torrential rain
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