JD™ Posted March 30, 2015 Report Share Posted March 30, 2015 Not 'angry', just doesn't fit anywhere else. Dirt magazine just announced they're going online only, which is a shame. Working there was the last 'proper job' I had near on 5 years ago, and it was an awesome product. Just a shame that the whole niche magazine side can't really last as a profit making business these days. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew62 Posted March 30, 2015 Report Share Posted March 30, 2015 (edited) Not 'angry', just doesn't fit anywhere else. Dirt magazine just announced they're going online only, which is a shame. Working there was the last 'proper job' I had near on 5 years ago, and it was an awesome product. Just a shame that the whole niche magazine side can't really last as a profit making business these days. See i'm tied when I think about this news. Obviously it affects me quite directly professionally and is a sign of the difficulties with print magazines in this day and age (something that is really disappointing as on a professional level I love editorial design, and on a personal level I'm very fond of magazines) but over the last however long Dirt has just, for want of a better word, gone shit. The content is rubbish, the editors are awful and the level of language used is just embarrassing. I didn't read it in the glory days, but by all accounts it was a lot better. They also seem to purposefully want to buck certain trends. For instance the DH scene is not what it was on a UK level. The World Cup still has a very loyal following but you can't miss the rise in 'Enduro' riding/racing and they're coverage of this side of the sport has been sporadic at best. As first they begrudgingly reviewed the odd bike etc, and gradually race coverage has followed but it's just not up to the same standard as other publications with similar agendas. I understand they want to stay true to their DH roots, but you cant only have content for 4-5 months of the year and there doesn't seem to be too many DH riders wanting to support them, otherwise their readership wouldn't have dipped to a point where they're unsustainable. The weekend/week just passed was the biggest biking event so far this year, and a massive event in its own right. There was the first EWS race of the season (which was incredible), a big DH race, a slope style competition (with fairly decent prize money), pump track challenges, every major rider imaginable was there and even more events than I can remember and there is not one jot of coverage on Dirt. Nothing. I don't get it? Edited March 30, 2015 by Matthew62 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JD™ Posted March 30, 2015 Report Share Posted March 30, 2015 It's definitely not the beast it once was. I think it'd be pretty harsh of me to be honest about why here, because I know that certain members of that team have stalked on my thoughts over here over the years (quite bizarrely). It's safe to say, though, that any business which can't decide whether to follow their passion or the money won't be any good at either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HippY Posted March 30, 2015 Report Share Posted March 30, 2015 Today was a strange day Woke up 10 am, that was nice, lunch and doing nothing till 1 pm. I started to make an insurance on my car from 1st of April, so confused.com, yes, I can get £500 insurance.. go to the website shoots up to £1500. Never found that £500 quote again... So now I am payin £73 per month instead of £43. It is okay, as I need a car here, but not a good thing.... Went to the dentist, cannot feel my face, it is strange, I am hungry too.. Today I will do a nightshift, 8pm to 8am, will be long, I will bring my boards there as I suck at embedded C programming, it will be a long and uneventful night hopefully Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dann2707 Posted March 30, 2015 Report Share Posted March 30, 2015 Today was a strange day Woke up 10 am, that was nice, lunch and doing nothing till 1 pm. I started to make an insurance on my car from 1st of April, so confused.com, yes, I can get £500 insurance.. go to the website shoots up to £1500. Never found that £500 quote again... So now I am payin £73 per month instead of £43. It is okay, as I need a car here, but not a good thing.... Went to the dentist, cannot feel my face, it is strange, I am hungry too.. Today I will do a nightshift, 8pm to 8am, will be long, I will bring my boards there as I suck at embedded C programming, it will be a long and uneventful night hopefully Should have in-cognito moded it mate! They do the same thing what airline websites do where you get a really cheap price, go elsewhere to check other prices, come back and it has gone straight up and you can't get your original quote back ANYWHERE. They f**ked me over with that and my price went up by another £400 when I returned. Luckily I had it set up so they email you the quote everytime you do one, so just went back to that on the email, gave that reference number on the phone and sorted it absolutely fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HippY Posted March 30, 2015 Report Share Posted March 30, 2015 Should have in-cognito moded it mate! They do the same thing what airline websites do where you get a really cheap price, go elsewhere to check other prices, come back and it has gone straight up and you can't get your original quote back ANYWHERE. They f**ked me over with that and my price went up by another £400 when I returned. Luckily I had it set up so they email you the quote everytime you do one, so just went back to that on the email, gave that reference number on the phone and sorted it absolutely fine. So you are saying cookies are your enemies? I should have tried that, although I do not have that reference... maybe next year Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JT! Posted March 30, 2015 Report Share Posted March 30, 2015 How the f**k is a thermal jacket hundreds of £'s, but a piece of cardboard can keep a McDonalds apple pie hotter than the surface of the sun for hours? Obviously I've just burnt the roof of my mouth on the thing. Still kept eating it though. Huh, apple pies out here look very different... and are never THAT hot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
isitafox Posted March 30, 2015 Report Share Posted March 30, 2015 Don't believe it, just seen Andrei Burton is doing Ninja Warrior UK in Manchester this week, would have been perfect to take the kids to watch over Easter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ogre Posted March 31, 2015 Report Share Posted March 31, 2015 wind is making it hard to cycle everywhere. admitted defeat and ordered cable brake stuff for my front brake, booo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bing Posted March 31, 2015 Report Share Posted March 31, 2015 Took an hour to get home from work instead of the usual 17 mins, due to some f**king doylem wagon driver ignoring the high wind warnings on the Ouse bridge and proceeding to go over said bridge with a static caravan on the back of a low loader.its now on its side blocking 2 lanes, it was blocking the whole thing and had to close since half ten this morning. What a tosser. It says in massive letters on the matrix signs bridge closed to high sided vehicles Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ali C Posted March 31, 2015 Report Share Posted March 31, 2015 Don't believe it, just seen Andrei Burton is doing Ninja Warrior UK in Manchester this week, would have been perfect to take the kids to watch over Easter I saw an advert posted at my local climbing centre for that, unfortunately I only noticed it 3 days after the closing date, gutted Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Little Yoshi Posted March 31, 2015 Report Share Posted March 31, 2015 Some eejit on fb complaining about 2 British rounds of the Nationals are held in Scotland. T**t. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
isitafox Posted March 31, 2015 Report Share Posted March 31, 2015 Who's that then? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N.Wood Posted March 31, 2015 Report Share Posted March 31, 2015 Iwan Osborne I think... Saw something about it on my fb skim read this morn. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Little Yoshi Posted March 31, 2015 Report Share Posted March 31, 2015 Aye its him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SamKidney Posted March 31, 2015 Report Share Posted March 31, 2015 (edited) Got the riding bug back. Dying to get a proper stint in on my bike Edited March 31, 2015 by SamKidney Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross McArthur Posted April 1, 2015 Report Share Posted April 1, 2015 Some eejit on fb complaining about 2 British rounds of the Nationals are held in Scotland. T**t. Yea, that was a bit of a shame. Im sure he means well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.KYDD Posted April 1, 2015 Report Share Posted April 1, 2015 Nah, he is a bit of a twat 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Little Yoshi Posted April 1, 2015 Report Share Posted April 1, 2015 Remember being at a round down in Derby and someone thought their 3 hour drive wad bad. Would be lucky to be at the border in 3 hours never mind being home. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SamKidney Posted April 1, 2015 Report Share Posted April 1, 2015 Non driveside crank catches my frame Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
isitafox Posted April 2, 2015 Report Share Posted April 2, 2015 Driveside does on my Liberte under power, don't think there's much you can do about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdamR28 Posted April 2, 2015 Report Share Posted April 2, 2015 Spacer between bb shell and bb in your case Dave. Sam, you ideally need cranks with more offset (or get handy with the grinder!). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
isitafox Posted April 2, 2015 Report Share Posted April 2, 2015 Did that, it's not as bad as it used to be along with the Trialtech SL cranks. My legs are just too powerful! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdamR28 Posted April 2, 2015 Report Share Posted April 2, 2015 Well if the left hand side doesn't hit, another / a wider spacer would solve it completely Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HippY Posted April 2, 2015 Report Share Posted April 2, 2015 Bike is up for sale. After I have not used for like half a year, and I will not use it for a while I think it is time to sell it up :/ Kinda angry, as I must do some sport, and I need some sport that is not trials it will be gym probably.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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