Ben Swales

The Spanish Championship Final - Catalan photographer Mireia Martin took some fantastic photos at the third and final round of the 2010 Spanish Championship in Cabrera de Mar. Here are a few of them. The Mont Sainte-Anne Elite 26" Final - An American rider has sent us a 25 minute video that plunges you into the heart of the Elite 26" Final in Mont Sainte-Anne. Mont Sainte-Anne by Ryan MacVicker - Another video dedicated to the World Championship in Mont Sainte-Anne, with more than half an hour of footage, allowing you to relive the Elite 26" Semi-Final, the Elite 20" & 26" Finals and other moments of the competition! Danny MacAskill - Way Back Home trailer Danny presents Way Back Home - Perhaps the best-known rider on the planet, the phenomenal Danny MacAskill, is working on a new video project with Red Bull... "Way Back Home". Here is the teaser for the new production as well as an interview with the man himself, looking back over his success story and talking about his new video project. Heiko Lehmann, Tribal Rider - Young Elite rider Heiko Lehmann, 4th in the 2010 German Championships, 12th in the Antwerp World Cup, has joined the ranks of the Tribal Riders. Welcome to the team Heiko! Benito Ros - end of season interview - A big interview with the world’s number 1 20" and number 2 26" rider, Benito Ros, in which he talks us through his 2011 season.

Or I would have, if I hadn't forgotten the bloody magazine! It's just a short piece about your latest video in Barcelona, saying how much they like it. I'll try and remember the magazine tomorrow to show you a scan...

I'll scan it in at work for you tomorrow

Jack Carthy at the British Trials Cup Final - Here’s a video of Onza and Tribal rider Jack Carthy at the final round of the British Trial Cup at Shipley Glen on Sunday, filmed and edited by his uncle. It’s choc full of big, technical riding and there’s a little bonus at the end!

Giz a shout if/when you come up and I'll meet you

Guillaume Dunand is back! - Ozonys' No.1 Team 1 rider, Guillaume Dunand, is back on his bike after a bit of down-time recovering froma broken collarbone. Olivier Allamand did a photo shoot with him to celebrate.

Proper translation now online

All that Mike's said on his site is that the riders are on board with Phatworks, are tyring his pads and he looks forward to their feedback. No mention of team there. Ben put it in inverted commas as well, presumably because he realised that those riders are just trying the pads out. EDIT: Site's looking good Mike I've sent you a message about some browser issues I was having. Good luck with it all!

British Trials Cup Round 5 (Final) - A full report from the fifth and final round of the British Trials Cup whic took place on Sunday 17th October at Shipley Glen. Edit: Riding pictures now added

It's a Shame About Ray by the Lemonheads - f**king love this album.

I thought it was a great trial! sections really separated the riders out, some very high (like mine) and low scores! A massive thanks to everyone that helped to organise and run the event - Barbara, Brian, Fred, Mick Scrievn and Mick Carthy for organising the event and setting the sections etc., Joe Poyser at Onza for his continued support and presence and for providing the medals, Mike Singleton at Phat Works for also sponsoring the events and providing the prizes and all of the observers and score counters without whom we wouldn't be able to run the event at all! Hope everyone enjoyed it, it was great to see so many riders out!

Oh yeah, I guess you have to add import taxes and that on top?

The TMS Pro Shop 2011 Price list has just been published, you can see it here. The Twenty frame is €640 (about £560) Prices might vary, depending on where you get it from.

The much anticipated 20" version of the TMS Evo 3, the Twenty, is now available! More info (including a full spec) in the Tribal Zine article here, but I thought you might all like to see it.

The TMS Twenty has arrived! - The much-anticipated 20" version of the Evo3 - the TMS Twenty - is here at last! Click on the link to find out more!

The deadline for pre-entries is today - there's still time to pre-enter online and avoid the late entry fee! Remember - no licence or memebrship is needed to compete and entries will be accepted on the day (although they will be subject to a late entry fee). See you there!

Just to clarify - people are meeting at the train station on Saturday at 10:30 on Saturday. I'll be a bit later than that probably - going out for a bit of a disco on Friday night - so I'll give someone a ring when I'm out.

This sounds like a pretty sensible idea to me - some of the people on the course when I did my DofE at school did some pretty pointless or silly stuff. If it turns out that you do need some official signatures and stuff you could come along to a few Tyke Trial rounds (why not the whole season? ) and we'd be happy to sign it off for you. You could submit results sheets, links to reports and photos etc. as your evidence. I can't remember exactly how DofE works, it's over ten years since I did mine - do you have a DofE assessor? Do they need to witness you actually doing the activity? Anyway - good luck getting it sorted, I think it's a great idea! If you need any advice/help getting it organised (emails to assessors, stuff like that), email me at membership@biketrialuk.co.uk and let me know

As I was walking up to work this morning I saw a trials rider I've not met before - riding what looked like a Koxx Levelboss 20" and wearing a white piss-pot lid - cycling through Broomhill at about 08:45. Anyone know who it might have been? Was it you?

It's just off Penistone Road, just up from the Shell garage. We got all excited and talked about cleaning it up a bit and adding more lines. It's pretty good as it is though, if you can avoid all the broken glass (we couldn't).

The main Hallam Building by Arundel Gate. 53.379044,-1.466648 on Google Maps

Fo' sho' Me and Ogre are riding tomorrow evening I think. I'm going to go out on a limb and say meet at the Owen Building walls at 18:30

Start at 10:30 and finish at *about* 16:00. You can leave as soon as you hand your punch card in, but there's the awards presentation etc. afterwards as well and it's nice to stick around for that (and it's nice to be nice!). It's about an hour and a half from Sheffield for me and a quick look on Google Maps says it's about the same from Chapel - I'd say you should be absolutely fine time-wise Hope to see you there!