Head on over to have a look at my latest piece about ‘super groms’; the female mini shredders who are stepping things up in the world of action sports. These kids are so amazing!

If you haven’t been to Birmingham BMX club and you want to improve manuals, jumps and pumping get there!

Whilst we were up that way we stopped off at Woburn sands for a sport of trails. Even this early on in the season they were riding nice so can’t wait to get back up there to ride the main lines!
Riding is going to get off the hook this year starting with Red Bull Empire of dirt created by Kye Forte – You have to get there!

The range, which has been available in the US for several months, comprises Commuter 511 jeans and slacks (Levi’s word, not ours), Commuter Trucker jackets and a Commuter Shirt.

Levi’s describe the commuter series as, “A multi-functional performance product designed for cyclists all over the world.”

As part of the launch Charge was asked to supply bikes for their shop windows around the world.

Issue one features fixed gear rider, Christina Panteliodis, BMXer Shanice Da Silva, climber Lisa Rands, photographer Krystle Wright and much more.

The launch last week at Red Bull Studios was an enormous success. Take a peek at what went down and see what soundtrack rocked our evening.

We’ve had 15,000 views of the online magazine in only four days plus downloads so we’re very happy that all our hard work has paid off. The mags are flying out of the shops too so grab one from one of our stockists whilst you still can.

Head over to our website to view the magazine and show the ladies some love!

The weeks leading up to the Minidrome were quite hectic with 2 trips to Taiwan, a birthday weekend up in Sheffield and a Charge demo, I was worn right out. I was building up the lieu days and patiently waiting for some time to use them.

I qualified way down (for me) inside the top 20. Enough to qualify, but not enough to give me the confidence to race faster. The track was really slippy and I was having a big issue stopping my tyres sliding on the exit of the bends. I’m not one for excuses but felt this was a big problem for me and my head wasn’t in it.

Eventually I went through to the last 16 and met Anna Glowinski in the last round, she showed good form and used her excellent technique to knock me out of the competition prematurely.

Latvian Toms Alsberg was looking unbeatable all night and even his good friend, who went faster in qualifying, could not upset him. Toms went onto win and was followed by Minidrome newbies Straton Heron and Tristan Goodley.

Hats off to Red Bull, a little hiccup after a member of staff left didn’t affect the event at all and it all went sooo smoothly. The new format of qualifying on Saturday meant all sorts of cyclists could have a go. The use of a couple of our Charge Scissor bikes meant those who didn’t have fixed wheel bikes could have a go also. The next one moves further up the country, keep an eye out on the Red Bull Minidrome page for more information on this. Come and have a go when the details are out!

So that was my Minidrome, I didn’t bring my A-game and didn’t push very hard. At least I went home with a few more days lieu time. Luckily, I was going to use them off-road on my MTB in a few weeks time.

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April’s issue of Stuff Magazine is a ‘BEST OF BRITISH’ special featuring the best kit the UK has to offer, McLaren, Dyson, Rare, Arm, Meridian, Jaguar, Last.FM, Bowers &Wilins and Charge Bikes of course!

I hadn’t  really planned where I was going to go, just an hour ride I was thinking,

Then riding down the lane I spotted the smoke on the horizon.

I had to go see where it was and had a rough idea. so I headed off in the general of the smoke.

tonight’s ride was turning in to a long one

then I found the big moor fire on the top of the Barden moor.

as the sun started to go down I was well chuffed I still had my night rider lights still on the Duster

All down hill form here, 2 1/2 hours later I was home

welcome to Summer.

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