#159 is like the cookbook of how to make something of worth and truly rad. I feel like I was lifted off the ship and pulled put through the sky so I could look down upon the ship and see it as a tiny speck in the ocean, it’s relatively to it’s surroundings, where it has been and where it should go.
It happened. I spoke too soon and one of the big dogs went down. Or should I say, got put down. Dirt was a leading light since the day it launched 18 years ago.
I’m currently writing a feature story for the local newsmagazine, The Pique, and was reminded of this I wrote for the 2012 Crankworx Joyride finals. Thunderstruck kid gets in the van The heat choked the air from lungs and drained sweat from pores, evaporating all energy and vitality from the town. Fleshy young girls and…
Momentarily Forgotten By Seb Kemp I attempt to hurtle down an old familiar stretch of singletrack. I know the tempo of the trail, what’s over the blind crests and around each turn, but still how my tires play with the details of the route is something I have to be alert to. The web of…
[This piece appeared in Dirt Magazine #146 and was republished on the Dirt/Mpora website. While it was produced many months ago it provides a counterpoint to Mike Levy’s opinion piece that appeared on PB just last week.] HEY YOU HATE THIS SMARTEN UP, DON’T DUMB DOWN Words by Seb Kemp Illustration by Jon Gregory I’m…
Illustration by Jon Gregory [My monthly column in UK super magazine, DIRT got plonked onto the unsuspecting audience of the web this week. I asked for it to go up because…well, I knew it would wind some people up and I could stand back and watch people blow off steam on their keyboards, much…
I board my plane to Vegas in just a few hours. To warm my mind for such a change in season I decided to read through a short piece I wrote for Dirt Magazine several years back. I doubt much has changed and I am excited to be bamboozled all over again. — The Desert…
The following is an excerpt from ‘The Idiot’s Guide To Whistler’ that appeared in Dirt Magazine in 2010. Words by Seb Kemp. Whistler is proof that hard work, determination, and passion can bring anything to being. In 1960 Whistler didn’t exist, all there was was a few shacks and lakeside lodges on Alta lake, and…
A Couples’ Ride from Darcy Turenne on Vimeo. This video is brilliant. Anyone who is in a polygamist relationship with their partner and mountain bikes will nod emphatically at all the simple insights. In issue 135 of Dirt Magazine I dabbled with a similar topic. It is in no way as funny as the above…
Dirt Magazine #128 has been out for a little while but it was only today that I saw a copy with my own eyes. In this issue I have a story very close to my heart: Whistler beyond the bike park. I’m going to post the whole story below with some of Reuben Krabbe’s excellent…
Kamloops: The Man-Up Gene Driving in Kamloops feels dangerous. The roads are good, the drivers are courteous but I feel like I’m always on the verge of rolling off the road or hitting a lamppost. The reason for this is entirely of my own doing. Every moment behind the wheel I’m rubber necking at ghosts…
This summer I was tasked by Mike Rose of Dirt Magazine to interview Brandon Semenuk for a full feature. We didn’t want to just talk about the tricks and contest victories but rather the background to this rather quiet figure. Brandon’s upbringing was rather unique – living in Whistler, being an XC champion before…
I grew up with Dirt Magazine from issue one and it pretty much formed who I am. I moved from XC racing to DH and hucking because of the messages I read in Dirt. I stopped “training” and pounding creatine shakes and instead started wearing full-face and baggys when I saw the fun and excitement…
Here are a bunch of photos of the pages Seb Kemp contributed to in the latest issue of Dirt Magazine. Even if you enlarge the photo you won’t be able to read it, so go out and buy a copy. Magazines are pretty sexy things. They smell great, they look incredible, and they have a…
So its been awhile since i’ve done one of these, but last night I came across something in a dusty copy of Singletrack Magazine that made sense and added a little post script to one particular controversial column I wrote a while back.
If you go to the DIRT MAG website today (or any day if you click the link) you will be able to read a brief interview with Wyn Masters. The interview was originally conducted way back in dec/jan but
Just got back from the Frew Farm Jam. I am totally knackered and sun burnt. The weekend was a total blast in all respects. Great people, riding, and party. Here is a couple of photos of the background to the event.
I have a new entry in my top three MTB photog list. Camilla Stoddart is a ruler. Watch out world. Basically put she is a photog with a ski photog background that has decided to enjoy the benefits of summer for once (nine years back to back winters anyone?) which includes exploring MTB photography.
So whilst in NZ (this months residence for yours truly) I’m racing around the Dirty South to all the all the two wheeled ‘freestyle’ events, jams and comps that make up the Month of Mayhem. Last weekend was the Stoney Hills Jam, and in two weekends time it will be the Gorge Road Jam but…
Much overdue, here’s another installment of WHISTLER DIARIES – THE BACKGROUND FILES. This time the column in question is about the Crankworx ’08 slopestyle finals where we get a little transcendental.
So even though I’m suck in the doesn’t doesn’t mean I can’t work. DIRT just posted an interview I conducted with Danny Hart. CLICK HERE TO SEE IT…
So this is the first of a series of entries where I go behind the scenes of my own works. In these entries I will take you, the reader, into the places (both physically and mentally) where I was when I wrote the gibberish I have done for magazines like Dirt Magazine, Spoke Magazine, and…
So Jimmy Carling has bugged Billy at Dirt so much that he has got some sort of gig updating the world on the happenings in Queenstown, NZ on the dirt website. Sound familiar?
So after the usual LoG press releases started circulating the web then i found myself getting asked more about what the bloody hell the LoG is and if i could bring the circus to their town. Which got my brain twitching with thought of gold boats, leopard skin toilet seats, and diamond encrusted…
So the insane creation of necessity that I began way back in December 2008, the League of Gentlemen not-race series has kicked off again down in Queenstown, NZ. Its been getting some coverage on Dirt and Spoke web. Here are the links to the coverage LoG kicks off in NZ again press release – Dirt…
Oh wow, occasionally some things just happen in such synchronicity that one must wonder whether it is a deliberate manifestation of an invisible and conspiratorial hand.
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