News in brief.....

A couple of bits and pieces worth making a mention of this week, but in the meantime, welcome to the all-new shortened addressed T-D-B!  After coming top of the recent poll with a staggering 64% of the vote, the change was made, along with lots of little tweaks here and there to make sure all the links were all working.  I'm sure there are one or two that I've missed, or bits that don't quite work yet and for that I apologise, although I'm sure the search box down the right hand side never seems to find stuff correctly.
A new title picture as well, again in the form of find a reasonable photo from the archives and stick 'The Dirt Box' in big letters across it.  Perhaps this one represents a passing from the old, to the new....hmmm.

I'm still not sure that it's very obvious sometimes that this is supposed to be a mountainboard blog for the UK specialising in stuff happening in the Midlands.   I'm not being paid for this so hey ho, on with the updates!

Freeride Sessions: Mam Tor, January16th

The recently started Freeride Sessions Blog has posted details of a freeride session taking place
a week Sunday at the (in)famous Mam Tor.  This disused length of road has been popular with boarders over the years keen to get a bit of quiet road riding, along with a couple of drop-offs - sections of road that have collapsed, hence the lack of vehicle activity.  Not a huge amount of details known at this point though there is a Surfing Dirt thread about the subject here.


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Not sure if I'll be able to attend due to the wife breaking her foot on Tuesday night, but hopefully we'll get to see some words, pictures and videos afterwards.  However, I am loving the 'Freeride Sessions' philosophy of getting peoples interest in a place to then get them interested in a big old session there and hopefully with something happening on a monthly basis, there'll be opportunity to attend something near to all of you in the near future.

December Freeride Revisit: Macclesfield Forest 2010 Rem Write-Up

As hinted about previously on this blog, I was really, really keen to have a repeat of last years visit to Macclesfield forest, a series of trails set in a beautiful setting only around an hours drive away.  A small but select group of us overcome the early mornings and illnesses to ride for a good proportion for the daylight hours and all have a thoroughly good time, despite me loosing my hat somewhere along the way.  I took photos (that came out blurred), and a video as linked to below....




...but for the full monty, you're best off checking out the Rem Report by clicking the big link below...Enjoy!

http://www.remolition.com/features/field-reports/286-macclesfield-forest-dec10-field-report.html